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O du mein Österreich: Patriotic Music and Multinational Identity in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
(2009)As a multinational state with a population that spoke eleven different languages, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was considered an anachronism during the age of heightened nationalism leading up to the First World War. This ... -
O-GlcNAc-Mediated Protein-Protein Interactions in Cell Signaling
(2018)Protein modification by O-linked β-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is an essential signaling mechanism that affects diverse processes such as cell cycle, metabolism, and death. Aberrant signaling has been implicated in numerous ... -
Oakland University Practices, Policies and Management Structures for a Sustainable Future: A Qualitative Assessment and Framework for a Sustainability Strategic Plan
(2012-04-25)On behalf of her client, Oakland University (OU), the author of the study, a Duke University Master of Environmental Management student and OU graduate, addressed OU sustainability strategic planning for her Masters Project. ... -
Obesity and Overweight among Black American Adolescent Females: The Role of Social Influences in Everyday Dietary Practices
(2016)Obesity and overweight disproportionately impact Black American adolescent females—placing them at a lifetime of elevated physical health risks. Despite this burden, the literature that explores the contributors to obesity ... -
Obeying an Evolving Cultural Value: Influences of Filial Piety and Acculturation on Asian-Americans
(2018-07-24)Elder care is a concern for adult children with aging parents in Asia, America or practically anywhere else in the world. Yet, it is a particularly acute issue for members of the Asian-American community due, in no small ... -
Object and spatial subsystems in mental imagery : behavioral investigations
(1994)Recent evidence indicates that mental imagery comprises independent object and spatial subsystems. The experiments reported here are behavioral studies of these subsystems. Experiments 1 and 2 used the selective interference ... -
Object Based Image Analysis Technique for Distinguishing Tropical Native Forest from Plantations: A Landcover Classification Analysis of Patches Surrounding the Serra do Brigadeiro State Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil
(2016-04-29)The Brazilian Atlantic forest is regarded as one of the hottest biodiversity hotspots in the world. Nonetheless, this area has experienced massive deforestation and significant fragmentation as a result of encroaching pasture, ... -
Object Discovery with a Mobile Robot
(2013)The world is full of objects: cups, phones, computers, books, andcountless other things. For many tasks, robots need to understand thatthis object is a stapler, that object is a textbook, and this otherobject is a gallon ... -
Object-Directed Action Experiences and their Effect on Cognitive and Social Development
(2010)Reaching is an important and early emerging motor skill that allows infants to interact with the physical and social world (e.g., when sharing objects). Despite the importance of motor experiences in early infancy, few studies ... -
Objective Measures of Preferential Ballot Voting Systems
(2009-05-04)We consider several types of information with which to di erentiate preferential ballot voting systems. After establishing a formalism with which to discuss voting methods in a mathematical context, we show that the aggregation ... -
Objective Poetics: Victorian Literature and the Science of Aesthetics
(2020)In my dissertation, I attempt to demonstrate how both Romantic and Victorian literature and science came together to produce the idea of “objectivity.” Whereas prior naturalists had tended to embrace an epistemic ideal of ... -
Objective Subjects, Empirical Identities: Psychology’s Measurement of Ethnic Identity and Critical Race and Ethnicity Theory
(2017-04-10)Objective Subjects, Empirical Identities explores the kinds of questions that emerge when psychology’s conceptualization of ethnic identity comes into contact with critical race and ethnicity theory. Jean S. Phinney’s Multigroup ... -
Observation of the behavior of rats running to reward and nonreward in an alleyway
(1973)The first experiment sought specifically to determine whether variations in rats' overall run time in the alleyway reflect variations in the vigor of a single response, running (Hullian S-R view), or variations in the frequency ... -
Observations and Simulations of the Western United States' Hydroclimate
(2009)While very important from an economical and societal point of view, estimating precipitation in the western United States remains an unsolved and challenging problem. This is due to difficulties in observing and modeling ... -
Observer Effects: the Power and Vulnerability of the Slaveholder's Surveillance Network
(2019-04-15)This micro-study of the Cameron and Bennehan families, who owned plantations in North Carolina, Mississippi, and Alabama, demonstrates that plantation operations would have unraveled without the efforts of surveillors, a ... -
Occupational Stratification and the Multidimensional Structure of Symbolic Meaning
(2014)Subjective cultural meanings were once central to occupational stratification research. However, attempts to operationalize cultural meanings associated with occupations have been widely criticized, leading contemporary ... -
Occurrence and Function of Hoogsteen Base Pairs in Nucleic Acids
(2016)Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) play essential roles in the central dogma of biology for the storage and transfer of genetic information. The unique chemical and conformational structures of nucleic acids – the double helix ... -
Occurrence, Distribution and Reproductive Status of Female Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Roanoke Sound, NC
(2020-04-23)I examined the spatial distribution of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) nursery groups in Roanoke Sound, NC, to gain insight into how environmental parameters affect site fidelity, and to determine whether habitat ... -
Ocean Heat Transport from the Subtropical Gyre to the Subpolar Gyre in the North Atlantic
(2018)The North Atlantic Ocean transports on the order of 1 petawatt of heat poleward from the Equator toward the high-latitude Arctic via an exchange of warm, upper-layer water for cold bottom water, reducing the Equator-to-pole ...
