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Essays on board of director compensation.
(2002)
This dissertation consists of three essays that explore topics on the board of directors of profit-making corporations. Special emphasis is given to the evolution and determinants of outside director compensation. Essay 1 ...
OSCER State of the Center Address 2002
(2002-09-12)
The State of the OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER)
Applications of iterative decoding to magnetic recording channels.
(2002)
Finally, Q-ary LDPC (Q-LDPC) codes are considered for MRCs. Belief propagation decoding for binary LDPC codes is extended to Q-LDPC codes and a reduced-complexity decoding algorithm for Q-LDPC codes is developed. Q-LDPC ...
The relationship between nursing student performance and critical thinking in clinical judgment.
(2002)
The changing health care system, the nature of patient problems, and the movement of patient care from acute care facilities to diverse community settings has increased the demand for competent, professional nurses who are ...
The impact of perceived stress and coping behaviors on college adjustment for undergraduate students with learning disabilities.
(2002)
In view of comparatively low graduation rates of post-secondary education for students with learning disabilities, the extant literature was reviewed on stress, coping and college adjustment for this population. Undergraduate ...
Aiding Planning in Air Traffic Control: An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Perceptual Information Integration
(Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2002-09-01)
Prior research examined how controllers plan in their traditional environment and identified various information uncertainties as detriments to planning. A planning aid was designed to reduce this uncertainty by perceptually ...
The reduction of uranium by sulfate-reducing bacteria in the terrestrial subsurface and a pure culture bacterium.
(2002)
The microbial reduction of uranium was investigated in a contaminated aquifer and with a pure culture model organism, Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough. The concentrations of Fe(III), U(VI), nitrate and sulfate were ...
Electric utility deregulation: The case of stranded costs.
(2002)
My dissertation focuses on electric utility deregulation and certain costs that may become unrecoverable (stranded) in a deregulated market. Recent federal and state deregulation has increased competition in the electricity ...
Consciousness and personhood in split-brain patients.
(2002)
In this work I argue that the two hemispheres of a split-brain patient exhibit consciousness and personhood while the patient operates under the conditions of a "Sperry-type" experiment. I am particularly concerned to show ...
An Arabian Night: A one-act chamber opera.
(2002)
This document consists of a complete musical score of a one-act chamber opera based on an original libretto entitled An Arabian Night. The light story is loosely derived from a supplementary tale to 1001 Arabian Nights. ...