Browsing UCO - Graduate Theses by Title
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Religious influences on premarital education : access and attitudes.
(2018)Premarital education has been strongly tied to religious organizations but minimal research exists on the relationship between premarital education and religion. Literature overwhelmingly supports the benefits of premarital ... -
Relocation of remains : scavenger patterns in north central Oklahoma.
(2014)The processes by which clandestine remains are scattered and destroyed by vertebrate necrophagus scavenging behaviors are significant to forensic death investigations, in terms of focusing search techniques, improving ... -
Repairing a strategic partnership : Congress and US foreign policy with Turkey.
(2012)The United States and Turkey have shared an important strategic partnership since Turkey was admitted to NATO in 1952. This relationship began to decline following Turkey's denial of Washington's request to position US ... -
Resisting change : toxic masculinity in the post modern United States Armed Forces, (1980s-Present).
(2019)This thesis examines the changes regarding women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) serving and toxic masculinity in the United States Armed Forces from the end of Operation Just Cause to the War ... -
Resources, radicals, and reactionaries : the first red scare in Oklahoma.
(2012)The purpose of this study is to identify and explore the major events of the First Red Scare in Oklahoma, and how the distinct resources contained in the state, namely coal and oil, defined its Red Scare experience. This ... -
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia in posttraumatic growth and PTSD.
(2017)Most the human population will experience a traumatic event during their lifespan and will then cope with such trauma in a wide variety of ways. It is well documented that traumatic events are associated with both short ... -
Resting on weedy laurels : Lorine Niedecker's poetics of perseverance.
(2012)Lorine Niedecker began writing poems in the late 1920s from her home by the waters of Blackhawk Island, Wisconsin. This study examines her first associations with and empowerment through the Objectivists' new poetic ... -
Revising impressions with the authority moral foundation
(2021)Past research argues that judgments of morality supersede warmth or competence when forming impressions, and that some people will revise an impression based on highly diagnostic moral information. Moral Foundations Theory ... -
Revolution, imperialism, and the Hawaiian monarchy : reconsidering American-Hawaiian affairs during the late nineteenth century.
(2014)After 100 years, the Hawaiian kingdom's collapse continues to garner not only academic debate, but also long-standing hostilities rooted in deep-seated sentiments of Pacific Nativism and American Nationalism. From this ... -
Rid of me
(2023)In the novella Rid of Me, Ridley Royko is a smart, 15-year-old teenager with a parent problem. His mother and father do not trust him and tear him down constantly about his grades and his behavior. When he hears them ... -
The Rise of Indian Nationalism
(2020)This thesis will focus on the Amritsar Massacre 1919, that happened in Amritsar, Punjab,India (part of which lies in present-day Pakistan after the 1947 Separation) and its importance in India's rise of nationalism. This ... -
The role of composition and literature in the secondary education classroom : revisiting the pedagogy
(2021)Currently, high school ELA teachers are expected to use literature and composition together during instruction and planning. This expectation is completely different from first-year college English courses, as literature ... -
Sad eyewitnesses and jurors' perceptions of their believability
(2023)Eyewitness testimony is heavily relied on in court, and there is a large amount of research on how an eyewitness's and defendant's behavior and emotion can influence a jury's verdict decision. The emotional victim effect ... -
Saturn's sphere : astrology, mythology, and the contemplatives in Dante's Paradiso 21-22
(2023)In the arrangement of souls in Dante's Paradiso, the poet places the most blessed category of souls, the contemplatives, in the sphere of Saturn, a planet generally considered to be "The Greater Infortune" in medieval ... -
Second Law Analysis of a Passive Micromixer with Flow Obstacles
(2020)Passive micromixers focus on variations in the channel geometry and the presence of flow obstacles as a means of improving mixing efficiency. An analysis of these geometries can provide useful information for further mixer ... -
Secrets of a Pepto Bismol casa.
(2014)Secrets of a Pepto Bismal Casa explores the journey of a young, Mexican American girl named Martha in Laredo, Texas, in 1990. The novel is set in first person point-of-view and is split into two threads--what occurs in ... -
Self-regulation, displaced aggression and power : effects of throwing fireballs at colleagues.
(2013)Self-regulation, displaced aggression and power were examined by affective processing measured through behavior, in the context of a simulated workplace setting. Four conditions looked at the effects of self-regulation ... -
Serial homicide cases : patterns in dormant periods.
(2016)The study of serial homicide offenders has been extensively investigated, however, there is a significant gap in the literature with respect to the dormant period. Little information is available with regard to patterns, ... -
Sexual and non-sexual offenders: a secondary data analysis.
(2008)In this thesis, the researcher explored the differences between sex offenders and non-sex offenders. Data was gathered from a previous study of 295 convicted inmates, grouped into in-treatment sex offenders, never treated ...