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Reducing Blacks' turnover intent: The effect of Blacks' perspective-taking in White-dominated workspaces
(2017-12)
Facilitating the development of healthy workplace relationships in diverse settings and retaining talented minority professionals are important organizational objectives. Extant research on perspective-taking validates its ...
Diatom Assemblages of the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge and Diatom Allometry in the Southwestern United States
(Oklahoma State University, 2006-05-01)
This thesis is a first account of the diatoms of the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. There is also a chapter with preliminary work investigating the allometry of diatom assemblages of the ...
Impact of Top Management Team Diversity on Firm Innovation
(2019-07)
The success and failure of companies can be attributed to many causes, but innovation is often cited as one of the key factors. Innovation can be defined broadly as the successful exploitation of new ideas (Nathan & Lee, ...
Supplementing Honors College Applications with an Optional Essay: Effects on Cohort Differences, First Year Retention, and Ethnic and Gender Disparities
(Oklahoma State University, 2013-12-01)
The purpose of the present study was to examine potential differences in background characteristics and academic achievement of honors students who submitted different types of applications. Students who applied to an ...
Production economics of potential perennial and annual biomass feedstocks
(2012-05)
Scope and Method of Study: The first essay determines the lowest cost lignocellulosic biomass feedstock production system for western Oklahoma from among seven alternatives at each of two locations. Field experiments were ...
Diversity and Innovation: An Analysis of Policy Reinvention
(2019-05-01)
This study explores a diversity-innovation relationship in state legislatures. The research includes three measures of diversity: occupational, gender, and racial diversity. The author uses two measures to capture diversity: ...
Utility of anaerobic gut fungi in the production of lignocellulosic biofuels
(2014-07)
The overall aim of this dissertation was to determine the prevalence and distribution of anaerobic gut fungi (AF) in nature and to evaluate the potential of AF isolates in producing biofuels from lignocellulosic plant ...
Influence of STEM mentor race and cultural competency on racial and ethnic minority mentees
(2021-07)
Although the number of racial and ethnic minorities (REM) in science technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields have been gradually increasing, REM continue to be underrepresented in both STEM education and ...
Assessing the anaerobic gut fungal diversity in herbivores using culture-independent survey and multi-year isolation
(2020-12)
The overall aim of my dissertation was to investigate the phylogenetic diversity, ecological distribution, and community structure of the anaerobic gut fungi (Neocallimastigomycota) in a wide range of herbivorous animals ...