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Native American perceptions of the prairie-plains environment
(University of Kansas, 1978-12-31)The purpose of this work is to discern Native American initial perceptions of the Prairie Plains by examining and comparing environmental attitudes of various Indian groups asked to accept reservations in the Prairie-Plains ... -
Petrology and stratigraphy of the Kiowa and Dakota Formations (basal Cretaceous), north-central Kansas
(University of Kansas, 1966-05-31)The Kiowa Foundation (formerly Kiowa Shale) of Early Cretaceous age and the Dakota Foundation of Early(?) and Late Cretaceous age have been studied and mapped on a detailed reconnaissance basis in an area encompassing some ... -
Rationality and legitimation : a study of the National Flood Insurance Program
(University of Kansas, 1985-05-31)The dissertation consists in the study of the historical development and present workings of the National Flood Insurance Program. The National Flood Insurance Program is the result of the U.S. government's continued ... -
Analysis of peroxynitrite-mediated post-translational modifications of caveolin-1
(University of Kansas, 2006-05-31)Caveolin-1 is an important protein in caveolae, which plays a role in cholesterol transport, signal transduction, and transcytosis and tumor suppression. Caveolin-1 is found in endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells and ... -
A study of variation in the Bryozoan Fistulipora decora (Moore and Dudley) from the Beil Limestone Member of the Lecompton Limestone of Kansas
(University of Kansas, 1971-12-31)An increasing number of bryozoan systematists are recognizing the need for a more quantitative treatment of variation in taxonomic studies of Bryozoa. The principal objective of this study was to isolate, as far as possible, ... -
Get in to Get Out: Peele-ian Horror and Consciousness-Raising
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)One area that has not fully been explored in terms of its ability to engage in Black feminist consciousness-raising (CR) is the horror film genre. This project examines Jordan Peele’s 2017 Black horror film Get Out, arguing ... -
Convergent patterns suggest parallel processes of insular anuran diversification between oceanic archipelagos of the Southwest Pacific and the sky islands of the continental Western Ghats
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The unprecedented surge in frog species descriptions over the last two decades has been attributed to increasing access to remote regions, more advanced technology and techniques, and greater interest in these groups. The ... -
Linguistic Cues Guide Prediction in the Processing of Mandarin Relative Clauses: An ERP Study
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Sentence processing has been increasingly considered as a strongly incremental and grammatically guided process in which the comprehender builds a syntactic structure and computes semantic meanings as the sentence unfolds. ... -
Branching particle systems, stochastic partial differentiable equations and nonlinear rough path analysis
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)In this dissertation, we study some problems related to the stochastic partial differential equations, branching particle systems and rough path analysis. In Chapter 1, we provide a brief introduction and background of the ... -
Who is empathetic to the disaster you are going through? Mining Emotions (Empathy) in government and nonprofit responders’ tweets.
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This project establishes and tests a measure of empathy in Twitter posts. The project intends to find evidence on whether community leaders and decision makers are showing compassion for the vulnerable communities undergoing ... -
Large Scale Structure: Dynamics and Statistics
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The peculiar velocity of galaxies and galaxy clusters is the only dynamical probe of gravity on cosmic scales, which makes it a crucial tool in studying gravitational instability, mass distributions and density fluctuations ... -
Regional Disparities in Cognitive Functioning of Rural and Urban Older Adults in Costa Rica
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Prior research examining health disparities by region (urban vs. rural) on dementia and cognition have been studied using screening tools mostly, with conflicting results. Some studies support a rural health disadvantage, ... -
The Gods of the Roman Family: Domestic Religion and Imperial Literature at Rome
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This thesis addresses the deities of domestic Roman religion, i.e. the lares, penates, and genii, and how references to these deities in Latin literature evolved during the first century CE. I chart how domestic religion ... -
“Focus Your Indiscriminate Rage in a Useful Direction”: Understanding Audience Engagement and Participation in the News Satire Genre
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This project aims to study the generic characteristics of current news satire on television, focusing on how audiences interact with this genre in order to learn more about audiences’ expectations and responses to these ... -
Modeling Moderators in Psychological Networks
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)It is an important goal for psychologists to develop and improve upon methods for describing multivariate relationships among observed variables. Psychological network models represent one class of methods for studying ... -
Phenomenology of Models with New Scalar Particles
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The discovery of a 125 GeV Higgs boson is one of the greatest successes of the Standard Model of particle physics, but it is also one of the paths to finding its failings. The scalar sector of the Standard Model is only a ... -
On the Edge of the Wild: Representations of Peru’s Montaña Region and its Indigenous Peoples, an Enduring Frontier between the Andean and Amazonian Worlds
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)On the Edge of the Wild demonstrates how Indigenous peoples, Spanish conquistadors, missionaries, scientific explorers, and early national elites have formulated conceptions of the montaña region—located at the eastern ... -
Teaching Dog Safety Skills to Children via Remote Technology
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Behavior analysts have been effective in teaching various safety skills (e.g., Dancho et al., 2008; Himle et al., 2004; Miltenberger et al., 2009); however, few studies have evaluated dog safety skills. Over 4.5 million ... -
The Gendering of Virtue: Cultural Influence on the Semantic Development of Aretē and Virtus
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The centrality of aretē and virtus in the value systems of the Greeks and Romans has been examined by many scholars, yet the lack of a comprehensive study directly comparing the semantic development of each term within ... -
Development and Application of Hybrid Methods
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This thesis focuses on the development and application of hybrid methods for modeling excited state properties of large systems. The rapid growth of technology and computer processing power allows the wide application of ...
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