UCO - Graduate Works and Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Modelling wireless power transfer using an array of Tesla coils.
(2017)Wireless power transmission, or WPT, is a well-demonstrated property in electrical science and physics. Coil-and-wave transmission (CWT) consists of two Tesla coils, one powered by a controlled voltage source v src and one ... -
Dante Poeticus/ Dante Mystics : Dante's Mysticism from his time through the sixteenth century.
(2016)The relationship of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) to mysticism has been investigated in a surprisingly lopsided manner by scholars. That Dante was influenced by mystics who lived before him is not seriously in question, and ... -
Child welfare specialists and secondary traumatic stress : the effects of empathetic caring : a phenomenological study
(2016)Working with abused and neglected children is one of the most difficult jobs imaginable. The stressful conditions of a Child Welfare Specialist or supervisor are enormous and they often internalize the traumatic stress of ... -
Mathematical models of the adaptive immune response in a novel cancer immunotherapy.
(2016)The immune system is the first line of defense against cancer. The immune system regularly detects and destroys cancer cells. Despite this continuous protection, certain cancers are able to escape detection or destruction ... -
"Purposes of prestige," 1933 : the Roosevelt touch and U.S. diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union.
(2016)This thesis examines the United States government's official diplomatic recognition of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1933. I argue that in severing sixteen years of executive policy President Franklin D. ... -
Genetic analysis and ecological niche modeling of an Archilochus hybrid zone reveals duality in hybrid zone characteristics.
(2016)Two species of hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris and A. alexandri) whose breeding ranges and timing overlap in the great plains from south Texas to northern Oklahoma were hypothesized to produce hybrids in this area. ... -
The effect of beetroot juice on muscular endurance in college age students.
(2017)Researchers have been studying the effect of beetroot juice as an ergogenic aid in regards to lower oxidative cost of exercise and improved time to exhaustion. The findings indicate that beetroot juice acts as a vasodilator ... -
Method development and validation for drug identification and confirmation by LC/MS-MS for limited-specimen cases.
(2017)Driving under the influence of drugs (DUID) cases represent the largest portion of cases handled in most forensic toxicology laboratories. Blood is a commonly used specimen and is often analyzed using gas chromatography-mass ... -
Electromagnetic field distribution and power absorption of 3D spherical objects.
(2017)Microwave and radiofrequency heating has great promise in many engineering and biomedical applications because of its non-contact, volumetric heat generation and selective heating. However, the heating patterns and temperature ... -
Determination of an analytical relationship between entropy generation and mixing efficiency for micromixer applications.
(2017)This thesis presents a detailed computational analysis for a simple tee micro-mixing geometry. Micromixers have broad applications in heat exchangers and lab-on-chip (LOC) devices. Simply, a micromixer seeks to efficiently ... -
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, ... -
Matching the right feedback to the right person : the interaction of process and outcome feedback with goal orientation.
(2017)Types of performance feedback are discussed and compared. An overview of the goal orientation literature is provided. The author hypothesized that outcome feedback is congruent with a performance orientation, and that ... -
Confession rates : does persuasion resistance time reduce them?.
(2017)Confessions are given every day in criminal investigations across the country; countless are true confessions, but there are many false confessions as well. This study focused on participants' personality assessments and ... -
Impact of instruction on accuracy in exercising rate of perceived exertion (RPE) in older adults.
(2017)The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of instruction types and familiarization on the correlations between physiological measures of intensity (HR and VO2) and RPE. This was done by comparing the Borg (1998) ... -
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 ... -
Queen's women : the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1866 and 1869.
(2017)This thesis will examine the implementation of the Contagious Diseases Acts (CDA) of 1866 and 1869 and the process undertaken by those in and out of Parliament to repeal the legislation. This task will be accomplished by ... -
Americanizing the beautiful game : the rise of mainstream American soccer, 1960-2005.
(2017)This thesis examines the rise of mainstream soccer in the United States from 1960 to 2005 with a national, a regional (Oklahoma), and then a local (Edmond, OK) focus. It argues between 1960 to 2005 conservative-leaning ... -
Willow.
(2017)'Willow' is a story about one of the biggest problems facing humanity today: Human Trafficking. The world's population has never been higher. As a direct result, slavery has been more widespread. 'Willow' is a fictional ... -
The yellow city.
(2016)The Yellow City' takes place in the course of one day and follows the stories of several characters. The first six chapters outline each character, giving a detailed description of who they are as individuals. The main ...