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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Family Stress and Coping Resources on Marital Satisfaction and Couple Burnout for Dual-Earner Couples
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Guided by the multisystem assessment of stress and health (MASH) model, this study examined the direct and indirect effects of family stress and coping resources (i.e., supportive listening and flexibility) on adaptation ... -
N or out? Examining the effects of drought on nitrate retention.
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Models predict that future precipitation in the Midwestern United States will display increased year-to-yearvariablity in total rainfall, as well as more droughts interspersed with heavy rainfall events. These factors, ... -
Multi-scale Modeling of Bacterial Proteasome Core Particle Assembly
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Molecular machines play a central role in cellular processes like signal transduction, motility, genome duplication, transport, protein synthesis, protein degradation, and many more. These machines cannot be synthesized ... -
Regulation of Central Carbon Metabolism in Enterococcus faecalis
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Enterococcus faecalis has emerged as a multidrug-resistant (MDR) nosocomial pathogen that causes life-threatening healthcare-associated infections at various host anatomic sites. Enterococcal colonization of these biological ... -
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Nanostructure/Graphene van der Waals Heterostructure for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Two-dimensional (2D) Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures of graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs/Graphene) provide a promising new material platform since it integrates the superior light–solid interaction ... -
CYCLOIDEA paralogs function redundantly to specify dorsal flower development in Mimulus lewisii (Phrymaceae)
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Repeated independent transitions between radial and bilateral flower symmetry have occurred across the angiosperm phylogeny, contributing to the vast diversity we see in floral morphology. The genetic program for bilateral ... -
Observation, Surveillance, Voyeurism, and the Making of the Middle Class in Victorian England
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)In the early nineteenth century, the rise of industrialism and the accelerated enclosure of farmable land combined to drive England's rural population into rapidly growing urban centers. London, in particular, was ill-equipped ... -
[Cp*Rh] Monohydrides Supported by Diphosphine Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization, and Multifrequency Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)The ability of ligands to influence the stability, spectral properties, and reactivity of transition metal complexes is a broadly well-developed area of inorganic chemistry. Likewise, the importance of developing new ... -
Navigating the Double-Bind: Exploring Sources of Pressure to Engage in Painful Sexual Activity
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Individuals who experience pain during sexual activity may face a double-bind, feeling pressure to engage in sexual activity, despite its being painful. In this study, we explored individuals’ experiences with painful ... -
Strongly interacting color-singlet exchange and photon exchange in high-energy proton-proton collisions
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) offers a unique opportunity to test the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, the quantum field theory of elementary interactions, at the shortest distances probed in a laboratory. ... -
Eat, Protest, Lift: Cultivating and Performing Positive Black Self-Imagery in Resistance to White Supremacy
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)This dissertation and documentary maps my journey from being a disgruntled and disconnected social justice activist to a cultivator of decidedly Black active healing spaces for Black people in predominantly white communities. ... -
Phonetic variations driven by prosodic structure and their function in speech production
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)The present study investigates how prosodic strengthening driven by prosodic boundaries is manifested in relation to its linguistic function in the production of different speech styles, focusing on English plosives /p, ... -
Dosage, Severity, Frequency, and Chronicity Effects of Adversity Exposure on Children's Grammar Abilities
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Children exposed to adversity (e.g., chronic poverty, traumatic events, child maltreatment) are at increased risk for performing below age-expectations on norm-referenced language assessments, but it is unknown whether the ... -
Success Through Failure: Daiei, Kadokawa, and the Transformation of Japan's Domestic Film Industry
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)This dissertation concerns Japan’s domestic film industry structure and transformation between 1971-2002. It tracks the generative mechanisms of stasis and change in the major studios’ output of narrative feature films to ... -
Geographic patterns of speciation in West and Central Africa: The role of rivers, mountains, and refugia
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)The tropical rainforests of Africa make up one of the largest rainforest blocks in the world, second only to the Amazon Rainforest of South America. This area hosts an incredible diversity of plants and animals and contains ... -
Off-White Brides and the Sanctity of Citizenship: American Marriage and Romantic Love in the Development of Twentieth-Century Immigration Politics
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)This dissertation analyzes the histories of early-twentieth century Southern European immigrant picture brides, who from 1907-1924, were women in arranged marriages with emigrant men from their home countries. Whether they ... -
The social system of an endemic lava lizard, Microlophus atacamensis: the interplay between social structure and social organization
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Animal social systems can be described through 4 main components: social structure, social organization, mating system, and care system. Social structure describes the relationships between individuals in a population, ... -
Parent-Implemented AAC Narrative Intervention
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)The current study investigated the implementation of a parent-implemented narrative intervention for individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), Storytalker. A nonconcurrent multiple baseline ... -
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women Veterans
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP), a common pain disorder, is associated with high levels ofpsychological distress and healthcare service utilization, as well as a complex and at times indeterminate etiology. A history of trauma ... -
Evaluation of structural changes in protein therapeutics by HX-MS
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Function of protein therapeutics is governed by its high order structure (HOS). Changes in HOS can provoke changes in protein structure, stability, safety, and protein activity among others. Thus, monitoring HOS of protein ...