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User Studies in Public Library Website Redesigns
(2022-12-24)This paper highlights the importance of conducting user studies before redesigning a public library website to ensure the needs and wants of the whole community are met. It explores the eight most common user experience ... -
Optimal Selection of Short-and Long-Term Mitigation Strategies for Buildings within Communities under Flooding Hazard
(2022-08-09)Every year, floods cause substantial economic losses worldwide with devastating impacts on buildings and physical infrastructures throughout communities. Techniques are available to mitigate flood damage and subsequent ... -
Benchmarking of Academic Departments using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
(2022-04-01)Purpose – The main objective of the paper is to develop an Investment Model using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) that provides a decision-making framework to allocate resources efficiently, such that the relative efficiency ... -
Precipitation effects on grassland plant performance are lessened by hay harvest
(2022-02)Climate and human management, such as hay harvest, shape grasslands. With both disturbances co-occurring, understanding how these ecosystems respond to these combined drivers may aid in projecting future changes in ... -
College and Career Resources for Indigenous Students
(2021-07)The purpose of this quick look guide is to connect Indigenous students in Oklahoma to resources available through Indigenous Nations and organizations to fund and support their college education and career readiness. -
“You’re in apple land but you are a lemon:” Connection, Collaboration, and Division in Early ‘70s Indian Country
(2020-07-01)In the first years of the 1970s, Indian Country became paradoxically more interwoven and yet also more divided. Three case studies from Oklahoma’s Indigenous communities illustrate this transformation. Beginning in the ... -
Aligned Set of STM Images
(2020-08-06)A movie generated from 22 constant-current scanning tunneling microscope images acquired over 8 hours on August 14, 2017. . Bias voltage –1.00 V, tunneling current 1.0 pA. Trace images. Each image has been corrected to ... -
Concerning gamer identity: An examination of individual factors associated with accepting the label of gamer
(2019-03)This study examined characteristics of players that self-identified as gamers. Participants (N=476) were asked to complete an online survey and provide information about their video game play. Analyses of the survey responses ... -
Social exchange is in the game: Communication and resource flow in an Xbox gaming clan
(2018)This study examined the international social network of a bounded Battlefield 4 gaming clan considering social exchange theory. We found that more central members of the clan contributed more time and money to the clan ... -
Manager–employee communication in the# MeToo Era: The role of gender similarity and context ambiguity in ethical leadership
(2020)Sexual harassment is a widespread problem in the American workplace. Managers must understand how their employees perceive ethical leadership in this context. This includes current undergraduates—managers’ future employees. ... -
Socialization, face negotiation, identity, and the United States Military
(2020)In this study, we examine stories told about basic training in the United States military. We question how these experiences are related to stories told post-exit. We collected website stories (N = 100) and in-depth ... -
Performance Analysis of Message Dissemination Techniques in VANET using Fog Computing
(2018)Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) is a derived subclass of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) with vehicles as mobile nodes. VANET facilitate vehicles to share safety and non-safety information through messages. Safety ... -
Revisiting a Water Conflict in Southeastern Oklahoma 6 Years Later: A New Valuation of the Willingness to Pay for Ecosystem Services
(2020-01-22)In recent years, researchers have begun to adopt a perspective evaluating “winners and losers” regarding the consumption and value of ecosystem services. “Winners” tend to benefit from the ecosystem service and “losers” ... -
Natural Gas Utilization: A Case Study of GTW AND GTL Technologies
(2019-08-01)This paper itemizes different utilization technology that could be used to monetize natural gas asset and a comparative techno-economic study of the use of Gas-to-Wire (GTW) technology and Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) to monetize ... -
Temperature effects in the thermal conductivity of aligned amorphous polyethylene—A molecular dynamics study
(2018-09-10)We analyze, through molecular dynamics simulations, the temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity (k) of chain-oriented amorphous polyethylene (PE). We find that at increasing levels of orientation, the temperature ... -
The Search for an Austrian Nation, 1918-1933
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On Superherology
(2018-08)In 2012, Travis Langley’s book Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight introduced the term “superherologist,” indicating Langley’s belief that scholars who study superheroes belong to a unique field of study. ...
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