Browsing OU - Dissertations by Title
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IT personnel sourcing decisions in IT projects.
(2006)The evolutionary growth of information technology, during the past few decades, has created the impetus for change in the organizational workplace from a focus on narrow and specific tasks, carried out by individuals, to ... -
"It Seemed Like a Wonderful Way to Influence the World and to Touch Lives": Exploring Reasons Teachers Stay in the Classroom
(2020)Retaining experienced, effective teachers in the classroom is essential. In fact, research shows it is the most significant factor in student achievement and the stability of the learning environment (Carver-Thomas & ... -
“It Takes a Village”: A Re-examination of Black-Interest Advocacy, Collective Representation, & the Modern Congressional Black Caucus
(2020)This project has three explicit goals in mind. First, I aim to uncover how the CBC constructs and communicates their collective worldview to the institution. Existing literature has been essential to improving our understanding ... -
It's my party...: Examining women as partisans within the United States Congress.
(2002)The present work utilizes multiple data sources and methodological approaches to offer a more thorough analysis of the nuances of women's legislative behavior. In the first section, interview data is combined with Member- ... -
It's Not About Cowboys: Cowboys as Subject in Contemporary Art
(2015-05)Images of American cowboys are examined in a selection of lens-based artworks including Richard Avedon’s In the American West (1984), Laurie Simmons’ Cowboys (1979), David Levinthal’s The Wild West (1987-89), Matthew ... -
It's not my fault, but I know how you feel: Influences of leader empathy on trust repair following an integrity-based trust violation
(2014-05)Prior research on trust repair has focused primarily on investigating verbal and substantive responses to breaches of trust. Although consistently implicated in violations, the role of affect in the repair process has been ... -
Italian American identity: A hermeneutic examination of Tampa's Italian community.
(2007)This study focuses on how diverse interpretations of ethnicity within the United States produce meaning for Italian Americans. Research regarding Italian Americans and the effects of negative stereotypes, cultural products, ... -
Iterative decoding for magnetic recording channels.
(2000)The success of turbo codes indicates that performance close to the Shannon limit may be achieved by iterative decoding. This has in turn stimulated interest in the performance of iterative detection for partial-response ... -
Iterative model-guided post stack seismic imaging and interpretation of halokinetic structures: Ras Banas area, offshore northern Red Sea.
(1998)Offshore northern Red Sea salt basins are dominated by complex halokinetic features and variable seafloor topography. The resulting severe imaging distortions observed on seismic profiles from these basins mask the salt ... -
IT’S ALL GOOD—BUT FOR WHOM? EXAMINING THE PRESENCE OF PUBLIC GOOD WITHIN DISSERTATIONS FROM PUBLIC RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
(2018-05)The purpose of this exploratory research project is to explore if university research extends “beyond the walls” of research universities and seeks to address the social matters relevant to the greater community. The ... -
IV-VI LEAD SALT MID-INFRARED LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE DESIGN, FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONIV-VI LEAD SALT MID-INFRARED LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE DESIGN, FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION
(2009)The research detailed by this dissertation has demonstrated the design, fabrication, and characterization of lead salt semiconductor mid-infrared light emitting devices. A scrupulous theoretical model has been described ... -
IV-VI MATERIALS & DEVICES FOR THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC (TPV) POWER GENERATION
(2016-12-16)IV-VI semiconductors, with direct gap conduction and valence band extrema at the L-point in k-space, are characterized by four-fold L-valley degeneracy. Prior work [1] has shown that this degeneracy can be removed with ... -
IV-VI semiconductor structures for laser fabrication of silicon.
(1998)This dissertation describes experiments undertaken to develop techniques required to develop IV-VI lasers grown on silicon. A review of the IV-VI materials system, diode laser structures, recent IV-VI laser results, epitaxial ... -
J. M. Coetzee's 'Postmodern' Corpus: Bodies/Texts, History, and Politics in the Apartheid Novels, 1974-1990
(2011)This dissertation examines the apartheid novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee. Using postmodernism as its main theoretical framework and working at its intersections with feminism, postcolonialism, and ... -
J/psi meson production in association with a W boson: Cross section ratio measurement with the ATLAS detector using 8 TeV pp data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
(2016-05-13)The production mechanism of charmonium particles in hadronic collisions is not fully understood and is an active area of research. These mechanisms can be studied by examining the associated production of charmonium particles ... -
Jacinto Cordeiro's El juramento ante Dios y lealtad contra el amor: A Critical Edition
(2009)Portuguese playwrights who wrote comedias during and after the Dual Monarchy (1580-1640), a period in which the Portuguese and Spanish thrones were united under Habsburg rule, continue to be a largely unexplored group. In ... -
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick, Oklahoma's Cherokee Composer: An Analysis of Six Intermediate Collections for Solo Piano
(2022-05-13)Jack Frederick Kilpatrick (1915 – 1967) was the first Cherokee to receive widespread acclaim as a composer. Born in Stilwell, OK, Kilpatrick learned music at an early age and earned music degrees from the University of ... -
JACK TEAGARDEN, J.J. JOHNSON, AND BILL WATROUS: A TRANSCRIPTION OF AN IMPROVISED SOLO FROM EACH THAT CHANGED THE STYLE OF JAZZ TROMBONE
(2018-05-11)When discussing the art and history of jazz trombone improvisation, three names are invariably mentioned as being among the top of the heap: Jack Teagarden, J.J. Johnson, and Bill Watrous. According to Kurt Dietrich, ... -
Jacques Delécluse's Twelve Studies for the Drum: A Study Guide and Performance Analysis
(2015)This document is a study guide to aid the teacher and student in performing Jacques Delécluse’s Twelve Studies for the Drum. It is intended to foster an understanding of the etudes from not only a technical but also a ... -
James Bryant Conant's campaign for educational reform :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1971)