University of Central Oklahoma: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1101-1120 of 1937
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Blood, bone : poems.
(2016)A creative thesis of deep image and narrative medical poetry influenced by the photography of Eudora Welty, family, and personal experience. A collection exploring the human experience through the lens of medicine, ... -
Matching the right feedback to the right person : the interaction of process and outcome feedback with goal orientation.
(2017)Types of performance feedback are discussed and compared. An overview of the goal orientation literature is provided. The author hypothesized that outcome feedback is congruent with a performance orientation, and that ... -
Confession rates : does persuasion resistance time reduce them?.
(2017)Confessions are given every day in criminal investigations across the country; countless are true confessions, but there are many false confessions as well. This study focused on participants' personality assessments and ... -
Impact of instruction on accuracy in exercising rate of perceived exertion (RPE) in older adults.
(2017)The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of instruction types and familiarization on the correlations between physiological measures of intensity (HR and VO2) and RPE. This was done by comparing the Borg (1998) ... -
The rhetoric of the economically disadvantaged : analyzing a marginalized discourse.
(2017)Those who engage in contemporary begging activities compose and enact public rhetoric daily across the United States, and the collection and analysis of rhetoric from this discourse community is particularly important in ... -
Queen's women : the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1866 and 1869.
(2017)This thesis will examine the implementation of the Contagious Diseases Acts (CDA) of 1866 and 1869 and the process undertaken by those in and out of Parliament to repeal the legislation. This task will be accomplished by ... -
Americanizing the beautiful game : the rise of mainstream American soccer, 1960-2005.
(2017)This thesis examines the rise of mainstream soccer in the United States from 1960 to 2005 with a national, a regional (Oklahoma), and then a local (Edmond, OK) focus. It argues between 1960 to 2005 conservative-leaning ... -
Willow.
(2017)'Willow' is a story about one of the biggest problems facing humanity today: Human Trafficking. The world's population has never been higher. As a direct result, slavery has been more widespread. 'Willow' is a fictional ... -
The yellow city.
(2016)The Yellow City' takes place in the course of one day and follows the stories of several characters. The first six chapters outline each character, giving a detailed description of who they are as individuals. The main ... -
Drag in Oklahoma : the power of performance.
(2017)This thesis examines the drag impersonators of Oklahoma. The purpose of this research project is to discover how drag is a form of social protest in Oklahoma and how Oklahoma drag differs or coincides with drag in America. ... -
A comparative analysis of impact spatter and satellite spatter on fabric.
(2016)Bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) is the practice reconstructing bloodletting events by interpreting the bloodstains left at the crime scene. In addition to the examination of well-formed bloodstains on non-porous surfaces, ... -
Physiological measures of anti-social behavior within psychopathy.
(2016)The purpose of the current study was to utilize new physiological measures associated with psychopathy and criminal behavior. Research has demonstrated a link between psychopathy and criminal behavior (Douglas, Vincent, & ... -
An intangible claim : Oklahoma Territory and the Victorian divorce crisis.
(2016)This study focuses on the cultural phenomenon that occurred in the United States known as the Victorian Divorce Crisis, and the communities known as Divorce Mills, which were often blamed for the situation. The divorce ... -
I see the horse
(2016)I See the Horse is a fantasy novel that follows the adventures of Komar Voorhexees of Port Karpricius during a time of civil war within The Ten Kingdoms of the Enlibar Empire. The primary focus or super objective of the ... -
Serial homicide cases : patterns in dormant periods.
(2016)The study of serial homicide offenders has been extensively investigated, however, there is a significant gap in the literature with respect to the dormant period. Little information is available with regard to patterns, ... -
Use of forensic corpora in validation of data carving on solid-state drives.
(2016)The need for greater focus on the validation and verification of tools has become more evident in recent years. The research in this area has been minimal. Continued research regarding the validation of digital forensics ... -
Predictor variables for success in college wrestling.
(2016)Research involving a wrestler's success in competition is limited. Understanding the physiological attributes that a successful wrestler must exhibit will help coaches and wrestlers develop effective and efficient philosophies ... -
Design for common areas of a continuing care retirement community in China : focused on quality of life.
(2016)China's senior population is equivalent to over 14% of its total population, so it can be easily concluded that China is an aging society (RenMin RiBao, 2014). In the next 20 years, China's population will begin to increase ... -
Policing in 18th century England : the rise and fall of the thief-taker, 1680-1730.
(2016)Examines why England and subsequently other English speaking countries were reluctant to adopt a governmental police force to reduce crime, hypothesizing that the establishment of Thief-takers as a governmentally backed ... -
Paradigm shift : how the evolution of two generations of home consoles, arcades, and computers influenced American culture, 1985-1995.
(2016)As of 2016, unlike many popular media forms found here in the United States, video games possess a unique influence, one that gained its own a large widespread appeal, but also its own distinct cultural identity created ...