Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Title
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Behavioral & motivational characteristics of female firesetters in Oklahoma.
(2018)The purpose of this research is to focus on and identify the behavioral and motivational characteristics of female firesetters of all ages in the state of Oklahoma. The current theory is that female arsonists are motivated ... -
Behavioral characteristics of maternal filicide : a case study.
(2013)The purpose of this study is to identify the history and behavioral trends of maternal filicide in the United States. This study examines six cases of filicide that were highly publicized by the media. The media tends to ... -
Behavioral Characteristics of Stalkers Who Kill
(2021)The purpose of this study is to identify behavioral characteristics of stalkers who ultimately kill their targets, with the goal of creating a risk factor checklist to help identify current offenders most at risk for ... -
Beliefs in and experiences with sasquatch and corresponding coping strategies.
(2008)Specific coping strategies were investigated and between-group comparisons were made based on the level of confidence each group had in the existence of sasquatch. The level of confidence was determined by the participants' ... -
Beyond binary : Navajo alternative genders throughout history.
(2016)Hosteen Klah was both a Navajo medicine man and weaver. However, the Navajo largely considered weaving to be a woman’s task. Women taught this skill from mother to daughter, and it represented both a creative and spiritual ... -
Beyond DNA : an epigenetic approach to identical twin identification
(2016)For more than two decades, DNA analysis has helped forensic scientists link suspects to a crime. Often times, DNA evidence is one of the most impactful pieces of evidence available. However, there is still one thing that ... -
Binary democracy : voter confidence and voting technologies.
(2017)The specific type of voting machine used by voters could have an affect on the amount of confidence they feel about the accuracy of their votes being recorded. This thesis studies different types of voting machines and the ... -
Black vernacular English and the rhetoric of Jeremiah Wright
(2008)In this exposition I discuss the rhetorical conventions which are prevalent in the Black Church in order to demonstrate how the African American rhetorical tradition helps shape the cultural identity of many African ... -
Blink modulation during positive and negative picture stimuli.
(2017)In this study, emotional response to negative and positive visual stimuli is examined using blink modulation as a behaviorally based dependent variable. The researcher exposed 58 participants to an array of predetermined ... -
Blood on white picket fences : the American dream in George A. Romero's living dead nightmare.
(2010)"George A. Romero has been called the "Father of the Modern Zombie Movie." His 1968 classic, Night of the Living Dead, sparked an entirely new sub-genre of horror cinema. Along with this new medium of fright came a new way ... -
Blood, bone : poems.
(2016)A creative thesis of deep image and narrative medical poetry influenced by the photography of Eudora Welty, family, and personal experience. A collection exploring the human experience through the lens of medicine, ... -
Bloodstain pattern analysis with infrared photography as a tool to visualize impact and satellite spatter on denim.
(2019)Correctly classifying bloodstain patterns is a crucial element of providing conclusions in the field of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, because the type of bloodstain pattern speaks to how the bloodstains were created. Very ... -
Bonnie Gray, the King Tut cowgirl: pioneering stunts and paving the way for women to stunt double in Western film
(2024)This thesis focuses on the life and career of Verna Smith, better known as Bonnie Gray, during the Golden Age of Rodeo and her career defining contributions that challenged social norms. The period lasted from the early ... -
Boot party.
(2011)Boot Party is a fictional screenplay consisting of essentially three acts which concerns an adolescent punk rocker in 1986 Denton, Texas called Jonah. Jonah leaves home following a violent confrontation with his stepfather ... -
Born to hula
(2023)The thesis represents a body of poems accumulated in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it continues to spread and the poet's subsequent ruminations in confinement. Born to Hula is a collection of poems exploring the ... -
Bystander intervention programming at metropolitan universities.
(2015)The current study reviews the responsibilities and benefits of institutions in receipt of federal funding to provide bystander education as a primary prevention program to students per current federal regulations and ... -
Can authority influence misinformation?: the relationship between misinformation and eyewitness accuracy
(2022)Mistaken identification by eyewitnesses was involved in 72% of the cases where people were later exonerated by DNA testing (Smalarz & Wells, 2015). There has been a large movement in support of eyewitness being unreliable. ... -
Cardiac vagal tone in complex PTSD : a polyvagal perspective.
(2015)Differences in functionality, impairment, and symptoms provide support for a nosological distinction between Complex PTSD and PTSD. Based on this information, the next step is to examine biological characteristics between ...