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Race, Environment, and Masculinity in Richmond's WWII Shipyards
(2018-05-11)The Kaiser company shipyards in Richmond, California, the largest shipyards in the world for the duration of World War II, employed workers from across America and from around the world. New technological advances and ... -
RACE, GENDER AND HEALTH LITERACY IN THE MEDICAL ENCOUNTER: A TEST OF CULTURAL HEALTH CAPITAL AND STATUS CHARACTERISTICS THEORY
(2016-05-13)The doctor-patient relationship is a form of social support that influences patients’ health. Doctor-patient communication impacts doctor-patient relationships and ultimately patients’ health outcomes. Physicians’ communication ... -
Racial diversity in University of Oklahoma student organizations: the case for increasing informal interactional diversity within siloed institutions
(2015)Literature suggests racial diversity is a common good for in groups and out groups and further suggests a particular type of diversity, informal interactional diversity, has the greatest benefits. This research explores ... -
Racism and Resistance: Contextualizing Sorry to Bother You in the Neoliberal Moment
(2019-05-11)The goal of this paper is to discuss the historical and theoretical framework of neoliberalism through three films that place the Black body at the center of neoliberal economic and ideological systems: Sorry to Bother You ... -
Radar analysis of the physics of extreme rainfall events
(2020)Extreme precipitation events pose a threat to life, property, and economic growth throughout the United States and across the world. Although extensive research has focused on improving understanding of extreme precipitation ... -
Radar and Thermodynamic Analysis of the 6 April 2018 Monroe, LA Tornadic Supercell
(2022-05)This case study analyzes a tornadic supercell observed in northeast Louisiana as part of the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment Southeast (VORTEX-SE) on April 6—7 2018. Two mobile research ... -
Radar Cross Section Analysis of Tornadic Debris
(2016-12-16)Weather radar is a powerful tool for detecting hazardous weather that may impact citizens. Among these dangerous weather phenomena, tornadoes have a high potential for destruction of property and loss of life due to its ... -
Radiation-Induced Acoustic Imaging System Development and Applications
(2019)This thesis reports the development of three different radiation induced acoustic imaging systems excited by a pulsed laser, X-ray, and electric field respectively. Firstly, a laser induced photoacoustic imaging system for ... -
Raman spectroscopy and its applications to ice-sediment-brine matrices in recurring slope lineae on Mars
(2020-05-08)Raman spectroscopy is an ideal tool to analyze the geochemical make up of various compounds, be they solid, liquid, gas, or a combination of multiple phases. This research seeks to determine how changes in both temperature ... -
Rapid elemental analysis using X-ray fluorescence and laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and their applications in the Mississippian Meramec, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma
(2020)X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) and Laser Induced Breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) are rapid elemental analysis techniques for rock cores and cuttings. Elemental analysis is useful in understanding geochemical, mineralogical, ... -
Rapid Permian exhumation of the Montagne Noire dome recorded in provenance of Upper Paleozoic clastics in the Graissessac-Lodève Basin, France
The Graissessac-Lodeve Basin (southern France) preserves a thick and exceptionally complete record of continental sedimentation spanning Late Carboniferous through Late Permian time. This section records the localized ... -
Rapid-scan, polarimetric, mobile, Doppler-radar observations of the formation, evolution, and structure of the El Reno tornado of 31 May 2013
(2016-10)On 31 May 2013, the mobile, Rapid-scan, X-band, Polarimetric (RaXPol) radar collected a high spatial and temporal resolution dataset documenting the genesis, intensification, and dissipation of a tornado that caused EF-3 ... -
Rationalizing Ignorance and the No New Normal Community: Mythology, Sense of Community, and Conspiracy Theories
(2021-08-05)This study researched the themes of Campbell’s (1988) third (sociological) and fourth (pedagogical) functions of mythology and sense of community theory on the anti-mask subreddit: No New Normal. Users of the No New Normal ... -
Ravenscroft (34BV198) Bison Skull Piles: Explorations of Purpose and Meaning
(2022-12-16)Ravenscroft is a late Paleoindian arroyo bison kill located along a tributary of the Canadian River named Bull Creek in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Multiple field seasons eventually identified two stacks of bison skulls at the ... -
The Ravenscroft II Site: A Late Paleo-Indian Bison Kill Event in the Oklahoma Panhandle
(2017-05-12)The winter kill model combines aspects of optimal foraging theory and animal behavioral ecology to explain large scale bison hunting organization on the North American Great Plains. These same theories are applied to the ... -
Rawinsonde Observations of Supercell-Environment Interactions
(2016-12)The Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX) in 2013 and Mini-MPEX in 2016 used mobile soundings to observe the near-storm environments of springtime Great Plains convection. Together, the projects collected over 100 ... -
Re-Framing Failure: Mindsets in Foreign Language Learners
(2018-12-14)Abstract In recent years, Carol Dweck, Ph.D’s mindset research has influenced and shaped educational practice. However, Dweck’s research has received little attention in foreign language pedagogy and classroom discourse. ... -
A Real Time Ground Based Augmentation System Implemented with LabVIEW Software
(2022-12-16)This thesis develops and implements a real time Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) in the LabVIEW environment incorporating the Local Monitor (LM) from the Closed-Loop GBAS (CL-GBAS) concept. GBAS, also referred to ... -
Real-Time Gesture Recognition with Mini Drones
(2018-12-14)Drones are being used worldwide to perform many functions - medical deliveries, video recording, and surveying to name a few. Their growing presence is paralleled by the growing world of Machine Learning (ML). This thesis ... -
Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Study of a Rolling Pendulum Equipment Isolation System
(2021-05-14)Damage caused by earthquakes to buildings and their contents (e.g., sensitive equipment) can impact life safety and disrupt business operations following an event. The resulting social and economic losses can be minimized, ...