Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Title
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Americanizing the beautiful game : the rise of mainstream American soccer, 1960-2005.
(2017)This thesis examines the rise of mainstream soccer in the United States from 1960 to 2005 with a national, a regional (Oklahoma), and then a local (Edmond, OK) focus. It argues between 1960 to 2005 conservative-leaning ... -
An analysis of the enemies of United States society through the superhero narrative from 1940-2015.
(2016)Comic books have been an aspect of culture in the United States since the late 1930s, since their inception, they have constantly reflected the attitudes, troubles and trends of the time. Because comic books follow historical ... -
An enzymatic means for the rehabilitation of low-copy number and degraded DNA.
(2014)In spite of the immense success forensic DNA analysis has obtained over the last twenty-five years, a substantive challenge within the field of forensic DNA analysis is amplification and interpretation of degraded and ... -
An extraction method using whole insect larvae to isolate DNA from a deceased host.
(2014)The analysis of entomological evidence continues to be a useful method for the identification of human remains from a crime scene, especially when the body is in a state of decomposition. During active decomposition the ... -
An intangible claim : Oklahoma Territory and the Victorian divorce crisis.
(2016)This study focuses on the cultural phenomenon that occurred in the United States known as the Victorian Divorce Crisis, and the communities known as Divorce Mills, which were often blamed for the situation. The divorce ... -
An analysis into the exploitation of the post-attendee URL feature in Zoom webinar regarding malware transmission
(2022)In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, large businesses and organizations relied on video conferencing applications such as Zoom to maintain public health guidelines due in part to their robust set of features to facilitate ... -
Analysis of cooling plate designs for fuel cell applications
(2016)In this thesis, theoretical and computational analyses of the heat exchange in a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) cooling plate are described. Thermal management of the fuels cells is essential to ensure high ... -
Analyzing PAC's.
(2013)Political action committees have been the subject of controversial court cases and legislative reform. Judicial decisions and legislative reforms are the product of creating campaign finance aiming at the creation of a ... -
Analyzing the effectiveness of NATO post Cold War
(2020)This thesis analyzes NATO’s evolution from a neorealist military alliance into a constructivist co-operative security organization and argues that it was this evolution that best explains NATO’s persistence in the post-Cold ... -
And the trail continued : nineteenth century federal Indian policies and the Vann family, 1745-1902.
(2013)The Cherokee, similar to other American Indian tribes, struggled with the implications of the growing Anglo population along the eastern seaboard leading up to American independence. The collision of White and Indian ... -
Angels, pins, dancing, prayers.
(2015)The content of the poems in Angels, Pins, Dancing, Prayers centers around five topics: art, religion, death, education, and travel. Poetry understands and dares to discuss God, love, pain, truth, war, death, and bubble gum ... -
Antithetical dialogue: claiming rhetorical sovereignty in contemporary American Indian literature
(2010)"Canonical Euro-American literary and historical discourses exhibit American Indians in stereotypical terms. The characterization of American Indians in Euro-American discourse creates a silent absence in which American ... -
Anything dead coming back to life hurts : Beloved, Bastard out of Carolina, and Gods in Alabama as contemporary female gothic.
(2011)The contemporary Female Gothic is characterized by the highlighting of the monstrosities of patriarchal ideology's failures in order to point to a more positive space created by the agency of the female heroine and her ... -
Application of cinnamon oil nanoemulsion to control foodborne bacteria such as listeria SP, and salmonella SP, on melon.
(2017)Listeria and Salmonella related recalls and outbreaks are of major concern to the melon industry. Cinnamon oil has shown its usefulness in food treatment due to strong antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial activities. ... -
Application of Laser Micromachining on Polymeric and Metallic Substrates
(2019)LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) has many applications in engineering, biology, biomedical etc. Recent years, laser micromachining has become a promising technology for mass production of ... -
Applications of Confocal Microscopy
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Approaching objectivity in firearms identification : utilizing IBIS BULLETTRAX-3D's sensor capturing technology.
(2011)Firearm examiners are often asked 1) can a bullet be matched back to the cartridge case from which it was fired? 2) What bullets leave suitable markings for microscopic examinations of this nature? 3) Is there an objective ...