Browsing OU - Dissertations by Title
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Decolonizing personality assessment: An examination of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2.
(2005)This research builds on a previous investigation which found that the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - 2 (MMPI-2), the most widely used personality assessment instrument in the world, exhibits significant ... -
Decomposition techniques for support vector machines training and applications.
(2002)The theory of the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm is based on statistical learning theory and can be applied to pattern recognition and regression. Training of SVMs leads to either a quadratic programming (QP) ... -
Deconstructing Authenticity in Three Urtext Editions of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Op. 67: A Conductor's Guide to Variant Readings for Performance
(2016)This document suggests a solution to the problem posed by the existence of three competing urtext editions of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, op. 67, by Clive Brown, Jonathan Del Mar, and Jens Dufner. The fact that a final ... -
Deconstructing the "Apache" Identity: A History of the San Carlos Apachean Peoples
(2023-05-12)Historians of “Apache” history have continuously told the stories of the Chiricahua Apachean peoples and Goyathlay’s (Geronimo) resistance to the incursion of the U.S. Army. However, the attention afforded to these peoples ... -
Deconvolution and quantitation of severely overlapped chromatographic peaks using high performance liquid chromatography with multi-channel electrochemical detection.
(2005)The chemometric approaches employing two-dimensional time-response information were a bit more reliable in providing accurate outcomes. Each of the PCR, PLS, and SIMPLS approaches accurately predicted with 95% certainty ... -
Deep in the heart of Texas: nostalgia's ethos in public discourse
(2022-05)This project argues that nostalgia operates rhetorically as an argument of ethos and that its function within public arguments provides the field of rhetoric an opportunity to reimagine how ethos is produced within political ... -
DEEP LEARNING APPROACHES IN PROBLEMS IN VARIOUS-DIMENSIONAL DATA
(2017)This thesis develop efficient deep learning based methods for a series of tasks. I believe these problems to be inherently worth developing because of their connections to problems of practical importance. In particular, ... -
DEEPWATER SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES IN AN ACTIVE MARGIN, MAGDALENA SUBMARINE FAN, OFFSHORE COLOMBIA
(2009)The Magdalena submarine fan, offshore Colombia, is the result of sediment accumulation in an accretionary prism initiated during the middle Miocene. It is fed by the Magdalena River, which drains the northern Andean ... -
Deference in work organizations.
(2007)In this paper, I will look at the effects of race and the amount of deference subordinates give to their supervisors, which to my knowledge this is the first study of its type on deference in workplace organizations. If ... -
Defining a Relatively Normal Tornado Day: An Exploration of the Climatology and Potential Use of Relative Risk Forecasts for Tornadoes
(2023-08-04)The risks posed by rare and severe weather events are both the most impactful to the public and the most difficult to communicate, due to their low absolute probability of occurrence but high impact at a given point. Recent ... -
Defining America at the Border: The Line Riders of the Mexican Border District, 1892-1924
(2019-05-10)Defining America at the Border: The Line Riders of the Mexican Border District, 1892-1924 is the story of the line riders. Also known as Immigrant Inspectors, the Mounted Guard (both with the Bureau of Immigration), and ... -
Defining Policy Issues: The Dynamics of Information Processing and Issue Definitions
(2013)This dissertation examines how information is translated into issue -
Defining Rights: Contesting the Contra War Through Human Rights Advocacy, 1981-1988
(2018-05-12)Non-governmental organizations successfully limited U.S. support of counterrevolutionary guerrillas (Contras) in Nicaragua in the 1980s by advocating for peace through a lexicon of human rights. NGOs deployed their message ... -
Deflection and vibration in shear-deformable beams and laminated composites made of bimodular and multimodular materials /
(1983)Also, presented is a closed-form solution of the static equilibrium equation for a bimodular composite laminate in cylindrical bending. The resulting shear-stress distribution is used to obtain expressions for the ... -
Deformations of simple representations of two-generator HNN extensions.
(2002)This thesis demonstrates the existence of simple representations in any dimension of a specific collection of Baumslag-Solitar groups, BS (m, n), and investigates their deformations. Specifically, the dimension of the ... -
Degradation and assimilation of condensed phosphates by blue-green and green algae /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1966) -
Degradation of serum glycoprotein by Diplococcus pneumoniae /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1963) -
The degree of attraction toward a model and the subsequent learning of classroom contingency management /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1975) -
Dehn functions of subgroups of right-angled Artin groups
(2018-05)The question of what is a possible range for the Dehn functions (a.k.a. isoperimetric spectrum) for certain classes of groups is a natural and interesting one. Due to works of many authors starting with Gromov, we know a ...