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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Charting the Unknown: the Hunt for Dark Matter Continues
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)For thousands of years, the human mind struggles to answer a simple question: what is the universe made of? The majority of what composes our universe, dark matter and dark energy, are just mysteries. Undoubtedly, dark ... -
Semantic Feature Analysis and Self-Cueing Strategies in Aphasia
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Purpose: Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) has proven to be successful in facilitating naming of trained words in persons with aphasia and is grounded in current theories of word retrieval. Briefly, traditional Semantic ... -
Uncovering the early diversification of core eudicots in western North America: structurally preserved fruits from Late Cretaceous deposits of Sucia Island
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Core eudicots are the most diverse lineage of flowering plants with a fossil record that dates back to the Late Cretaceous. Making up much of the diversity in flowering plants today, it is important to investigate the core ... -
Use and Implementation of Preference Assessments by Special Educators
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Stimulus preference assessments are used to identify preferred stimuli that can be utilized to increase responding (DeLeon & Iwata, 1996) and may be important in special education settings. Researchers have extensively ... -
Women and the Namibian Liberation Struggle: Unquestionable Commitment
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)The experiences of women during war and liberation struggles have increasingly been a topic of scholarly focus. This dissertation enhances the scope of such scholarship by showing how women in the Namibian liberation ... -
Finding Maximal Cohen-Macaulay and Reflexive Modules
(University of Kansas, 2021-018-3)In this work we study two classical objects in algebra - maximal Cohen-Macaulay and reflexive modules. We show the existence of a small Cohen-Macaulay module or algebra for a newclass of rings in mixed characteristic. In ... -
The Role of Siblings in Emotion Reactivity for Preschool-Aged Children
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Background: Emotion reactivity and regulation are underlying mechanisms of social-emotional functioning. Social learning theory and family systems theory suggest that sibling relationships may contribute to emotion processing ... -
New species of Tetragonocephalum (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea) parasitizing members of the stingray genus Pateobatis (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) and an update of host associations of the genus
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)The lecanicephalidean tapeworm genus Tetragonocephalum comprises 12 valid species and a species inquirendum. Species in this genus are easily identifiable among lecanicephalideans based on their possession of a unique ... -
Projective normality and normal presentation for adjoint linear series on minimal varieties
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)In this thesis, we study projective normality and normal presentation of adjoint linear series associated to an ample and globally generated line bundle on higher dimensional smooth projective varieties with nef canonical ... -
Associations Between Behavioral Economic Constructs and Alcohol Use and Consequences among Young Adult Alcohol Users
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Alcohol use among young adult college students is a significant public health concern. Behavioral economic (BE) research provides a framework for understanding maladaptive health behaviors, such as alcohol use/misuse. BE ... -
Essays in Health, Migration, and Labor Economics
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in the intersection of health, migration, andlabor economics. The first chapter documents what I term the “Healthy Undocumented Immigrant Effect": undocumented immigrants ... -
First Impressions of the Persian Other in Aeschylus and Herodotus
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)This thesis focuses on the characterization and representation of the Eastern Other for a Greek audience in the introductory sections of two works of 5th century Greek literature. In particular, I will examine the parodos ... -
Evaluating the Effects of Remote Behavioral Skills Training and In Situ Training on Response to Bullying
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Those who experience bullying endure significant repercussions (e.g., Nansel et al., 2004; Sterzing et al., 2012). Thus, it is important to teach individuals who experience bullying how to respond. Many researchers have ... -
The Associations between Student Debt and Precarious Employment on Millennial Homeownership in the United States
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Millennials have shifted into adulthood amidst great economical barriers, which reduce rates of homeownership for this cohort. Trends suggest that Millennials spend much of their young adulthood pursuing education and ... -
Evolution of Oneida Science Through Tsyunhehkw^ (Life Sustainers): A Look at the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin.
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)The Oneida Nation in Wisconsin has exhibited place-based adaptation and resiliency, resulting from years of knowledge accumulated and now being shared throughout the community. The emergence of Oneida Science as a new and ... -
Symmetric 6,6′-Biazulenic π-Linkers Asymmetrically Terminated Along Their Molecular Axes
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)During the past four decades, the field of molecular electronics relied on the design of molecules capable of fulfilling the roles of electronic components such as wires, diodes, and rectifiers. The work described in this ... -
Temporal Orientation and the Association Between Adverse Life Events and Internalizing Symptoms in Vietnamese American and European American Adolescents
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Adverse life events predict varying negative outcomes, including internalizing symptoms. However, research finds cross-cultural variation in whether and to what degree factors amplify or buffer the impact of these stressors. ... -
Strange Being
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)My artistic practice is informed by philosophies of consciousness, existentialism, and personal narrative. My life is experienced through waking and dreaming modes of being. This condition informs the context for the ... -
Search For Exclusive Diphoton Production with Intact Protons in pp Collisions at the LHC
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The Standard Model of particle physics has been largely successful in describing observed phenomena in the universe, but it is still believed to be incomplete.Many theories that address the shortcomings of the Standard ... -
Bernoulli shift and Poisson system factor map constructions
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)In ergodic theory, where measure-preserving dynamical systems are common objectsof study, the entropy of a system can sometimes be used to determine if two systems are isomorphic. In this dissertation, we construct factor ...