Browsing UCO - Graduate Theses by Title
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Analyzing the effectiveness of NATO post Cold War
(2020)This thesis analyzes NATO’s evolution from a neorealist military alliance into a constructivist co-operative security organization and argues that it was this evolution that best explains NATO’s persistence in the post-Cold ... -
And the trail continued : nineteenth century federal Indian policies and the Vann family, 1745-1902.
(2013)The Cherokee, similar to other American Indian tribes, struggled with the implications of the growing Anglo population along the eastern seaboard leading up to American independence. The collision of White and Indian ... -
Angels, pins, dancing, prayers.
(2015)The content of the poems in Angels, Pins, Dancing, Prayers centers around five topics: art, religion, death, education, and travel. Poetry understands and dares to discuss God, love, pain, truth, war, death, and bubble gum ... -
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 ... -
Anything dead coming back to life hurts : Beloved, Bastard out of Carolina, and Gods in Alabama as contemporary female gothic.
(2011)The contemporary Female Gothic is characterized by the highlighting of the monstrosities of patriarchal ideology's failures in order to point to a more positive space created by the agency of the female heroine and her ... -
Application of cinnamon oil nanoemulsion to control foodborne bacteria such as listeria SP, and salmonella SP, on melon.
(2017)Listeria and Salmonella related recalls and outbreaks are of major concern to the melon industry. Cinnamon oil has shown its usefulness in food treatment due to strong antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial activities. ... -
Application of Laser Micromachining on Polymeric and Metallic Substrates
(2019)LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) has many applications in engineering, biology, biomedical etc. Recent years, laser micromachining has become a promising technology for mass production of ... -
Applications of Confocal Microscopy
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Approaching objectivity in firearms identification : utilizing IBIS BULLETTRAX-3D's sensor capturing technology.
(2011)Firearm examiners are often asked 1) can a bullet be matched back to the cartridge case from which it was fired? 2) What bullets leave suitable markings for microscopic examinations of this nature? 3) Is there an objective ... -
Arbitraging geoeconimic and geopolitical logic : the US-Iranian case.
(2018)Through scrutinizing US-Iranian relations through the lens of radical geopolitics theory, it will be shown that a core proposition of radical geopolitics theory is too restrictive, and ought to be weakened to account for ... -
Archetypes Rooted in Saudi Arabian and Islamic Cultural Traditions
(2019)This thesis produces twenty manga archetypes rooted in the culture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and other Islamic societies. The study aims to create archetypes that can be utilized to produce character design to ... -
Are reproductive life history traits of Australian three-lined skinks fixed or phenotypically plastic?
(2009)Reptile viviparity is strongly associated with cool climates in interspecific comparisons, but intraspecific comparisons provide an even stronger opportunity to identify causal pathways and distinguish facultative (plastic) ... -
Arguing against yourself : exploring the relationship between conflicting episodic memories.
(2015)The current study is an attempt to evaluate how participants' memory is altered by information either congruent or incongruent to their original testimony. False memory research consistently shows that exposure to post-event ... -
Ariadne's threads of identity : foreshadowing of social and individual identity theories in John Dos Passos' U.S.A.
(2009)The eminent biologist E.O. Wilson theorizes a unity of knowledge for all fields of study. Claiming that all knowledge springs from a basis in physics and continues to chemistry, biology, social sciences, and into humanities ... -
Arthur Gooch : the political, economic, and social influences that led him to the gallows.
(2010)Born in 1908, Arthur Gooch came of age in the prosperous 1920s, but something changed for him and for America in 1930. The socioeconomic depravity and increased media coverage of crimes in the Thirties affected those who ... -
Assessing the interior design of storm shelters on a university campus
(2009)The purpose of this study is to assess whether the current design and space plan of a primary storm shelter in an educational building located on a large mid-western university campus in “Tornado Alley” is safe according ... -
Assessment of consecutive matching striae.
(2012)Firearm and tool mark identification relies on criteria that have been accepted in the field to assist firearm examiners in determining if a bullet has been fired from a particular firearm. In this research, criteria for ... -
Attachment in secondary education : effects of student attachment bonds with parents and teachers on student motivation.
(2018)The consistent amount of time a student spends with educators throughout their childhood requires that researchers take steps to understand the extent of the impact these relationships might have. To better examine these ...