UCO - Graduate Works and Theses: Recent submissions
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The myth of women having it all : gender performativity in American media
(2022)The effects of the cult of domesticity, which have been fought against since the first suffragette movements, have permeated the history of the culture of the United States. In what follows, I will examine the ways the ... -
Moisture-wicking properties of fabric and their effect on blood and the angle of impact
(2022)The use of angle of impact calculations within bloodstain pattern analysis is limited to researched surface types which currently include smooth, non-porous materials and cotton. The purpose of this study was to determine ... -
The effect of weathering on bullet and cartridge case analysis and identification
(2022)Currently, there is a void in the literature concerning the natural weathering of bullets exposed to different types of soils with varying acidity levels, mineral compositions, microorganisms, and oxygen saturation levels. ... -
Life history strategy and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2022)Life history theory (LHT) describes how animals evolve to maximize reproductive fitness in relation to their environmental conditions. Species fall along a continuum based on whether they tend towards a slow life strategy ... -
Desiderium
(2022)Desiderium is a collection of poetry composed with the aim of investigating loss through the primary lenses of grief and addiction. The poems housed in this collection attempt to navigate that opaque, precarious experience ... -
Isolation, characterization, and annotation of a novel mycobacteriophage Eaglepride
(2022)Bacteriophages (phages) are obligate intracellular parasitic viruses that infect bacterial host cells. They are the most abundant biological entity on the planet, with an estimated 1031 viral particles in the biosphere. ... -
Mixed methods in social scientific research
(2022)The following paper maintains that a mixed methods approach produces explanations more likely to reveal causation while maintaining generalizability. In this paper, I attempt to illustrate that both methodologies and the ... -
The relationship between burnout, motivation, and exercise habits in retired college athletes
(2022)The effect of sport burnout on retired college athletes has not been widely researched. However, there are several studies that show sport burnout is present in athletes and can be influenced by different factors, including ... -
Drag me down
(2021)This thesis is a creative project titled Drag Me Down. Though labeled a poetry collection, the project is a hybrid of multiple genres. The bulk of the collection consists of prose poetry that follows a narrative of two ... -
Socioeconomic status and physical activity levels in obese and non-obese African Americans
(2022)A lack of physical activity has become a major problem in the United States with no signs of relief coming anytime soon. More specifically, the African American community continues to remain among the most inactive. While ... -
From Judy Chicago to the Guerrilla Girls: an analysis of the evolution of feminist art movement
(2021)This thesis examines and analyzes the evolution in feminist art that contributed to and expanded the idea of change through protests and demonstrations in a patriarchal society. The Women's Rights Movement and Feminist Art ... -
Water and its temporal dimensions in William Faulkner and Toni Morrison
(2021)William Faulkner and Toni Morrison offer narrative insight into the experience and implications of human's experience of temporality. This thesis constructs a narrative relationship between the two authors, exploring the ... -
Development of a solid phase extraction method for fentanyl analogs in biological matrices for analysis by LC-MS/MS
(2021)To combat the looming Opioid Crisis, the federal government has allotted funds to local and state law enforcement laboratories to research methods to incorporate emerging opioids into their reporting capabilities. Fentanyl ... -
Validation of a social self-efficacy scale (SSE-1)
(2021)A new self report scale was developed to measure individuals' social self-efficacy, which we named the SSE-1. Social self-efficacy could be thought of one's sense of personal mastery pertaining to the act of socializing. ... -
A psychological scar: collective trauma and memory in republican Rome, 390-55 BCE
(2021)The sack of Rome by the Gallic chieftain Brennus in 390 BCE was the cause of a collective trauma that influenced all sectors of Roman society. The collective trauma and memory were, in part, responsible for policy changes, ... -
Will you still love me tomorrow? Sociometer theory and sexual self-esteem
(2021)Self-esteem is often conceptualized as a general reflection of how as individual feel about themselves. However, research has shown self-esteem is not only an active component of our social selves, but it is also uniquely ... -
Eyewitness testimony in relation to biases associated with age
(2021)Studies have shown there are several factors which influence eyewitness memory, such as cognitive biases and age. This study involved young adults (18-35 years) and older adults (60 and over) to look at their eyewitness ... -
Thermal tolerance of alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula)
(2021)Alligator gar belong to an ancient lineage that dates back over 215 million years. Historically, alligator gar populations occurred in the Mississippi River basin from Illinois (USA) to Mexico. Alligator gar populations ... -
Pei on the prairie : urban renewal in Oklahoma City, 1960-1990
(2021)Downtown Oklahoma City was drastically remade beginning in the 1960s as part of the broader national program of urban renewal. Yet, very little research has explored this transformation, nor has there been a deep exploration ... -
Development of electrospun nanofiber mesh for the enhancement of DNA recovery from spermatozoa in sexual assault evidence
(2020)One out of every six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime as well as one out of every thirty-three American men. Following a sexual assault, a forensic examination is performed ...