Browsing OU - Theses by Title
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Dachau And Ravensbrück: A Comparative Analysis of Concentration Camps From 1933 to 1945
(2022-05)Comparing and contrasting the two infamous camps, Dachau and Ravensbrück, is fundamental in understanding the true nature of the two camps. Additionally, this research indirectly focuses on the question of ‘what defines a ... -
The Dancer As Entrepreneur: A New Course In Higher Education That Guides Young Dancers In Developing Community Dance Organizations
(2019-05-11)The purpose of this study is to develop a course in higher education that will guide dance artists in developing community dance organizations, a process which will benefit the artists as well as their communities. The ... -
DANCING BEYOND THE PATRIARCHY: BALLET’S CAPACITY TO BE REIMAGINED FOR A NEW GENERATION OF WOMEN
(2020)Ballet, an artform conceived in the French courts of royalty, is rooted in elitist European and patriarchal ideals. In the United States today, and particularly in the field’s highest echelons, these ideals are often ... -
Dancing with the Spirit Realm: An Iconographic Analysis of Renewal Imagery on the Engraved Shells from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma
(2023-05-12)The goal of this project was to determine whether or not a set of reproducible criteria could be developed and employed to identify depictions of dance in Spiroan iconography. Combining the previously identified depictions ... -
Data Driven Network Design for Cloud Services Based on Historic Utilization
(2022-03-31)In recent years we have seen a shift from traditional networking in enterprises with Data Center centric architectures moving to cloud services. Companies are moving away from private networking technologies like MPLS as ... -
Data Driven Optimization of Inter-Frequency Mobility Parameters for Emerging Networks
(2021)Densification and multi-band operation means inter-frequency handovers can become a bottleneck for mobile user experience in emerging cellular networks. The challenge is aggravated by the fact that there does not exist a ... -
Data Mining Applications in Reservoir Modeling
(2016-08-08)Data science has gained great attentions in many fields over the last decade, in this thesis, I further explored the use of data science technique in oil industry and developed three data mining applications that could be ... -
Data-based Stochastic Network Mitigation
(2018-05)Current decision-support frameworks to assist mitigation planning do not include uncertainty and complexity of network failures, either one or both. To close this research gap, this thesis walks through a demonstration of ... -
Data-Driven Analysis of Horizontal Well Performance In The Anadarko Basin Using Digital Well Log Clustering Techniques and Sequence Stratigraphy
(2021-05)Mississippian reservoirs are among the most prolific oil and gas producing reservoirs in the mid-continent. Understanding regionally and locally where Mississippian sweet spots for petroleum exploitation are located is a ... -
A Data-Driven Approach For Monitoring And Predictive Diagnosis Of Sucker Rod Pump System
(2022)Given its long operational history, a sucker-rod pump (SRP) has been widely utilized as a lifting solution to bring reservoir fluids to the surface with low cost and high efficiency. However, debugging the rod pump issues ... -
A data-driven approach for the evaluation of seismicity risks associated with CO2 injection
(2022)This work examined the application of Bayes’ theorem in evaluating the risk of induced seismicity associated with CO2 sequestration in the Arbuckle Group, which extends across the southern Mid-Continent of the US. Geological ... -
DATA-DRIVEN REAL-TIME GEOSTEERING USING SURFACE DRILLING DATA
(2019-12-13)In this thesis I present a method for estimating lithology or deriving formation properties from real-time surface drilling data. This information can then be used to enhance real-time geosteering capabilities. Current ... -
Days of Darkness: The Wichitas in Indian Territory and Kansas, 1859-1867
(2019-12-13)Most of what is known about the history of the Wichita peoples is scattered throughout the works of historians Earl H. Elam and F. Todd Smith, as well as anthropologist W. W. Newcomb, Jr., leaving this historiography of ... -
Decadent Ekphrasis in The Picture of Dorian Gray
(2022-12-16)Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, as a novel about aesthetes and decadent artists, has several acts of ekphrasis, the process by which visual art is detailed using a verbal description. Unlike the traditional use ... -
Decentralized Resource Allocation for Interdependent Infrastructure Networks Restoration: A Game Theory Approach
(2020-05)Critical infrastructures are governed by several sectors working together to maintain social, economic and environmental well-being. These infrastructures are interdependent and rely on a complex schedule of repair after ... -
Decision aids in patient-physician communication for supporting shared decision making and patient satisfaction: an experimental study
(2022-08-04)The aim of this study was to explore the effect of the use and style of decision aids on shared decision making and patient satisfaction in patient-physician communication in the context of Generalized Anxiety Disorder ... -
Decision Analysis Tools for Multiobjective Tradeoffs in Project Risk Management
(2016-08)The need to manage project risk, through the use of decision analysis tools and other approaches will only increase in the future. Several statistical methods are applied to simulate, in a project risk environment, a simple ... -
Decolonizing humans, ending gender abuse, and sexual violence, from discovery to the twenty-first century and beyond
(2022-05-13)To understand “Decolonizing Humans, Ending Gender Abuse, and Sexual Violence, from Discovery to the Twenty-First Century and Beyond.” We will look at the mechanisms from time immemorial to the present that that buoy ... -
Decolonizing the Concrete Wave: Visual Sovereignty in Native American Skateboarding Culture
(2017-05-12)This thesis focuses primarily on skateboard deck graphics and the cultural and political implications of skateboarding within the context of settler colonialism in the contemporary United States. It examines the intersection ... -
Decolonizing the Indigenous Language Classroom: A Heteroglossia of Ideological Shift in Indigenous Language Revitalization
(2017-05)This thesis examines the language ideologies of three Native American language instructors at the University of Oklahoma, looking specifically at the way these ideologies are seen in their pedagogical methodologies. This ...