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Congress, the Court, and the Constitution: Constitutional Deliberation in an Affiliated Age
(2011)
The relationship between Congress and the Constitution and more specifically, constitutional deliberation within Congress, has been the focus of important scholarship (Pickerill, 2004; Devins & Whittington, 2005). This ...
Do Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Predict Anti-China Attitudes?
(2010)
This paper addresses the question of why some Americans hold negative attitudes toward China’s government and people, and the impact that such attitudes have on their preferred China policies. We hypothesized that the ...
Self and Desire as Seeds of Virtue
(2015-03-14)
According to Buddhist philosophies, recognizing the self as impermanent, changing, and interdependent is at the root of virtue. With this realization, desires shift away from inward self-cherishing and toward outward ...
Parent-offspring recognition in cave swallows
(2013)
Natural selection favors investment in genetic relatives over giving such aid indiscriminately. Parental care is often easily directed only towards genetic relatives, but under some circumstances, this task can be problematic. ...
Neoliberal Natives: Projections, Disruptions, and Survivance within Casino Narratives
(2017-05-12)
Upon the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) in 1988, Indian gaming has been at the forefront of Native American discourses regarding sovereignty, self-determination, and economic development. Gaming operations ...
Microcosm assessment of natural processes affecting chemicals of emerging concern in secondary effluent
(2017-05)
The fight for new water sources is over, reclaimed water is next. Currently, the City of Norman supports its water needs via Lake Thunderbird (LT) and the Central Oklahoma Aquifer System (COAS). In times of peak demand, ...
ADDIE: Perspectives in Transition
(2011)
in an asynchronous forum responding to a prompt positing that ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) might be used in teaching instructional design (ID) as a safety net for designers without ...
COMMUNICABILITY, WELLNESS, AND RURAL HEALTH ECONOMICS: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTER IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA
(2014-05-09)
Through an analysis of chronotopic discourses, or discourses that provide meaning in connection to time and space, focused on the (re)definition of rurality in relation to health, this dissertation examines the overall ...
Therapeutic Applications of Bioconjugates in Human Disease
(2018-12-14)
The unifying element tying together the therapeutics presented in this thesis is annexin A5. The protein, annexin 5 (ANXA5), is a membrane management protein that specifically binds to apoptotic cells. The natural ligand ...
Carbon Nanotube Enhanced Lithium Ion Composite Cathodes
(2014-08-13)
Batteries are sought that can deliver high energy density and high power density over thousands of cycles, with minimum environmental impact and cost. Invariably no one material can achieve all of these requirements. Lithium ...