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From Cave Art to Cryonics
(2013)
Living Dangerously: Culture of Honor, Risk-Taking, and the Nonrandomness of “Accidental” Deaths
(Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2012-01-01)
Collin D. Barnes is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Institute for U.S.-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma.
Investigation of Genetic Variation Underlying Central Obesity amongst South Asians
(PLos One, 2016-05-19)
South Asians are 1/4 of the world’s population and have increased susceptibility to central obesity and related cardiometabolic disease. Knowledge of genetic variants affecting risk of central obesity is largely based on ...
The Evolutionary History of Daphniid a-Carbonic Anhydrase within Animalia
(2015)
Understanding the mechanisms that drive acid-base regulation in organisms is important, especially for organisms in aquatic habitats that experience rapidly fluctuating pH conditions. Previous studies have shown that ...
Encouraging servant leadership: A qualitative study of how a cause-related sporting event inspires participants to serve
(2013-10-07)
A longitudinal, qualitative case study was conducted to explore if a cause-related sporting event could inspire participants to serve others and how the event achieved this. Servant leadership theory, social leverage theory, ...
Information-Seeking Habits of Education Faculty
(2013-03)
This study explores the information-seeking behavior of academic education
faculty from twenty large public research universities. The investigation
includes an examination of how frequently education faculty seek ...
The marginalization of astrology among Dutch astronomers in the first half of the 17th century
(History of Science, 2014-06-01)
In the first half of the 17th century, Dutch astronomers rapidly abandoned the practice of astrology. By the second half of the century, no trace of it was left in Dutch academic discourse. This abandonment, in its early ...
Utilizing and Adapting the Delphi Method for Use in Qualitative Research
(2015-12)
The Delphi method is a pragmatic research method created in the 1950s by researchers at the RAND Corporation for use in
policy making, organizational decision making, and to inform direct practices. While the Delphi method ...
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 ...