Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Title
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Crime scene investigators: exploring the reasons and impact of career longevity and gender diversity in forensic science
(2023)Career longevity among crime scene investigators (CSIs) is a topic for which there has been little research. This is surprising given the increased popularity of this profession as well as forensic science in general. ... -
Critical analysis of an electro-hydraulic servo valve opening under steady-state and transient conditions
(2020)Electro-Hydraulic servo valves (EHSV) are used extensively in industrial applications due to their lightweight design, inexpensive manufacturing, simple operating technology, and modularity. EHSV are used in military, ... -
Crocus Albiflorus & other short stories.
(2014)Crocus Albiflorus and Other Stories is a collection of 10 literary realism short stories. The collection is set in a broad scape of countries throughout the world, but all stories share the commonality of basic humanistic ... -
Crossing the blue line : law enforcement personality, coping, and stress over time.
(2018)162 police officers completed measures of personality, coping style, job stress, and attachment. Officers also provided information about their work experience including years of experience, past and current assignments, ... -
Cultivating success in forensic molecular biology students by developing laboratory skills
(2019)The University of Central Oklahoma’s Forensic Science Institute offers a series of courses for students pursuing a career as a forensic DNA analyst, providing students with the knowledge and experience to prepare them for ... -
Culture on the prairie: celebrating Oklahoma's art museums and their contributions in the twentieth century
(2020)The purpose of this project is to compile a brief history of Oklahoma art museums, while specifically honoring individual contributors that have made the existence of these museums possible. The emphasis on individual ... -
Current state of validation and testing of digital forensic tools in the United States.
(2012)The Federal courts' decision in Dauber v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceutical, Inc. (1993) requires forensic testing protocols and tools to be validated and tested for reliability before they can be used to support expert witness ... -
Cyber activism : the information revolution, political actors and the potential for regime transition.
(2010)"This thesis addresses the role of information communication technologies and the internet in explaining modern revolutions. While previous scholarship has analyzed the significance of social movements and the potential ... -
The cyber-economy and the nation-state
(1996)The cyber-economy which is developing via the Internet represents a serious challenge to the ability of nation-states to exercise sovereignty over their economies. Nation-states stand to lose the ability to control their ... -
Dante Poeticus/ Dante Mystics : Dante's Mysticism from his time through the sixteenth century.
(2016)The relationship of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) to mysticism has been investigated in a surprisingly lopsided manner by scholars. That Dante was influenced by mystics who lived before him is not seriously in question, and ... -
De(con)structive time : visual style and temporal simultaneity in the works of Gaspar Noe?ü.
(2013)Despite the popularity of director Gaspar Noe?ü's films, little critical attention has been give to the overall style or common themes within his work as a whole, which also includes short films and music videos. Instead ... -
Death-primed memory suppression
(2008)Participants (17 males, 37 females) performed a computer-based, five-phase, study recall-suppress-test-recognize task. Participants significantly suppressed more nonword target items compared to death-related prime-target ... -
Decolonizing the histories of Helen Hunt Jackson and Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
(2013)What is decolonization and how does it work? The concept of decolonization surfaced during "the global Indigenous activism in the 1970s." Although the idea is not new, it has been given little attention by mainstream ... -
Deconstructing American laughter: the power of carnivalesque humor to empower the voices of the oppressed
(2024)Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalesque, as seen in his book Rabelais and His Word, highlights how laughter has the power to break through the restrictions and fear within oppressive, official cultures, giving power ... -
Deconstructing the domestic sphere : the American sentimental novel as feminist metafiction.
(2018)Since the late twentieth century, sentimental literature has seen a resurgence in literary study, with many nineteenth-century American women writers receiving critical attention for the first time. However, this attention ... -
Defensive reactions to masculinity threat.
(2012)Compensatory behavior are defined as behaviors that are intended to make up for a perceived lack of competency in a particular area. The present studies investigated how men compensate for perceived masculinity threats. ... -
Degrees of oblivion.
(2010)"These poems are chiefly concerned with self-awareness and the degree to which each poem's individual speaker is, either voluntarily or involuntarily, oblivious to his or her particular circumstance within the poem. This ... -
Democracy in South Sudan : prospects and pitfalls.
(2012)Democracy in one among many other things in the nation building package that the South Sudan government is looking to achieve. Where or what are the hopes? what is it that will work this rime around?. Almost all African ... -
Democratization and gender inequality in Egypt.
(2012)This thesis offers a qualitative analysis of the condition of women's social and political roles in Egyptian society prior to and during their current transition to a legitimate democracy. It argues that without mitigation ...