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Tonal Artifactualizations: Light-to-dark in Still Imagery and Effects on Perception
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-05-01)
Mass media news outlets that produce print products use aestheticized imagery in their editorial content and in-house produced advertisements. The human visual system's (HVS) physical and cognitive properties enable people ...
Comparing the performance of ordinal logistic regression and artificial neural network when analyzing ordinal data
(2012-07)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study is to compare the performance of the Ordinal Logistic Regression (OLR) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models when analyzing ordinal data using different scenarios ...
Interpreting the Reflective Journals of Food Security Fellows from Kenya and Uganda: a Professional and Cultural Exchange
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-05-01)
The population for this study was the 14 policymakers, community leaders, and media professionals from Kenya and Uganda who participated in the grant-funded project aimed to reduce food insecurity by catalyzing communication ...
Deterministic models to explain the phenomenon of interfacial mixing in refined products pipelines
(2012-12)
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Making bricks without straw: Teaching and assessing new literacy skills at a small, private HBCU
(2012-07)
Scope and Method of Study: Scope of the study comprised a three-phase Participatory Action Research study of teaching and assessing New Literacy Skills in small, private HBCUs using open source tools
Reported Reading Strategies of Iraqi Graduate Students Studying in Us Universities
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-12-01)
Reading is an important academic skill that college students need to master if they want to succeed in their academic programs. Traditionally, reading is the process whereby readers look at a written text and try to ...
Becoming a Faithful Academic: a Place for Latter-day Saint Pedagogy in Composition and Rhetoric
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-05-01)
This thesis begins as a creative non-fiction essay about the author's experiences in graduate-level English as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the struggles he faced to reconcile the theories ...
Educator Preparedness to Teach Environmental Science in Secondary Schools
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-05-01)
This study assesses the environmental proficiency of Texas life science educators certified from 2003 to 2011 by analyzing their TExES 138 8-12 exam results in domains V and VI. The sample consisted of all the individuals ...
Issues involved in groundwater withdrawals and pollution of the Ogallala: Evidence from West Texas
(2012-05)
Scope and Method of Study: The existing body of economic research dealing with groundwater extraction seems to focus only on that problem itself and does not view the exploitation of the aquifer and the corresponding ...
Quantitation of Dna from Wax-embedded Biopsy Tissues Using Two Different Methods
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-07-01)
This study compares DNA yield from formalin fixed biopsy embedded tissues as quantitated by both Quantitative Template Assay Technology (Q-TAT) and Real Time qPCR. Additionally, the study examines the possibility of the ...