UCO - Graduate Works and Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
The house of life.
(2015)The story is set in a Chinese village, during 1970s. Souyuen, a woman in her forties, is the mother of two sons and three daughters. The Chinese tradition of males carrying the family name has given Souyuen, and her ... -
W.P. "Bill" Atkinson : the man who built a city, lost a state, and challenged a king.
(2015)The legendary public and private feud between W.P. "Bill" Atkinson and Edward King Gaylord is an intriguing and unusual story of powerful and wealthy men - once close associates and friends - who became enemies. This work ... -
A trip to Wonderland : a stage play.
(2015)A Trip to Wonderland is a 90 minute play based on the Lewis Carol novel, the Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. Alice Liddell is presumed to be real in this story, and suffers from Lewis Carol syndrome, which symptoms ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Perceptions of new graduate, post-licensure registered nurses at the initiation of professional responsibilities.
(2015)Aim - To identify any discrepancy between new graduate nurses' perceptions of their professional roles before they begin practice and what they experience at the initiation of their duties. Background - Turnover and attrition ... -
Arguing against yourself : exploring the relationship between conflicting episodic memories.
(2015)The current study is an attempt to evaluate how participants' memory is altered by information either congruent or incongruent to their original testimony. False memory research consistently shows that exposure to post-event ... -
Deterioration of various cartridge case compositions in selective environments.
(2015)Firearm and toolmark analysis has, as its primary function, to determine if a particular ammunition component was fired in, by, or from a particular firearm. Examiners in this discipline can be presented with components ... -
Effects of gender norms & heterosexism on adoptions & disgust.
(2015)Heterosexism affects both individual and societal prejudices, leading to discrimination based on one's sexual orientation. In the following studies, it was shown that level of heterosexism predicted homosexual discrimination ... -
Show me the money : how currency manipulation promotes Chinese modernization.
(2015)This study provides an answer to the complex question of why China manipulates its currency. The research attempts to explain how currency manipulation used as one of many tools can help propel a country toward modernization, ... -
The classification and analysis of damaged bullets using IBIS® BULLETTRAX-3D™.
(2015)Rifling constitutes the helical grooves created on the surface of the bore of a firearm barrel allowing spin to be imparted on the projectile (Heard, 2008, p. 154). This spin allows the projectile to become more stable, ... -
Lenin : a screenplay.
(2015)LENIN is a historical screenplay that follows the aging revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, as he goes from living in poverty/isolation to becoming one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century. The story focuses on Lenin's ... -
A validation study of the measurement accuracy of SCENE and SceneVision 3D software programs
(2015)This descriptive study sought to determine the measurement accuracy of two 3D modeling software programs used in crime scene processing and reconstruction. These two programs are FARO's SCENE and 3rdTech's SceneVision 3D. ... -
A song for Eurydice.
(2015)A SONG FOR EURYDICE tells the tale of the human refugees living in the desert wasteland of Terra Arcturus, hundreds of light-years from their obliterated home, Old Earth. The story follows Captain Orion Andersen of the ... -
Through the frozen mountains : the 45th Infantry Division in the Vosges Campaign, 20 September 1944- 23 January 1945.
(2015)The purpose of this study is to examine the Vosges Mountain Campaign of World War II to better the fighting in southern France between the Wehrmacht and the Allies in particular the 45th Infantry Division. Keith Bonn, in ... -
Google Drive forensic analysis via application programming interface.
(2015)Rapid development of cloud computing brings challenges to digital forensic investigation, where traditional digital forensic tools and methodologies do not apply well. New approaches are needed to overcome emerged problems. ... -
Primary motor cortex stimulation facilitates visual guidance.
(2015)The choices for analyzing cognitive load performance data are often problematic as they are task-dependent and do not generalize well. This makes research into task independent variables necessary. Complexity is one such ... -
The effect of resource curse in Africa : varied resources in varied conflicts.
(2015)This work seeks to interpret resource curse on the African Continent by analyzing three separate cases: Sierra Leone, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria. In respect to each case's civil war, these will ...