University of Central Oklahoma: Recent submissions
Now showing items 981-1000 of 1937
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Left on the spindle: correspondence from unwed mothers to the London Foundling Hospital, 1857-1872.
(2018)1. Statement of the Problem or Issue - Unwed mothers in Victorian London had very few options for how to care for their children. Women who had children admitted to the London Foundling Hospital (FH) agreed to sever their ... -
A study of social rank development in captive African painted dog (Lycaon pictus) pups.
(2018)African painted dogs, Lycaon pictus, are an endangered social carnivore native to sub-Saharan Africa. Their historic range and population densities have been reduced due to habitat fragmentation, conflict with humans, and ... -
Religious influences on premarital education : access and attitudes.
(2018)Premarital education has been strongly tied to religious organizations but minimal research exists on the relationship between premarital education and religion. Literature overwhelmingly supports the benefits of premarital ... -
Testing for Automatic Bias to Shoot People of Color.
(2018)Previous research of the shooter bias effect has focused on Black versus White male targets, with participants mistakenly shooting unarmed Black targets more often than White targets. In the current study, it was hypothesized ... -
Surveillance of molluscan (gastropod) intermediate hosts for the emerging infectious disease Angiostrongyliasis (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) in Oklahoma.
(2018)Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is the etiologic agent of an emerging infectious zoonosis, angiostrongyliasis. To date there is relatively little known about this parasite from a public health perspective. ... -
A case study of energy expenditure of a lower limb amputee using a running blade compared to a non-amputee.
(2018)The purpose of this case study was to determine if energy expenditure of a lower limb amputee (LLA) with a running specific prosthesis would be different from an able-bodied person. There is little research on running ... -
Perceptions of Early Head Start teachers of instructional coaching.
(2018)Recent Early Head Start standards require instructional coaching be utilized as a form of teacher development. (Head Start: Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center, 2018). This research provides an insight into Early ... -
The effects of Staphylococcus aureus secreted products on fibroblast lattice compaction and correlated tension generation.
(2018)Chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, venous leg ulcers have become a worldwide problem, as they fail to heal in a regular period due to the presence of an extended inflammatory stage. Bacterial ... -
A three-dimensional transient numerical study and analysis of blood flow dynmaics in renal artery aneurysms.
(2017)The kidney is one of the main components of the urinary system. The main function of the kidney is filtering the blood to eliminate unwanted substances and to keep a certain concentration of red blood cells. The kidney, ... -
Embedded test and measurement.
(2017)A virtual test set was designed to perform audio range analog transmission impairment testing in accordance with IEEE Std 743-1995. This virtual test set was developed in the Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering ... -
Electrokinetically forced turbulence in microfluidic flow.
(2017)While laminar flow heat transfer and mixing in microfluidic geometries has been investigated experimentally, as has the effect of geometry-induced turbulence in microfluidic flow (it is well documented that turbulence ... -
English Catholics & anti-Catholicism in the mid-Victorian era : anti-papal or anti-imperialist?.
(2016)The primary intent of this research is to evaluate and deduce events, leading up to, during, and after, the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Great Britain. The culmination of this work questions the perception of ... -
The evaluation and validation of IDenta Corporation's Bullet-hole Testing Kit (BTK).
(2016)Originally developed in 1982, IDenta Corporation’s Bullet-hole Testing Kit (BTK) is currently being used around the world in the field of crime scene analysis. IDenta claims the kit can successfully be used to identify ... -
Effects of static stretching on muscular power in female collegiate soccer players.
(2016)Current literature over the effects of static stretching on muscular power is inconsistent. A better understanding of the effects of static stretching could help improve athletic performance. The purpose of this study was ... -
Finding a home among the red hills : women and homesteading in Western Oklahoma, 1900-1920.
(2016)Most Oklahoma land runs took place in the 1890s, but at the turn of the century, many available homesteads still existed in the red, rolling hills of the unpredictable, harsh environment of western Oklahoma. Many of the ... -
Variation in parasite prevalence of kinosternid turtles across multiple hydration regimes.
(2016)Complex ecological interactions or physiological adaptations increasing immunity may limit parasite establishment in some host populations. The Madrean Sky Islands are regarded as a series of complex ecological systems ... -
Beyond binary : Navajo alternative genders throughout history.
(2016)Hosteen Klah was both a Navajo medicine man and weaver. However, the Navajo largely considered weaving to be a woman’s task. Women taught this skill from mother to daughter, and it represented both a creative and spiritual ... -
Bloodstain pattern analysis with infrared photography as a tool to visualize impact and satellite spatter on denim.
(2019)Correctly classifying bloodstain patterns is a crucial element of providing conclusions in the field of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, because the type of bloodstain pattern speaks to how the bloodstains were created. Very ... -
Japanese nationalism : a transnational case study of Pan-Asianism in China and Vietnam, 1931-1945.
(2019)After Japan pragmatized bushido and formed a modernized nation-state in the late nineteenth century, it extended that same methodology to its East Asian neighbors, China and Vietnam. Despite state-sponsored bushido's success ... -
Genetic structure and the potential for hybridization in populations of Peromyscus spp. of plateau regions in western Oklahoma.
(2019)There are many evolutionary mechanisms that influence the process of speciation, or the creation of new species. One such process is genetic recombination. Hybridization can be argued to be a unique form of genetic ...