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Assessment of Seismic Hazards along the Northern Gulf of Aqaba
(2014-09-26)
zones, and several transverse faults. The integration of offshore and onshore data confirm the extension of these faults along both sides of the Gulf of Aqaba. A 3D model of GPR data at one site in Aqaba indicates that the NW-trending transverse faults...
The Impact of Climate Variability and Land Cover Change on Groundwater Resources in The Niger River Basin
(2021)
The Niger River Basin (NRB) has experienced severe droughts and floods under a significant change of the land use and land cover (LULC) with increasing population over the years. The present study is to understand the hydrological dynamics of NRB...
Statistical Analysis of Resilience Distribution and Application to Rural Electric Distribution System subjected to Hurricane Wind
(2021)
literature towards several quantitative resilience measures or ambiguously termed metrics frameworks for quantifying the resilience of civil infrastructure, the author found informational inadequacy on taking objective decisions such as resilience acceptance...
VELAS: a fully-distributed daily hydrologic feedback model with emphasis on vegetation, land cover, and soil water dynamics
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-15)
We present a daily hydrologic feedback model, VELAS (the VEgetation-
LAnd cover-Soil water dynamics), to simulate daily responses of hydrologic
processes including interception, runoff, evapotranspiration, infiltration, ...
The young Thomas Jefferson's geographic thought, 1743 - 1784
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-13)
Thomas Jefferson has long been admired for his influence in many arenas in the colonial era of American history; however, his collection of writings has not been closely scrutinized for his geographic thought. This thesis ...
A Semiotic Approach to Russian Military Map Symbology and Terms
(2021)
cognition and the basic processes of how humans interpret information. A potential pathway to answering these questions is through the application of semiotics—the study of signs and the process through which they produce meaning. This study has leveraged...
Evaluation of Penetrating Sealers on Service Life of Concrete Infrastructure
(2022)
is to extend the service life of existing infrastructure beyond the designed service life. This trend serves both sustainability, using less natural resources, and carbon footprint, generating carbon in the production of new materials. Therefore, in advanced...
A comparison of soil characteristics in relation to success of a restored prairie
(2013)
textures showed that this area's soils were loam and clay loam, with silt loam and silty clay loam in other areas. All samples had quartz in the clay and non-clay fractions. Other non-clay minerals present included potassium feldspar and plagioclase...
Developmental state and agriculture for development: lessons for Ghana from East Asia
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-27)
Comparative studies between Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia have shown
divergence in economic growth and development. This study argues that in order for Sub-
Saharan Africa to make progress in its quest for development, ...
Agro-pastoral Landuse Transformation: Implications and Perspectives in the Northwest Region of Cameroon
(2015-08-11)
This dissertation centers on the human-environmental problem of agro-pastoral
landuse transformation in Northwest Cameroon, identifying population pressure, climate
change, environmental degradation, land grabbing, change ...
Local Food and Economic Development
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
This dissertation examines the potential of local food as an economic development strategy in the United States. Using an interdisciplinary approach it traces the development of the local food movement within the broader ...
Late Holocene Paleoclimate reconstruction of the northern Gulf of Aqaba using foraminifera as a proxy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-12-21)
A multiproxy analyses of sediment from a 4.3 m core extracted from 25 m water
depth on the shelf of the northern Gulf of Aqaba suggest shifts in depositional environments
over the past 4000 yrs. Foraminifera assemblages, ...
Biogeochemistry and inorganic geochemistry as indicators of the paleoenvironment and paleohydrology of the Al-Azraq Basin, Jordan
(2013)
This study investigates the biogeochemical and inorganic geochemical
indicators for past environments and paleohydrology of a high resolution sediment record
from the Al-Azraq Basin, Jordan. The second largest basin in ...
Structure and Mechanical Properties of Cement and Intermetallic Compounds via ab-initio Simulations
(2015)
of cement. Present work finds the relationship of partial bond order density (PBOD) of each bond species, especially HBs to the mechanical properties of CSH crystals. This can be used as a basis to validate existing C-S-H models and to build improved ones...
Organoisocyanates: the conformational stability determination by infrared, raman and microwave spectroscopy and ab initio calculation
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2012)
± 2% of the trans form present at ambient temperature. For cyclobutylisocyanate, an enthalpy difference of 131 ± 13 cm-1 was obtained with the equatorial-trans conformer the more stable form. For cyclohexylisocyanate, an enthalpy difference of 397 40...
Entrained Air-Void System For Durable Highway Concrete
(2020)
to the test method are based on this piece of equipment. Sufficient background information exists in the research literature and current global applications to recommend improvements/modifications to the F-T test method, such as changes to the cooling rate...
First Principles Method for Complex Cement Structure and High Entropy Alloys
(2021)
The ultimate objective of this dissertation contains two different areas of materials – secondary of Portland cement structure and high entropy alloys (HEAs). Similar concept of the computational method was applied to ...
A Synthesis and Optimization of Patented Direct Air Capture Technology
(2023)
An engineering method termed direct air capture is used to take CO₂, the predominant global warming greenhouse gas, out of the atmosphere directly. Given that CO₂ levels in the air are only 0.04%, it presents a technical challenge. Ambient air has a...
Seismic Vulnerability Analysis of Scoured Bridge Systems
(2014)
events, flood-induced foundation scour has been recognized as a leading cause of bridge failure in the United States. The distinct feature of flood-induced scour is that it may last during the rest of bridge’s service life once it is formed around a...
Molecular structure determination: solid-state NMR applications
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-12-14)
Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (ssNMR) has become one of the best
techniques to determine molecular structure via inter/intra-molecular interactions.
Unlike the well-known solution state NMR, solid-state NMR ...