Browsing OSU Dissertations by Title
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Where the great plains and south collide: A history of farm tenancy in Oklahoma, 1890-1950
(2010-05)Scope and Method of Study: This study examines the rise and fall of farm tenancy in Oklahoma. Primary materials include manuscript collections, agricultural newspapers, government documents, and census data. Secondary ... -
Whirlwind Woman: Native American tornado mythology and global parallels
(2009-12)Scope and Method of Study: This research encompasses Native North American tornado-related ethnohistorical material from the seventeenth century through the twentieth century. It explores and analyzes the relationships ... -
"Who am I now?": Widows' learning journeys in self-identity
(2017-07)Spousal death has been described as both a trauma and a "seismic event" (Montpetit et al.) and it is not unusual for one to experience PTSD symptoms. With almost one million people a year in the United States entering ... -
Whole farm experimentation: Making it profitable
(2022-12)The first essay considers Bayesian Kriging (BK), which provides a way to estimate spatially varying coefficient regression models where the parameters are smoothed across space. The problem is that previous methods are too ... -
Whom are you going to call? Examining help-seeking sources among university students with a suicide history
(2021-07)Suicide is a concern among college students and on college campuses across the United States. Prior research has shown a number of variables that impact access to help-seeking for students experiencing thoughts of suicide. ... -
Why adults at age 50 seek doctoral degrees
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Why Machiavellian employees engage in unethical behavior: Examining the roles of moral disengagement, moral flexibility, and (un)ethical leadership
(2022-05)This research examines how and when employee Machiavellianism could be harmful to organizations and their members. Two explanatory mechanisms, moral disengagement, and moral flexibility were proposed and tested in the ... -
Why might novice entrepreneurs accept increased risk by becoming portfolio entrepreneurs?
(2021-12)The present research explored the relationship between loss aversion, based on prospect theory, and the diversification decision resulting in portfolio entrepreneurship. Specifically, where an entrepreneur is currently ... -
Will Rogers, writer and journalist
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Wingman Project: An exploratory study of school-based communication with grandparents
(2014-07)Involvement of parents and family, school personnel, and community members is important because studies from early childhood, elementary, middle, and high schools have shown that students are more successful when their ... -
Winter Ecology of the Parasitoid Lysiphlebus Testaceipes Cresson
(Oklahoma State University, 2005-12-01)The purpose of this study was to investigate cold weather ecology of the greenbug parasitoid, Lysiphlebus testaceipes Cresson (Hymentoptera: Aphidiidae). These investigations included (1) determination of the supercooling ...