Browsing UCO - Graduate Theses by Title

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    • Gravitational Radiation: Maxwell-Heaviside Formulation 

      Prather, Cole B. (2020)
      To fully describe gravitational energy flux by using an analog to the Maxwell-Heaviside equations for electrodynamics, the Liénard–Wiechert potentials and fields are derived for gravitation along with radiation patterns ...

    • Growing up pioneer : Nannie Jeannette Williams, a second generation pioneer woman, Oklahoma Territory, 1895-1907. 

      Webb, S. A. (2013)
      As the men and women traveled to the American frontier in the nineteenth century, they experienced harsh conditions that would test their accepted gender norms. Survival became the primary importance with all hands working ...

    • Guns to keep. 

      Giles, Roy D. (2011)
      Rooted in the Central Oklahoma landscape, the three plays and seven stories in Guns to Keep explore parental betrayal, life without faith, and a loss of personal authenticity. The all-male rural voices often find themselves ...

    • Habub 

      Harmon, Jeffrey D. (2020)
      Adult comic-style graphic narrative combining the genres of adventure, historical fiction, science fiction, and mystery to address themes including racial and cultural diversity.

    • Haptic control of eye movements. 

      Preddy, Douglas A. (2011)
      Eye-hand coordination is crucial to many important tasks. A NLDS framework assumes that eyes and hands are interacting facets of one complex oculo-motor system in which physiological and task constraints interact to shape ...

    • Harnessing solar energy using photosynthetic and organic pigments. 

      Fitzsimons, Toby R. (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 ...

    • Harriet Martineau's political economy 

      Nelson, Ashley Nicole (2012)
      Following the success of her Illustrations of Political Economy (1832-4) series, in which she popularized the political economies of Thomas R. Malthus, Adam Smith, and Jeremy Bentham, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was ...

    • Hatch 

      Hau, Melonie (2008)
      Hatch is a novel which examines the struggles of urbanization, drug additiction, alienation from community, and shame which threaten a rural Oklahoma family. The Metzers live on a farm in Hatch, a town formed in the 1890s ...

    • Head or heart? : The Richardson-Fanning Controversy and its effect on spirituality in the Stone-Campbell movement. 

      Adams, Keven Kent (2015)
      Dr. Robert Richardson, a leader in the early Stone-Campbell Movement, an indigenous American church, challenged the theology of the sect, which consubstantiated Spirit and scripture. The group highly regarded enlightened ...

    • Health behaviors among Indian and Pakistani people living in the United States. 

      Hemani, Amreen Alisha (2013)
      Cardiovascular disease is the first and third leading cause of death among men and women respectively in the United States (Centers for Disease Control, 2011a). According to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, ...

    • Hemingway : insights on military leadership. 

      Dillon, Shawn (2014)
      The literature of Ernest Hemingway is rich with military lessons derived from his lifetime of proximity to war and his understanding of soldiers and leaders at all levels as presented through his characters. Hemingway wrote ...

    • Hinterland. 

      Palmer, Betteanne (2007)
      A young adult novel set in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, aims at an audience of fifteen years old or older. Identity and responsibility emerge as the two most important themes in this bildungsroman, as sixteen-year-old ...

    • Historic preservation of Siheyuan in Beijing China for continued residential use in modern China. 

      Wang, Guanqun (2012)
      Siheyuan is a classical architecture style of residential housing of Beijing citizens dating from the Ming Dynasty. The people of China are very familiar with Siheyuan, considering its history of more than 700 years. It ...

    • Holler: a creative response to Hollywood race cinema 

      Whitten, Donald (2020)

    • Homecoming. 

      Lorenz, Cheryl (2017)
      The poems featured in Homecoming are narrative, and are written in free verse, prose and lyrical form. This anthology of poems was inspired by Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street, Sonya Sones, and Ted Kooser. The ...

    • Human mortality and rate of noodling catfish in Oklahoma 

      Dwyer, Timothy W (2020)

    • Human rights : the search for universality. 

      Morrison, Elizabeth King (2012)
      Human rights in large part have become a topic of seemingly global appeal. They have become a part of the fabric of the global conversation. Especially within the context of the last sixty years, human rights have become ...

    • Hybrid swarming of Neosho Bass with non-native smallmouth bass in the Upper Illinois River basin of Oklahoma, and implications for individual growth 

      White, Kobe James (2023)
      Recent molecular investigations support the distinctiveness of the Neosho Bass (Micropterus velox) of the Ozark Highlands from Smallmouth Bass (M. dolomieu). Like other endemic black basses, Neosho Bass are threatened by ...

    • Hyphenated citizen : a biography of Clemente Idar, the American Federation of Labor's first Mexican-American organizer, 1918-1934.. 

      Diaz, Stephanie Louise (2013)
      Based on extensive primary research conducted at the University of Texas, as well as a plethora of secondary source material, this thesis explores Clemente Idar's career with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and his ...

    • Hysteresis in visual search. 

      Likens, Aaron D. (2010)
      People perform complex visual tasks. Airplane pilots land planes safely on the ground and baseball players swing bats at speeding fastballs. Drivers weave through traffic and sports fans skillfully track the movements of ...