Browsing UCO - Graduate Theses by Title
Now showing items 364-383 of 699
-
Macedonian national identity : origins, tensions, and challenges.
(2012)During the Ottoman period Balkan collective identities existed without national content. As the historian Eric Hobsbawm has observed, the 'ethnicity of any people in southeastern Europe is an eternal matter of debate'. ... -
Macroinvertebrate assemblages and water quality analysis of spring systems associated with the Pontotoc Ridge Nature Preserve, Oklahoma.
(2014)Pontotoc Ridge Nature Preserve is located in southeastern Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, 20.7 miles south of Ada. This area consists of 2,900 acres of assorted vegetation with several springs, all of which emerge from the ... -
Making sense : a study of the dialogical nature of consciousness in creative writing.
(2008)The present study investigated the dynamics of a single participant's various I-positions ... using Stephenson's (1985) Q method, analysis of variance, factor analysis, and qualitative assessment of the participant's ... -
Married couples' perceptions of support following the death of a child : a phenomenological study.
(2013)Social support after the death of a child is often thought of as a buffer to help parents with the grieving process. Previous research has focused on grief and support from an individual's perspective but has failed to ... -
Mass murder in the 21st century
(2019) -
Mass murder in the new millennium : a thesis restructuring mass murder typologies.
(2011)The rise of mass murder in the new millennium necessitated this study. This rise brought about several new areas that needed researched, (sic) along with a restructuring of the extant mass murder typologies. These new ... -
Matching the right feedback to the right person : the interaction of process and outcome feedback with goal orientation.
(2017)Types of performance feedback are discussed and compared. An overview of the goal orientation literature is provided. The author hypothesized that outcome feedback is congruent with a performance orientation, and that ... -
Mathematical models of the adaptive immune response in a novel cancer immunotherapy.
(2016)The immune system is the first line of defense against cancer. The immune system regularly detects and destroys cancer cells. Despite this continuous protection, certain cancers are able to escape detection or destruction ... -
Meat makes the man : the hierarchies of masculinity and meat eating in Shakespearean drama.
(2018)This thesis explores how Shakespeare's dramatic works highlight the complex relationships between the hierarchies of masculinity and meat eating. The theoretical backing consists of both gender-based and ecocritical writings. ... -
Memories of a redneck-hillbilly family.
(2018)Memories of a Redneck-Hillbilly Family' is a memoir, but it functions more like an autoethnography rather than a strict memoir. Jeannette Walls' memoir the Glass Castle reveals a few painful family truths as mine does; ... -
Memory/erasure.
(2014)Memory/Erasure is a volume comprised of largely autobiographical poetry. In the first section, Memory, the work focuses on my interpretation of memories, both familial and personal. The second section, titled Erasure, ... -
Men are cheaper than gold : English sailors and their irreligiousness towards society, 1560-1642
(2015)The English common sailor rose from his humble beginnings to the pinnacle of renown and fame during the repulsion of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Afterwards, with the rise of the privateer and the merchant ships, the Royal ... -
Men, money, and maritime insurance : an examination of how Lloyd's of London created and led a shadow empire in Great Britain, 1774-1835.
(2011)The purpose of this study is to identify and explore the significance of commercial enterprise in the expanding British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Historical records have repeatedly revealed how ... -
Mental health in collegiate athletics: survey of attitudes, barriers, and preparedness of university resources
(2022)Purpose. The purpose of this study was to assess collegiate student-athlete perception of mental health. A secondary purpose was to develop a list of attitudes and behaviors toward athletes seeking help, and university ... -
Method development and validation for drug identification and confirmation by LC/MS-MS for limited-specimen cases.
(2017)Driving under the influence of drugs (DUID) cases represent the largest portion of cases handled in most forensic toxicology laboratories. Blood is a commonly used specimen and is often analyzed using gas chromatography-mass ... -
Mirrors and windows : recognizing the experience of a woman of color in Jane Eyre
(2021)This thesis aims to present the character of Bertha in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre as a representation of feminism and Jane's transformation into an independent player in her relationship with Rochester by examining the ... -
Missouri love story.
(2015)Summer visits to her family are usually filled with friendship, joy, and love, but the year Kylie Bellows turns sixteen, she faces the reality about her family. For the past nine years Kylie has attended school in Boston ...