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Other names I have been called: Political resurgence among Virginia Indians in the twentieth century.
(1998)Historically, Virginia's indigenous Indian tribes have been subsumed under non-Indian racial categories. Typically, Virginia Indians were classified as "free persons of color, " somewhat in midpoint on the bi-racial ... -
"Our obligation to memory": Home environment, public service and feminism in the works of Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Willa Cather.
(1999)Some turn-of-the-century American women writers such as Jane Addams and Willa Cather use various ideas of memory and domesticity around which to build a "conservative" feminist theory through which to draw women's traditions ... -
Out of the shadow of organization: An exploration of work and the human spirit.
(1998)Recently, the organizational literature has acknowledged the human spirit and the need for organizations and their leaders to tend to the spiritual needs of organizational members. There is agreement that human beings at ... -
AN OUTCOME-BASED EVALUATION OF AN INNER-CITY COLLEGE PREPARATORY PUBLIC CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
(2014-05-09)Racial and ethnic minorities are expected to increase in both number and percentage of the college-going population (Department of Commerce, 2009). Meanwhile the historic underrepresentation of low-income, African-American, ... -
An Outcome-Based Evaluation of an Intervention and Remediation Program for High School Freshmen
(2016-05-13)The transition from middle school to high school is a critical stage in the educational development of teenage students. Despite comprehensive education reforms aimed at helping all students graduate high school, many ... -
Outsourcing in public higher education in Oklahoma.
(1997)Five outsourcing case studies were conducted at four public institutions of higher education in Oklahoma. The cases yielded data on nine outsource decisions. Drawing on three theory-based models that can explain ... -
Outstanding band students' career attitudes.
(2005)A chi-square analysis revealed that females who selected music education as a career were significantly less in number than expected. A univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) also produced significant differences between ... -
Overshooting Convection in the Contiguous United States: Severe Hail Occurrence, Storm Top Characteristics, and Stratospheric Hydration
(2022-12-16)Deep convection that overshoots the tropopause have been recognized for its relevance to stratospheric composition and prolific severe weather production for decades. Notably, tropopause-penetrating storms can inject cloud ... -
An overview of major discipline programs in public schools since 1960 /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1985)This historical/descriptive work provides an overview of nine major discipline programs that have been developed since 1960 to address education's increasing concern for the maintenance of a classroom environment that is ... -
An Overview of the Piano Concerto in Canada Since 1900 with Stylistic Analyses of Works Since 1967 by Eckhardt-Gramatte, Dolin, Louie, Kuzmenko, and Schmidt
(2013-12-13)This study provides an overview of the piano concerto in Canada since 1900 with stylistic analyses of five concertos written in the five decades since 1967 by five Canadian composers: Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Samuel ... -
Oxo-Rhenium Catalyzed Transformation of Alcohols: Deoxydehydration and Reductive Coupling
(2016-08)One of the challenges for the future is to find alternative energy and chemical resources to petrol. Biomass-derived feedstocks offer a renewable source of highly oxygenated molecules. Recent chemical processes for the ... -
Oxygen uptake during spontaneous and induced metamorphosis in tadpoles of Phyllobates subpunctatus /
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P-harmonic morphisms, minimal foliations, and conformal deformations of metrics /
(2005)In this dissertation, we study p-harmonic morphisms and its interaction with minimal foliations and conformal deformations of metrics. We give several methods to construct non-trivial p-harmonic morphisms via conformal ... -
P-harmonic theory on ellipsoids with geometric applications.
(2006)In the first part of this thesis, we are interested in representing homotopy groups by p-harmonic maps with applications to minimal submanifolds of ellipsoids. In the second part, we discuss Liouville-type theorems for ... -
PABLITA VELARDE, HELEN HARDIN, AND MARGARETE BAGSHAW: THREE GENERATIONS OF ASSERTION, EXPRESSION, AND INNOVATION
(2018-05-11)This dissertation examines the work of three generations of Santa Clara women, Pablita Velarde (1918-2006), Helen Hardin (1943-1984) and Margarete Bagshaw (1964-2015). In order to contextualize their work, I discuss the ... -
Paint/Write: A Heuristic Journey
(2013)Two research questions guided this research: (1) How does paint/write unfold in my personal experience? (2) How might extended interactions with paint/write influence my painting and writing abilities and therefore my ... -
Paint/Write: A Heuristic Journey
(2013)Two research questions guided this research: (1) How does paint/write unfold in my personal experience? (2) How might extended interactions with paint/write influence my painting and writing abilities and therefore my ... -
Paired association learning under various motivational conditions /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1962) -
Paired-associate transfer as a function of anticipation versus free learning /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1971)