Browsing OU - Dissertations by Title
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Under the Eyes of God: The Huichols and the Mexican State, 1810-1910
(2011)This study reconstructs the history the Huichol Indians in order to provide a pathbreaking account of a Mexican indigenous group that managed to maintain their autonomy between 1810 and 1910. To date, there has been ... -
"Under the Same Glorious Flag": Land, Race, and Legitimacy in Territorial New Mexico
(2009)Using San Miguel County in northern New Mexico as a case study, this dissertation explores the ways in which nuevomexicanos sought some measure of control over the terms of their incorporation into the United States after ... -
The Underestimated Cello Concertos: Historical, Stylistic and Compositional Comparison of the Two Cello Concertos of Feliks Nowowiejski and Grazyna Bacewicz
(2021-05-14)Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946), a Polish composer whose name is synonymous with Polish patriotic music, including the country’s second unofficial anthem, contributed to the twentieth-century cello repertoire with his ... -
Undergradaute Learning from Amateur Musicking: Rethinking the Music Academy's Deep-Gendered Hidden Curriculum through Narrative Inquiry
(2019-05-06)U.S. higher education supports a deep-gendered view of art (Korsmeyer, 2004) perpetuated through the music academy’s cultivation of the individual artist for professional, competitive Western classical musicianship (Campbell, ... -
Undergraduate International Students in Virtual Learning Communities: Exploring the Development of the "I-Me" Identity
(2015-08)This qualitative study explored the experiences of twelve international students from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds in virtual learning communities in university and college courses. Specifically, this study ... -
UNDERGRADUATE MUSIC STUDENT RECRUITMENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MUSIC FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTITIONERS
(2015)This large-scale qualitative study was initiated to explore, examine, and document undergraduate music student recruitment from the perspective of faculty and administrators at institutions chosen to represent a range of ... -
Undergraduate piano pedagogy course offerings in selected colleges and universities in the Republic of Korea.
(1999)The purpose of this study was to identify the content of undergraduate piano pedagogy courses at selected colleges and universities in the Republic of Korea. The study was conducted through a questionnaire that was sent ... -
Undergraduate piano pedagogy course offerings in Thai universities.
(1998)The study shows that both Thai and Western cultures influence pre-college and undergraduate piano study and the study of piano pedagogy. Piano study and piano exams are perceived as an enhancement for child development and ... -
UNDERSTANDING A NONPROFIT FORM OF ORCHESTRAL MUSIC EDUCATION THROUGH THE ECOLOGICAL POLITICAL METAPHOR: THE CASE OF EL SISTEMA OKLAHOMA
(2017-05)This is an educational studies dissertation substantiated in an emergent, empirical case. Over the past few decades, the fine arts, including music education, have increasingly been de-emphasized in PK-12 school environments. ... -
Understanding and design of molecular dynamics based simulation methods.
(2006)Several new strategies for employing modified molecular dynamics (MD) protocols for finding energy minima were developed developed. First, we derived a new method of searching for the lowest energy conformation by employ ... -
Understanding and managing others: The impact of discriminative facility upon social influence.
(2001)The results of two studies provided support for the importance of being sensitive to situational nuances (i.e., discriminative facility), especially when interpreting others' negative behaviors. Study 1 empirically clarified ... -
Understanding Catalytic Strategies for Bio-oil Upgrading: Model Compound Studies
(2014-08-15)In light of the awareness about climate change and the role that non-renewable sources of energy have had on this issue, there has been a notable effort in the last decades to develop alternative sources of energy. Conversion ... -
UNDERSTANDING CHINESE COUPLES: AN EXPLORATION OF HOUSEWORK TIME, LEISURE AND SLEEP GAPS, AND MENTAL HEALTH
(2016-05-13)This dissertation examines the allocation of housework time, the leisure and the sleep gaps, and the mental health among married couples in China. Using one of the very first panel data about Chinese families, this ... -
UNDERSTANDING ECOSYSTEM CARBON DYNAMICS BY MODELING APPROACHES
(2011)Ecosystem models are a useful tool to explore ecological processes and their responses to climate change. The basic structures of current ecosystem C cycle models are similar and robust, but their uncertainties are high, ... -
Understanding Emotionally Supportive Family Communication Individuals with MS Experience Through a Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (CIFC) Framework
(2024-05-10)Emotionally supportive communication (ESC) has been argued as the most valuable form of supportive communication, which the present study explores from the perspective of individuals living with multiple sclerosis (MS). ... -
Understanding Experiences of Undergraduate Students with Physical Disabilities
(2018-05)This transcendental, phenomenological study focused on the lived experiences of undergraduate students with physical disabilities and their decision (or not) to become engaged in out-of-class activities. Schlossberg’s ... -
Understanding public school teachers' accounts of conflicts: An ethnographically based, ethnomethodological investigation.
(2001)The data for this project are narrative descriptions or accounts of conflict episodes written by public school teachers. Two categories of research within the Language and Social Interaction tradition---the ethnography of ... -
UNDERSTANDING SPECIFIC ION EFFECTS AND INTERFACIALLY ACTIVE SOLUTES USING THE COLLIGATIVE PROPERTIES OF MICROEMULSIONS
(2020-05)Designing and optimizing surfactant formulations continues to be of great interest to many industrial endeavors. Many of these applications utilize an assortment of ingredients including electrolytes, alcohols and other ... -
Understanding Structure: An Approach/Avoidance Framework
(2009)The current project was designed to present an in-depth exploration of the two Personal Need for Structure factors, utilizing the quadripolar model of approach and avoidance motivation to present a coherent conceptualization ...