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Spectral thin-film interference observed with diffuse reflectance in a center-illuminated-central-acquired geometry indicates potential effects of the substrate scattering and absorption on the interference fringe
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Tree fruit for Oklahoma
No full textThe Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The most current edition is made available. For access to an earlier edition, if available for this title, please contact the Oklahoma State University Library Archives by email at [email protected] or by phone at 405-744-6311
Personality and metacognitive predictors of strategy use and appointment attendance
No full textProspective memory (PM), or remembering to complete an action in the future, plays an important role in daily functioning. Forgetting to complete mundane tasks like checking mail can be frustrating but forgetting tasks like taking medication has more serious consequences. PM forgetting, however, is often avoided by using internal strategies (e.g., mental rehearsal) and external strategies (e.g., alarms) for everyday tasks. Associations between personality and memory have been documented but the relationship between personality, strategy use, and objective PM performance is missing in the literature. The current study investigated how personality and self-evaluation of PM ability relate to reported strategies used for a self-generated, real-world PM intention as measured by appointment attendance. Results indicated higher conscientiousness, but not neuroticism, was related to more self-reported strategy use. Exploratory models further suggest self-evaluated PM ability is not fully responsible for the indirect effect of conscientiousness on self-reported strategy use. Findings add to metacognitive aspects of PM theories but also have translational applications by understanding who, and under what conditions, is most likely to use strategies to support successful PM
4-H Home Demonstration: Fifth year
No full textThe Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The most current edition is made available. For access to an earlier edition, if available for this title, please contact the Oklahoma State University Library Archives by email at [email protected] or by phone at 405-744-6311
Impact of financial self-efficacy and financial literacy on small-business decision making behaviors and performance perception
No full textSmall businesses have an extremely large global economy impact, they are significant actors on the world economy, they are responsible for a substantial portion of the gross domestic product, and they employ a large share of the populace in many developing and developed countries. Many small business owners tend to have little knowledge regarding accounting information, and they generally rely on familiar valuations or heuristics as indicators of performance. The topic of financial information use in small businesses decision making rarely makes use of financial literacy research or theoretically ground their work by making use of established psychometric variables such as self-efficacy. In this study, a survey was disseminated to the regional branches of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Small Business Development Center, local small business owners, and small to medium sized local CPA firm. A significant correlational relationship between the level of financial self-efficacy, financial literacy, procurement of financial services, financial information use, and perceived financial performance was found. Two different software packages were used in this examination and theory-based model testing. When bootstrapped linear regressions of financial literacy and financial self-efficacy onto the three dependent variables were performed, the coefficients for the proposed mediations were not significant
Jams, jellies, preserves
No full textThe Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The most current edition is made available. For access to an earlier edition, if available for this title, please contact the Oklahoma State University Library Archives by email at [email protected] or by phone at 405-744-6311
Middle grades STEM teacher efficacy, instructional practices, and student opportunities in rural schools
No full textThis explanatory mixed methods study explores rural Oklahoma STEM subjects and STEM elective teachers’ professional experiences, including professional development and certification pathways. Participants completed the Teacher Beliefs and Attitudes Toward STEM Survey (T-STEM Survey, Friday Institute for Education Innovation, 2012) for teachers and a questionnaire with demographic and open-ended and selective response questions on student STEM opportunities and the benefits and barriers to teaching STEM integrated lessons in their districts. Data analyzed includes the Likert style T-STEM, questionnaire and five semi-structured interviews of rural STEM subject teachers; respondent data was sorted by district type (rural, non-rural; non-rural, rural by district size; NCES location code), a statistical analysis was conducted to examine differences between groups. The results are organized into two manuscripts, each answering a specific set of the overall research questions. Overall, the dissertation findings indicate no statistical differences between any groups when comparing data based on the teacher’s district location and size. Differences were found when examining individual items such as specific instructional practices (working in small groups, using content-driven dialogue), teacher participation in professional development, and informal student opportunities related to STEM interests
Disinformation and hate speech: Ethnoreligious rhetoric on TikTok during Malaysia’s 15th general election (GE15) 2022
No full textThe 15th Malaysian general election (GE15) on November 19th, 2022, saw the continued use of digital information warfare as a prominent feature in the country’s political landscape. Similar to past elections, various information warfare tactics were employed, including disinformation dissemination and ethnoreligious rhetoric on social media. This study focuses on disinformation and hate speech spread via TikTok, one of Malaysia's most popular digital platforms for political discourse and propaganda. By analyzing videos related to GE15 using selected trending hashtags and keywords, 2,789 videos posted between November 1st, 2022, and December 15th, 2022, were collected. After data cleaning, 679 videos with over 1,000 views were analyzed. The results show that 373 TikTok videos contained hate speech, with 264 featuring ethnoreligious hate speech targeting non-Malays, particularly those of Chinese descent. Hate speech in Malay predominantly targeted non-Malays while Chinese language content focused on Malays and Islam. Emerging hashtags during the data collection period, including #13mei, #13mei1969, and #bangsamelayu, were used by Malay ultra-nationalists to spread anti-Chinese narratives, which also appeared in the hate speech content. Other types of hate speech found include gender and sexuality-targeted hate speech.Media and Strategic Communication
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No full textThe Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The most current edition is made available. For access to an earlier edition, if available for this title, please contact the Oklahoma State University Library Archives by email at [email protected] or by phone at 405-744-6311
Real roots of random orthogonal polynomials with exponential weights
No full textWe consider random orthonormal polynomialsPₙ(x) = ₙ∑ᵢ=₀ ξᵢpᵢ(x),where ξ₀, . . . , ξ₀ are independent random variables with zero mean, unit variance and uniformly bounded (2+ε₀)-moments, and {pn}∞ₙ=₀ is the system of orthonormal polynomials with respect to a general exponential weight W on the real line. This class of orthogonal polynomials includes the popular Hermite and Freud polynomials. We establish universality for the leading asymptotics of the expected number of real roots of Pₙ, both globally and locally. In addition, we find an almost sure limit of the measures counting all roots of Pₙ. This is accomplished by introducing new ideas on applications of the inverse Littlewood-Offord theory in the context of the classical three term recurrence relation for orthogonal polynomials to establish anti-concentration properties, and by adapting the universality methods to the weighted random orthogonal polynomials of the form WPₙ.Mathematic