Browsing OU - Theses by Title
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Joining Up with the Union: California's Place in the Nation and the Meaning of Military Service in the Civil War
(2020-05-08)Prior to the start of the Civil War, California had been a state for less than a dozen years and was populated by a diverse group of people from around globe, many of whom had been lured to the state by the call of gold. ... -
Keeping Calm and Carrying On: Relating Proactive Personality, Affect Spin, and Affect Pulse to Learning and Adaptive Task Performance
(2018-07-20)The purpose of this laboratory study involving 214 undergraduate students learning a complex videogame was to address the gaps in the empirical literature regarding the non-cognitive traits that comprise the construct of ... -
THE KEROGEN 3D SOLID STATE STRUCTURE MODELING AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN RESERVOIR SIMULATION
(2016-12-16)A 3D solid state Green River Oil Shale kerogen model was built in this thesis through the following two steps: 1. a molecular nanocluster model of kerogen composed of seven molecules was built based on an adsorption method; ... -
Kidney OCT 3D images classification using machine learning
(2023-12-15)The goal of this research is to make a classification program for 3D images by using a CNN model. The images to classify are kidney images that have 3 different classes: Pelvis, Medulla and Cortex. To do so, a data ... -
Kinematics, Thermodynamics, and Microphysics of the 25-26 June 2015 Kansas MCS during PECAN
(2018-05)This case study analyzes a nocturnal mesoscale convective system (MCS) that was observed in northeast Kansas as part of the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) field experiment on 25-26 June 2015. Over the course ... -
A Kinetic Distance-to-Mean Based Routing Algorithm for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
(2017-12)Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) allows vehicles to send information to each other or to roadside equipment in an instant and a wireless manner. It represents a considerable step forward in terms of transportation. Indeed, ... -
Kusama's Polka Dots and Kawara's Dates: Finding American Success Through Differing Uses of Identity, Temporality, and Artistic Expression
(2023-05-12)American art spaces have been established as areas that allow for greater acceptance and recognition for artists thus drawing in artists from multitudes of cultural backgrounds. Due to social unrest and change during the ... -
La vida es sueño and the Archetypes: A Jungian Literary Analysis
(2016-12)To date there have been no comprehensive Jungian analyses of La vida es sueño, despite the play’s extensive bibliography. A Jungian analysis provides a novel perspective on the fraught relationship between Basilio and ... -
Label-Free Flow Cytometry to Understand Nanoparticle-Cell Interactions
(2023-08-04)Understanding nanoparticle-cell interactions at single-nanoparticle and single-cell resolutions is crucial to improving the design of next-generation nanoparticles for safer, more effective, and more efficient applications ... -
Label-Free, Live Cell Nanoparticle Imaging for Real-Time Uptake Pathway Analysis
(2022-05-13)Nanoparticles are biomedical devices capable of a wide range of applications ranging from drug delivery to molecular sensing and bioimaging agents. Within bioimaging, nanoparticles face numerous obstacles in both in vitro ... -
Laboratory Characterization of Foamed WMA Containing RAP
(2019-08-01)For more than two decades, the asphalt paving industry has been using Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) and various types of Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) technologies in the production of asphalt mixes to reduce impact on the ... -
LABORATORY GEOMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ARBUCKLE GROUP AND CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT ROCKS IN OKLAHOMA
(2017-05-12)In the past decade, the rapidly increase in earthquakes in the State of Oklahoma has drawn serious attention. Some investigations have attributed the increased MEQ to the large amount of wastewater injections as part of ... -
Laboratory study of durability of recycled concrete aggregate including drainage for use in pavement base course
(2023)Recycled concrete aggregates (RCAs) have been used as a cost-effective and environmentally friendly material in pavement base construction for quite some time. However, there is a lack of information on the durability, ... -
Land of the Fair God: The Development of Black Towns in Oklahoma, 1870-1910
(2016)Oklahoma’s All Black Town Movement is important to contextualize larger black migration patterns during the nineteenth century. Oklahoma was at the center of black migration from surrounding states. In addition, it played ... -
Landscape of Hope and Dispossession: Visions for the Future in the Cookson Hills, 1934–1949
(2021-05-14)This thesis examines a little-studied moment in Oklahoma’s environmental and Indigenous history: the era of the New Deal, Second World War, and early days of the Cold War. From the 1930s to the late 1940s, as Oklahoma ... -
Language and Bodily Autonomy in Chicano Movement Periodicals, 1967-1973
(2019-12-13)Periodicals were a primary organizing tool of Chicano Movement activists from 1967-1973, serving as spaces for multilingual representation and dialogue in Mexican American communities. This thesis argues that by publishing ... -
Language Ideologies and Practices among University Learners of Native American Languages
(2016-05-14)This thesis examines language ideologies among university learners of Native American languages. Given that attitudes and beliefs toward these languages can have a direct impact on the learning process, recognizing ideologies ... -
Language Revitalization Through Pawnee Music
(2016)Pawnee music has always been a crucial component in the lives of the Pawnee people and have been a source of comfort to those who have needed it. Traditional songs give Pawnee people a sense of identity lacking because of ... -
Large Scale and Local Influences on the Occurrence and Maintenance of Liquid Bearing Clouds over the Greenland Ice Sheet
(2016)Arctic liquid bearing clouds (LBCs) have a large impact on the surface radiation and cryospheric mass budgets. Their effect on the surface radiation budget is a combination of two competing processes. First, they can ...