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A Study of the Correlation Between Three Instructional Methods and Short-Term Knowledge Gain of Credit Card Debt Among College Students
(2014-05-09)
Consumer education, specifically information focusing on credit cards, is needed at all levels of society including students attending college campuses. Because financial decisions made can impact students’ progression ...
Can Virtue Be Measured?
(2014-01)
In addressing this question, I will define “virtue” as the possession of (a set of) virtue-relevant traits (e.g., honesty, compassion, bravery, generosity, etc.) – “traits” being defined as trait-appropriate cognitive/af ...
American Support of the Iran-Iraq War: A Pyrrhic Victory Undergraduate
(2014-04-01)
The Iran-Iraq War lasted from 22 September 1980 until 20 July 1988, cost over $1 trillion, and resulted in anywhere from five hundred thousand to one million deaths. This conflict caused irreparable damage to both countries ...
The OneOklahoma Friction Free Network: Towards a Multi-Institutional Science DMZ in an EPSCoR State
(2014-07-26)
The OneOklahoma Friction Free Network (OFFN) is a dedicated multi-institutional research-only "Science DMZ" network that connects the state's academic Cyberinfrastructure resources -- including all four high performance ...
Rapid Calculation of Medication Adherence Using Parallel Computing with R and Python
(2014-09-24)
____R and Python (with Pandas) are
excellent languages for data analysis
____Parallelizing code is often trivial, with
some caveats
____Faster runtimes lead to richer
exploration of the data
MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ARABIDOPSIS NUCLEAR FACTOR-Y TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FAMILY
(2014-05-09)
NUCLEAR FACTOR-Y (NF-Y) transcription factors, composed of three independent families: NF-YA, NF-YB, and NF-YC, have greatly expanded in plants in comparison to animals. For example, while humans have only one member of ...
Varieties of Homeland Security: An Assessment of US State-level Definitions
(2014-11)
Homeland Security continues to struggle to define itself as a field of practice and scholarship. The difficulty in defining the field has led to a variety of conflicts over membership, content, and focus. This article ...
SEISMIC SOLUTIONS FOR UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCE PLAYS
(2014-12)
Unconventional reservoir plays an increasingly important role for hydrocarbon exploration. Every reservoir has its unique properties, but it is mostly characterized by low permeability, such that hydraulic fracturing is ...
Social Interaction among Late Archaic and Incipient Agricultural Groups in the North American Southwest
(2014-05-09)
This study proposes that the transition to agriculture in the North American Southwest caused changes in social group relationships, especially in terms of cooperation and competition over land use. The research will ...
PALEOMAGNETISM AS A TOOL FOR DETERMINING DIAGENETIC, DEPOSITIONAL, AND EROSIONAL EVENTS AS RECORDED IN SEDIMENTARY AND IGNEOUS ROCKS
(2014)
Paleomagnetism is a useful means to study the depositional and diagenetic history of any formation. If a formation holds a geologically stable, ancient magnetization, the magnetization, and thus its origin, relates a ...