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New age: Quantitative morphometry for the 21st century - Advances in the study of dorsal root ganglion neurons
(2021-12)
Dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons transduce sensory information in peripheral tissues, transmitting centrally as action potential frequency, along second and third order neurons for processing in the somatosensory cortex. ...
Hidden in plain sight: Men's lived experiences with sexual violence as college students
(2020-05)
Men's experiences with sexual violence are an understudied subject within sociological literature. Despite some past research endeavors that have focused on men, little is known regarding the ways that men college students ...
Development of tools to accelerate and advance modeling disease progression
(2020-12)
Disease pathology emerges from complex interactions at multiple scales including the cellular level, tissue level, and organ level. Multiscale modeling seeks to capture emergent phenomena by coupling models of differing ...
Relationship between males' serious leisure and their conformity to masculine gender norms
(2021-05)
Social norms have influenced leisure participation. Serious leisure pursuits are affected by time constraints as they, by definition, involve time commitments. The goal of leisure is to quench a desire for a fulfilling ...
Understanding climate change discourse in China
(2021-07)
China plays a significant role in the international climate regime. Past studies focus on analysis of climate change policies and examine micro-level climate change concerns quantitatively. Using 1736 reports from four ...
Academic library publishing of Open Educational Resources
(2020-12)
Institutions and organizations perceiving the use and creation of Open Educational Resources (OER) as consistent with their values, experiences, and needs are developing partnerships in support of the creation and publication ...
Insights into mechanisms of antifungal activity by innate immune cells
(2023-05)
Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that causes over 180,000 annual deaths in HIV/AIDS patients. Innate phagocytes such as dendritic cells
(DCs) and macrophages are the first cells to interact with ...
Two essays on stock repurchases
(2020-05)
My dissertation comprises two chapters. The first chapter examines the information content of actual share repurchase within the context of informed options trading, while the second chapter examines the impact of EPS-motivated ...
Characterizing station aridity and improving the estimates of reference evapotranspiration in the Oklahoma Mesonet
(2022-07)
There is a consensus among the scientific community regarding the rise in air temperatures and changing precipitation patterns across the globe. Many areas around the world are expected to see increased aridity levels in ...
Genetic and quantitative trait loci mapping in African bermudagrass and characterization of winter survivability and drought response in turf-type bermudagrass
(2020-12)
African bermudagrass (Cynodon transvaalensis Burtt-Davy) is frequently used to cross with common bermudagrass (C. dactylon Pers.) in the creation of F1 hybrid cultivars that most widely used in the worldwide turf industry. ...