Browsing OU - Theses by Title
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FAILURE IN IRAQ? AN EXAMINATION OF AMERICAN SUCCESS REBUILDING A POST-SADDAM IRAQ
(2018-05-11)This thesis project examines the United States’ involvement during the second war in Iraq from 2003-2011. The question that this thesis aims to study is why the Iraq War unfolded the way it did, and to disprove the notion ... -
Fairness-Based Transportation Resilience for Communities under Tsunami Hazard
(2021-12)Abstract: Natural disasters such as tsunamis have catastrophic impacts on the functionality and resilience of transportation networks in impacted areas, and they can damage coastal regions hundreds of kilometers away from ... -
False Idols: The Perils of 'Democratizing' Financial Markets
(2021-05-14)US stock markets have created the greatest wealth in human history. This wealth, however, has not been shared or distributed equally. I seek to understand the way in which income disparities work to undermine mechanisms ... -
Families and Facilities: How the Parent-Child Relationship Changes Upon Institutionalization
(2017)This thesis endeavors to trace how the relationships and of the mainstream American family unit, specifically between adult children and their parents, are altered by the process of age-related institutionalization in a ... -
Family Involvement in the Early Childhood Classroom: A Mixed Methods Study Exploring Strategies and Applications
(2019-05)Family involvement is an important component of child development and leads to various positive outcomes. There are many programs that exist to provide parents with resources and support but there is a gap in the literature ... -
Fantasy Proneness and Responsiveness in Leaders: The Impact of Charismatic and Pragmatic Leaders
(2017-12-11)Charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic leadership have been identified as the three key styles of leadership. Leaders expressing each style are held to appeal to followers in different ways and through different mechanisms. ... -
Fast Adaptive Digital Beamforming With Machine Learning
(2022-12-16)Digital polarimetric Phased Array Radar (PAR) has the potential to achieve high temporal and spatial resolution needed for next-generation weather observations. It offers flexibility in scanning strategies, including the ... -
Fatalism and its Effect on Health Behaviors in Mississippi and Louisiana Residents
(2021-08-05)The Health Belief Model maps out multiple sources to explain actions people take or do not take in regard to health behaviors. One’s sense of control over one’s own health is a central component of the health belief model. ... -
Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Air Handling Unit in HVAC System Using Cloud-based Data Logging System
(2019-05-10)This project encompasses the engineering principles of design and testing of the implementation of a fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) using cloud-based data logging system on Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning ... -
Fault distribution in the Sulphur, Oklahoma area based on gravity, magnetic and structural data
(1989)Declining water flow from springs in the Travertine District, Chickasaw National Recreation Area (CNRA) spurred geologic investigation of the area. Because geologic structure may influence hydrology, knowledge of structure ... -
FAULT RUPTURE PROCESSES DURING HIGH VELOCITY ROTARY SHEAR EXPERIMENTS
(2016-05-13)High velocity shear experiments can provide information on fault rupture processes that seismological methods cannot. The present study focuses on two main aspects of fault rupture processes. One is developing a new, ... -
Feasibility of Blast Furnace Slag for Stabilizing Sulfate-Bearing Soil
(2023-12-15)Calcium-based stabilizers are frequently used by The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) to enhance the strength and reduce the swelling potential of fine-grained soils. However, these stabilizers can lead to ... -
The Feasibility of Using X-Ray Induced Acoustic Computed Tomography for Non-Destructive Testing of Aircraft Structural
(2020-06-15)Aviation safety is a very important aspect of the aviation industry. One of the most important methods for increasing aviation safety is the non-destructive testing method. The non-destructive testing method is considered ... -
Feasibility Study of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Integrated Bridge Systems (GRS-IBS) in Oklahoma
(2016-05)Bridges supported on deep foundations constitute the conventional and standard construction practice. While deep foundations provide several advantages for bridges with respect to their stability and performance, they also ... -
Few in Number
(2018-05-11)My first work that implements voice and live sound processing, Few in Number uses the numbers found in the book titled “Numbers” in the Old Testament. The numbers in the first chapter of the book define the sectional ... -
Field characterization and analog modeling of natural fractures in the Woodford Shale, southeast Oklahoma
(2011)Understanding the mechanisms under which shales deform is fundamental to improving exploration success in unconventional resource plays. Several outcrops of the Woodford Shale have been chosen to characterize fracture ... -
Finding key characteristics of promising compounds for anticancer drug discovery
(2017-12)Multidrug resistance is the simultaneous resistance to two or more chemically unrelated therapeutics, including some therapeutics the cell has never been exposed to. It is one of the biggest obstacles to effective cancer ... -
Finding the Chahta in the Choctaw: A Case Study on the Relationship Between Chahta People and Western Education
(2017-05-12)This thesis looks at the experiences of Chahta students at Choctaw Academy and Spencer Academy in the late eighteenth century, into the nineteenth century. Through the documentation available in the Western History ... -
Finite element modeling of residual mechanical hearing function after cochlear implant surgery
(2023-05-12)Cochlear implant (CI) surgery is one of the most utilized treatments for severe hearing loss. Though CI surgery is proven to improve patients’ quality of life, results are variable as damage to very delicate inner ear ... -
Fire Side Chats to TikTok Influencer Tags: The Evolution of White House Computer-Mediated Communication to Youngsters
(2023-05-12)This study aimed to analyze how young people understood emerging changes in White House communication, specifically that which utilized the collaboration of social media influencers. Convenience sampling was used to recruit ...