UCO - Graduate Works and Theses: Recent submissions
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Nurses returning to practice after an extended career break : a narrative study.
(2018)Statement of the Problem: The experience of nurses returning to practice after an extended career break has not been well researched and must be understood to facilitate a safe return. Literature Summary: The nursing ... -
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 ... -
Meat makes the man : the hierarchies of masculinity and meat eating in Shakespearean drama.
(2018)This thesis explores how Shakespeare's dramatic works highlight the complex relationships between the hierarchies of masculinity and meat eating. The theoretical backing consists of both gender-based and ecocritical writings. ... -
What is the experience of babywearing a NICU graduate?.
(2018)The benefits of skin-to-skin and kangaroo care have been well researched and documented. Despite the large volume of evidence to support various and long-term benefits to both caregivers and children, skin-to-skin care ... -
Interest and motivation in learning with application for college education.
(2018)This study examined the role that interest plays in the motivation to learn. The study consisted of three phases. In the first phase participants completed an online survey to determine their interest in either sports or ... -
New women, new opportunities: the new women of Chicago's World's Fairs, 1893-1934
(2018)World's fairs, also referred to as international expositions, offer historians insight into a nation's society, populace, economy, and industry. Yet, literature in the field has made little effort to fully analyze the ... -
Alliance dissolution : a constructivist approach.
(2018)Alliance dissolution is an understudied pattern in international politics. Independent studies by Walt, Leeds, and Snyder, within the realist tradition of international relations theory, have all touched on alliance ... -
Comparative subtidal and supratidal taphonomic changes in the elemental components of marine vertebrate bones using energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy and principle component analysis : ecological and forensic application.
(2018)Individuals and agencies of multiple disciplines have evolved interests which result in the studies and research of marine mammals as well as other protected marine dwellers such as sea turtles. Aside from wildlife ... -
Gaymers unite! : attachment and online social support for lesbian, gay, and bisexual gamers.
(2018)Research on the links between attachment insecurity, nondisclosure of sexual orientation, and negative identity of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals suggests that attachment insecurity may be associated with ... -
Validation of a mitochondrial extraction and isolation technique for use in wildlife forensics.
(2018)The primary goal of this project is to provide the wildlife forensic science community with a DNA analysis protocol that is consistent across all jurisdictions. To accomplish this goal, three important objectives must be ... -
Feral.
(2018)One of the projects of my thesis collection, Feral, was to question, examine, and evaluate the ways in which form influences the function of a piece and its ability to connect with readers. If a poem started as a villanelle ... -
Development of machines to engineer biocompatible matrices in ligament, filtering and 3D cell culture applications.
(2018)This thesis investigates three possible applications of engineered matrices manufactured from Polycaprolactone and Nylon-6 using electrospinning techniques. A method to manufacture bio compatible scaffolds for biomedical ... -
Integrating camera trap data and occupancy modeling to estimate seasonal variations in occurrence, detection, and activity patterns of mesocarnivores in southcentral Oklahoma.
(2018)Mesocarnivores have important ecological roles as primary predators of food webs who significantly contribute to maintaining the health of the lower trophic levels. Various anthropogenic effects impact the viability of ... -
Evaluating the effects of hand drawing on the conceptual process and the implications for final design solutions.
(2018)As students become dependent on computer aided design programs to execute projects, they abandon the use of hand drawing in every aspect of the design process. Despite the prevalence of technology in the field, professionals ... -
Puzzling.
(2018)Our interactions with letterforms are ever-increasing with the additions of new technologies and a more digitally connected society. Through stone tablets to papyrus scrolls, printed books to digital publishing, type finds ... -
Outlaw country.
(2018)Outlaw Country is a collection of poetry, prose poetry, flash fiction, short fiction, and short creative nonfiction that began as an exploration of the language our culture uses to talk about and describe women. My work ... -
Ka'l woman and other short stories.
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Mobile forensics : analysis of the messaging application Signal.
(2017)This study reviewed if there are ways to recover messages, image, videos, and call logs within the mobile application Signal, developed by Open Whisper Systems. The purpose of this study was to research the data recovery ... -
Prairie noir.
(2017)This thesis is comprised of English-language poetry, with many of the poems addressing the author's background as an Oklahoman, but also as an individual in the 21st Century.