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Three essays on citizenship crafting
(2020-07-30)
This dissertation contains three essays that develop and test a new construct, citizenship crafting. Citizenship crafting describes employee-initiated behaviors and cognitions that seek to enhance/continue or diminish/eliminate ...
CASIMIR EFFECT: QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS AND THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS
(2020-05-08)
Any phenomenon caused by the nontrivial vacuum state of quantum fields in the presence of boundaries, nontrivial topology, varying background potentials, spacetime curvature, ect, could be referred to as a Casimir effect. ...
A descriptive analysis of contest administration, contestant participation, and adjudication within the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association jazz ensemble competition from 2014–2019: a mixed methods case study
(2020-12)
The purpose of this study was to provide a thorough descriptive analysis of the operational management and organizational infrastructure utilized to administer and adjudicate the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities ...
Unbridling Barriers to Communication: Saddling Mand Training & EAAT Therapy Together
(2020-05-08)
This study reviews the current research on applied behavior analysis (ABA) and equine-assisted activity and therapy (EAAT) for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on verbal communication behavior. Research on ...
Multiscale, multiphysics modeling of subsurface engineering applications
(2020-12)
Fluid flow, particle transport, and chemical reactions in porous media play a vital role in various disciplines, including hydrology, medicine, and engineering. In particular, in the petroleum industry, subsurface engineering ...
PROMOTING CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT:MOTIVATIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE PARTICIPATIONIN EMERGENCY SERVICE DELIVERY
(2020-08-18)
This dissertation seeks to understand the determinants and motivations of citizens' individual and collective participation in the process of public service delivery through the lens of citizen co-production. While citizen ...
Management intensification and temporal dynamics shape microbial communities in a Southern Plains agroecosystem
(2022-03-28)
Land use intensification has resulted in the conversion of complex natural systems into simpler, managed environments which has a considerable impact on physical and chemical soil properties as well as above and belowground ...
Effects of restrictions and liquid properties on liquid loading in natural gas wells
(2022-12-08)
Liquid loading is one of the main challenges in the later life of a natural gas well. Several methods have been used to unload the gas wells and remedy liquid loading, with various efficiencies. The literature revealed a ...
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM
(2020-05-08)
This study reveals the two dimensions of religious freedom – religious groups and individuals – with empirical data, and it offers theoretical arguments on how these two dimensions are different. Individual rights provision ...
Feminist Food Rhetoric: Women's Rhetorical Strategies Across Instagram, Food Podcasts, and Community Cookbooks
(2022)
Demonstrating that food and cooking instructions are important everyday artifacts worthy of rhetorical criticism, Feminist Food Rhetoric advances rhetoric and writing studies scholarship on food by moving beyond the dominant ...