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Factors affecting student persistence at public research universities in Oklahoma
(2016-07)
Prior studies have demonstrated that most college dropouts happen at the transition to the third semester of college. Using a state dataset that includes student data for the 2013-2014 time span in the state of Oklahoma, ...
Relationship of Self-compassion with Thwarted Belongingness and Perceived Burdensomeness in American Indian/alaska Native People
(Oklahoma State University, 2016-05-01)
In this study, the relationships of self-compassion (i.e., self-kindness, self-judgment, common humanity, isolation, mindfulness, and over-identification) with suicide risk factors of perceived burdensomeness and thwarted ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hydroxy monolith precursor for the preparation of organic polymer monolithic columns by post-polymerization modification with various surface retentive ligands for capillary electrochromatography and high performance liquid chromatography
(2016-05)
The objective of this dissertation involved furthering the development of the concept of post-polymerization modification by introducing a novel poly(HEMA-co-PETA) precursor monolithic column to which various types of ...
Enhanced online course design and its effect on the perceived level of community of inquiry
(2016-12)
Academic institutions increasingly have adopted the online platform due to its low delivery cost and ease of scalability to large numbers of students. The pressure to increase enrollment numbers without enhancements to ...
Design of a Rocket Launched Sounding Uas
(2016-07-01)
Current diagnostic tools used to sample the thermodynamic structure of the AtmosphericBoundary Layer (ABL) include radiosondes, manned aircraft, radar, andtowers. One objective, for sampling the atmosphere, is to supplement ...
Genetic Mark-recapture Abundance Estimate and Dietary Preferences in a Recently Re-established American Black Bear Population
(2016-07-01)
American black bears (Ursus americanus) are recolonizing parts of eastern Oklahoma that they have not occupied since the late 1800s. The Ozark region black bears are adapting their diets and foraging behaviors to include ...
In-situ Field Biofilm Detection Using Seismic Methods
(2016-12-01)
Biofilms are ubiquitous in subsurface environments and are being used in a variety of engineering and remediation applications. Their ephemeral nature makes them hard to detect and, as a result, the much needed in-situ ...
South's visible hand: Textile mills and the control of white labor in the antebellum southern Piedmont, 1830-1860
(2016-05)
Throughout the antebellum period, the concept of control was a fundamental cornerstone of white southern society. Plantations exhibited the most lucid example of this control where the master dominated not only slaves but ...