Initially praised as independent voices in a region known for authoritarian control, the pan-Arab satellite news networks have been criticized for airing content that is overtly violent, and sensational. Guided by framing ...

This thesis is an ethnographic documentation of the Native Crossroads Film Festival, an annual multi-day cultural event in Norman, Oklahoma that features a selection of indigenous films. I argue throughout this thesis that ...

This dissertation addresses the visualization, or artistic documentation, of the American Southwest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Artistic images in the form of drawings, paintings, photographs, and ...

Scholarship in linguistics, library science, journalism, and classics has long de- pended upon reading and analyzing text in traditional printed formats. Increasingly, manual and automatic text processing techniques are ...

Vitamin D deficiency and/or insufficiency is common in US adults and is linked to increased chronic disease risk. With the identification of vitamin D metabolizing enzymes and the vitamin D receptor in many tissues ...

My dissertation project served as an opportunity to explore the various technical and aesthetical concepts of electroacoustic music composition. Over the last few years, my main focus was on composing a live electronic ...

The growth of the Internet over the past decade together with the promise of lower costs to the customer has led to the rapid emergence of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). As a real-time application in large scale ...

Patterns were discovered that indicated that each of the teachers interviewed achieved longevity through the assistance of mentors and previous work-related experiences. Mentors included family members, colleagues and ...