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Stability of synthetic cannabinoids in biological specimens : analysis through liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry.
(2014)Synthetic cannabinoids, known as spice or K2 among others, create an ever-changing challenge for the forensic chemist or toxicologist. The spectrum of compounds is constantly growing and evolving. Understanding the stability ... -
A Streetcar Named Envy and Aggression
(2021)Envy is a well-known unpleasant emotion that is often characterized by inferiority and resentment and appears when individuals compare themselves to others (Parrott, 1991). Jealousy occurs when individuals fear losing ... -
Subliminally primed social exclusion's effect on reaffiliation behaviors.
(2013)The need to belong is as innate as our need for food or water (Maslow, 1943). When that need is threatened, people strive to reaffiliate with desired ingroups. They may act in uncharacteristic ways, or purchase items they ... -
Submersion as rhetorical tactic for women of color at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
(2021)The 1893 Columbian Exposition of the Chicago World’s Fair was a moment meant to showcase the best of the American experience, and many women of color saw this event as an opportunity to voice their message of suffrage for ... -
Sulphur and lilacs.
(2011)Set in a late-1930's mining town in West Virginia and in the broader theater of World War II, Sulphur and Lilacs is about Calvin Fisher, a young Marine whose experiences teach him about honor, duty, family, and love. As a ... -
Summer of excess.
(2013)On graduation day in May 2013, Olivia "Liv" Grigsby and her three friends have a rowdy night that endangers Liv's pot operation. The friends help to keep one another in good spirits as they encounter unexpected opportunities ... -
Supernatural bodies : the intersection of Nigerian feminism and body autonomy.
(2019)Many Nigerian women are depicted in literature as possessing little to no personal agency. Due to socio political issues, these women are often relegated to the margins of discourse surrounding Nigerian literature. Because ... -
Surgeons of the severed limb: Confederate military medicine in Arkansas, 1863-1865
(2014)By bridging two frequently overlooked subjects in Civil War historiography, medicine and the conflict in the West, this work provides a novel and important perspective on the war in the Trans-Mississippi by examining the ... -
Surrenstrada : for honor.
(2018)The genre of my novel is Fantasy. The subgenre is Weird West. This novel showcases monsters and creatures set in a western world. This book is heavily influenced by high fantasy novels with shades of steampunk. Even though ... -
Surveillance of molluscan (gastropod) intermediate hosts for the emerging infectious disease Angiostrongyliasis (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) in Oklahoma.
(2018)Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is the etiologic agent of an emerging infectious zoonosis, angiostrongyliasis. To date there is relatively little known about this parasite from a public health perspective. ... -
T.S. Eliot : a bibliography of T.S. Eliot criticism, 1987-2013
(2015)This bibliography of scholarship related to the writer T.S. Eliot is arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically within each year. This bibliography contains 1624 entries. Select entries have been annotated. Where ... -
Talk vs. actions : using a Q-sort to study an evolutionary view of same sex friendships.
(2008)This study sought to find out whether there are differences between male and female same-sex friendships based on evolutionary theory. The researcher took a self-referent measure known as the Q-Sort. The Q-Sort was ... -
Technical writing for nonprofits.
(2012)Nonprofit organizations are only as successful as their communication--how well they convey critical needs and persuade constituents to help answer them. Experience of development personnel at Central Oklahoma Habitat for ... -
Teen mothers' experiences in the New Beginnings Parent Education Program.
(2008)This study was conducted to gain the personal accounts of teen mothers' experiences as students attending the New Beginnings Parent Education Program. Using a phenomenological perspective, the researcher sought to gain a ... -
Temperatures of envy : associations between temperature perceptions and experiences of envy.
(2014)Envy is generally thought of as a negative emotional response involving a contrast between oneself and another. In its proper form, it can have detrimental effects upon relational interactions and attentional resources, ... -
Term limits and interest group influence.
(2009)Supporters of term limits argued that they would decrease interest group influence. Using data from 24 states from 1998 to 2008, this paper finds that this assumption is not the case. This analysis finds that states with ... -
Testing for Automatic Bias to Shoot People of Color.
(2018)Previous research of the shooter bias effect has focused on Black versus White male targets, with participants mistakenly shooting unarmed Black targets more often than White targets. In the current study, it was hypothesized ... -
Texting and tapping : a dynamical approach to multitasking.
(2011)Jobs in various work fields (e.g., flying airplanes; Helmreich, 2000) require a high ability to successfully handle more than one task at a time, or to multitask. Researchers usually explain multitasking by having priorities ... -
The acute effect of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on motor power output.
(2014)There has be an increased interest in the chronic effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in contact sports from both research and nonscientific fields alike. The chronic effects can only be minimized by understanding the ... -
The assessment of experimental methods of serial number restoration.
(2015)Serial number restoration is a common and successful process of revealing obliterated serial numbers on firearms. In a crime laboratory setting, obliterated serial numbers are commonly processed in order to tie a person ...