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Role of the intestinal microbiota in modulating behavior in the adolescent prairie vole
(2018-12)
Introduction: The intestinal epithelium develops during gestation and goes through many changes shortly after birth. During this time period the intestinal epithelium matures into a selective barrier to protect the host ...
Precocial sexual selection in Crotaphytus collaris
(2018-07)
We investigated the relationships between indicators of fitness and a sexually dichromatic color (hatchling orange bars, HOB) that appears on the side of the body in hatchling male collared lizards (Crotaphytus collaris). ...
Flight Characteristics of a Tilt-Wing, Distributed-Propulsion, Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft Concept
(2018-05-01)
Unmanned aircraft are starting to be utilized in a diverse set of applications ranging from military surveillance to railroad inspections and natural disaster damage assessment. Given the nature of these missions, runways ...
Impact Analysis of the Clean Power Plan on the State of Oklahoma
(2018-12-01)
This research analyzes the potential economic, environmental, and social impacts of the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan (CPP) rule on the state of Oklahoma. Climate change is a global concern, and the CPP was the ...
Self-efficacy of Oklahoma career and technology education trade and industrial teachers and influences that affect retention: A mixed-methods study
(2018-05)
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to discover reasons Oklahoma T & I teachers choose to remain in teaching; many of whom were described as career switchers. Of particular interest was examining various types of ...
Functional Characterization of Vacuolar ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters in Candida albicans
(2018-07-01)
ATP binding cassette transporters are a large family of integral membrane transport proteins which have vital functions in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. The genome of Candida albicans, the most important opportunistic ...
Investigation into Female Solo Travelers: Solo Travel Exposure and Perceived Constraints, Personal Development, Authentic Personality and Self-Esteem
(2018-12-01)
Female solo travelers have become one of the most promising markets in today's tourism industry. Many women are motivated to travel solo with the hope to achieve self-discovery and self-development. Nevertheless, they are ...
Pitch perception and production in children diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech and typically developing controls
(2018-05)
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a pediatric neurodevelopmental speech sound disorder that presents with deficits in articulation and prosody. There have been multiple studies that have investigated aspects of prosody ...
Victim Narratives: A Content Analysis of Metropolitan Newspaper Coverage of High-Profile Oklahoma Criminal Cases with Police Defendants
(2018-12-01)
The rights of the accused and the rights of the free press have often stood at odds. Even when news was simple neighborhood gossip, it posed risk to the rights guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment. As media has evolved, ...
Monitoring and modeling soil salinity dynamics at greenhouse and field scales
(2018-12)
An integrated monitoring and modeling approach was undertaken in greenhouse and field scale in terms of three main studies. In the first study, the changes in soil salinity and several other chemical properties were ...