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Individual variation and learning in crickets
(2021-12)
Learning can play a key role in an individual's fitness. Learning also often varies among different individuals of the same species, with some individuals being faster learners in different situations such as being better ...
Learning and physiological stress: Outcomes on expression of related genes in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
(2021-05)
Stress is defined as any deviation form an organism's baseline physiological levels. As such, introduction of new stimuli and information, such as in learning, can be operationally defined stressors. A large body of research ...
Examination of academic learning outcomes in a non-formal learning environment: A study of Oklahoma FFA Alumni Leadership Camp
(2012-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This quasi-experimental study included FFA members from 149 local Oklahoma FFA chapters who attended camp during summer of 2011. These subjects had completed at least the eighth grade, but had ...
Ride like a girl: A narrative exploration of women in the rodeo
(2021-12)
The purpose of this qualitative narrative inquiry was to 're-present' women's rodeo stories, illustrating and unpacking the meaning they narrated from within the masculinized arena. Ten cowgirls, 6 White and 4 Native ...
Effect of classroom management strategies on math fluency growth rate
(2014-05)
A classroom management intervention consisting of providing effective commands and behavior-specific praise statements was implemented in four first-grade general education classrooms. The effects of this intervention on ...
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear: The impact of change on readiness to learn
(2017-12)
As individuals go through life and experience the workplace they encounter changes, new and novel situations, planned and unplanned. Each of those encounters is an opportunity for an individual to appraise their readiness ...
Memory Storage in a Variable Threshold Artificial Neural Network
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-07-01)
This thesis is concerned with the problem of memory storage in a feedback neural network. A new learning approach has been developed that assigns variable thresholds to the neurons through an iterative process. This approach ...
Analysis of Soft Friend or Foe Reinforcement Learning Algorithm in Multiagent Environment
(Oklahoma State University, 2010-07-01)
This paper evaluates a new off policy multiagent reinforcement learning algorithm called Soft Friend or Foe. The new algorithm is the result of modifying the Friend or Foe [1] algorithm by using the correlation in returns ...