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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Intergenerational Choir Participation: Examining the Effects on Voice, Speech, and Quality of Life of Two Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)This research examines the concept of intergenerational choral singing as a behavioral intervention for speech and voice in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Prior research examining music therapy and group singing protocols has ... -
A Moral Good: The Gendered Differentiation of Working-Class Girls' Education in Britain, 1902-1945
(University of Kansas, 2020-01-01)British state-aided elementary education offered the children of the working-classes a path to literacy and self-sufficiency following the Forster Act of 1870. In the years that followed, the curriculum became more robust ... -
Un Gran Esfuerzo para Sobrevivir
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Un gran esfuerzo para sobrevivir is an exhibition about what immigrants crossing into the United States experience as they risk everything for a better life, job, education, or freedom from danger. The installation has a ... -
The Attitudes and Perspectives of Filipino-Americans Regarding Speech and Language Disorders
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)The study investigated Filipino-Americans’ cultural knowledge and perspectives of stuttering, speech sound disorders, and users of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). The study’s research questions included: ... -
Computer Simulations as Scientific Instruments
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Although now ubiquitous in scientific inquiry, the role and significance of the use of computer simulations in science is still widely debated. Questions that arise in the philosophical literature on computer simulations ... -
Three Essays on Applied Microeconomics
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)This dissertation consists of three independent essays assessing public policies and external stakeholder influence on corporations under the paradigm of education economics, transportation economics, and environmental ... -
New Probabilistic Techniques for Classification Problems and an Application
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)The main focus of this dissertation is to develop new machine learning and statistical methodologies for classification problems, with a real–life application in healthcare. The dissertation has three chapters. In the first ... -
Examining the Audit Offices' Client Portfolios Pre- and Post-Client Fraud
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)In the post-SOX environment, I examine the client portfolios of audit offices’ pre- and post-client financial reporting fraud. I find that the overall audit quality declines in the offices preceding the occurrence of client ... -
The Economic Consequences of Tax Disclosure Regulation: Evidence from FIN 48
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)This study investigates how firms respond to the tax disclosure requirements in the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Interpretation No. 48: Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes (FIN 48). As a significant change ... -
Modeling a Multinational Firm’s Manufacturing Network as a Portfolio of Options
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)To fill the gaps in research on the portfolios of real options, I adopt analytical modeling and simulation that allows complex and interacting relationships in parameters. I employ two stochastic variable models to examine ... -
Do Misstatement Correction Disclosures Reflect Impaired Auditor Independence?
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Management has strong incentives to avoid correcting accounting misstatements through restatements, but auditor incentives are less clear. Using misstatement corrections disclosed in annual financial statements from 2006 ... -
Personal time constants and the relation between hand tapping and time judgments
(University of Kansas, 1951-05-31)Heuristically, a distinction between the perception of time and the judgement of time is justifiable. The problem of the perception of time as here understood, includes the development and appreciation of time concepts; ... -
Taxonomy and distribution of the spadefoot toads of North America (Salientia: Pelobatidae)
(University of Kansas, 1956-05-31)The aim of the present study is to assemble in.one paper the pertinent taxonomic history and distributional information of the spadefoot toads of the New World; point out and correct certain errors or nomenclature perpetuated ... -
The characteristics of a bubble chamber using liquid nitrogen and argon
(University of Kansas, 1962-05-31)The last ten years have seen the development of a useful new tool for the study of high energy nuclear reactions and fundamental particles. This device, the bubble chamber, makes use of a superheated liquid to display the ... -
The Journey from Academic Sojourner to Humanistic EFL Educator: Perspectives of Saudi Women
(University of Kansas, 2020-01-01)Since 2006, the Saudi Arabian government has launched a large-scale scholarship program for Saudis to study abroad in various parts of the world, and especially in the United States, as part of an initiative to increase ... -
A preference study of musical activities of senior citizens
(University of Kansas, 1980-05-31)The study of musical activity preferences of older persons is important because it can establish the activities in which the elderly tend to involve themselves in a program setting. More effective and efficient programs ... -
Regional firm size differentials in antebellum United States manufacturing
(University of Kansas, 1978-05-31)Various writers have asserted that inadequate demand and insufficient supplies of capital and labor prevented ante-bellum Southern manufacturing firms from taking advantage of economies of scale. The purpose of this study ... -
Dual-task Performance Involving Grip Force Control in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-20)Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) has been shown to affect brain structures responsible for attention and grip force control. Precision grip force relies on complex tuning of upper-extremity forces. The primary aim of this study was ... -
The Effects of Nutrition Literacy Assessment on Patient-Centered Nutrition Interventions Provided by Dietitians
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Introduction: Nutrition literacy is a distinct subset of health literacy, a leading contributor to negative health outcomes. Nutrition literacy involves aspects of functional literacy (nutrition knowledge) and integrative ... -
Party finance and government regulation, a comparative analysis
(University of Kansas, 1967-05-31)Political parties and candidates need money for their activities. How to provide the necessary funds is a problem in most countries with a democratic system of freely competing political forces. Different approaches to a ...