The University of Oklahoma: Recent submissions
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When more is less: the adverse effect of financial reporting complexity on accounting comparability
(2024-05-10)I investigate the impact of complex financial statements on accounting comparability. I measure accounting reporting complexity with XBRL-based measures. I find that complex financial statements reduce financial statement ... -
Teaching about the role of aesthetics in science through a short story based on the history of the concept of energy
(2024-05-10)The nature of science or, briefly, what science is and how it works, is an essential component of science education. However, it is not typically well understood by neither teachers nor students in K-12 settings. In ... -
Elucidating Quaternary High-frequency Depositional Sequences and Incised Valley Evolution Using High-resolution 3D Seismic Data: Gulf of Mexico, USA
(2024)Resolution limitations of conventional seismic methods prohibit the subsurface investigation of high-frequency—fourth and fifth-order—depositional sequences and their associated fluvial features. However, modern high-frequency ... -
Geophysical assessment on how near surface sediments impact seismic groundmotion due to induced seismicity
(2024-05)In Union City, Oklahoma, hydraulic fracturing and wastewater injection are a root cause of increased induced seismicity that is felt by nearby homeowners who report damage to the Oklahoma geological survey (OGS). To ... -
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 ... -
Snakes and Snails or Sugar and Spice? Gender Differences in Studying and Help-Seeking Behaviors in the College Classroom
(2024-05-10)College is a time of adjustment, particularly for first-year students. Although many students face challenges, research has suggested an increasing disparity in how well men and women adapt (Moore et al., 2010; Respondek ... -
The decision to trust: an application of structural equation modeling to the actor evaluation and trust framework
(2024-05-10)The growing number of crises, from public health crises like COVID-19 to natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes, has exposed the need for a comprehensive framework to understand how an individual decides who to ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
An integrative investigation of the mechanisms shaping host-associated microbial community assemblage
(2024-05-10)A critical goal of biologists is to describe the diversity of organisms on the planet and to illuminate the evolutionary processes that have shaped the global biodiversity we observe today. This is often accomplished by ... -
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. ... -
Experiences of Social Isolation in Rural Communities: A Multidisciplinary Approach
(2024-05-10)Rural communities often struggle due to a lack of funding, resources, and support, which can put residents at risk for adverse experiences. Merely living within a rural area is considered an influential contributing risk ... -
Dust Formation and Destruction in Core Collapse Supernovae Explosions
(2024)Dust is a crucial component of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) and an important driver in many astrophysical processes. Dust formed from evolved stars increases the metallicity of the ISM, enriching it with heavier elements. ... -
Artificial Intelligence Aversion in Public Policy
(2024-05-11)This dissertation advances our understanding of how individuals relate to the utilization of artificial intelligence within the public policy domain. This is done through theoretical development about the aversion individuals ... -
Spatiotemporal gap-filling of NASA Deep Blue aerosol optical depth over CONUS using the UNet 3+ architecture
(2024-05-10)Due to sensor and algorithmic constraints, satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrievals are spatially incomplete over clouds, deserts, and other bright surfaces. These gaps in satellite AOD datasets represent a significant ... -
Validation and field testing of an all-digital pressure sensor for permanent, distributed downhole measurements
(2024-05-15)The importance of downhole pressure sensing has risen significantly in oil and gas operations. Improvements in downhole sensing technology are expected to positively impact drilling, stimulation, production forecasting, ... -
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Exploring Entrepreneurial Mindset and Characteristics: Their Influence on Readiness, Success, and Educational Implications
(2024-04-02)Entrepreneurship has historically taken the inadequate and misleading misnomer of starting a business. The concept is far more significant and encompasses much more than the act and its process. Typically, the critical ...