Browsing OU - Faculty and Staff Publications by Title
Now showing items 808-827 of 1414
-
Microbial Community Analysis of a Coastal Salt Marsh Affected by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(PLos One, 2012-07-18)Coastal salt marshes are highly sensitive wetland ecosystems that can sustain long-term impacts from anthropogenic events such as oil spills. In this study, we examined the microbial communities of a Gulf of Mexico coastal ... -
Microbial Community Dynamics and Activity Link to Indigo Production from Indole in Bioaugmented Activated Sludge Systems
(PLos One, 2015-09-15)Biosynthesis of the popular dyestuff indigo from indole has been comprehensively studied using pure cultures, but less has been done to characterize the indigo production by microbial communities. In our previous studies, ... -
Microbial Electricity Generation Enhances Decabromodiphenyl Ether (BDE-209) Degradation
(PLos One, 2013-08-05)Due to environmental persistence and biotoxicity of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), it is urgent to develop potential technologies to remediate PBDEs. Introducing electrodes for microbial electricity generation to ... -
The microbiome of the ant-built home : the microbial communities of a tropical arboreal ant and its nest
(2017-02-22)Microbial life is ubiquitous, yet we are just beginning to understand how microbial communities are assembled. We test whether relationships between ant microbiomes and their environments resemble patterns identified in ... -
Microscopic Void Analysis in Resin Transfer Molded Composites
(2003)Composites are being increasingly used in various applications because of their light weight and high performance. One of the common disadvantages of composite materials is the formation of defects during manufacturing ... -
A Middle School's Approach to Developing an Effective School Work Culture
(NASSP Bulletin, 1996-01-01)The ultimate goal for any school administrator must be to develop an educational culture that establishes norms, behaviors, attitudes, and expectations. Only with the development of an effective work culture can schools ... -
Migrant Remittances and Skipped Generation Households: Investigating the Exchange Motive Using Evidence from Nang Rong, Thailand
(Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2009-06-01)Using data from the Nang Rong projects social survey (N=6,801 households) and qualitative data from semi-structured interviews, I examine the relationship between migrant remittances and the skipped generation household ... -
Mille Fabulae et Una: 1001 Aesop’s Fables in Latin
(2010)The book contains 1001 Aesop's fables in Latin, arranged by character. The fables are in Latin prose, adapted as needed so that each fable is 120 words in length at most. Verse fables have been rephrased in prose form; ... -
Mining document, concept, and term associations for effective biomedical retrieval - Introducing MeSH-enhanced retrieval models
(2015)Manually assigned subject terms, such as Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in the health domain, describe the concepts or topics of a document. Existing information retrieval models do not take full advantage of such ... -
Minority and Female Representation Plans at Accredited Schools
(Journalism Educator, 1993-03-01) -
Misrepresentation and Interpretation: Critical Evaluation of White Racial Identity Development Models
(The Counseling Psychologist, 1995-04-01) -
The MNCs' Role and Responsibility in Deforestation of Tropical Forests
(Journal of Macromarketing, 1995-12-01)Deforestation of tropical forests has significant ecological ramifications. The role played by the multinational corporations (MNCs) in this unprecedented modification of the environment may have foreboding consequences ... -
A model for studying the energetics of sustained high frequency firing
(2018-04-30)Regulating membrane potential and synaptic function contributes significantly to the energetic costs of brain signaling, but the relative costs of action potentials (APs) and synaptic transmission during high-frequency ... -
A Model of the Global and Institutional Antecedents of High-Level Corporate Environmental Performance
(Business & Society, 2004-03-01)Stories of firms that exceed local compliance requirements in their environmental performance appear routinely. However, we have limited theoretical explanations of what propels these firms to exceed compliance. Our theory ... -
Model Training Program in Counseling Psychology
(The Counseling Psychologist, 1998-07-01)In response to the revision of the American Psychological Association's Guidelines and Principles of Accreditation, the Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs (CCPTP) and Division 17formed a Joint Writing ... -
A Model-Based Scheduling Framework for Enhancing Robustness
(2018)Scheduling algorithms used for dynamic scheduling of tasks in a distributed system are generally evaluated on their performance, i.e., their degree of achieving a desired outcome or metric. They may also be evaluated on ... -
Modeling and Experimental Validation of Anomalous Moisture Absorption of Micro and Nanocomposite Laminates
(2016)Susceptibility of polymeric composites to moisture has been well known for several decades. Most high performance epoxy or bismaleimide (BMI) resins and their fiber-reinforced composites may absorb up to 5 wt% moisture ... -
Moderators of the personality-performance relationship
(2017-04-03)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether job meaning and job autonomy moderate the relationship between emotional stability and organizational citizenship behavior. Design/methodology/approach: In ... -
Modifying Science Activities and Materials to Enhance Instruction for Students with Learning and Behavioral Problems
(Intervention in School and Clinic, 2000-09-01)Most science educators report a willingness to teach students with learning and behavioral differences; however, they often also indicate having limited information about how to make the science classroom more accessible. ... -
Modular Open-Source Software for Item Factor Analysis
(Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014-10-31)This article introduces an item factor analysis (IFA) module for OpenMx, a free, open-source, and modular statistical modeling package that runs within the R programming environment on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft ...