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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Taking the Waters: A Hydrological History of Health and Leisure in Hot Springs National Park, 1832-1932
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)“Taking the Waters: A Hydrological History of Health and Leisure in Hot Springs National Park, 1832-1932,” analyzes the many-textured relationships between humans and the thermal waters of Hot Springs, Arkansas. It defines ... -
Consumer Individualism and Community Orientation Among Protestant Churches
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)This dissertation addresses a question central to the sociological study of American culture: Is community involvement in American society being overwhelmed by rising individualism? How is the tension between individual ... -
Movement Before the Movement: Black Hospitals in Kansas City, 1890-1940
(University of Kansas, 2022-01-01)In the 1890s, Black physicians from the South began to move West due to westward expansion and Black population growth. The Black population in the Greater Kansas City Area expanded, creating the need for Black physicians ... -
Do Farmers Know Better? Exploring Innovation, Environmental Change, and Rural Livelihoods among US Hop Growers
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)This dissertation examines the paired social and environmental impacts of farmer-driven innovation through on-site interviews and participant observation with US hop growers. Together, these three research articles make ... -
Adaptive Control and Parameter Estimation in Markov Chains: A Quadratic Case
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)The objective of this thesis is to extend results to a new quadratic case in support of a collectionof existing results in adaptive control and parameter estimation of Markov chains. In the first chapter, we introduce ... -
An Analysis of the Effects of Progressive Ratio Schedules on Client Outcomes
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)To date, very few published studies have examined the clinical application of progressive-ratio (PR) schedules of reinforcement in applied research. Clinical applications of PR schedules may be effective for treatment of ... -
Old Glory as Jesus: The Relevance of Christian Nationalism in U.S. Politics
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Why, despite significant trends towards secularization, has Christian nationalism continued to influence political attitudes and communication? This dissertation investigates the construction of and continued identification ... -
Essays on Gun and Marijuana Laws
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)This dissertation adds to the economic study of gun and marijuana laws. Chapter 1 studies the impact of stand your ground laws (SYGs) on traffic fatalities. Chapter 2 investigates the effects of campus concealed carry laws ... -
Eckdsis
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Eckdsis is a thesis exhibition that explores childhood play as resistance, reclamation, and healing. This paper specifically addresses the lack of safe spaces for Black children to mature into adulthood unmarred by societal ... -
Crafting Environmental Discourse in Iran: The Uses of Mythological Narratives and the Popular Responses
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)With the escalation of environmental problems, there is also a rising demand for public understanding of environmental changes. Most people may understand the harmful impact of environmental destruction and the importance ... -
Guns and ships, but does the balance shift? The impact of naval balance of power on China's maritime disputes
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Previous research suggests that the makeup of a state’s naval power plays a significant role in the likelihood of states to enter into militarized disputes (Gartzke and Lindsay 2020, Mitchell 2020, Crisher 2017). Decisionmakers ... -
The Merits of Military Aid An Examination of the Interactions between US Military Aid and Terrorism in the East African Community
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Over the past twenty years, the United States has been increasingly involved in combatting terrorism across the globe. To combat terrorism, the United States has made billions of dollars in disbursements of both developmental ... -
Memoir as Museum: Experiencing the Civil Rights Movement Through ‘The Real Thing’
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)The memoir genre offers a unique opportunity for readers to learn about the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) through firsthand narrative accounts of this time in United States history. Memoirs are hybrid in nature as both ... -
Existence and Stability of Solitary Waves for NLS with Defects
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)The main focus of this dissertation is to investigate the existence and stability of solitary waves to dispersive partial differential equations and, in particular to nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with defects nonlinearity. ... -
Theatrical Sites of Memory: Witnessing Terrorism and War in Post-9/11 Performance
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Thus far in the twenty-first century, the United States has experienced a plethora of nationally tragic and traumatic events which have unbalanced, reshaped, and challenged the identity and collective memory of the American ... -
Identification of Biomolecules using Thermoplastic Nanofluidic Devices for Applications in Single-Molecule Sequencing
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)We are developing an innovative Single-Molecule Sequencing (SMS) strategy that consists of enzymatically cleaving intact RNAs using a processive enzyme to generate individual ribonucleotide monophosphates (rNMPs). This can ... -
Plant Mycorrhizal Feedback Patterns in the Context of Plant Life History and Phylogeny in the Prairie
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)My research bridges the general themes of plant species coexistence, mutualistic interactions, and microbial feedbacks. These mechanisms have implications for our understanding of plant community dynamics, for land management, ... -
Evaluating Gambling Disorder in an American Indian Population Using a Probability Discounting Task during an fMRI Scan
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Probability discounting has a rich history of investigating choice behavior, especially as it pertains to risky decision making. Gambling involves risky decision making through choice behavior, which makes it an ideal ... -
A History of Black Museums in the United States: An Ecology of Museum Knowledges as 'Wake Work'
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)In this thesis, I track the history of African American museums in the United States to build a digital humanities-based project called A History of Black Museums in the United States. This project is intended to be used ... -
Rethinking Art and Virtue in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This thesis argues that a re-examination of the similarities and differences between Shakespeare’s As You Like It and its primary narrative source, Thomas Lodge’s Rosalynde (1590), reveals important insights that would ...