Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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David Maslanka’s Liberation: A Conductor’s Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Abstract For more than forty years, David Maslanka (1943–2017) was a prolific composer for every musical medium. With significant contributions to chamber music, solo literature, vocal settings, and symphony orchestras, ... -
Pipes of the Past: Registration Practices of Selected Composers for the American Centennial Era Organ
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)American organ music prior to the twentieth century is a somewhat neglected area of organ study due to biases of early-twentieth-century academia. This lecture seeks to better familiarize the audience with a small section ... -
PIERRE COCHEREAU: A LEGACY OF IMPROVISATION AT NOTRE DAME DE PARIS
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Pierre Cochereau (1924–84) was the organist of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and an improviser of organ music in both concert and liturgical settings. He transformed the already established practices of improvising in the ... -
The Effect of Instruction Differentiation in Preventive Classroom Management Strategies on Early Childhood and Elementary Preservice Teachers' Selected Behaviors in a Music Integration Course
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of instruction differentiation in preventive classroom management strategies on early childhood and elementary preservice teachers’ selected behaviors during assigned ... -
Snow Angel
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Abstract Snow Angel is a song cycle for two singers and instrumental sextet that presents the rediscovery and reclamation of personal identity and agency following trauma through the words of Kansas poet Wyatt Townley. ... -
Perception of Administrative Support and How it Relates to Professional Growth and Job Satisfaction of Elementary Music Teachers
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)The purpose of this study was to examine the perception of administrative support, at the school and district levels, in order to identify how it related to professional growth and job satisfaction of elementary music ... -
CIVIL LAW AND THE LEGAL EDUCATION CULTURE IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA: ALTERNATIVE ASPECTS
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)This dissertation is principally devoted to addressing significant aspects of the Saudi Arabian legal education system by comparison with countries who have established strong reputations in the field of legal education. ... -
APPLYING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION TO ESTIMATE PSYCHOMETRIC MODELS WITH CATEGORICAL RESPONSES
(University of Kansas, 2018-5-31)Current psychometrics tend to model response data hypothesized to arise from multiple attributes. As a result, the estimation complexity has been greatly increased so that traditional approaches such as the expected-maximization ... -
Water-Based Drill-In Fluid Optimization Using Polyelectrolyte Complex Nanoparticles as a Fluid Loss Additive
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)It is well known within industry that conventional drilling fluids can damage the well’s producing zone. Damage mechanisms occur due to leakage of drilling fluid into the formation even after the formation of a filter cake. ... -
Investigation of the Phenyl Ring of Imidazoquinolines
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)The 1H-Imidazo-[4,5-c]quinolines are a class of compounds that are agonists towards Toll-like receptor 7 and 8 (TLR7/8). For example, Imiquimod and Resiquimod have been shown to act as vaccine adjuvants, enhancing ... -
A New Generation of Isoform Selective Hsp90 Inhibitors: Targeting the Cytosolic Hsp90 Isoforms
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Heat shock protein 90 kDa (Hsp90) is a member of the molecular chaperone family of proteins that processes newly synthesized polypeptides into their three-dimensional and biologically active form. In addition, Hsp90 assists ... -
Anime Fandom in Convergence Culture: A Uses and Gratification Approach to Chinese Fan Producers
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)In the current media environment known as media convergence, technology has provided fans multiple tools and platforms through which to create and publish their fan works online as well as to draw on fan works and connect ... -
Intersections of Genre and Assessment: Systems, Uptakes, and Ideologies
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Intersections of Genre and Assessment: Systems, Uptakes, and Ideologies seeks to discover and examine the intersections between rhetorical genre studies and writing assessment. Rhetorical genre studies (RGS) and writing ... -
Like Life: Royal Portraits of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) in Ritual Context
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This dissertation examines the functions and meanings of Joseon royal portraits by investigating them in light of the material culture and the ritual practices of royal ancestor worship in royal portrait halls, where ... -
Performing Invisibilities: Conjuring the Ghosts of the Forgotten and Ignored on the Stage
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)The dictatorial tendency to define society through absolute binaries often continues into the discourse of remembrance; the work of transition, then, is the struggle to overcome these reductive dichotomies and capture the ... -
Skeletal Muscle Cytokines following Repeated Bouts of Exercise and Orange Juice
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)The primary aim of this study is to determine if orange juice (OJ) supplementation can attenuate cytokine (IL-6 and TNF-α) levels in human skeletal muscle following exercise in the heat. We hypothesized that exercise in a ... -
The Thun-Hohenstein Album: Constructing and Commemorating the Armored Body in the Holy Roman Empire
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Through the lens of the Thun-Hohenstein album, this dissertation explores the ways that late medieval constructions of martial identity continued to inflect how the armored body was represented and perceived in the early ... -
Kinetic and Spectroscopic Investigation of Structural Influences on Hydrogen-atom Transfer Reactivity of N5-Ligated Oxomanganese(IV) Complexes
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)High valent iron- and manganese-oxo intermediates perform important hydrogenatom transfer (HAT) reactions in both biological and synthetic systems. There has been extensive characterization of HAT reactivity of enzymatic ... -
Situating Contemporary Korean Art in the Age of Globalization
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This dissertation examines the development of contemporary Korean art from the late 1980s through the first decade of the 21st century under the influence of globalization through case studies of selected internationally ... -
Balzac, Financial Adviser: Society and the Birth of Modern Finance
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Honoré de Balzac, through his monumental cycle of novels and short stories that constitute La Comédie humaine, bears witness to early nineteenth-century, post-revolutionary, French society. This analysis will situate six ...
