Browsing OU - Theses by Title
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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 ... -
LGBQ Identity and E-cigarette Dependence Among Young Adults
(2022-05-13)Introduction: E-cigarette use is most prevalent among young adults (18-25-year-olds) and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) people when compared to other age groups and heterosexual people. This study examined the ... -
"Like, Right Now We Don't Really Have a Voice": Stories of Secondary Social Studies Teachers Working with ELLs
(2020-05-08)Students for whom English is a second or additional language are a significant and growing population within public schools. Notions of inclusion and citizenship are uniquely and distinctly a part of social studies. In ... -
Limitations and evaluation of the linear assumption on antenna design
(2022-05-13)A common assumption made by antenna engineers is to consider a system to be linear and time-invariant (LTI). This assumption is incredibly powerful and has enabled a century of advancements, but consequently has perhaps ... -
Linear Post Linear Flow Production Analysis
(2017-05-12)This study was motivated by the production data observed from multi-fractured horizontal wells in the field that have two infinite acting flow regimes. These two infinite acting flow regimes appear as two straight lines ... -
Linking image processing and numerical modeling to identify potential geohazards
(2017-08)Faults, along with natural fractures, may enhance production when confined within the reservoir. However, if the fault is connected to an aquifer, it may cause early water breakthrough in the reservoir. Even if they are ... -
Liquid Chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry-based metabolite profiling in the hearts of germ-free and conventionally-raised mice
(2020-12-15)The microbiota is the community of microorganisms living on and in a biological system. It has shown to play a role in a broad range of medical conditions, including cardiovascular diseases. Germ-free (GF) mice grew under ... -
Listening At the Lab: Bird Watchers and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
(2016-05)Professionalization within the sciences has often been presented as a process of separation between scientists and the public. Implicit within this conception of professionalization is a hierarchical conception of knowledge ... -
A Lithic Analysis of School Land I (34DL64) A Northern Caddo Village in the Foothills of the Ozarks
(2024-05-10)School Land I (34DL64) is a Harlan Phase (A.D. 1050-1250) Caddo village site set in the Arkansas River basin at the confluence of the Grand and Elk Rivers in Delaware County, Oklahoma. This site was originally excavated ... -
Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Pitkin Limestone (Chesterian, Mississippian) in portions of Cherokee, Muskogee, and Sequoyah Counties, Oklahoma
(Norman : [s.n.],, 1981)This thesis provides a detailed lithostratigraphic analysis and interpretation of depositional environments of the pitkin limestone (Chesterian, Mississippian) in a portion of northeastern Oklahoma. The study area is located ... -
A Litmus Test for the Pattern-Suppression Model
(2016)The current set of experiments were designed to test the pattern-suppression model, which is a component of the suppression theory of forgetting. Experiment 1 tested the pattern-facilitation hypothesis, a hypothesis derived ...