UCO - Graduate Works and Theses: Recent submissions
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Civilian social network degradation and views on psychological treatment among police officers.
(2011)Thirty-five current police officers were recruited for a study on their social network composition and attitudes toward psychological assessment and treatment. This study was based around the idea of an us versus them ... -
Silent history : reclaiming Palestinian cultural patrimony and history and using NAGPRA as a paradigm.
(2011)This study examines the nationalist tendencies of Israeli archaeological policies and practices, but also that nation's infringement on Palestine's cultural patrimony claims and identity. Despite the international community's ... -
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 ... -
Oklahoma history, poetry and anti-communism : the writings of Zoe Tilghman.
(2010)"Zoe Tilghman was one of the early women writers in Oklahoma. Throughout her career she used her own experiences and those of her husband, the famous U.S. Marshal William Tilghman, to write stories that portrayed the West ... -
Illustrating with type : a typographic exploration of nursery rhymes.
(2010)"Developments in visual communication are progressively affecting the way audiences receive and process information. In today's image-dominated environment we seek quick references to aid our interpretation of information ... -
Cyber activism : the information revolution, political actors and the potential for regime transition.
(2010)"This thesis addresses the role of information communication technologies and the internet in explaining modern revolutions. While previous scholarship has analyzed the significance of social movements and the potential ... -
Antithetical dialogue: claiming rhetorical sovereignty in contemporary American Indian literature
(2010)"Canonical Euro-American literary and historical discourses exhibit American Indians in stereotypical terms. The characterization of American Indians in Euro-American discourse creates a silent absence in which American ... -
Social modulation of androgens and glucocorticoids in territorial male collared lizards.
(2010)"The challenge hypothesis predicts that breeding strategy and degree of parental care may modulate within season hormone levels and androgen responsiveness to social challenges in males. Hirschenhauser and Oliveira (2006) ... -
Computer aided drafting skills : an investigation of interior design entry level expectations as compared between industry and academia.
(2010)"This study surveyed expectations of entry-level CAD skills and compared the results between interior design faculty and practitioners. Descriptive statistics indicate high levels of agreement on the importance of most ... -
Footprints of the missionary : the road of General Conference Mennonites in Oklahoma.
(2010)"General Conference Mennonites in the United States are prevalent in the states of Pennsylvania on the east coast, and in Kansas on the central plains. The state of Oklahoma too has its share of the denomination as well. ... -
Harnessing solar energy using photosynthetic and organic pigments.
(2010)"Fossil fuels are a finite energy resource that must be supplemented or replaced by more stable forms of electrical energy. Solar technology research strives to supplement and provide eventual replacement for fossil fuel ... -
Degrees of oblivion.
(2010)"These poems are chiefly concerned with self-awareness and the degree to which each poem's individual speaker is, either voluntarily or involuntarily, oblivious to his or her particular circumstance within the poem. This ... -
Girls ride horses, too.
(2010)"Maggie Fitzgerald is a young, widowed mother of two. Her brother Alan is a police detective in Atlanta, Georgia. The brother is killed on duty, and on the day of his funeral, Vince Howard, one of Alan's friends, stops by ... -
A true, new woman : Alice Mary Robertson during first-wave feminism, 1854-1931.
(2010)"The story of Alice Mary Robertson is complex and fascinating. Constituents from the second district in Oklahoma elected her to the United States House of Representatives in 1920. That same year, women had gained the right ... -
"Winning the peace" in Oklahoma : Governor Robert S. Kerr's policies for postwar economic progress.
(2010)"Elected governor just after the United States entered World War II, Robert S. Kerr focused his administration on economic progress for Oklahoma. With federal war expenditures curing most of the Great Depression's ills, ... -
Relationship between perceived coaching behaviors and pre-season skills of collegiate volleyball players.
(2010)"The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the hitting and serving percentages of collegiate volleyball players and perceived coaching behaviors of their respective coaches. The study included 23 ... -
Yaeger's game : how Bank Night helped movie exhibitors following the Great Depression.
(2010)"In the immediate years following the 1929 stock market crash, thousands of movie theaters across the United States closed their doors due to lack of business. Understandably, most Americans struggled to maintain whatever ... -
Flows in a rotating cylinder.
(2010)The purpose of this work is to focus on studying Görtler vortices inside a rotating cylinder. The literature review chapter, (Chapter 1), gives us insight from Görtler and Hämmerlin on the dominant - centrifugal and ... -
Divided we fall : Cherokee sovereignty and the cost of factionalism, 1927-1906.
(2010)As a tribe, the Cherokees interacted with Europeans early in American history. From initial contact, tribal sovereignty became an issue during trade and land negotiations. The tribe began with full autonomy that required ... -
Genetic diversity of the Brownsville common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas insperata).
(2010)Habitat fragmentation is particularly severe in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) of south Texas, where an estimated 95% of the native brushland has been eliminated by agriculture and urban development. This fragmentation ...