University of Central Oklahoma: Recent submissions
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An analysis into the exploitation of the post-attendee URL feature in Zoom webinar regarding malware transmission
(2022)In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, large businesses and organizations relied on video conferencing applications such as Zoom to maintain public health guidelines due in part to their robust set of features to facilitate ... -
Oklahoman by blood: indigenous land tenure from Indian Territory to McGirt
(2022)After the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision in 2020, Oklahoma’s statehood became the subject of intense legal scrutiny regarding the supposed “disestablishment” of American Indian reservations. The State’s position follows a ... -
Can authority influence misinformation?: the relationship between misinformation and eyewitness accuracy
(2022)Mistaken identification by eyewitnesses was involved in 72% of the cases where people were later exonerated by DNA testing (Smalarz & Wells, 2015). There has been a large movement in support of eyewitness being unreliable. ... -
Characterization and incorporation of Mycobacteriophage Fulbright into a polycaprolactone nanofiber wound dressing
(2022)Nontuberculous mycobacteria infections such as Mycobacterium abscessus have become a growing concern due to the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria, making treatment of infections difficult. Bacteriophages, or phages, ... -
Identification and intervention of youth with problematic sexual behavior: a preventative approach to adult sexual offenses
(2022)The largest bodies of research regarding sexual offenses focus on punitive measures and intervention for adult offenders during and post-incarceration. Research concerning the sexual behavior in youth has been increasing ... -
Promoting eyewitness recall through sketching in the self-administered interview
(2022)The Cognitive Interview (CI) is a widely researched investigative method that promotes accurate and detailed recall from eyewitnesses. The Self-Administered Interview (SAI; Gabbert, 2009) is a booklet emulating the CI ... -
Changing the Name of the Tulsa Race Riot to Tulsa Race Massacre in LCSH
(2021-12-01)Librarians from the University of Oklahoma present the work that had to be done in order to get the official Library of Congress Subject Heading changed from "Tulsa Race Riot" to "Tulsa Race Massacre.” -
DARE to Say NO
(2022-07-14)Using the Acronym DARE we'll look specifically at reclassing the offensive and dated terminology of call numbers for materials classified with N and O Cutter numbers for "Negro" and "Oriental." DARE is short for Decide ... -
Started from the Middle, Now We're Here: Making a Game Plan for Metadata Justice at the Dickinson Research Center
(2022-07-14)The Dickinson Research Center (DRC) at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum has implemented new online databases for photograph and manuscript collections. As legacy materials were transitioned into ArchivesSpace ... -
Pushing the Boulder, Pushing the Envelope: Embracing the Iterative Nature of Improving Metadata
(2022-07-14)Violet Fox, creator of The Cataloging Lab, gave the keynote presentation for the inaugural Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives where she encouraged metadata and archives professionals to keep up the important ... -
Finding the Right Words
(2022-07-14)In Summer 2021, UCO Chambers Library's catalogers crafted an inclusive metadata statement. Our presentation will provide an overview of the process, recommendations for creating your own statement, and the challenges of ... -
Women in Mexico's illicit economy: expendable as pennies or breaking barriers?
(2022)This thesis will examine how women’s roles vary throughout the economic, social, and governmental domination and influence of Mexico at the hands of the narcotrafficking organizations. The chapters of this thesis are ... -
The effects of pre-trial publicity on the predictions of duration of jury deliberation
(2022)Pre-trial publicity can result in juror bias, memory errors, and biased perceptions, leading to issues within trials and jury deliberation. It is nearly impossible to avoid due to media and that publicity having multiple ... -
Does the presence of diversity dishonesty affect ambivalence and one's motivation to work?
(2022)Diversity dishonesty is the belief that an organization has inflated its real value of diversity, which can have a significant impact on individual perceptions of company practices. This study sought to assess whether the ... -
Farm attacks in South Africa: an international comparison of farm crimes
(2022)This qualitative study focused on violent farm attacks in South Africa and the uniqueness of these crimes to that country. This was accomplished by reviewing all available literature on not only South African farm attacks ... -
"The truth in masquerade": masking and self-making in literature
(2022)This thesis analyzes scenes of “masquerade” in three literary texts, the Oresteia of Aeschylus (458 B.C.E.), Eliza Fowler Haywood’s short novel Fantomina; or Love in a Maze (1725), and Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in ... -
The myth of women having it all : gender performativity in American media
(2022)The effects of the cult of domesticity, which have been fought against since the first suffragette movements, have permeated the history of the culture of the United States. In what follows, I will examine the ways the ... -
Moisture-wicking properties of fabric and their effect on blood and the angle of impact
(2022)The use of angle of impact calculations within bloodstain pattern analysis is limited to researched surface types which currently include smooth, non-porous materials and cotton. The purpose of this study was to determine ...