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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The RNA-binding Protein HuR in Cancer Immune Evasion: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications
(University of Kansas, 2023-08-31)RNA-binding protein (RBP) HuR is upregulated in multiple types of cancer and the elevated HuR is associated with high-grade tumors and poor clinical outcomes. HuR forms a complex network of interactions with target mRNAs ... -
Integrated Modular Microfluidic Systems for the Affinity Selection and Comprehensive Analysis of Rare Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Liquid biopsy is a less invasive sampling technique and is especially beneficial for diseased organs that are anatomically inaccessible for solid tissue biopsy such as the brain, lungs and pancreas. This sampling technique ... -
Development of Electrophoretic Methods for Monitoring Small Molecule Neuroactive Compounds in Brain Microdialysis Samples
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)The burden of neurological disorders has been increasing across the United States over the last thirty years with stroke, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and migraine contributing the most to the number of ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)This dissertation consists of three chapters that use applied microeconomic methods to investigate the impact of public policies. In Chapter 1, I study the relationship between food insecurity among U.S. households and ... -
Randomized Algorithms for Solving Singular Value Decomposition Problems with Matlab Toolbox
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This thesis gives an overview of the state-of-the-art randomized linear algebra algorithms for singular value decomposition (SVD), including the presentation of existing pseudo-codes and theoretical error analysis. Our ... -
Evaluating the Effects of Technology-Based Self-Monitoring in Group Homes
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Research shows that the quality and frequency of staff-consumer interactions is related to reductions in consumer problem behavior and increases in other desired outcomes, such as self-help, leisure, communication, and ... -
Petrographic and Geochemical Constraints on Regionally Extensive Hydrothermal Dolomites in Jurassic Carbonates of Saudi Arabia
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)This research focuses on the petrographic, geochemical, and reservoir petrophysical aspects of Jurassic carbonates in the subsurface of northeast Saudi Arabia. Dolostones account for ~85% of the reservoir rocks and are ... -
The Landscape of the Longmen Grottoes: Practices, Repentance, Jeweled Buddhas, and Burials under Emperor Wu Zhao (r. 690–705 CE)
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)This dissertation adopts a spatial-analysis and gender-studies approach to study the Buddhist visual culture of the Longmen Grottoes, where 2,345 cave-shrines were carved into the limestone cliffs on both sides of the River ... -
Envisioning Antiquity: Yi Bingshou and the Politics of Memory in the Qing Dynasty
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Beginning in the seventeenth century, engraved texts on ancient monuments became a vital source for Confucian scholarship and artistic practice in China. Scholars used these inscriptions to establish meanings of Confucian ... -
The Relationship Between Parenting Stress and Child Abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Minimal Verbal Abilities: Evidence from a Cross-national Study
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience high levels of parenting stress because of an imbalance between childcare demands and availability of resources, which differs based on cultural environments. ... -
The "Jayhawk Nazi" of Kansas: Gerald Winrod, Antisemitism, and the Evangelical Far Right, 1925-1944
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber suggested that as the religious rationales of Calvinist workers were forgotten under the urge to acquisition, capitalist society would become a steel-hard casing ... -
Methodology and Microfoundations: A New Argument for an Autonomous Macroeconomics
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Although microeconomics and macroeconomics seem to differ in their object of study––microeconomics studies how economic individual agents make decisions and how those decisions interact, while macroeconomics studies that ... -
Social Fallout: Ukrainian Society and Geopolitics in the Shadow of Chornobyl
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Far from being a discrete historical event, the 1986 Chornobyl disaster is still happening. The radioactive particles released during the explosions in reactor 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) continue to ... -
A Global Climatology of Tropical Easterly Wave Diabatic Heating Using Satellite and Reanalysis Data
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Tropical easterly waves (TEWs) play a critical role in regulating convection and precipitation across the global tropics. These synoptic-scale features are commonly known to act as seed disturbances for tropical cyclogenesis ... -
Redox Chemistry, Bimetallic Effects, and Ligand Design for Rhodium, Chromium, and Cerium Complexes
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Ligand derivatization and incorporation of secondary metals are established strategies for tuning the redox properties of inorganic and organometallic complexes, and these strategies have been leveraged in this dissertation ... -
CONTROLS ON BIOTURBATION AND SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION WITHIN CARBONATE SHOREFACE DEPOSITS: INSIGHTS FROM HETEROGENEITY IN PLEISTOCENE AND RECENT STRATA
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Burrowing organisms alter sedimentary textures, influence cement distribution, and affect petrophysical characteristics of carbonate strata. Although many descriptions of carbonate successions reference bioturbation, ... -
Mapping Intermediates in Hydrogen Evolution with [Cp*Rh] Catalysts and Carbon Monoxide Release from [Mn(CO)3] Complexes
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl rhodium ([Cp*Rh]) and manganese tricarbonyl ([Mn(CO)3]) complexes represent workhorse families of compounds with key applications in catalytic hydrogen evolution and light-driven carbon monoxide ... -
Two Sides of the Same COIN: A History of the United States and Counterinsurgency During Operation Iraqi Freedom
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Soon after the United States invaded Iraq in the spring of 2003, it became embroiled in an insurgency that left coalition troops with no choice but to revive, and in many cases reinvent, old counterinsurgency methods. ... -
Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Responses to Interability Communication Styles in the Workplace: Perspectives of People with Disabilities
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Guided by communication accommodation theory (Giles, 1973; 2016) and the Communication Predicament of Disability Model (Ryan et al., 2005), this experimental study examined interability communication in the workplace from ... -
Detrital zircon U-Pb fingerprinting of the Appalachian signature: Early Pennsylvanian sediment routing from highlands to deep-sea fans and the persistence of recycled Appalachian-affiliated zircons
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Carboniferous sediment dispersal from the Appalachian orogenic system (eastern United States) has become a topic of widespread interest. However, the actual pathways for continental-scale, east-to-west sediment transfer ...