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Influence of a Non-traditional Mathematics Content Course on Preservice Teachers' Beliefs
(2012)
A continued and ongoing call for improvement and change in mathematics teaching and learning suggests a need for re-visioning the ways in which mathematics teachers are educated. Suggestions include incorporating reform ...
An evaluation of the inflammatory time course response following traditional and blood flow restriction resistance exercise measured by peripheral quantitative computed tomography
(2012)
Acute muscle swelling following resistance exercise can increase mCSA when assessed by pQCT. This swelling does not reflect muscle hypertrophy, but rather a fluid shift in and around the exercised musculature that may ...
State Participation in United Nations Peackeeping Operations: An Empirical Analysis
(2012)
This dissertation examines states and their motivations in contributing troops to UN peacekeeping operations through the three primary International Relations approaches of realism, liberalism and constructivism. Current ...
ROBUST DECISION-MAKING AND DYNAMIC RESILIENCE ESTIMATION FOR INTERDEPENDENT RISK ANALYSIS
(2012)
When systems and subsystems are put under external shocks and duress, they suffer physical and economic collapse. The ability of the system components to recover and operate at new stable production levels characterizes ...
Alternative Conceptions of Complexity: Sociopolitical Dynamics of the Mountain Fork Caddo
(2012)
The Mountain Fork Caddo lived along the Mountain Fork River in southeastern Oklahoma between approximately A.D. 1000 and 1600. These dispersed, sedentary communities shared much in common with other southeastern peoples, ...
Increase and Maintenance of Community Diversity by Positive Frequency-dependent Predation in the Tierra System
(2012)
Ecological communities often contain a wide diversity of species but how different species may arise and stably coexist, especially in homogenous spatial environments, is poorly understood. In this dissertation, I use the ...
In the Pause and Listening to the Little People: A Folk Healer’s Journey
(The Counseling Psychologist, 2012-01-01)
Rockey Robbins, PhD (Cherokee/Choctaw), is an associate professor in counseling psychology at the University of Oklahoma. His research has been primarily with Native Americans in the areas of spirituality, family resiliency, ...
A Phenomenological Exploration of Resilience in Cheyenne and Arapaho University Students
(2012)
This study explored the experience of transitioning from common education to higher education for a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho students. Additional features of resilience<bold/> were examined as well, which included ...
Social Cognitive Dynamics of Popularity and Indirect Aggression: The Role of Social Goals and Social Intelligence
(2012)
This study investigated the social goals of adolescents and their use of indirect aggression. Additionally, it examined how gender, peer status (i.e. perceived popularity) and individual differences in social intelligence ...
Gay and Lesbian Individuals’ Attitudes Toward the Death Penalty: An Exploratory Study of the Roles of Empathic Concern and Political Beliefs
(Criminal Justice Review, 2012-06-01)