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A disarming laughter: The role of humor in tribal cultures. An examination of humor in contemporary Native American literature and art.
(2000)
Non-Indians have long considered Indian people to possess little or no sense of humor because they trustingly accept prevailing stereotypes. This dissertation dispels this assumption by showing that humor has served, and ...
Abundances of sulfur in the Milky Way Disk from Peimbert Type II planetary nebulae.
(2000)
Sulfur abundance gradients and heavy element ratios for the Milky Way Disk are constructed based upon newly acquired spectrophotometry of Type II planetary nebulae (PN). These spectra extend from 3600--9600 angstroms ...
Tropical climate stability, Hadley circulation, and deep cumulus convection: Vital synergism on a wet planet.
(2000)
Important features of the proposed formulation for precipitating deep turbulent clouds include the ability to calculate precipitation efficiencies, a new postulation relating cumulus buoyancy to solar radiation, and the ...
Workload and Performance in FOPA: A Strategic Planning Interface for Air Traffic Control
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2000-07-01)
The Flight Organizer Planning Aid (FOPA) interface was designed to aid strategic planning in air traffic control. In particular, FOPA was designed to address difficulties in solving en route sequencing problems (combining ...
Gettysburg, a living battlefield.
(2000)
National Park Service (NPS) battlefields are designed as eternal tributes, but there is little permanence about these landscapes. Structures, scenery, and stories frequently change in relation to public memory of the events ...
Carlos Guastavino's song cycles "Las Nubes" and "Cuatro Sonetos de Quevedo": The relationship of text and music.
(2000)
Chapter Two is a biographical sketch of Carlos Guastavino; topics include his early years and musical influences, his professional training and musical influences and ideas. Chapter Three is an analytical study of the text ...
Journal of the Faculty Senate, April 10, 2000
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2000-04-10)
The supervision and evaluation of high school principals as described by central office administrators.
(2000)
The participants described several procedures and interactions they used to supervise and evaluate high school principals: (a) pre-conferences, (b) goal-setting, (c) site visits, (d) group meetings, (e) post-conferences, ...
Exploration in the mare incognita: Natural history and conservation in early twentieth century America.
(2000)
More a space than a place, the ocean had long occupied the American imagination as a geographical border to be crossed. The process of coming to know of the ocean as a place began in the nineteenth century, but it was not ...
Minutes of a Regular Meeting, The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, July 17, 2000
(The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, 2000-07-17)