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Population genetic structure and effective population size of the threeridge mussel (Amblema plicata) in southeast Oklahoma assessed using microsatellites.
(2017-07-17)A myriad of anthropogenic factors have led to substantial declines in North America’s freshwater mussel populations over the last century. A greater understanding of mussel dispersal abilities, genetic structure, and ... -
POROUS SHAPE MEMORY POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND POTENTIAL BIO-APPLICATION
(2019-12)Porous shape memory polymers (SMPs) are the smart materials which attract significant interests in the fields such as aerospace, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and biomedical device. Porous SMPs have low recover ... -
The Portrayal of Mexican Immigrants in Oklahoma History and Its Influence on State and Federal Immigration Reform
(2021-05-16)The portrayal of Mexican immigrants in Oklahoma history is damaging to the growth and prosperity of the Mexican immigrant community because it enforces the stigma and negative stereotypes this community continues to ... -
Positive Branded Rumors and Preannouncements: The Potential Backfire of Consumer Response to Exciting Misinformation
(2022-05-13)Branded rumors are not new in the realm of advertising scholarship; however, many past studies have been conducted with the assumption that rumors are inherently detrimental to their related brand. The present study aimed ... -
THE POSITIVE DAD EFFECT: DOES IDENTIFICATION WITH THE FATHERHOOD IDENTITY REDUCE WORK-BASED MASCULINITY THREAT RESPONSES?
(2020)This study investigates whether different masculine identities affect the relationship between masculinity threat and threat response in an organizational context. Specifically, the study seeks to extend the extant literature ... -
Positive Teacher-Student Relationship Building and Its Effects on Motivation, Learning, and Teacher Well-being
(2019-05-10)This study investigates the ways in which teachers in secondary education settings build positive teacher-student interpersonal relationships (TSRs) and how those relationships may affect student motivation, learning, and ... -
Post-Digital Publishing Practices in Contemporary Arts Publishing
(2019-12)A consideration of the ways in which post-digital influence impacts visual culture, and specifically arts publishing. The post-digital moment creates a unique opportunity for analog/digital crossover, which manifests in ... -
Post-migration seismic data conditioning methods on a merged dataset
(2024-05-11)Analyzing amplitude anomalies in seismic data requires a comprehensive understanding of the geological context and the accuracy of the seismic image to faithfully represent the subsurface. Over the past four decades, ... -
Potential Application of Machine Learning in Optical Communication Systems
(2017-07-07)In this work, we will examine practically encoding information in the state of polarization using M- POLSK. We employ polarization-shift keying (POLSK) to generate an expected pattern of changing states of polarization ... -
Potential Outcomes of the Syrian Conflict: A Case Study for Understanding Civil War Termination
(2017-05)The Syrian conflict has been ongoing for the last six years and has left the international community unsure of how or when it will end. Existing literature on civil war termination creates a framework in which we can better ... -
Potential Predictability and Impacts of Subseasonal Extreme Precipitation Events in the United States
(2020-12-18)Prediction of climate extremes at the S2S time scale has become a large topic of conversation between researchers and decision makers. Long duration precipitation events, lasting 14-days, may lead to devastating impacts ... -
Potential sources of oil from Hugoton Embayment reservoirs
(2020-05)Oil has been produced in the Hugoton Embayment in western Kansas since the early 1900s, but the primary source rock for these oils has not definitively been determined. Thirty-two oils from the Middle Pennsylvanian to the ... -
THE POWER OF STORYTELLING: USING NARRATIVE INQUIRY TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF LIFE STORY FOR IDENTITY FORMATION
(2020)This study explores the impact a person’s life story has on their sense of self, and how meaning is made in the creation of the life story. Using narrative inquiry, the author analyzes his grandmother’s handwritten life ... -
PRACTICAL COUGH DETECTION IN PRESENCE OF BACKGROUND NOISE AND PRELIMINARY DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS FROM COUGH SOUND USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
(2020-05-07)Cough is one of the most common symptoms for many of the diseases. Physicians have been using characteristics of cough for preliminary diagnosis of certain respiratory diseases for ages. But the methods have been subjective ... -
Prayers of the Dark-hearted: A Collection of Linked Stories
(2023-05-12)“Prayers of the Dark-hearted” is a collection of linked stories written and revised between the fall of 2021 and the spring of 2023. These stories are often autobiographical in nature, but largely fictional, focusing on ... -
Precipitation Whiplash Events Across the Southern Great Plains of the United States
(2021-08)The Southern Great Plains is a region that is prone to precipitation extremes and transitions between them which have direct impacts on agriculture, infrastructure, water quality and water quantity. However, current ... -
PREDICTING EMPLOYEE-SUPERVISOR RELATIONSHIP STRENGTH (LMX): DOES A SINGLE MOMENT MATTER?
(2020-05-08)Abstract The leader-member exchange (LMX; Dansereau et al., 1975) theory explains how employee-supervisor relationships form and posits that relationship strength will be established through communication-based exchanges ... -
Predicting NBA Efficiency from NCAA Statistics Using Play-by-Play and On-Off Statistics
(2018)New data is available for college basketball since 2009-10. However, when adding interactions, there is a sparse dataset with over 30,000 variables. This causes problems, because there are far more variables than observations. ... -
Predicting Sarcoidosis Disease Incidence using Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Supervised Machine Learning
(2021-05-14)Predicting disease incidence based on Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) for a complex multi-factorial disease like sarcoidosis remains a difficult prediction problem. If disease prediction could be improved, genetic ... -
Predicting wine quality and/or taste through the use of a latent ODE-RNN Neural Net
(2019-12-13)It is common for recommendation systems to use clustering techniques for finding similar products for the downstream user. These models do not always incorporate time as a variable when recommending an item. If our ...