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Rhetoric and Gesture in the Performance of Seventeenth-Century Vocal Music
(2016)In this document I approach the performance of seventeenth-century vocal music via rhetorically-informed analytical procedures. I draw from primary sources such as Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria and several seventeenth ... -
The Rhetoric of Ecological Food: Environmental and Technological God Terms in Blue Apron, Soylent, and Slow Food
(2017-05-12)The rhetoric and language surrounding technologically and environmentally oriented food systems illustrate that what and how we eat shapes the way we think about food, ecology, and the world. Analyzing the rhetoric of ... -
Riparian Nitrate and Phosphate Removal Under Future Climate Scenarios
(2024-05-11)Riparian buffer zones are specially managed zones that lie between agricultural fields and rivers, lakes, or wetlands. They are crucial for protecting water quality, human health, and ecosystem function. Critical ecosystem ... -
Risk factors for sexual violence among college students in dating relationships: An ecological approach
(2018-05-11)Introduction: Amidst the environment of autonomy from parental authority and peer pressure of college life, college students are vulnerable to sexual violence in dating relationships. The American College Health Association ... -
RISK TOO MUCH TO GAIN TOO LITTLE: ASTROTURFING STRATEGY, ITS PRESUMED EFFECTS AND LIMITATIONS
(2018-12-14)Astroturfing strategies are deceptive mechanisms that hide the source of the information from the publics. By not disclosing the persuasive intent and identity of the sources behind these communicative efforts, organizations ... -
Road Culvert Impacts on Stream Fish Community Structure in Eastern Oklahoma
(2019-05)Road culverts threaten the Ozarks and Ouachita Mountains regions of Oklahoma with habitat fragmentation and loss of aquatic biodiversity. This region of Oklahoma is understudied when it comes to this issue. Fishes within ... -
Road Power: The Politics of American Highway Development, 1900-1939
(2018)Road Power uses the development of the American highway system to examine the foundations of the federal state. This thesis argues that the highway bureaucracy accrued power throughout the early twentieth century, providing ... -
Robust Adaptive Control Laws for Tilt-Rotor Quadcopters Subject to User-Defined Constraints
(2019-05-10)This thesis focuses on Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) and its application to a tilt-rotor quadcopter. After formulating two standard MRAC approaches, this thesis proposes a robust model reference adaptive control ... -
Robust Resource Allocation to Interdependent Networks under Multiple Disruption Scenarios
(2017-12)In recent years, the threat of international attacks on critical infrastructure networks has grown; as defined by a 1998 Presidential Decision Directive, these are networks necessary to society’s functionality and include ... -
ROCK CHARACTERIZATION AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE MISSISSIPPIAN STRATA, MERAMEC / SYCAMORE. MERGE PLAY, CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
(2018-12-14)Historically, Mississippian rocks (Meramec / Sycamore Fms.) have been a productive oil and gas formations in Oklahoma. This study followed upon two major plays that were recently identified, The Sooner Trend Anadarko ... -
Rock properties derived from analysis of earth tide strain observed in continuous pressure monitoring of the Arbuckle Group of Oklahoma
(2017)The Arbuckle Group is an important geologic unit in the state of Oklahoma because of its suitability as a saltwater disposal (SWD) zone. In 2014, the Arbuckle Group received about 68% of the total volumes of saltwater ... -
ROCK TYPING IN ORGANIC SHALES: EAGLE FORD, WOODFORD, BARNETT AND WOLFCAMP FORMATIONS
(2017-05-12)Shales are the most common sedimentary rocks found on earth. Most US shale plays are spatially extensive with regions of different maturity and varying prospects. With increasing understanding of the heterogeneity, ... -
The role of anger and linguistic agency on intentions to participate in activism
(2020-12-18)This study examines the effects of anger and linguistic agency on message processing and activism behavioral intentions in the context of sexual assault. Despite social movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp, sexual violence ... -
The Role of Athletic Identity for Career Success: Examining the Mediating Effects of Transferable Skills for Retired Collegiate Athletes in the Workforce
(2020-05-08)Athletes who join the workforce after their athletic career ends often still identify as an athlete. Though participation in athletics helps develop skills that are applicable to the workforce, such as mentoring abilities ... -
The role of built environment in fostering the safety of children with autism in public primary schools
(2023-05-05)Background: A wide body of evidence shows that children with autism spectrum disorders encounter many struggles in public education system especially in the developing countries like Egypt, including exposure to problem ... -
The role of disaster subcultures in Spanish speaking Hispanic/Latino immigrants in the United States
(2022-12-16)Having a diversity of climatic zones, the United States experiences different weather hazards and risks such as winter storms, tornados, droughts, hurricanes, among others depending on the geographic location. With Americans ... -
The role of Gammaproteobacteria in aerobic alkane degradation in oilfield production water from the Barnett Shale
(2017-12)Despite nearly a century’s worth of research focused on investigating the activities of microorganisms in petroleum production systems, a large gap in the literature exists on the role of heterotrophic microorganisms in ... -
The Role of Health Inequality in Achieving Universal Primary Education: A Cross-National Panel Analysis
(2017-05-12)Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, cross-national primary education has improved substantially, even when considering remaining inequalities between nations. In order to further tease apart the complex mechanisms ... -
THE ROLE OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP AND SOCIO-MORAL CLIMATE ON ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR: EXAMINING THE MEDIATING EFFECTS OF SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY’S WORK-RELATED BASIC NEED SATISFACTION
(2017)Despite an extensive stream of academic research conducted on self-determination theory (SDT), antecedents such as leadership and organizational climate that dually influence SDT have not been examined in many empirical ... -
The role of sex, military science class, and anthropometrics on performance of the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) in Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadets
(2021-05-14)The Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) was created to better assess all realms of physical fitness on an age and sex-neutral scale. Despite an increasing number of females joining the more physically rigorous military ...