University of Central Oklahoma: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1081-1100 of 1937
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From milk cans to toilet paper : the story of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw, ?o?dz?, and Krako?w ghettos, 1940-1944.
(2017)The fate of European Jewry was still unwritten when Adolph Hitler and his Nazi party came into power in January 1933; however, over the course of twelve years he and his followers attempted to eradicate the continent's 9.5 ... -
Queering black power : longing for a hero.
(2017)Both Amiri Baraka and James Baldwin had links to the Black Liberation Movements of 1960s and 1970s. Both of these men wrote fiction and social essays on the state of race relations in the United States. Amiri Baraka wrote ... -
Developing a methodology for manipulating spontaneous blinks.
(2017)While blinking is necessary for ocular protection and lubrication, people blink much more than is necessary for routine ocular maintenance. These extra, spontaneous blinks are extremely difficult to manipulate and thus, ... -
A bit like cash : understanding cash-for-bitcoin transactions through individual vendors.
(2017)As technology improves and economies become more globalized, the concept of currency has evolved. Bitcoin, a cryptographic digital currency, has been embraced as a secure and convenient type of money. Due to its security ... -
International law & the death penalty.
(2017)In the beginning there was the death penalty. And it was good. Or so the countries of the world and international laws thought. But times do change and there have been many changes on many fronts in international law, ... -
The crown of madness.
(2017)The Crown of Madness is a 425 page High-Fantasy novel that follows the power struggles within three different factions: Aarden Hall, the druids, and the Undying. The primary protagonist of the Aarden Hall plotline is a ... -
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia in posttraumatic growth and PTSD.
(2017)Most the human population will experience a traumatic event during their lifespan and will then cope with such trauma in a wide variety of ways. It is well documented that traumatic events are associated with both short ... -
The inherent influence of travel on an emerging feminist icon : Florence Nightingale abroad.
(2017)The primary intent of this research is to evaluate and deduce events leading up to, during, and after the travels of Florence Nightingale abroad in Europe and the near East. This work examines the perception of how enforced ... -
Application of cinnamon oil nanoemulsion to control foodborne bacteria such as listeria SP, and salmonella SP, on melon.
(2017)Listeria and Salmonella related recalls and outbreaks are of major concern to the melon industry. Cinnamon oil has shown its usefulness in food treatment due to strong antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial activities. ... -
Blink modulation during positive and negative picture stimuli.
(2017)In this study, emotional response to negative and positive visual stimuli is examined using blink modulation as a behaviorally based dependent variable. The researcher exposed 58 participants to an array of predetermined ... -
Modelling wireless power transfer using an array of Tesla coils.
(2017)Wireless power transmission, or WPT, is a well-demonstrated property in electrical science and physics. Coil-and-wave transmission (CWT) consists of two Tesla coils, one powered by a controlled voltage source v src and one ... -
Dante Poeticus/ Dante Mystics : Dante's Mysticism from his time through the sixteenth century.
(2016)The relationship of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) to mysticism has been investigated in a surprisingly lopsided manner by scholars. That Dante was influenced by mystics who lived before him is not seriously in question, and ... -
Child welfare specialists and secondary traumatic stress : the effects of empathetic caring : a phenomenological study
(2016)Working with abused and neglected children is one of the most difficult jobs imaginable. The stressful conditions of a Child Welfare Specialist or supervisor are enormous and they often internalize the traumatic stress of ... -
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 ... -
"Purposes of prestige," 1933 : the Roosevelt touch and U.S. diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union.
(2016)This thesis examines the United States government's official diplomatic recognition of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1933. I argue that in severing sixteen years of executive policy President Franklin D. ... -
Genetic analysis and ecological niche modeling of an Archilochus hybrid zone reveals duality in hybrid zone characteristics.
(2016)Two species of hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris and A. alexandri) whose breeding ranges and timing overlap in the great plains from south Texas to northern Oklahoma were hypothesized to produce hybrids in this area. ... -
The effect of beetroot juice on muscular endurance in college age students.
(2017)Researchers have been studying the effect of beetroot juice as an ergogenic aid in regards to lower oxidative cost of exercise and improved time to exhaustion. The findings indicate that beetroot juice acts as a vasodilator ... -
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 ... -
Electromagnetic field distribution and power absorption of 3D spherical objects.
(2017)Microwave and radiofrequency heating has great promise in many engineering and biomedical applications because of its non-contact, volumetric heat generation and selective heating. However, the heating patterns and temperature ... -
Determination of an analytical relationship between entropy generation and mixing efficiency for micromixer applications.
(2017)This thesis presents a detailed computational analysis for a simple tee micro-mixing geometry. Micromixers have broad applications in heat exchangers and lab-on-chip (LOC) devices. Simply, a micromixer seeks to efficiently ...