Browsing OU - Theses by Title
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Taiwan First: The Role of National Identity in Protectionist Trade Policies
(2018-05-11)Taiwan’s modern history of rapid economic growth has given the country the reputation as the “Taiwan Miracle”. The country’s emphasis on economic growth has become a core tenet of the nation’s policies and attitudes, both ... -
A Tale of Two Mesovortices: Analysis of a Simulated Severe MCS Observed By PECAN on 5-6 July 2015
(2017-07)Understanding and forecasting nocturnal thunderstorms and their hazards remain elusive goals. To this end, an expansive array of fixed and mobile observing systems were deployed in the summer of 2015 for the Plains Elevated ... -
A Tale of Two Pandemics and the Shortcomings of International Law: Examining gender-based violence in Bolivia in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by scrutinizing international laws’ limitations in mitigating human rights abuses during periods of crisis
(2021-05)International law was established as a part of the international relations sphere to prevent mass atrocity from ever occurring again in the way that it had throughout World War I and World War II. With the passage of time, ... -
A Tale of Two Sites: a Lithic Analysis Examining Possible Nūche Emergence on the Uncompahgre Plateau, Colorado
(2017)To explain the historic distribution of Numic (Uto-Aztecan) speakers across the American West, researchers hypothesized a largescale movement of people occurring between A.D. 900 and 1300. This migration, otherwise known ... -
The Talking Stick Way: An Indigenous research methodology for engaging diverse global conversations
(2017)The Talking Stick Way: An Indigenous research methodology for engaging diverse global conversations This study explores persistent gaps in knowledge concerning the relevance, presence and benefit of Indigenous research ... -
Tap and Jazz Dance in Higher Education: Uncovering the Significance of Tap and Jazz Dance Training in University Dance Studies
(2019-05-11)The values system in the United States is based in Western intellectual tradition, which has caused an imbalance in the availability to study certain forms of dance at the collegiate level. Ballet and modern dance are ... -
Teachers as Writers: A descriptive case study of my observations of English teachers in the middle school classroom
(2020)ABSTRACT For decades, numerous reports show a deficit in the American students’ ability to write well. Many sound recommendations, such as teachers acting as writers, have been made to improve the performance of students ... -
Teachers' Perspectives of Supporting Children with Trauma
(2019-05-10)Childhood trauma is impacting children and teachers across the nation. According to attachment theory, when children do not form secure attachments with parents, they will seek out attachments from other adults. Teachers ... -
TEACHING FOR CITIZENSHIP WITHIN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS
(2016-05-13)The purpose of this study was to learn more about elementary social studies instruction and its role within citizenship education. In particular, this study focused on gaining insight into the nature of social studies ... -
Teaching Music Theory Through Musical Theatre Repertoire
(2020-05)This document uses musical theatre repertoire to both reinforce and extend music-theoretical concepts typically taught in undergraduate theory sequences. Three such concepts—modulation, form, and counterpoint—are examined ... -
Techniques for Simultaneous Transmit and Receive with All-Digital Arrays
(2021-05-14)The increased flexibility provided by all-digital array architectures allows for the development of improved techniques toward achieving multi-function capability. In an all-digital array, element-level control can be ... -
Techno-optimization of CO2 transport networks with constrained pipeline parameters
(2023-05-13)In planning large scale carbon sequestration projects, one of the key parameters affecting project economics is the selection of optimal pipeline transportation networks connecting physical locations of carbon sources to ... -
Tectonics, sedimentation, and hydrocarbon potential of the Reelfoot aulacogen
(1985)The Reelfoot aulacogen, an early Paleozoic failed-rift basin, lies concealed beneath the Gulf Coastal Plain strata of the upper Mississippi Embayment. Many similarities exist between the geologic history of the Reelfoot ... -
Temperature Swing Solvent Extraction for Selenate and Selenite Removal from Industrial Wastewater
(2022)Coal-fired power plants provide more than one fifth of the electricity generated in the United States. Flue gas desulfurization (FGD) of the products of coal combustion is necessary to prevent emissions of SO2, which is ... -
Temporal and Spatial Variations in Sediment Trace Metal Concentrations in Streams, Rivers, and a Reservoir near a Derelict Lead-Zinc Mining District
(2021-05)Historic lead and zinc mining in the Tri-State Mining District has ceased, but the legacy of trace metal contamination (Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn) throughout the region still exists. This thesis focuses on stream sediments ... -
Tenderhearted
(2023-05-12)This is a collection of non-fiction essays and one fictional short story that began with the idea of the psychological phenomenon of undermothering but eventually took shape around ways in which my coming of age was impacted ... -
Tensile Behavior of Ultra-High Performance Concrete Under Direct Tension
(2020-07-30)Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) is a product that has improved mechanistic properties as compared to traditional concrete and is defined by the Federal Highway Administrations (FHWA) as having a post-cracking tensile ... -
TEST OF DIFFERENT TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS TO HYDROMETEOR AND WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIOS FOR DIRECT VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION OF RADAR REFLECTIVITY DATA
(2021-05-14)Many issues exist when using highly nonlinear radar reflectivity forward observation operator in three-dimensional variational data assimilation methods (3DVAR), especially with hydrometeor mixing ratios as control variables ... -
A Test of the Terror Management Health Model and Psychological Reactance in the Context of Skin Protective Behaviors
(2021)This thesis presents the results of an experiment (N = 206) that utilized sun overexposure prevention messages and a 2 (mortality: salient, control) × 2 (freedom threat: high, low) independent-group design. The study tested ... -
Testing a Dynamic Perspective of Goal Orientation During Complex Skill Acquisition and Adaptation to Unforeseen Change
(2018-05)In the context of learning a dynamic task involving cognitive and perceptual-motor demands, this laboratory study contributed to a multilevel perspective of goal orientation and performance by examining adaptation to a ...