University of Central Oklahoma: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1041-1060 of 1937
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Exploring sources of sex education in African American females : a qualitative study.
(2018)According to the Centers for Disease Control (2009), there is a growing concern for the rate of mortality and prevalence of STIs and unwanted pregnancies among African American women, yet traditional interventions have ... -
Using molecular markers to assess species distribution, contact zones, and hybridization in Oklahoma pocket gophers (geomys).
(2018)Speciation is the evolutionary process which leads to the formation of new and distinct species. Understanding the mechanisms involved in the speciation process is imperative for understanding evolutionary biology and ... -
Development and characterization of a nano fiber based skin equivalent model.
(2018)Over the past three decades, significant progress has been made in the area of skin tissue engineering using different types of scaffolds such as non-cell based grafts and cell based grafts. The skin consists of the ... -
Existence results for a class of even-order boundary value problems.
(2018)This thesis focuses on establishing the existence of positive solutions to even-order boundary value problems... Similar problems have been considered by other authors. What distinguishes this work is the method employed: ... -
Economic sanctions as tools of economic imperialism.
(2018)Economic sanctions have come under scrutiny in recent political scholarship. Sanction regimes are analyzed for effectiveness, intended targets, and societal impact. The theory of liberal internationalism greatly influences ... -
Deconstructing the domestic sphere : the American sentimental novel as feminist metafiction.
(2018)Since the late twentieth century, sentimental literature has seen a resurgence in literary study, with many nineteenth-century American women writers receiving critical attention for the first time. However, this attention ... -
Sheiks and sherifs : western portrayals of the middle east between the World Wars.
(2018)Oftentimes, when there are analyses of E. M. Hull's The Sheik or discussions of Lowell Thomas's presentations over Lawrence of Arabia, the intertextual nature between these works--as well as the historical and cultural ... -
Social-envenomation : a ritual of snake-handling churches.
(2018)This study focused on the deaths that had taken place within the Pentecostal church sects that handled venomous snakes during their religious services. This was accomplished by gathering statistics of 105 cases that were ... -
Evaluating a smartphone mindfulness intervention's effectiveness at reducing anxiety and worry.
(2018)There are effective treatments for anxiety and worry symptoms, but there are also many barriers to receiving traditional treatments. A smartphone mindfulness intervention may circumvent many barriers to treatment. This ... -
Nurses returning to practice after an extended career break : a narrative study.
(2018)Statement of the Problem: The experience of nurses returning to practice after an extended career break has not been well researched and must be understood to facilitate a safe return. Literature Summary: The nursing ... -
The rhetoric of disability : a Foucauldian discourse analysis.
(2018)The institution of disability, as it is perceived in the United States and most of Western civilization, signifies a site of oppression that has been historically neglected if not actively rejected by the hegemonic population ... -
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. ... -
What is the experience of babywearing a NICU graduate?.
(2018)The benefits of skin-to-skin and kangaroo care have been well researched and documented. Despite the large volume of evidence to support various and long-term benefits to both caregivers and children, skin-to-skin care ... -
Interest and motivation in learning with application for college education.
(2018)This study examined the role that interest plays in the motivation to learn. The study consisted of three phases. In the first phase participants completed an online survey to determine their interest in either sports or ... -
New women, new opportunities: the new women of Chicago's World's Fairs, 1893-1934
(2018)World's fairs, also referred to as international expositions, offer historians insight into a nation's society, populace, economy, and industry. Yet, literature in the field has made little effort to fully analyze the ... -
Alliance dissolution : a constructivist approach.
(2018)Alliance dissolution is an understudied pattern in international politics. Independent studies by Walt, Leeds, and Snyder, within the realist tradition of international relations theory, have all touched on alliance ... -
Comparative subtidal and supratidal taphonomic changes in the elemental components of marine vertebrate bones using energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy and principle component analysis : ecological and forensic application.
(2018)Individuals and agencies of multiple disciplines have evolved interests which result in the studies and research of marine mammals as well as other protected marine dwellers such as sea turtles. Aside from wildlife ... -
Gaymers unite! : attachment and online social support for lesbian, gay, and bisexual gamers.
(2018)Research on the links between attachment insecurity, nondisclosure of sexual orientation, and negative identity of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals suggests that attachment insecurity may be associated with ... -
Validation of a mitochondrial extraction and isolation technique for use in wildlife forensics.
(2018)The primary goal of this project is to provide the wildlife forensic science community with a DNA analysis protocol that is consistent across all jurisdictions. To accomplish this goal, three important objectives must be ... -
Feral.
(2018)One of the projects of my thesis collection, Feral, was to question, examine, and evaluate the ways in which form influences the function of a piece and its ability to connect with readers. If a poem started as a villanelle ...