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    • Technology's impact on vocabulary skills in infants and toddlers 

      Hernandez, Alexa (Oklahoma State University, 2022-04-19)
      Technology is becoming increasingly prominent in today’s society, and children are being exposed to screens at younger ages than in previous years. This exposure has led to teachers and parents questioning how technology ...

    • Towards culturing anaerobic gut fungi from an avian herbivore 

      Goodwin, Kale; Pratt, Carrie J. (Oklahoma State University, 2022-04-19)
      Anaerobic gut fungi (AGF, phylum Neocallimastigomycota) are an understudied group of microorganisms that reside in the digestive tracts of herbivorous mammals and aid in plant biomass degradation. This degradation is ...

    • Understanding awareness of food security resources available to university students 

      Posey, Isabelle H.; McClanahan, Kristen E.; Blevins, Brian (Oklahoma State University, 2022-04-19)
      Food insecurity is a prevalent issue in college campuses across the country. The Hunger on Campus study found that 48% of college students face food insecurity. Oklahoma State University (OSU) also experiences high rates ...

    • Understanding the interaction between nontuberculous mycobacteria and the host in cystic fibrosis 

      Stinson, Lydia; Vermeire, Charlie; Tan, Xuejuan (Oklahoma State University, 2022-04-19)
      Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are environmental bacteria and can be found in soil, water, and dusts. However, they can cause lung diseases in certain populations with pre-existing lung conditions such as cystic fibrosis ...

    • Using design to research messaging and bureaucracy in architecture 

      Gunkel, Seth (Oklahoma State University, 2022-04-19)
      Public announcements and funding campaigns for new buildings on OSU's campus provide concrete evidence of the use of rhetoric and persuasion to promote new buildings. When a client asks for an innovative new classroom ...

    • Using lipid nanodiscs for the in vitro glycosylation of membrane proteins 

      Dolan, Rachel F. (Oklahoma State University, 2022-04-19)
      Membrane proteins are involved in a number of human diseases are important to study. Due to the fact that these proteins are, by nature, insoluble in aqueous solutions, they require detergent or lipid environments that ...

    • Visible light-mediated photocatalytic azide-benzocycloheptene click reaction on gold surface by ATR-FTIR 

      Khan, Muhammad; Sulthana, Shoukath; Weaver, Jimmie (Oklahoma State University, 2022-04-19)
      In this work, a visible light-mediated [3+2] cycloaddition reaction between azide molecule and benzocycloheptene(BC7) terminated Au (111) surface was investigated. Exposure of the BC7 to photocatalyst and visible light ...

    • Voice-gender effects on word gender 

      Kirby, Athena (Oklahoma State University, 2023-04-18)
      Purpose: Gender is a culturally-dependent construct that can be associated with categories of humans, abstract concepts, and even words. In languages that have explicit gender markings, like French and German, words may ...