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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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"We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?": Reading and writing the romantic hero in "The Old Manor House" and "The Age of Innocence"
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)What does it mean, to “behave like people in novels”? More importantly, what does it mean for a novelist to put this comment in the mouth of one of her characters? Edith Wharton and Charlotte Smith, and their representations ... -
Portraitistes a la plume: Women art critics in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This dissertation considers women writing art criticism in France, c. 1785-1815. It was at this historical juncture, wherein art criticism as an institution was in its infancy and women's place within the social order was ... -
A linguistic analysis of Jordanian proverbs; a syntactic, semantic and contextual study
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This dissertation is a linguistic analysis of proverbs in Jordanian Arabic. The study is panoramic since it covered different linguistic aspects in proverbs. The dissertation discussed four aspects in proverbs: syntactic, ... -
Developing a dataset for simulating urban climate impacts on a global scale
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Urbanization is a dramatic example of how people alter the surface of the Earth and have a significant impact on local climates. Understanding how urban characteristics interact with the environment on varying scales will ... -
Test taking strategies in computer adaptive testing that will improve your score: Fact or fiction?
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the claim made by test review companies that spending more time and attention on the first five or ten items on a computer adaptive test will improve an examinee's ... -
Attitudes toward Americans: Exploring the influences of Japanese sojourners’ communication experiences with Americans
(University of Kansas, 2007-08-31)Guided by the intergroup contact hypothesis, this study examined the relationships among three sets of variables: Japanese sojourners' ( N = 103) communication experiences, relational solidarity with their most frequent ... -
Rethinking the paradox of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s sexual politics: From woman’s alienation, psychological oppression and bad faith to liberty
(University of Kansas, 2007-08-31)Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most important thinkers on the topics of social freedom and inequality, and his views of these matters are typically taken to be progressive. However, Rousseau's views on women sit in ... -
Onitsha market literature and negotiations of modernity in Nigeria
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Nigeria, during its period of decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s, was marked by extensive cultural, economic, and political change. The primary objective of this research is to understand the ways in which modernity was ... -
Coupled mechanical and hydraulic modeling of geosynthetic-reinforced column-supported embankments
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Geosynthetic-reinforced column-supported (GRCS) embankments have been increasingly used worldwide in the past few years. Even though a number of research investigations have been completed on this topic, the behavior of ... -
Like a deer in the headlights: Threat and decisions that favor the status quo
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)I investigate the status quo (SQ) bias as a heuristic in decision-making, and the impact that threats have on heuristic use. In Study 1 participants read about scientific theories that were 30%, 60%, or 90% likely to be ... -
Investigation of sampling techniques for drug delivery
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Suitable techniques for monitoring drug delivery are essential for drug screening and determination of proper dosing regimens. Current in vivo dermal sampling techniques are not optimal for drug delivery studies as they ... -
Quantitative trait evolution in Mimulus guttatus (yellow monkeyflower)
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)My dissertation examines several aspects of quantitative trait evolution in Mimulus guttatus. In Chapter 2, I use M. guttatus plants to investigate how response to artificial selection on a trait index differs among replicate ... -
Maternal and placental adaptations to hypoxia
(University of Kansas, 2007-08-31)Oxygen is an essential element that is required to sustain life. Oxygen is especially important in the maintenance of pregnancy where proper oxygen delivery to the fetus is crucial. In order to study pregnancy-dependent ... -
An evaluation of the performance and database access strategies of Java object-relational mapping frameworks
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-31)With an object-relational mapping (ORM) tool, the software developer does not have direct control over the structured query language (SQL) calls to the database and thus relies on ORM decisions regarding how the database ... -
Representation of marriage in selected Harold Pinter plays
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This thesis explores the institution of marriage as it is depicted in six plays by Harold Pinter. The married couples in Pinter's plays struggle to maintain the balance between normalcy—the socially accepted behaviors ... -
Incomplete neutralization of /t/ and /d/ in flapping environments: An analysis of the North Midland dialect of American English
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This paper presents an acoustic study of alveolar flaps in American English as produced by twenty speakers of a North Midland dialect spoken in the Kansas area. Vowel duration differences in monosyllabic and disyllabic ... -
Divination by "The Ten Commandments": Its rhetorics and their genealogies
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)As American and other modern practices of recirculating hegemony perform, particularly through nodes of nationalism and racism, the resolving of lived, social contradictions, mass cultural texts tend to deploy rites of ... -
An evaluation of the relative efficacy of and child preference for teaching strategies that differ in amount of teacher directedness
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Although it is generally agreed that learning occurs through children's interactions with their environments, the manner in which the teacher mediates this learning varies across early childhood classrooms. In this study, ... -
Polyethylene oxide-polyester micelles for drug delivery
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-31)Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-poly(ester) copolymers are biocompatible, biodegradable diblock polymers that spontaneously form core-shell nanoparticles (i.e. micelles) in water. The hydrophobic polyester core of these micelles ... -
The geographies of contemporary food networks in Kansas City
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The ways food and people negotiate their paths to consumption can provide insight into the modern world. By focusing on fresh produce and the many different networks through which it flows in Kansas City, this dissertation ...