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The Influence of Storytelling on the Identity of Children of Adolescent Parents
(2018-12)
Grounded in Communicated Narrative Sensemaking, this dissertation examines the influence stigma and storytelling have on those born to adolescent parents. Analyses based on a survey completed by 141 individuals found those ...
LEADERSHIP FOR STUDENT SUCCESS OUTCOMES: A CASE STUDY OF PRESIDENTIAL AND COMMITTEE ACTIONS AT EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
(2018-12-15)
In American Higher Education, retention and graduation rates have grown in their prominence as institutional quality indicators. Yet, when measures are interrogated for parity across racial groups, inequity in outcomes is ...
How K-12 school district officials made decisions during 2011 National Weather Service tornado warnings
(2012)
School district officials are responsible for the safety of large populations of students and staff. Yet, few have meteorological training to accurately interpret severe weather information to make the best decisions during ...
Soil Trace Metals Concentrations in A Mining Impacted Agricultural Watershed: Comparison of Analytical Methods, Geospatial Distribution, and Evaluation of Risk
(2018-05-11)
This study investigated four aspects surrounding lead, zinc, and cadmium soil trace metals concentrations within a mining impacted watershed: (1) a comparison of three soil trace metal quantification methods relating ...
Journal of the Faculty Senate, October 13, 2014
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2014-10-13)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Nucleic Acid Tertiary Structures
(2011)
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is ubiquitous to all organisms and a molecule that essential to all life forms. RNA is a versatile molecule with numerous cellular functions. With advances in nucleic acid sequencing, researchers ...
Conceptualizing and Validating a Measure of Principal Trust in Central Administration
(2013-12)
ABSTRACT
Trust is a core social resource for schools. Lack of trust, however, is a serious impediment to the implementation of improvements in schools today. The absence of a valid and reliable scale to measure principals’ ...
Deceptive Language by Innocent and Guilty Criminal Suspects: The Influence of Dominance, Question, and Guilt on Interview Responses
(Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2011-12-01)
Matthew L. Jensen is an assistant professor in the Price College of Business and a researcher in the Center for Applied Social Research at the University of Oklahoma. His primary research interests are deception and ...
Selfless Agents
(2015-03-14)
This project will address the fundamental question in the background of the Self, Motivation and Virtue Project: How is the Self to be conceived? We challenge the premise of western philosophy that a diachronically unified ...
BIOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE THREE-WAY JUNCTION IN PHI29-LIKE BACTERIOPHAGE PROHEAD RNA
(2017-08-18)
The knowledge gained from biophysical studies of RNA can contribute to basic research and inform new directions for translational research. In particular, information that develops the relationships among RNA energetics, ...