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Essays on asset liquidity, cash holdings, and the cost of corporate debt
(2015-12)
This dissertation examines the relationship between the ability of a firm to sell its real assets (asset liquidity) and its cash holdings behavior as well as its cost of debt. In essay 1, I show that for financially ...
Investigate the Effect of Quality of Work-life on Construction Craft Workers� Job Satisfaction
(2015-12-01)
a shortage in skilled construction workers is the greatest challenge the U.S. construction industry facing in this era. This shortage would create a substantial risk to the competitiveness of the U.S. construction industry. ...
Teacher inquiry in higher education
(2018-05)
A pervasive neoliberal doctrine is rapidly changing the landscape of higher education in the United States. Applying free-market ideology to the university sphere has created an environment in which faculty are expected ...
Social Networking Sites: Examining Facebook as a Retention Tool at Colleges and Universities
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-07-01)
This study examines two universities' (Oklahoma State University and Northwestern Oklahoma State University specifically) Facebook use and the perceptions of students about their university's Facebook use. A content analysis ...
Examining the African-American Perception of Agriculture: Views of Students Attending an 1862 Land-grant Institution
(Oklahoma State University, 2014-07-01)
Shortly after the Civil War, the numbers of African Americans involved in agriculture began to dwindle. Although recently an increase has occurred in African-American farmers in the United States, the overall numbers are ...
Engaging community college students in online courses
(2017-12)
The percentage of students enrolled in online courses is higher for community college students than it is for students attending four-year colleges and universities (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2017a). The ...
Case Study on Veracity in Twitter Data Using Oil Company Related Tweets
(2015-07-01)
Twitter is a powerful real-time micro-blogging service and it is a platform where users provide and obtain information, called tweets, at a rapid pace. Because of the volume, velocity, and unstructured nature of tweets, ...