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Internal Needs Assessments: A worthwhile endeavor?
(2023-11-10)
In 2020, the Oral Roberts University Library Needs Assessment Committee conducted six months of investigation, including an internal examination of the Library and an external study of Library resources, services, and ...
A comparison of plyometric training on power benefits, body composition, and enjoyment
(2021)
Plyometrics has shown significant improvements for explosive power, strength, and body composition. Purpose. The purpose of this research study was to examine the effects on power in a land plyometric exercise program. It ...
SynthesAIzing Discoveries: Emerging tools for next-level research instruction
(2023-11-10)
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are new and exciting, evoking buzz and triggering anxiety. What about less-known AI tools that synthesize information, tools with transformative potential for how we teach info and research ...
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 ...
Race, politics and sports history : 1960-1980
(2023)
This thesis project encompasses the overlap of sports, political, and social history. This provides a unique insight into issues of racial inequality and how they relate to larger geopolitical context of the 1960s into the ...
Validation and application of a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for mitragynine in postmortem blood and liver
(2023)
Kratom is a tree originating in Southeast Asia, and has a history of usage among farmers. The leaves of the tree were chewed and used by farmers as a stimulant in order to work long days. Over the years, the popularity of ...
Modeling the historic distribution of bluntface shiner (Cyprinella camura) and estimating contemporary detection and occupancy probabilities in their historic range within Oklahoma
(2023)
Bluntface Shiner (Cyprinella camura; BFS) is a fish that is endemic to the Arkansas, Lower- Mississippi, and Tennessee river basins, but exists as disjunct populations east and west of the Lower Mississippi River. Evidence ...
Psychosocial factors predicting adherence to the metabolic reset diet
(2023)
Obesity and diabetes have very high prevalence rates in the modern world and are two key characteristics of metabolic syndrome. This in turn has been linked to other chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, kidney ...
Developing strategies to improve educational programs for wildlife forensic laboratory careers
(2023)
There is a necessity for wildlife forensic programs to uniformly provide a comprehensive curriculum that includes the requirements desired by employers in the growing field of wildlife forensics. Programs need to be created ...
Design of smart tool organizer
(2023)
The increasing demand for compact and energy efficient machines and mechanisms, led to the emergence of a series of scalable instruments and devices used for testing, storage, manufacturing, and prototyping. The emergence ...