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"Betting" on vanilla: Rural producers and development in Papantla, Veracruz, Mexico.
(2007)This dissertation focuses on small-scale vanilla producers in the Mexican state of Veracruz, and their experience with development projects aimed at reviving the cultivation of the crop after decades of decline. It begins ... -
Betty Johnson, Midwest Pioneer of the Bassoon: Her Life and Legacy
(2015)Betty Johnson’s career in bassoon performance and education spanned six decades. She was an early pioneer and prominent teacher of the bassoon in the Midwest. She began her tenure as a charter member of the Oklahoma Symphony ... -
Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists' Palestine Questions
(2015-12)Today, evangelical Christians are the largest pro-Israel constituency in a United States population that is very supportive of the Jewish state generally, with evangelicalism and Christian Zionism often understood as ... -
Between Laughter and Weeping: Justo medio in the Cartas marruecas of Jose Cadalso
(2012)This dissertation examines the genre, narrativity and use of humor in Colonel José Cadalso's1774 work Cartas marruecas (Moroccan Letters). The Moroccan Letters consists of a fictitious correspondence carried on between ... -
Beyond Public Assistance: Factors Affecting Completion of Community College Students in the Career Transitions Program
(2014-12-12)The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of students who successfully completed “Career Transitions,” a program to help adult learners obtain certification, degrees, and employment. The population for ... -
Beyond the Welfare Queen: The Rhetorical Construction of Single Mothers in American News Media
(2018-12-14)This research employed a critical rhetorical lens to examine the construction of single mothers in American news media during four discrete but interconnected historical representative anecdotes that reflect periods of ... -
BIAS, GATEKEEPING, OR AMBITION?: FEMALE CANDIDATES IN STATE LEGISLATURES
(2015)Women hold only 24.2% of the seats in state legislatures across the United States, despite being 50.8% of the total population. This low figure presents serious concerns about the quality of representation for half of the ... -
Biased probing of memory: A new explanation of hindsight bias.
(2003)The following research explores how biased probing of memory leads to overestimating the accuracy with which one could have predicted past events, the hindsight bias. MINERVA-DM, a multiple trace model developed by Dougherty, ... -
The biblical element in Donne's poems of sacred and profane love /
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BIFOCAL LENSES: MEETING SPACES OF JEWISH-AMERICAN AND "MAINSTREAM" AMERICAN LITERATURE
(2011)This dissertation critically examines the concept of Jewish-American literary hyphenation, analyzing its historical and theoretical consequences (chapters one and two), then applying the results of that analysis to three ... -
Bilateral Fatigue of the Anterior Tibialis in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
(2017-08)Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common progressive neurological diseases in young adults and is characterized by neurologic disruption within the central nervous system. Fatigue has been reported as one of the ... -
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(The University of Oklahoma., 1974) -
Binary molecular diffusion in non-ideal solutions of cyclic compounds /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1970) -
A binary representation for finite Boolean functions /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1970) -
Binding and transport through ferric siderophore receptors, FepA and FhuA.
(2006)Under iron deficient conditions, Gram-negative bacteria like E. coli secrete siderophores to chelate iron in the extracellular medium. Ligand-gated porins (LGPs) transport the ferric siderophore complexes across the outer ... -
A BINDING ISOTHERM BETWEEN FERROCENE MEDIATORS AND GLUCOSE OXIDASE FOR USE IN BIOANODE DEVELOPMENT AND INITIAL STUDIES OF AN ELECTROCATALYTIC DEOXYDEHYDRATION REACTION
(2019)Enzymatic bioelectrodes are powered by renewable biomass sources. Glucose-powered bioelectrodes are prepared from ferrocene-functionalized linear poly(ethylenimine) (Fc-LPEI) cross-linked with ethylene glycol diglycidyl ... -
Bioactive Molecules Detection and Identification in Complex Biological Systems through Activity-Based Metabolomics and Proteomics
(2020-07)The detection and identification of bioactive molecules (e.g. therapeutic small-molecule lead compounds, functional proteins) from complex mixtures is often a critical step in various biochemical and biomedical research ... -
Biochemical characterization and skin test sensitivity of mycelial growth filtrate of Histoplasma duboisii /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1969) -
THE BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO PHOSPHORELAY SIGNALING PROTEINS: YPD1 HOMOLOGS FROM SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE AND CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS
(2016-08)Histidine-to-aspartate multi-step phosphorelay systems are used extensively by eukaryotes and bacteria to sense and respond to changes in their external environment and to control the regulation of crucial biological ...