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Knowledge Held in Common: Tales of Luther Burbank and Science in the American Vernacular
(2001-09)During the first half of the twentieth century, the horticulturist Luther Burbank was largely considered an irrelevant figure by the scientific community, despite winning acclaim from the public as an eminent scientist. ... -
Labeling Preschoolers as Learning Disabled: A Cautionary Position
(Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1992-07-01)The purpose of this article is to explore the issues concerning the adaptation of school-based service delivery concepts for use in early childhood special education programs. The use of categorical labels for determining ... -
Language and Being: Crossroads of Modern Literary Theory and Classical Ontology
(Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2004-03-01)My argument is that poststructuralist and postmodernist theory carries on and intensifies the main lines of a characteristically modern tradition of aesthetics whose most important point of reference is not French structuralism ... -
Large Scale Research Data Archiving: Training for an Inconvenient Technology
(2016-08-03)ABSTRACT: At small scales, storage is straightforward to afford and to use, but at large scales – from several Terabytes (TB) to many Petabytes (PB) and soon Exabytes (EB) – tradeoffs must be made between cost and ... -
A late-surviving apatemyid (Mammalia: Apatotheria) from the latest Oligocene of Florida, USA
(2015-12-17)A new species of Apatemyidae, Sinclairella simplicidens, is based on four isolated teeth that were screenwashed from fissure fillings at the late Oligocene Buda locality, Alachua County, Florida. Compared to its only ... -
Latin Via Proverbs: 4000 Proverbs, Mottoes and Sayings for Students of Latin
(2006)Latin Via Proverbs is a collection of 4000 Latin proverbs organized by grammatical categories. It can be used as a supplement for any first-year Latin textbook or as a systematic grammar review for intermediate Latin ... -
Leader Deception Influences on Leader–Member Exchange and Subordinate Organizational Commitment
(Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 2011-11-01)Jennifer Griffith is a PhD student at the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include leadership processes, leader and follower emotions, leader deception, ethical decision-making, and online communication. -
Leader–Follower Interpersonal Emotion Management: Managing Stress by Person-Focused and Emotion-Focused Emotion Management
(Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 2015-02-01)Compliance with demands to express certain emotions at certain times is difficult for most employees to achieve without also experiencing adverse effects such as stress. Emotion researchers typically study “demands” in the ... -
The Learning Support Model: Personnel Policy Beyond the Traditional Model
(The American Review of Public Administration, 1992-03-01)There is increasing interest in achieving quality through effective management and use of human resources in public administration. What is the appropriate personnel policy that will assure this quality in government ... -
Legitimacy, Visibility, and the Antecedents of Corporate Social Performance: An Investigation of the Instrumental Perspective
(Journal of Management, 2011-11-01)Using institutional theory as the foundation, this study examines the role of organizational visibility from a variety of sources (i.e., slack visibility, industry visibility, and visibility to multiple stakeholders) in ... -
Lessons From Improv Theater: Applying Improvisational Concepts and Techniques to LIS
(2020)This article explores improv theater concepts and techniques that are relevant to LIS and can be integrated into student training and librarian workshops. Some LIS literature applies these practices directly to library ... -
‘Let's Go Gank Ourselves a Paris Hilton’: A Textual Analysis of the Dialogue of Supernatural (the First 10 Years)
(2018)While it may seem counterintuitive to examine a visual medium through its dialogue alone, linguists such as Paulo Quaglio and Monika Bednarak have been doing just that. Using a freeware concordance toolkit and other computer ... -
Leveraging the Use of Mobile Applications to Increase Knowledge Retention in a Classroom Lecture
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2012-09-01)This research sought to determine if the use of mobile applications (e.g., iPhone® apps) had an impact on students’ ability to learn new material. A control group was compared against a group of students who used mobile ... -
The Leviathan: How to Move 2.9 Million Government Documents Offsite
(2019-03-18)The concept of moving a university’s historic, 2.9 million item government documents collection offsite was daunting. The actual move of the collection took 24 months. In this move, much was learned about developing a ... -
Librarians and immersive learning : opportunities for collaboration using virtual reality
(2017)Virtual reality (VR) platforms provide exciting opportunities for students to interact with educational content in new ways. At the University of Oklahoma Libraries, students and faculty leverage VR and 3D technology to ... -
Library Instruction versus Employers Needs: Do Recent Graduates Have the Critical Thinking Skills and Soft Skills Needed for Success?
(2020-10-09)This paper is a review of the skills employers seeks in new graduates and the skill sets new graduates have to offer. Employers report they want to hire people with solid soft skills, research, critical thinking and ... -
Life After Succession in the Family Business: Is It Really the End of Problems?
(Family Business Review, 1995-03-01)The succession processes in family business are well chronicled in the business literature. Most of the research focuses on the process of transferring power within the business-family. What has not been as closely examined ... -
Life After Vouchers: What Happens to Students Who Leave Private Schools for the Traditional Public Sector?
(Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2013-06-01)Few school choice evaluations consider students who leave such programs, and fewer still consider the effects of leaving these programs as policy-relevant outcomes. Using a representative sample of students from the citywide ... -
The Life Course of a Standard-Bearer: A Nonroyal Elite Burial at the Maya Archaeological Site of El Palmar, Mexico
(2021)Inspired by life course and osteobiography approaches, this article explores the life and death of an individual associated with the lakam title (“banner” in Colonial Yukatek Maya; thus, a “standard-bearer”), a nonroyal ...