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Role of pragmatic language in aging and its relationship with quality of life
(2014-05)
The study examined the relationship between pragmatic language decline and older adults' quality of life, as well as social factors that could affect health. Quality of life is a term used to describe an individual's life ...
Disentangling Frequency and Talker Variability in a Statistical Learning Task Investigating Child Speech Acquisition
(2017-05-01)
Past research suggests that statistical patterns in a child’s native language influence the child’s speech production accuracy (Stoel-Gammon, 1998; Plante, Bahl, Vance, & Gerken, 2011). In addition to hearing some forms ...
Effectiveness of U.S. dairy export promotion programs in selected countries
(2008-07)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study is to estimate the impact of U.S. dairy export promotion expenditures and determine the impacts of other factors affecting import demand for source differentiated whey, ...
Terahertz Interferometer for Characterization of Thin Film Samples
(Oklahoma State University, 2002-08-01)
In-situ Field Biofilm Detection Using Seismic Methods
(2016-12-01)
Biofilms are ubiquitous in subsurface environments and are being used in a variety of engineering and remediation applications. Their ephemeral nature makes them hard to detect and, as a result, the much needed in-situ ...
Effects of Instrument-assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization on Isokinetic Knee Extensor Strength and Fatigue
(Oklahoma State University, 2014-05-01)
Strength is one characteristic that most athletes focus on improving as it is a critical element for success. It is believed that some micro-tearing of the muscle tissue occurs daily in routine activities and during regular ...
Novel system of pavement cracking detection algorithms using 1mm 3D surface data
(2015-12)
Pavement cracking is one of the major concerns for pavement design and management. There have been rapid developments of automated pavement cracking detection in recent years. However, none of them has been widely accepted ...
South's visible hand: Textile mills and the control of white labor in the antebellum southern Piedmont, 1830-1860
(2016-05)
Throughout the antebellum period, the concept of control was a fundamental cornerstone of white southern society. Plantations exhibited the most lucid example of this control where the master dominated not only slaves but ...
Hydraulic Performance Evaluation of RCC Stepped Spillways with Sloped Converging Training Walls
(Oklahoma State University, 2008-12-01)
More than 5,500 small watershed dams designed and built with support from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will reach the end of their 50 year planned service life by 2018. Changes in watershed hydrology ...
Effect of Management Commitment to Service Quality on Employees' Job Satisfaction and Prosocial Service Behaviors
(Oklahoma State University, 2004-12-01)
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of management commitment to service quality on employees' job satisfaction and prosocial service behaviors. The participants of this study were frontline hotel employees ...