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Design of the Pivot Development Center in Oklahoma City
(2020-05-05)Oklahoma City is faced with a large population of people without homes and many those are below the age of eighteen. Currently, organizations that endeavor to aid these homeless youth are limited by the inadequacies of ... -
Design progress report
(2018-04-30)Develop a prototype for a Electrofusion U-Turn Coil Winder proprietary process for Georg Fischer that completes the process automatically and in 65 seconds or less. -
Determining compliance with the Oklahoma Open Records Act
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Determining potential sources of race non-specific resistance to the late blight pathogen, Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary, in advanced breeding materials of cultivated potato, Solanum tuberosum L.
(2015-12-01)Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary, the causal agent of late blight disease of potato, is widely considered to be the most important plant disease of potato. The presence of major genes (R-genes) in breeding materials ... -
Detonating balloons
(2017-04-19)This is an opening to a much larger novella that tackles themes regarding survivors of sexual abuse and how one might navigate in society after that abuse stops. Essentially. -
Developing executive function skills in children and subsequent impact on vocabulary learning
(2020-04-28)Aims: This study aims to further the current knowledge base by exploring the impacts of EF-stimulating activities on vocabulary expansion in kindergarteners. Secondary aims include the creation of a resource to distribute ... -
Development of wind-aware piloting interfaces and dynamic quadrotor simulator with spatiotemporally varying wind
(2022-03-30)With increasing adoption of low-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in urban environments, alongside present-day research into low-altitude Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles, there exists a need for high quality ... -
Did “Good Friday” ensure a lasting peace?
(2019-12-11)This case study seeks to understand the various methods to promote peace during ethnic conflicts and how constitutional design influences peace duration. I theorize countries that adopt centripetal electoral design following ... -
Dietary histone deacetylase inhibitors in chemoprevention
(2017-05-02)Cancer has remained the second leading cause of death in the United States, with the gap between that and the number one cause, heart disease, decreasing significantly over the past 50 years. As the prevalence of cancer ... -
Differences in defense response to herbivory across Arabidopsis mutants
(2017-12-08)Arabidopsis thaliana is a model plant for research, and Spodoptera exiqua (beet armyworms) is a common agricultural past that is also used in research settings (Rehrig et. al., 2014). In an effort to find plants that are ... -
Differences in supplemental nutrition program participation among Oklahoma counties
(2020-04-22)An analysis was performed on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to determine explanatory characteristics for program participation among Oklahoma counties and to determine how supplemental nutrition ... -
Different RsbR paralogs in Bacillus subtilis affect cell viability when exposed to environmental stress
(2020-05-08)Every living organism must find a way to survive stressful situations and bacteria are no different. Bacteria deal with many kinds of stress, including energy stress like starvation or ATP depletion and environmental stress ... -
Differential expression of Elizabethkingia anophelis to cefotaxime and imipenem
(2017-05-12)Elizabethkingia anophelis is a beta-lactam antibiotic resistant bacterium that uses a variety of mechanisms to express this resistance. It is currently unknown how E. anophelis responds when exposed to different beta-lactam ... -
Digital luxury marketing: Technology shapes a new era in luxury consumption
(2019-04-29)Luxury products are marketed unlike any other product — the focus is not on the need of the consumer but instead on the indulgence and affluence of the consumer. While luxury brands have often strayed from facilitating ... -
Digital marketing to Millennials
(2017-05-01)Millennials, those born from 1980-1999, are the largest generational cohort in history. With this being said, they have massive buying power, which is very significant to marketers. However, before marketing to this ... -
Disengagement and engagement affects on transition readiness in college students with chronic illnesses
(2017-05-12)Patients with chronic illnesses must eventually transfer from pediatric health care to adult heath care. Unfortunately, this transition can be a hard one for people if they are not sure how to transition properly. However, ... -
Do Anolis lizards recognize heterospecific neighbors?
(2021-04-23)Many organisms establish territories, though the reasons are varied and not always understood. Organisms that establish territories often must defend them against invaders. Territorial animals sometimes exhibit "dear enemy ... -
Do Oklahoma courts support open government?
(2016-05-06)This analysis was compiled as a senior thesis project by Samantha Mori and Dr. Joey Senat, using the Oklahoma Supreme Court Network databases to discover and study cases related to open government. All cases including the ... -
Do women peacekeepers keep peace? An analysis of United Nations peacekeeping missions and the duration of peace after civil conflict
(2017-05-15)Recent work on United Nations peacekeeping operations have begun to examine how operational factors may influence the ability of UN missions to help maintain peace in post-conflict societies. Some research analyzes mission ... -
Do Zebra Finches avoid feeding locations used by sick birds?
(2018-04-18)Pathogens play a key role in population dynamics. A number of species avoid the increased risks of infection inherent to group living by avoiding individuals they know to be sick. It would seem that individuals would ...