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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Essays on mispricing of equity securities
(2016-07)
Mispricing of equity securities is an area of research with many implications for academicians, individual investors, money managers, and executives. The first essay in this dissertation explicitly studies the consistency ...
Environmental (natural and anthropogenic) effects on host-parasite (snail-trematode) interactions
(2016-05)
This dissertation explored environmental effects on host-parasite interactions. Chapter 2 was published in Ecotoxicology and assessed the effects of the herbicide atrazine on freshwater snails. The results indicated that ...
First-language Cherokee speakers' perceptions of school experiences
(2016-12)
In this dissertation I examine the perceptions of the experiences that first-language Cherokee speakers had of their school experiences, and of the higher education or career choices that they made beyond high school, in ...
Hydrate formation in waxy oil systems
(2016-12)
Emulsions are of great importance due to their widespread occurrence in industries such as pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food, agricultural, and energy. In the energy industry, emulsions may be encountered in all stages of ...