SHAREOK™ Repository
SHAREOK™ is the joint institutional repository for the University of Oklahoma (OU) and the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO). It serves as the home for the intellectual output of those institutions, such as: digital theses and dissertations, faculty publications, open access publications, open educational resources, institution-specific content and much more.
If you would like to place your works in the institutional repository, please contact your library: OU or UCO. Digital assets placed in the repository are available to a global audience, and search engine optimization techniques are used to increase their visibility to researchers and thus their impact on the global community.
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Drivers of Stream Drying and Network Connectivity Across Spatial Scales
(2024-05-10)Nonperennial streams are widespread and abundant around the globe. Although these streams are societally and ecologically important, they are understudied relative to those that flow continuously. Because of this, we lack ... -
THE DECISION TO TRUST: AN APPLICATION OF STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING TO THE ACTOR EVALUATION AND TRUST FRAMEWORK
(2024-05-10)The growing number of crises, from public health crises like COVID-19 to natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes, has exposed the need for a comprehensive framework to understand how an individual decides who to ... -
Bridging the Gap between Sparse Matrix Computation and Graph Models
(2024-05-10)Sparsity manifests itself in a multitude of modern High-Performance Computing applications including graph neural networks, network analytics, and scientific computing. In sparse matrices, the majority of values are zeros. ... -
Education Reform for the Everyman Philosopher: Themes in Montessori Pedagogy and their Ideological Resonance
(2024-05-11)The progressive education movement broadly elevates reforms centered around individualized instruction and social consciousness. Montessori schooling presents a uniquely successful case where organized nonprofits have ... -
Making the Business of Death, Business-As-Usual: The Commerce-Care Dialectic in Funeral Planning
(2024-05-10)This dissertation, grounded in relational dialectics theory 2.0 (RDT; Baxter, 2011), aims to illustrate what meanings emerge from the commerce-care dialectic when engaging in funeral planning. The contrapuntal analysis of ...