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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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 ... -
An integrative investigation of the mechanisms shaping host-associated microbial community assemblage
(2024-05-10)A critical goal of biologists is to describe the diversity of organisms on the planet and to illuminate the evolutionary processes that have shaped the global biodiversity we observe today. This is often accomplished by ... -
The Perceptions of Latina Pre-Engineering Students in Rural Oklahoma CareerTech
(2024-05-10)This qualitative study, Perceptions of Latina Pre-Engineering Students in Rural Oklahoma CareerTech, examined the Latina perspectives of STEM education, educational decisions, oppressive systems, and alternate pathways. ... -
Experiences of Social Isolation in Rural Communities: A Multidisciplinary Approach
(2024-05-10)Rural communities often struggle due to a lack of funding, resources, and support, which can put residents at risk for adverse experiences. Merely living within a rural area is considered an influential contributing risk ... -
Dust Formation and Destruction in Core Collapse Supernovae Explosions
(2024)Dust is a crucial component of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) and an important driver in many astrophysical processes. Dust formed from evolved stars increases the metallicity of the ISM, enriching it with heavier elements. ...