University of Central Oklahoma: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1201-1220 of 1937
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The passing.
(2012)The Passing explores the relationship between man and death in a fictional world called Aetheria. The protagonist, Kane Brennan, goes to war and is forced to decide what he truly believes about the world and himself while ... -
Validation of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for the detection of licit and illicit drugs in human breast milk.
(2012)Human breast milk contains essential nutrients and immunological factors that are critical for the health and development of infants. The benefits of breast-feeding have been studied extensively, and research has shown ... -
The star quilt
(2012)The adopted daughter of a Cherokee woman and a likable country man, Ginny Hefner grew up an only child in the small northeastern Oklahoma town of Wagoner in the decade of the 1930s. In that small town, against the backdrop ... -
Social perception and implicit self-esteem.
(2012)Three experiments investigated whether implicit self-esteem was influenced by various perceptual stimuli. It was predicted that positive comments, performance, and feedback would lead to high implicit self-esteem, whereas ... -
Resting on weedy laurels : Lorine Niedecker's poetics of perseverance.
(2012)Lorine Niedecker began writing poems in the late 1920s from her home by the waters of Blackhawk Island, Wisconsin. This study examines her first associations with and empowerment through the Objectivists' new poetic ... -
Universal health care : a luck egalitarian approach.
(2012)A comparative study of health systems in the U.K., U.S., Canada, and Germany from a luck egalitarian perspective. -
Macedonian national identity : origins, tensions, and challenges.
(2012)During the Ottoman period Balkan collective identities existed without national content. As the historian Eric Hobsbawm has observed, the 'ethnicity of any people in southeastern Europe is an eternal matter of debate'. ... -
Early care professionals' perspective of sociodramatic play.
(2012)This qualitative study was conducted to deepen the understanding of the Early Care Professional's perspective while implementing sociodramatic play. Data was gathered and categorized from two interviews of each of the five ... -
Effects of situational attributions on mental and physical fatigue
(2012)Strength models of self-regulation assume that depletion of a limited cognitive resource may impair performance on subsequent tasks requiring that resource (Baumeister et al., 1999) but multiple resource models assume that ... -
Defensive reactions to masculinity threat.
(2012)Compensatory behavior are defined as behaviors that are intended to make up for a perceived lack of competency in a particular area. The present studies investigated how men compensate for perceived masculinity threats. ... -
The effects of labeled praises on behavior disruptions in a high school classroom.
(2012)The purposes of this study were to determine whether receiving labeled praise training increases how often high school teachers use labeled praises to determine if teachers observe a decrease in classroom disruptions after ... -
Rehabilitated historic interiors and sustainability : a case study of La Iglesia y Convento Nuestra Señora de Bele�n in Havana.
(2012)The concept of social responsibility is continuing to grow as individuals are becoming more accountable for their actions. It is this idea of social responsibility, which encompasses social, environmental, and economic ... -
Human rights : the search for universality.
(2012)Human rights in large part have become a topic of seemingly global appeal. They have become a part of the fabric of the global conversation. Especially within the context of the last sixty years, human rights have become ... -
The dead man's son.
(2012)The Dead Man's Son is a short novel about Abel Saracen, a twenty-something male who attends the funeral of his father whom he has never met. Strange events begin to move the story after Abel inherits a mysterious antique ... -
Genetic variation at major histocompatibility complex loci in Neotoma albigula (white-throated woodrat) potential clues to the evolution of North American arenaviruses.
(2012)The major histocompatibility complex Mhc is an important component of vertebrate immune systems, and as such, genetic analysis of Mhc loci have been shown to provide information on susceptibility to viral infection. Neotoma ... -
Historic preservation of Siheyuan in Beijing China for continued residential use in modern China.
(2012)Siheyuan is a classical architecture style of residential housing of Beijing citizens dating from the Ming Dynasty. The people of China are very familiar with Siheyuan, considering its history of more than 700 years. It ... -
Assessment of consecutive matching striae.
(2012)Firearm and tool mark identification relies on criteria that have been accepted in the field to assist firearm examiners in determining if a bullet has been fired from a particular firearm. In this research, criteria for ... -
Perceived location of self.
(2012)Evidence suggests that the perceived location of the self is changeable. I replicated Legennhager et al (2007) where participants experienced a perceptual illusion of a relocated self, created by having a participant wear ... -
Redesign of an existing temporary safe shelter to be used as a long-term community safe shelter.
(2012)This research explores the redesign of space planning for an existing temporary safe shelter to be used as a long-term community living space that can be lived as their temporary home which loses in disaster. This research ... -
The educator's perspective : implementing the Reggio Emilia approach in the classroom.
(2012)This study explored the possible challenges teachers face in the implementation of the Reggio Emilia Approach in American classrooms. The Reggio Emilia Approach is highly-respected, internationally as an exemplary early ...