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Exploring the role of Continuity Operations Management in University supported Volunteer Student Organizations
(2019-08)THE ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE CYCLE CONTAINS BETWEEN THREE AND SEVEN PHASES. THE FINAL PHASE OF ALL MODELS HAS BEEN THE DEATH OF THE ORGANIZATION. THIS STUDY DETERMINED IF THERE COULD BE AN ALTERNATIVE TO THIS ORGANIZATIONAL ... -
Future Impact on the Low-Level Jet and its Effects on Wind Energy Generation in Oklahoma
(2019-05-11)Future increases of wind energy density for the United States’ South-Central Plains region have been projected by several previous research examples. The Central Plains’ low-level jet has been projected to become faster ... -
Noise and Fragile Symphonies: Animality and the South African Sonic Genre in The Whale Caller, Disgrace, and Nineveh
(2019-05-11)When establishing an interspecies ethics, it is often the gaze that is used to establish the agency of the animal Other in the absence of logocentric speech. However, when considering the physical realities of the nonhuman ... -
Delving deeper into plant assembly: determine the role of intraspecific diversity across space and time to affect carbon dynamics in natural and managed systems
(2019-05-11)Understanding the key ecological processes contributing towards the spatial-temporal variation in intra-specific diversity of commonly occurring species, especially during early colonization events, can be key to predict ... -
Tap and Jazz Dance in Higher Education: Uncovering the Significance of Tap and Jazz Dance Training in University Dance Studies
(2019-05-11)The values system in the United States is based in Western intellectual tradition, which has caused an imbalance in the availability to study certain forms of dance at the collegiate level. Ballet and modern dance are ... -
Geolocating Mobile Media: Exploring Gratification Opportunities and Location Based Services in Oklahoma Newspapers
(2019-05-11)Traditional media, such as newspapers, have been struggling to maintain their autonomy in the wake of the digital revolution in mass media. Smaller news outlets situated in local communities have been subject to declining ... -
Various Topics in Type Ia Supernovae
(2019-05-11)This work takes two approaches to increasing our understanding of type Ia supernovae. The first part uses observations to study their spectral evolution and diversity. The second part uses modeling to investigate a potential ... -
God Bless (My) America: Religion, Christian Nationalism and American Identity
(2019-05-11)There has been ample academic research exploring the concept of "Christian Nationalism" and how it affects the political views and activities of its adherents. Christian Nationalism can be defined as the belief that being ... -
Rekindled and Other Stories
(2019-05-11)"Rekindled and Other Stories" is a short fiction collection that also exercises multiple craft elements of fiction like point of view, voice, form such as flash fiction. Its themes include women and their autonomy, obsession, ... -
THE UNIQUE GEOMETRIES AND ILLUMINATIONS OF PROTOPLANETARY DISKS AND THEIR POTENTIAL EXOPLANETS
(2019-05-11)The discovery of new protoplanetary disk structures can help reveal the dynamics of the young planetary systems and potentially point to planet formation within the disk. In my dissertation, I present investigations of ... -
Racism and Resistance: Contextualizing Sorry to Bother You in the Neoliberal Moment
(2019-05-11)The goal of this paper is to discuss the historical and theoretical framework of neoliberalism through three films that place the Black body at the center of neoliberal economic and ideological systems: Sorry to Bother You ... -
Learning Good From Skeletons: Ethical Literacies in Undertale
(2019-05-11)Current studies of game narrative and design, particularly with regard to morality, have focused mainly on direct player engagement. However, this otherwise reasonable perspective omits the other ways in which people ... -
A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of the Hydrogen Bond Networks in Water-Glycerol Mixtures
(2019-05-11)Molecular Dynamics simulations are performed over a wide range of water-glycerol concentrations to observe the intermolecular hydrogen bond (H-bond) populations at each concentration. The measured values from simulations ... -
The University of Oklahoma and the Hidden Curriculum of Its Early Years
(2019-05-11)A key part of the founding myth of the University of Oklahoma is the imagery of its first president, David Ross Boyd, combing the untamed territory in a buggy for potential students, promising that “no one will find he is ... -
The effects of apologies and causal attribution on public responses
(2019-05-10)Apologies have been used in crisis communications to address organizational transgressions. Yet, there is no consensus about the components of an apology (e.g., Hearit, 2006; Smith, 2008). Also, the causes of an organization’s ... -
Electromyographic Measurement of the Chinchilla Middle Ear Muscle Reflex Elicited by Acoustic or Blast Stimuli
(2019-05-10)Hearing damage is a widespread problem that can cause social isolation and reductions in quality of life. A wide range of conditions including extended exposure to noise or near-instantaneous exposure to blast overpressure ... -
A PERFORMER’S GUIDE TO ADAM CUTHBÉRT’S WORKS FOR SOLO TRUMPET AND ABLETON SOFTWARE
(2019-05-10)Adam Cuthbért has established himself as a composer worthy of study through his prolific interactions with a wide range of performers and organizations of national and international renown. High profile groups such as the ... -
Character and Moral Judgment: Designing Right and Wrong
(2019-05-10)I argue that an adequate theory of rightness should meet (at least) two distinct conditions: a “Consequences Condition” according to which the rightness or wrongness of some, but not all acts should be determined conclusively ... -
Improving Data Management for Cow and Calf Researchers
(2019-05-10)The aim of this thesis titled Improving Data Management for Cow and Calf Researchers is to develop an online database for the researchers in order to store detailed information on cattle under their supervision. Live Barn ... -
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE WELLBORE CEMENT BONDING AND SHEAR STRESS
(2019-05-10)Well Integrity is considered one of the most important topics in petroleum industries. A failure of well integrity causes many undesirable consequences such as loss of human lives, loss of drilling equipment or production ...
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