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Minutes of a Regular Meeting, The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, June 23-25, 2014
(The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, 2014-06-23)
OSCER state of the Center
(2014-09-24)
Talk Abstract
The OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER) celebrated its 13th anniversary on August 31 2014. In this report, we examine what OSCER is, what OSCER does, what OSCER has accomplished in ...
Vitamin D Status: Associations With Chronic Disease Risk Factors And Cognitive Function
(2014-08)
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 ...
Genomic and Metabolomic Insights into the Natural Product Biosynthetic Diversity of a Feral-Hog-Associated Brevibacillus laterosporus Strain
(2014-03-03)
Bacteria associated with mammals are a rich source of microbial biodiversity; however, little is known concerning the abilities of these microbes to generate secondary metabolites. This report focuses on a bacterium isolated ...
Ethical Decision Making By Business Leaders: The Impact Of Cognitive Biases And Strategies
(2014)
Business ethics refers to the examining right or wrong human behavior in business settings. A common human behavior in the business world is decision making, and some of the most important decisions made by business leaders ...
Increased Avoidance Motivation as a Mechanism for Self-Control Failure
(2014)
Previous research has found that engaging in an act of self-control impairs further self-control attempts for a brief time. However, little is known about why this occurs or more specifically what the underlying mechanisms ...
Parasitic Worms in Early Modern Science and Medicine, 1650-1810
(2014-05)
From antiquity, parasites, and especially worms, were thought to be responsible for human suffering and disease. However, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, worms became the subject of extensive scientific ...
The National and International Responses to the Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Undergraduate
(2014-04-01)
“The National and International Responses to the Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,” by Mallory Hogan, analyzes a controversial episode in American history from a global perspective, discussing the reactions of the public ...
"God's Objective Truth, As Far As We Know It": Journalism Ideology at an Evangelical News Magazine
(2014-08)
This study mixes interviews and textual analysis to explore the ideology, motivations, routines, and content at WORLD, a major evangelical Christian news magazine whose editor-in-chief, Dr. Marvin Olasky, is a well-known ...
What Are the Different Types of Principals Across the United States? A Latent Class Analysis of Principal Perception of Leadership
(Educational Administration Quarterly, 2014-02-01)
Purpose: Effective styles of principal leadership can help address multiple issues in struggling schools, such as low student achievement and high rates of teacher attrition. Although the literature has nominated certain ...