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LABORATORY GEOMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ARBUCKLE GROUP AND CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT ROCKS IN OKLAHOMA
(2017-05-12)In the past decade, the rapidly increase in earthquakes in the State of Oklahoma has drawn serious attention. Some investigations have attributed the increased MEQ to the large amount of wastewater injections as part of ... -
Laboratory study of durability of recycled concrete aggregate including drainage for use in pavement base course
(2023)Recycled concrete aggregates (RCAs) have been used as a cost-effective and environmentally friendly material in pavement base construction for quite some time. However, there is a lack of information on the durability, ... -
Land of the Fair God: The Development of Black Towns in Oklahoma, 1870-1910
(2016)Oklahoma’s All Black Town Movement is important to contextualize larger black migration patterns during the nineteenth century. Oklahoma was at the center of black migration from surrounding states. In addition, it played ... -
Landscape of Hope and Dispossession: Visions for the Future in the Cookson Hills, 1934–1949
(2021-05-14)This thesis examines a little-studied moment in Oklahoma’s environmental and Indigenous history: the era of the New Deal, Second World War, and early days of the Cold War. From the 1930s to the late 1940s, as Oklahoma ... -
Language and Bodily Autonomy in Chicano Movement Periodicals, 1967-1973
(2019-12-13)Periodicals were a primary organizing tool of Chicano Movement activists from 1967-1973, serving as spaces for multilingual representation and dialogue in Mexican American communities. This thesis argues that by publishing ... -
Language Ideologies and Practices among University Learners of Native American Languages
(2016-05-14)This thesis examines language ideologies among university learners of Native American languages. Given that attitudes and beliefs toward these languages can have a direct impact on the learning process, recognizing ideologies ... -
Language Revitalization Through Pawnee Music
(2016)Pawnee music has always been a crucial component in the lives of the Pawnee people and have been a source of comfort to those who have needed it. Traditional songs give Pawnee people a sense of identity lacking because of ... -
Large Scale and Local Influences on the Occurrence and Maintenance of Liquid Bearing Clouds over the Greenland Ice Sheet
(2016)Arctic liquid bearing clouds (LBCs) have a large impact on the surface radiation and cryospheric mass budgets. Their effect on the surface radiation budget is a combination of two competing processes. First, they can ... -
LARGE-SCALE DATA PROCESSING FOR DETECTING ACTIVITY ZONES IN MILAN
(2017-08)Small cell networks are complements for existing networks to improve quality of service (QoS), capacity, and coverage. The primary purpose of this thesis is to mine mobile network data to provide an algorithm that mobile ... -
The Last Hope for African Methodism: Flipper-Key-Davis in the Age of Race Uplift
(2022-05-14)In 1917, leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church founded Flipper-Key-Davis University in Tullahassee, Oklahoma. The university served as the only private Black educational institution within the state until 1936 ... -
Leadership and Social Dynamics at Brackett (34CK-43): an Archaeological Study of a Mississippi period Mound Site in Eastern Oklahoma.
(2016-08)During the Mississippi period (A.D. 900-1500), middle-range societies constructed large earthworks throughout the Southeast as a means to construct sacred places on the landscape and reflect the negotiations formed between ... -
Leading the European Union : small states and the EU Council Presidency /
(2014)This paper examines small states holding the role of the European Union Council Presidency, a six-month rotating position and an opportunity for member states to guide policy-making in the European Union. The position is ... -
Learning Assisted Decoupled Software Pipelining (LA-DSWP)
(2018-05)In this thesis, I introduce and implement an extension to the Decoupled Software Pipelining (DSWP) algorithm proposed by Rangan et al. This new extension is named Learning Assisted Decoupled Software Pipelining (or LA-DSWP) ... -
Learning Good From Skeletons: Ethical Literacies in Undertale
(2019-05-11)Current studies of game narrative and design, particularly with regard to morality, have focused mainly on direct player engagement. However, this otherwise reasonable perspective omits the other ways in which people ... -
A Least Mean-Square Approach to Nonlinear Equalization of Digital Receivers
(2018-05-11)With an increased demand for fully-digital arrays for radar and communications systems by making use of low-cost components with relaxed linearity requirements, nonlinear equalization (NLEQ) is needed to increase ... -
Left Out?: The Political Left in Contemporary German Politics
(2016)This thesis argues that the left wing in Germany is primed to form a governing coalition in Germany following ten years of center-right rule. Thuringia is the case study within this paper because of the unique position of ... -
LEGACIES OF EMPIRE: GREATER FRANCE FROM COLONIALISM TO TERRORISM
(2016-05)In this thesis, I argue that the legacies of empire and colonization are influencing the development of French identity and are challenging notions of contemporary French society. I argue that these colonial legacies reached ... -
Lend Me Your Eyes: Performance, Film, and Dance For a Dream Atmosphere
(2019-05-10)Lend Me Your Eyes: Performance, Film and Dance for a Dream Atmosphere is a choreographic thesis and its goal is to describe the creation of a multimedia work involving dance, poetry, performance, and film. Consubstantiated ... -
Leveraging the social network: How journalists and news organizations connect with readers on Twitter
(2016-05-13)As journalists and newspapers have attempted to adapt to a new media environment uncertainty remains about how best to approach the use of social media while retaining the journalistic values that have served as a check ...