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President in the gray flannel suit: Dwight D. Eisenhower and postwar American manhood
(2016-05)
In recent years presidential historians and men studies specialists have combined their fields of study to examine how conceptions of male identity have informed, shaped, and altered the American presidency. Dwight Eisenhower ...
Surface effects and gold-nanostructure surface coating of whispering-gallery microresonators
(2010-05)
Scope and Method of Study:
Can Performance Predictions Improve Prospective Memory and Does Type of Prediction Matter?
(2015-12-01)
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the extent to which memory beliefs (as indexed by performance predictions) affected prospective memory (PM) performance on tasks that had different retrieval processing ...
Studies of Learned Helplessness in Honey Bees (Apis Mellifera Ligustica)
(2016-05-01)
The current study provides evidence of learned helplessness in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.). Bees received either avoidable or unavoidable shock during a discriminative compartment restriction task in an automated ...
Consequences of the Encroachment of Juniperus Virginiana in a Tallgrass Prairie: Soil Physical and Biological Alterations
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-12-01)
The invasion of J. virginiana into grasslands has multi-scale effects including loss of biodiversity, loss of habitat for wildlife species, and alterations in community-level and biogeochemical functions. Most previous ...
Investigation of Computational Problem Area Detection on Earthen Spillways Across Varying Image Resolutions
(Oklahoma State University, 2010-07-01)
This thesis work investigates the ability of segmentation algorithms to segment vegetal problem areas in aerial images of earthen spillways. Four different segmentation algorithms were applied to aerial images of spillways ...
Production of alcohols via syngas fermentation using Alkalibaculum bacchi monoculture and a mixed culture
(2013-12)
Gasification-syngas fermentation is a hybrid conversion technology. In this process, feedstocks such as biomass or municipal solid waste are gasified to syngas (CO, H2 and CO2), which is then converted into biofuels and ...
Polyolefin blend miscibility: Quantitative investigations of dynamic heterogeneity
(2012-12)
Scope and Method of Study: Using advanced solid-state NMR to study the microscopic interactions of amorphous polymer blends and the influences of each component to the dynamic heterogeneity of those miscible blends.
Will Improvements to the Nutrition Facts Panel Increase Label Involvement?
(Oklahoma State University, 2014-07-01)
The nutrition fact label has been on foods in the United States since the 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act. While little has changed with the label in the U.S., many countries in Europe have started utilizing front ...
Development of Liquid Chromatography-tandem Mass Spectrometry (Lc-ms/Ms) Methods for Exploration of Currency Contamination with Controlled Substances
(Oklahoma State University, 2010-07-01)
The purpose of this research was to develop and validate a method for the quantitation of controlled substances on currency using liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). The LC-MS/MS instrument was ...