Browsing OU - Dissertations by Title
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E-mentoring: A case study of the viability and benefits of electronic mentoring with beginning teachers in rural schools.
(2002)E-mentoring was designed to help early career teachers make the transition from student to teacher, particularly those in a rural setting. By using on-line mentoring with a group of former classmates and acquaintances the ... -
The Early Childhood Mealtime as a Learning Environment: Practices, Children's Behaviors, and Teachers' Perspectives
(2021-08-05)This dissertation examines the early care and education mealtime as a learning environment. Manuscript one proposes a new improved conceptual framework that addresses the need for better alignment of teachers’ practices ... -
Early childhood preservice teachers' autonomy in constructing personal practical theories of teaching and learning.
(2006)In the findings, the differences of four early childhood preservice teachers in the match or mismatch between their philosophy and personal practical theory related to the how preservice teachers have developed their ... -
Early English novels imitating Don Quijote /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1975) -
Early experience as a variable in mate selection among pigeons /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1960) -
The Early Instability Scenario for Planet Formation in the Solar System
(2019-05-10)The leading evolutionary model for the outer solar system, an orbital instability between the solar system’s giant planets, has been shown to greatly disturb the orbits of the young terrestrial planets. Undesirable outcomes ... -
Early social experience and later trainability in the border collie /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1964) -
Earth observation and mosquito-borne diseases: assessing environmental risk factors for disease transmission via remote sensing data
(2021)Despite global intervention efforts, mosquito-borne diseases remain a major public health concern in many parts of the world. New strategies to target interventions rely on spatially explicit information about disease ... -
Earthquake Source and Rupture Characterization from Microearthquakes to Megathrust Earthquakes *
(2020-07-30)The understanding of earthquake rupture processes is vitally important to the proper estimation of hazard. I examine earthquake ruptures from megathrust earthquakes down to microquakes (< 3 magnitude) in order to better ... -
"Easier, Not Easy:" AN UNFOLDING OF THE DYSLEXIA EXPERIENCE
(2020)This study sought to explore the experiences and perspectives of children identified as having dyslexia. This research provides insights into the importance of early and targeted intervention, so school is not experienced ... -
Eastern Efficacy: Political Participation of Post-Communist Women
(2011)My dissertation tackles an important question of democratic transition by addressing the apparent lack of political participation, specifically low intensity participation (LIP), of women across much of post-communist ... -
Echoes and Mirrors: Respectful Teacher Leadership and Leadership Acceptance Among Adolescent Students
(2013)Teacher leadership has gained some recognition in the context of school improvement and usually pertains to more or less administrative activities. Little inquiry concentrates on the teacher as a leadership figure in the ... -
THE ECO-PHYSIOLOGY, STRESS RESPONSE REGULATION, AND ENGINEERING OF SHEWANELLA SPECIES FOR INDUSTRIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS
(2016-11-28)In recent decades, there has been tremendous interest in applying environmental microbiology for waste treatment, bioremediation and sustainable energy production. As one of the most important model environmental microbes, ... -
Ecological context and the evolution of mating biases in a freshwater amphipod species complex.
(2007)Mating traits are among the most extravagant traits found in nature. As with any trait, understanding the diversification of mating traits requires information on both direct and indirect selection acting on the traits and ... -
Ecological drivers of species radiations in the genus Limia (Teleostei, Poeciliidae) in the West Indies
(2021-05-14)The archipelagoes of the West Indies in the Caribbean represent geographically composite regions that provide ideal settings to study the evolution of a very distinctive biota. The combination of complex geological events ... -
Ecological Investigations of Hydrocarbonoclastic Microbial Communities Associated with the Built-Environment
(2016-09)Evidence for the microbial metabolism of hydrocarbons is routinely identified in diverse habitats, but particularly those associated with the production, processing, storage and use of petroleum. In these environments, ... -
Ecological niche modeling: integrating patterns of species richness, factors shaping geographical range limits, and conservation planning
(2009)The concept of the niche has been a central theme of ecology for over half a century. With recent advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and statistical procedures, the inferential method of ecological niche ...