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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Blending Assessment with Instruction: Improving the mathematics performance of fifth-grade students through implementation of research-based lessons and tutorials
(University of Kansas, 2007-08-31)This study was designed as part of a formative pilot study to enhance the Blending Assessment with Instruction Program (BAIP) prior to implementation statewide. Specifically, the main objectives were to obtain teacher ... -
Germany 2000: A question of identity
(University of Kansas, 2007-08-31)This work investigates aesthetic form and narratives, reception by scholars and critics as well as context within applicable historic events of German films ranging from 1999 to 2006. It is vital to see the way in which ... -
A study of social control in science : responses of organizations to reports of misconduct
(University of Kansas, 1985-05-31)The responses of organizations to incidents of misconduct associated with the research process are examined from the perspective of social control and Donald Black's propositions on social behavior and the law. The reactions ... -
"Every child my child, every man my man": The ideology and strategy of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in the beginning of the Nuclear Age, 1945--1965
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is an international women's peace organization formed in 1915. In "'Every Child, My Child, Every Man, Man,'" I examine the WILPF after World War II and its ... -
Nothing more terrible than humanity: Obstinacy, withdrawal, and desire in Sophocles’ "Antigone"
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This study contests the view that Sophocles' Antigone is "unphilosophical," and argues that addressing the contest of ideas is central to the play. It is thus an inquiry not only into the play itself but its relationship ... -
Challenged by families with challenges: An investigation of family supports in early intervention
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-31)This dissertation presents the findings of a grounded theory study examining family supports in early intervention. The purpose of the study is to understand how practitioners perceive families with challenges and how their ... -
The development of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorophenothiazine as a drug lead
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The dioxin analogue 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorophenothiazine (TCPT) was synthesized and developed as a drug lead with potential applications in chemoprevention, body weight control, type II diabetes, contraception, and longevity. ... -
Informal science education at Science City
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The presentation of chemistry within informal learning environments, specifically science museums and science centers is very sparse. This work examines learning in Kansas City's Science City's Astronaut Training Center ... -
Barriers within: Examining gender, race, and participation in the TRIO program with college success
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)In today's society earning a college education plays an extraordinarily important role in obtaining a living wage and thus is of importance for every individual. However, cross disciplinary research has found that gender, ... -
A comparison of explicit and implicit interventions to teach a novel grammatical marking to children with language impairment
(University of Kansas, 2007-08-31)Purpose. Most first language intervention approaches rely on implicit techniques to teach problematic language forms to children with language impairment. That is, learners are not made conscious of the patterns guiding ... -
Exemplum fidei: Marcus Atilius Regulus as a moral exemplum
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This paper focuses on the story of Marcus Atilius Regulus as an exemplum fidei. Taking Matthew Roller's division of exemplary discourse into the following categories as a model (2004), it discusses Regulus according to ... -
A descriptive and experimental evaluation of preschooler aggressive toy play
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Aggressive toy play is commonly observed in early childhood classrooms, yet strategies to address this problem behavior have not been articulated in the research literature. In Study 1, we examined the relation between ... -
Andrzej Munk’s cinema of internalized exile (1957--1961)
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This thesis defines Andrzej Munk's feature films as a cinema of internalized exile by conducting a stylistic analysis of Man on the Tracks (1957), Eroica, (1958), Bad Luck (1960), and Passenger (1961). I extend Melinda ... -
Field investigation of Love waves in near-surface seismology
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Seismic surface waves have the potential to yield important information about the subsurface. In particular, the spectral analysis of Rayleigh waves has been used to determine near-surface shear-wave velocities that are ... -
"Performing between the acts": Issues of personal identity and performance in Frances Burney’s "The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties" (1814)
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)In her final novel The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties (1814), Frances Burney addresses contemporary philosophies of personal identity in complex ways that expose the ambiguities inherent in eighteenth-century notions of ... -
Role of remote motor cortex in recovery following an extensive motor cortical lesion in a non-human primate
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The ultimate goal in this research was to study the role of remote motor cortex in recovery from stroke in a non-human primate model in order to complement existing behavioral and anatomical findings from rodent studies ... -
The relationship of duration of time without health insurance to access and utilization of health care in the state of Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Over 46 million people in the United States are currently without health insurance coverage, and 300,000 of those people reside in the state of Kansas. The lack of health insurance for all residents of the United States ... -
Ramp-scale geomodel for reservoir and stratigraphic analysis of the Hugoton field (Wolfcampian, midcontinent U.S.A.)
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The full-field model of the 70-year-old Hugoton field (largest in NA) is a comprehensive lithologic and petrophysical view of a giant reservoir system in a 108-million cell model covering 10,000-mi2 (26,000-km 2). It is a ... -
Representations of Waikiki: An analysis of Hawaiian tourism through hotel brochures and websites
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Tourism dominates the Hawaiian economy, and the economic stronghold of the tourism industry is Waikīkī. This thesis focuses on the various representations of Waikīkī from a postcolonial perspective, using textual analysis ... -
Hybrid signal processing techniques for shared spectrum multistatic radars
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Multiple radars transmitting a waveform at the same time on the same band will cause interference that most pulse compression algorithms cannot suppress effectively. The Multistatic Adaptive Pulse Compression (MAPC) algorithm ...