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Dispersal polymorphisms in invasive fire ants
(2016-04-15)
In the Found or Fly (FoF) hypothesis ant queens experience reproduction-dispersal tradeoffs such that queens with heavier abdomens are better at founding colonies but are worse flyers. We tested predictions of FoF in two ...
Integrating Time Into Family Business Research: Using Random Coefficient Modeling to Examine Temporal Influences on Family Firm Ambidexterity
(Family Business Review, 2014-03-01)
Organizational ambidexterity refers to a firm’s ability to pursue both exploitation and exploration orientations. Despite research that suggests ambidexterity is a critical phenomenon in family firms, few studies directly ...
The Therapeutic Efficacy of Domestic Violence Victim Interventions
(Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2015-01-22)
A New Approach to Laboratory-Based Learning in an Introductory Ergonomics Course
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2010-09-01)
Laboratory-based learning plays an important role in the introductory Ergonomics course at the University of Oklahoma. Qualitative analyses of technical reports over several semesters revealed repeated problems. Students ...
Sex Disparities in Arrest Outcomes for Domestic Violence
(Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011-05-01)
Domestic violence arrests have been historically focused on protecting women and children from abusive men. Arrest patterns continue to reflect this bias with more men arrested for domestic violence compared to women. Such ...
Research Report: Findings from Statewide Focus Groups and Survey of Parents about the Oklahoma SoonerCare Program
(2012-12)
Research has documented that the loss of health insurance has a detrimental impact on the health of children, often due to fewer well-child visits and preventative medicine. Even temporary gaps in health insurance coverage ...
Assessing Espoused Goals in Private Family Firms Using Content Analysis
(Family Business Review, 2012-09-01)
Understanding how private family firms gauge performance is of great interest to family business scholars. Unfortunately, finding comparable data to understand differences in the performance of such firms is challenging. ...
Standing in the Gap: Research that Informs Strategies for Motivating and Retaining Rural High School Students
(2013)
Rural schools face the challenges of motivating and retaining students, often in the face of severe resource constraints. This paper synthesizes fifteen years of the author's rural research on secondary students' school-related ...
Representation of Radar Image’s Timestamp in the Cockpit
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2014-09-01)
Data-linked mosaic NEXRAD images can be more than 14 minutes old by the time they reach the cockpit for use by pilots (Elgin & Thomas, 2004; Novacek et al., 2001; Yuchnovicz et al., 2001). Unfortunately, research has ...
Turin and Aragorn: Evading and Embracing Fate
(2011)
Aragorn and Túrin, two of the greatest warriors and most important
protagonists in Tolkien’s legendarium, represent opposing reactions to
destiny, doom, hope, and the forces of fate. Aragorn, descendant of kings,
exhibits ...