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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Inherent Innovation
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Native American people have relied on their inherent skills of innovation as a means of survival. As makers, they acquired new skills and traded for the most modern fabrics, beads, and metals to adorn themselves. As an ... -
Exploring ‘Zelmaneship’: Developing Queer Inwardness from Sidney to Stage
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Zelmane the Amazon, a central character in Philip Sidney’s epic romance The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1590), has often been studied for her transgressive gender and sexuality. Zelmane’s first words in the New Arcadia ... -
Efficient Tunnel Detection with Waveform Inversion of Back-scattered Surface Waves
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)An efficient subsurface imaging method employing back-scattered surface waves is developed to detect near-surface underground elastic-wave velocity anomalies, such as tunnels, sinkholes, fractures, faults, and abandoned ... -
Bidirectional Associations between Affective Empathy and Proactive and Reactive Aggression
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Background: Preliminary evidence indicates that affective empathy is differentially associated with proactive and reactive functions of aggression, and anger dysregulation may impact these associations. However, more ... -
Pregnancy, Abortion, and Motherhood: Does Disability Matter?
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Women with disabilities are classified as “risky” mothers and are encouraged by healthcare providers to not have children. Societal notions about who are appropriate mothers create barriers for women with disability who ... -
Who Drops Out from College? A Study of Social Origin at a Midwestern Teaching University
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Previous research has examined the degree to which social origins affect college completion, but few have studied the association of family background, social class, and neighborhood contexts with regard to the rate of ... -
Sorry but Not Sorry: Politics of Apology over Comfort Women between Japan and South Korea
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This study examines the politics of apology between South Korea and Japan over the issue of comfort women. The subject has been one of the primary sources of the intractable relationship between the two countries since the ... -
A Comparison of Interteaching and the Learning Pathway in a Community Health Undergraduate Course
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Interteaching (IT) is a teaching method based on behavior analytic techniques that uses paired discussion and student-informed clarifying lectures to teach course objectives. A number of studies suggest that IT is more ... -
Rituals and Sectarian Knowledge: Methods of Constructing Social Identity in the Community Rule (1QS)
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This study deals with identity construction in the Community Rule (1QS). Examples of rituals and sectarian doctrines (knowledge) dictated in 1QS will be discussed along with a look into how these rituals and knowledge might ... -
The Feasibility of Language-Literacy Instruction Facilitated by Preschool Classroom Volunteers
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This pretest-posttest study examined the effects of a professional development training on five volunteer instructors’ (VI) utilization of language and literacy facilitation strategies within interactive storybook readings ... -
Analysis of the Effects of Kansas School Funding Reform on Standardized Testing Scores
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Kansas public school funding has been a contentious policy matter for several years. Brownback-era tax cuts reduced funding to a point where absolute funding levels were deemed unconstitutional in both adequacy and fairness. ... -
FROM RAGS TO MORE RAGS
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)FROM RAGS TO MORE RAGS is an exhibition consisting of large scale paintings and intimate, small scale drawings with the intent of establishing a visual narrative of the human soul in the moment of passing. The work explores ... -
Gay Black man does not equal gay + Black + man: An Intersectional Analysis of Race and Sexual Orientation Stereotypes
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Intersectionality theory suggests that group identities based on the intersection of different social categories are unique and cannot be understood by simply adding together the elements of each separate identity (Cole & ... -
A Matter of Time? Temporal Framing, Race, and the Perception of Anti-Black and Anti-White Discrimination
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)When asked to rate anti-Black and anti-White discrimination across six decades (the 50s – 00s), research suggests that Whites (but not Blacks) see discrimination as a zero-sum game that they have been losing since the 2000s ... -
sick girl 2005
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)A collection of hybrid pieces that examine the nostalgia of the early 2000’s while working against the narrative that sick girls lack multiplicities, that their only dimension is their sickness. -
For | Billions of Years | Now
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)For | Billions of Years | Now is a Masters of Fine Arts Thesis exhibition of seven prints, two metalsmithing sculptures and an x-ray film. There are five traditional intaglio etchings on the right side of the gallery. The ... -
A Comparison of Isolated and Synthesized Contingencies in Functional Analyses
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)In a series of recent studies, Hanley and colleagues have evaluated the efficacy of an FA methodology termed the Interview Informed Synthesized Contingency Analyses (IISCA; Hanley, Jin, Vanselow, & Hanratty, 2014), which ... -
Seismic attribute analysis and CO2 monitoring within the Mississippian reservoir, Wellington field, Sumner County, Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)The Mississippian reservoirs are prolific hydrocarbon producers in the mid-continent of the United States but are challenging to image seismically due to their high heterogeneity and thicknesses typically below seismic ... -
The Connection of Power, People, and Place: Evaluating Environmental Equity Content in the 100 Resilient Cities Strategies of Latin America
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This study explores the frequency and depth of equity content within nine 100 Resilient Cities (100 RC) Latin American resilience plans. The research contributes to previous academic discussions by showing how often and ... -
From Tied Movers to Tied Stayers: Changes in Family Migration Decision-Making, 1989-98 to 2009-18
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Past research has found that when a dual-career heterosexual married couple migrates to a new labor market, the woman is more likely to be the “tied mover”: the partner whose career suffers as a result of the move. This ...