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La Carte Cable Pricing and the Future of Local Broadcast Television
(2014-07-01)
Television has been a staple of the American lifestyle since its adoption in the 1950s. Advertising has been the primary source of revenue for local stations, although many stations strengthened their bottom line with ...
Increasing yield of late-planted soybean through management practices in the Southern Great Plains
(2014-08)
Increased soybean commodity prices and high-yielding cultivars have instigated producers to expand soybean production outside traditional regions. Introduction of soybean to relatively new areas such as the Southern Great ...
Team innovation and citizenship performance: The effect of collective regulatory focus and perceived organizational support
(2014-07)
This study investigates the impact perceived organizational support and a team climate for innovation has on team innovation and citizenship performance. Collective regulatory focus is utilized as a mediating process to ...
Insect Control under Uncertainty: Economical Strategies That Are Robust to Varying Weather Conditions and Insect Immigration Rates
(Oklahoma State University, 2014-07-01)
Insect control is a key concern for handlers of grain and grain-based products during storage. Traditionally, storage managers treat insects one or more times per year to control insects on a pre-determined schedule with ...
Of fire and dust: An environmental and social history of the Nebraska Sandhills during the Great Depression, 1929-1941
(2014-12)
During the Great Depression life on the Great Plains of the central United States was harsh, difficult, fiscally challenging, and, at times, deadly. The economic challenges posed to the region's agricultural residents was ...
Corn plant location, spacing and stalk diameter measurement using optical sensing technologies
(2014-05)
Plant within-row spacing and stalk diameters at mid-growth stages have been demonstrated to be important variables in the by-plant yield prediction model for corn. This information would help advising the in-season ...
Decolonizing Gender: Gender, Collective Identity, and Grievance Construction in the Idle No More Movement
(Oklahoma State University, 2014-12-01)
This thesis examines how gender is portrayed in the Facebook interactions of an emerging indigenous rights social movement in Canada called Idle No More. The theoretical framework presented synthesizes New Social Movement ...
Oxidative behavior and thermal stability of C60 colloidal suspensions in water and C60/gamma-cyclodextrin polymer networks
(2014-12)
Since its discovery in 1985, buckminsterfullerene (C60) has been extensively studied due to its unique properties and it's now being produced in multi-ton quantities. The ability to form stable aqueous C60 colloids (known ...
Application of feed additive technologies to enhance health and performance of forage-fed cattle
(2014-07)
A total of 260 cows and 7 cannulated steers were used in four studies to the effects of Bio-Mos, monensin, and slow release urea on cow and calf performance, passive immunity, and in situ digestibility. All experiments ...
Summer Camp Attendance: Its Effect on Social Competence
(Oklahoma State University, 2014-05-01)
The purpose of this study was to investigate college students and evaluate if attending summer camp as a child assists in the development of social competence. This was done by using the Self-Efficacy Scale, distributing ...