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Habitat Use and Trajectories of Beef Cattle in South Central Oklahoma
(2023-05-12)Rangelands continue to hold a prominent role in ecological systems and cultural history. Management of rangelands comprises the science and art of sustainably maintaining intensive production from the grasslands and scrubs. ... -
Hailstone Trajectory and Surface Hailfall Analysis in the 29-30 May 2012 Kingfisher, OK Supercell
(2022-05)During the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry Experiment (DC3), a wealth of data was collected on a hail-producing tornadic supercell near Kingfisher, OK on 29-30 May 2012. Three mobile radars collected radial velocity, ... -
"Half Savage and Hardy, and Free": The Failure of Feminine Identity in Wuthering Heights
(2022)Over the last half-century, much of the scholarly discourse concerning Wuthering Heights has considered Catherine Earnshaw’s struggle for belonging in the social order, using a transgressive mode of gender criticism to ... -
HAND GESTURES FOR DRONE CONTROL USING DEEP LEARNING
(2018-12)Commercial drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are rapidly becoming more prevalent and are used in many different applications, such as surveillance for sporting events, transportation for emergency ... -
Harnessing social media use in journalism: Management and journalists’ perceptions of social media, professionalism and managers’ roles
(2021-12-17)Social media have changed the landscape of journalism by providing both opportunities and risks (Lee, 2015; Lee, 2016). While news organizations want journalists to incorporate social media into their work (Adornato & ... -
Healing a fractured spirit: indigenous use of the sweat lodge for the healing of depression
(2020-05-08)In this ethnographic study, I use my personal life experiences to explain the use and healing properties of the Native American sweat lodge. I look into sources of mental trauma common in Native communities such as historical ... -
Healthcare providers’ motivations and challenges when communicating about sexual health with individuals with intellectual disabilities
(2023-05-12)Patients with intellectual disabilities face additional challenges due to fears of health literacy (i.e., the ability to seek, understand, and utilize health information) and communicative competence. The taboo nature of ... -
Healthy Institutions: Technocracy, Democracy, and Legitimacy in EU GMO Regulation
(2018-12)As a result of several food and chemical-related public health scares as well as strong activism by environmental organization such as Greenpeace, longstanding majorities of European Union (EU) citizens support restrictions ... -
A Heat Wave Definition Employed across the Southern Great Plains for Trend Analysis from 1979-2019
(2021-08)Subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) extremes occur frequently in the Southern Great Plains (SGP), more specifically heat waves. Heat waves are expected to increase in frequency, duration, and intensity in several regions globally, ... -
Heirloom Microbes: a survey of lactic acid bacteria in traditional Mongolian dairy
(2020)Fermentation has sustained human communities for thousands of years. Through most of that time, humans unknowingly used microbes in food production, especially dairy. It wasn’t until the late nineteenth century that the ... -
Helping Students Find Their Voices: A Study in Student Self-Advocacy
(2018-12)This study explores student perceptions of self-advocacy, as well as the ways in which self-advocacy influences student success in the classroom. While there have been multiple research studies exploring the benefits of ... -
Herbivory, not soil nitrogen, alters grassland plant community structure and decomposition
(2016-12)Human activity has shifted grazing and nitrogen (N) altering plant community structure worldwide. Plant community changes are expected to alter associated ecosystem functions (e.g., plant litter decomposition). Few studies ... -
Heritage Walking: a Popular Geopolitics Study of the AYA Application and its role in Nation-Building and Heritage as a Motivational Factor for Walking
(2023-12-15)The AYA application (hereafter, app) released by the Chickasaw Nation in 2018, is a fitness app with a gamified rewards system built around the history and culture of the Chickasaw Nation. The Chickasaw Nation as a tribal ... -
Heroes and Villains: The Psychological Effects of Cosplay
(2021-12)Prior research has suggested that identifying with fictional characters while immersing in fiction increases the likelihood of taking on the traits and perspectives of those characters (Appel, 2011; Hatvany et al., 2018; ... -
Heterogeneity of clastic provenance to the Anadarko Basin and implications for paleogeography
(2018)Thin section petrography and U/Pb detrital zircon geochronology were used to reconstruct Middle-Late Pennsylvanian drainage pathways into the Anadarko Basin, and evaluating the relative proportion of sediment originating ... -
Heuristic Approach to Network Recovery
(2018-05-11)This study addresses optimization modeling for recovery of a transportation system after a major disaster. In particular, a novel metric based on the shape of the recovery curve is introduced as the objective to minimize. ...