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Essays in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
(2024-05-10)
This dissertation comprises two essays that investigate the realms of venture capital (VC) and entrepreneurship. In the first essay (Chapter 1), an exploration unfolds to determine whether climate risk serves as a crucial ...
Double Consciousness and African American Principals in the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area: A General Inductive Qualitative Study
(2024-05-10)
There is an underrepresentation of African American head public school principals in the United States of America. The growth of multi-ethnic student populations in cities amplifies this situation. Principals leading diverse ...
Riparian Nitrate and Phosphate Removal Under Future Climate Scenarios
(2024-05-11)
Riparian buffer zones are specially managed zones that lie between agricultural fields and rivers, lakes, or wetlands. They are crucial for protecting water quality, human health, and ecosystem function. Critical ecosystem ...
Essays in corporate governance and institutional investing
(2024-05-10)
This dissertation comprises of three essays. The first essay (Chapter 1) compares the skills of female directors hired as a result of California gender quota and female directors hired as a result of the diversity initiative ...
The Perceptions of Latina Pre-Engineering Students in Rural Oklahoma CareerTech
(2024-05-10)
This qualitative study, Perceptions of Latina Pre-Engineering Students in Rural Oklahoma CareerTech, examined the Latina perspectives of STEM education, educational decisions, oppressive systems, and alternate pathways. ...
Education Reform for the Everyman Philosopher: Themes in Montessori Pedagogy and their Ideological Resonance
(2024-05-11)
The progressive education movement broadly elevates reforms centered around individualized instruction and social consciousness. Montessori schooling presents a uniquely successful case where organized nonprofits have ...
Bridging the Gap between Sparse Matrix Computation and Graph Models
(2024-05-10)
Sparsity manifests itself in a multitude of modern High-Performance Computing applications including graph neural networks, network analytics, and scientific computing. In sparse matrices, the majority of values are zeros. ...
Making the Business of Death, Business-As-Usual: The Commerce-Care Dialectic in Funeral Planning
(2024-05-10)
This dissertation, grounded in relational dialectics theory 2.0 (RDT; Baxter, 2011), aims to illustrate what meanings emerge from the commerce-care dialectic when engaging in funeral planning. The contrapuntal analysis of ...
Apparitional representations: disability history, reparative descriptions, and ethical failings in a special research collection
(2024-05-10)
Reparative description is a trend in archival scholarship that seeks to address past harms caused by archives that misrepresented and silenced historically marginalized communities in their collections. Identifying and ...
Drivers of Stream Drying and Network Connectivity Across Spatial Scales
(2024-05-10)
Nonperennial streams are widespread and abundant around the globe. Although these streams are societally and ecologically important, they are understudied relative to those that flow continuously. Because of this, we lack ...