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Women and the superintendency: Glass ceiling and empowerment of female superintendents in Oklahoma
(2022-07)
Several acts and movements have attempted to eliminate discrimination in employment opportunities. However, despite these acts and movements, there remains a disproportionate number of males in top leadership positions in ...
Educators who turned to politics in Oklahoma
(2022-07)
Since the early 1990’s funding K-12 public education in Oklahoma has faced trials and tribulations. The purpose of this study was to understand, through the lens of Social Cognitive
Career Theory (SCCT), factors that ...
Development of metal oxide/metal carboxylate chemistry for the synthesis of metal tungstates, molybdates, and ferrites and extraction of iron from ores
(2022-05)
The research reported in this dissertation explored the application of the reactions between metal oxides and metal carboxylates for the synthesis of useful ternary metal oxides containing either molybdenum or tungsten, a ...
Multimodal approach to improve fire safety on construction sites
(2022-12)
Fire risk on construction sites is a threat to property and construction workers’ safety. Fire safety on construction sites has been rarely studied because fire accidents have a lower occurrence compared to Construction’s ...
Rural Oklahoma and the nexus of disaster vulnerability, risk, and resilience
(2022-03)
The concepts of vulnerability, risk, and resilience have experienced a meteoric rise in academic attention among disaster scholars over the past three decades. Vulnerability operates as the set of social conditions which ...
Depositional controls and stratigraphic architecture of a mixed carbonate-siliclastic depositional system in the Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) of the Southern Midcontinent, Oklahoma, USA
(2022-12)
The Anadarko Basin of the North American Midcontinent has been explored by the hydrocarbon industry for decades, and recent efforts have created an opportunity to analyze robust modern geologic datasets for investigating ...
Teacher self-perception as a pedagogical stem content expert and its influence on classroom practice
(2022-07)
Providing a positive atmosphere for growth in STEM can elevate female middle school students towards seeing themselves succeeding even through short-term failures and cognitive dissonance. Yet, through negative gendered ...
Three studies using business naming patterns to delimit regional geographies
(2022-07)
The following work contains three articles delimiting and interrogating the concept of vernacular regions using the spatial distribution and frequency of keywords in business names. The basics of this approach are not ...
Synthesis, characterization, and application of starch and graphene oxide derivatives for polymers
(2022-12)
Graphene oxide (GO) and starch have often been tested for use as fillers, additives, and interfacial modifiers for polymer composites. However, using pristine GO and starch has several drawbacks, including dispersion ...
Two essays on display orientations, purchase types and power distance beliefs
(2022-07)
Product displays are an important facet of a company’s marketing strategy. With the advent of online retailing, products can now be displayed in different ways as the constraints of the shelf no longer apply. One common ...