Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Title
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The relationship between body mass index and subjective well-being in females during early young adulthood.
(2008)This study investigated the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and subjective well-being (SWB) in females during early young adulthood. Seventy-three Caucasian females 18-25 years of age participated in the study. ... -
The relationship between burnout, motivation, and exercise habits in retired college athletes
(2022)The effect of sport burnout on retired college athletes has not been widely researched. However, there are several studies that show sport burnout is present in athletes and can be influenced by different factors, including ... -
The relationship between lower extremity muscular power and functionality in older adults.
(2011)As humans age we go through a process of muscle mass loss known as Sarcopenia. This process of muscle loss can lead to many different forms of functionality based health concerns that can leave an individual immobile and ... -
The relationship between on-ice aerobic capacity and on-ice power output
(2015)There is debate if a high aerobic capacity will improve recovery from repeated bouts of sprinting, which primarily taxes the anaerobic energy systems. The relationship between aerobic capacity and repeat sprint ability in ... -
The rhetoric of disability : a Foucauldian discourse analysis.
(2018)The institution of disability, as it is perceived in the United States and most of Western civilization, signifies a site of oppression that has been historically neglected if not actively rejected by the hegemonic population ... -
The rhetoric of the economically disadvantaged : analyzing a marginalized discourse.
(2017)Those who engage in contemporary begging activities compose and enact public rhetoric daily across the United States, and the collection and analysis of rhetoric from this discourse community is particularly important in ... -
The role of attention, attitude, culture, and social expectancies in the human-animal bond : a biopsychosocial approach.
(2010)The human-animal bond may positively impact human health. However, employing the human-animal bond in human health and behavioral treatments strategies faces several unresolved issues. Challenges facing human-animal bond ... -
The run.
(2014)The Run is a novella-length creative work that follows Dust, a Marine Corps Reservist who performs military funeral services all across Nebraska. In his civilian life, Dust is an English teaching assistant at Nebraska ... -
The stability of low-top versus high-top basketball shoes.
(2014)BACKGROUND: Ankle sprains are one of the most common athletic injuries that occur in sports participation (Trevino, Davis, & Hecht, 1994). There has been numerous prevention strategies designed to decrease the occurrence ... -
The star quilt
(2012)The adopted daughter of a Cherokee woman and a likable country man, Ginny Hefner grew up an only child in the small northeastern Oklahoma town of Wagoner in the decade of the 1930s. In that small town, against the backdrop ... -
The Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1954-1955 : the contemplation of going to war over foreign troop morale.
(2013)This study examines the Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1954-55 and how the Eisenhower administration handled the imbroglio and attempts to explain why the crisis lasted for such a long period of time. Secretary of State John ... -
The terror within
(2008)Illustrates the degree to which people from all walks of life learn how to cope and survive at all costs. The internal struggle for balance in troubled lives is seen in the external circumstances of everyday living. This ... -
The thin ideal : the role of positive and negative expectancies.
(2009)Media often portrays women of an unattainable stature. This unattainable stature is commonly referred to as the thin ideal. Women in media, especially fashion models, have become significantly thinner over the last several ... -
"The truth in masquerade": masking and self-making in literature
(2022)This thesis analyzes scenes of “masquerade” in three literary texts, the Oresteia of Aeschylus (458 B.C.E.), Eliza Fowler Haywood’s short novel Fantomina; or Love in a Maze (1725), and Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in ... -
The turtle
(2008)The entire novel is offset as a 'frame' story, a convention of American gothic stories and novels. The book contains a fictitious Editor's Note explaining the origin of The Turtle as being physically delivered to the world's ... -
The use of and-coordination in terms of its syntactic (a)symmetry in argumentative essays : a corpus-based study of three university learner groups in MICUSP and NUCLE.
(2013)Studies found EL learners overuse and as an additive connector at the sentence-initial position (Bolton, Hung, & Nelson, 2002), and they underuse and as a coordinator (Leung, 2005). Generally, the use of the and-coordinator ... -
The use of authentic assessment in eligibility determination for early childhood intervention programs.
(2010)The purpose of this study was to survey Part C Coordinators of early intervention programs across the United States and its territories to determine the actual use of authentic assessment methods to determine eligibility ... -
The use of image analyzing software for muzzle to target distance determination.
(2011)Muzzle to target distance can be an important aspect in criminal investigations. For most distance determination opinions to be of value to an investigation, the range must be stated such that it gives meaningful information ... -
The utilization of forensic corpora in validation of data carving on SATA drives/
(2019)The field of digital forensics has become more prevalent in the court of law due to the increase of availability of technology. With digital evidence coming up in court consistently, digital forensics and its tools are ... -
The well of loneliness : the influence of place on identity.
(2013)Place affects identity and movement in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. Hall's main character, Stephen Gordon, is developed through her response to the Gordon family heritage of home, land, and community, which ...