Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Does Aid Delivery Matter? The Role of Aid Delivery Mechanisms in Punishing Recipients, Credibly Signaling to Recipients, and Influencing Public Opinion
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Foreign aid decision making involves multiple stages, including decisions about which countries to allocate aid to and how to deliver that aid to those recipients. While aid allocation has been studied extensively, foreign ... -
Assessing the links between Internalizing Symptoms and Treatment Motivation in Incarcerated Juveniles
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The assessment of internalizing symptoms among incarcerated juveniles is limited. Untreated internalizing symptoms can lead to both problems within the facility as well as a higher likelihood of recidivism. However, more ... -
Reconciling Discrepancies between Entry into Foster Care and Mental Health Service Use for Black and Latinx Youth
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Black and Latinx youth who are the subject of a child welfare investigation are more likely to be placed into foster care compared to non-Latinx White youth. Foster care placement can facilitate mental health service use, ... -
Media Framing of Hybrid War: 2016 Russian Election Interference Case
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)This study examined the frame-building process of Russian (English-speaking news,aimed at U.S. audience) and U.S. news during the Russian election interference scandal. Hybrid war is an ambiguous and relatively new concept ... -
Influence of Precipitation and Land Use on Pore Geometry in Soils with Vertic Properties
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Soil aggregates, a fundamental unit of soil structure, are formed when minerals and organic matter bind together. Physiochemical drivers, such as soil texture and organic carbon (OC), help govern soil aggregate resiliency ... -
Ideal Free Distribution in Canines: Free-Operant Evaluation of Group Foraging
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The ideal free distribution describes behavior of organisms in groups and is an extension of the matching law that suggests the allocation of the number of organisms across two or more resource sites will be distributed ... -
The 15-aa Repeat Region of Adenomatous Polyposis Coli: Association with β-catenin and Interplay with Cell Cycle Regulator TopoisomeraseIIα
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The tumor suppressor Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) is a large, multi-domain protein with many identified cellular functions. The best characterized role of APC is to scaffold a protein complex that negatively regulates ... -
Assessing the Role of Solution Chemistry and Organic Matter in the Genesis of the Dengying Formation Dolostones at Sichuan Basin, China
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The role that microorganisms play in low-temperature dolomite formation is still unresolved. Given the scarcity of dolomite in modern low-temperature depositional settings, controls on its formation remain unclear. Textural ... -
Ranching in the Floodplain of the Queguay River in Northwestern Uruguay: Sustainable Practices in the Face of Extreme Seasonal Variability and Woody Encroachment
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Alianza del Pastizal is a non-profit conservation organization that works to promote conservation practices for sustainable cattle ranching in Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. In Uruguay, the ranchers in the Colonia ... -
Lexical acoustics: Linking phonetic systems to the higher-order units they encode
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)In the canonical analysis of the acoustic and perceptual structure of phonetic systems, experiments and modeling procedures are based on a balanced inventory of phones whose characteristics and relational structures are ... -
An Interpretation and Defense of Aristotle's Theory of Well-Being
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Sometimes we are required to help others even if it makes us less well off. Cases in which our personal happiness must be sacrificed for moral duty have long vexed moral philosophers and have been central to discussions ... -
Investigation of Induced Seismicity in Southern Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The US midcontinent has experienced an unprecedented increase in seismic activity over the last decade attributed to increased wastewater injection into the Arbuckle Group, directly above the Precambrian igneous and ... -
Seismic Characterization of Slope Deposits of Carbonate Shelf Margins
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Seismic data are essential to understanding subsurface geology, but the marked geological and architectural variability of carbonate strata relative to seismic resolution can hinder accurate interpretation. To test the ... -
Development of KUbeSat-1 Payloads PCRD and HiCalK
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)KUbeSat-1 is set to be the first CubeSat mission from Kansas; flown by students from the Physics and Astronomy and Aerospace Engineering departments. It has two physics payloads, Primary Cosmic Ray Detector (PCRD) and ... -
One Pathway to Rule Them All: Wnt Signaling Guides Specification and Axon Growth in VD13
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The nervous system is highly complex, and its formation is regulated and guided from the moment a neuron is born to throughout its life. Neurons must undergo a series of steps throughout development, typically including a ... -
G. Strawson and Aristotle on Moral Responsibility and Punishment
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)In this paper, I bring G. Strawson’s famous 1994 paper “The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility” and Aristotle into conversation. I argue that his Basic Argument is best taken as targeting solely desert-based moral ... -
Application of Deep Learning to Automated Species Identification Systems
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Researchers monitor species’ populations for a variety of purposes, including surveillance of endangered or rare species for conservation goals, mitigation of public health threats caused by diseases vectored by insects, ... -
Mitotic dysregulation in EWS fusion expressing sarcomas
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Chromosomal instability (CIN), an unstable genome induced by mitotic dysfunction and unfaithful chromosome segregation, plays a pivotal role in cancer initiation and progression. However, the various upstream events that ... -
Enhancing the correlative ecological niche modeling framework to incorporate the temporal dimension of species’ distributions
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Anthropogenic climate change is impacting biodiversity at all scales. Detailed spatio-temporal information about geographic distributions of species will be critical to mitigating the ramifications of these impacts. The ... -
Modification with De in Mandarin Chinese
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)This dissertation looked at the de construction in Mandarin Chinese, in which the morpheme de connects two meaningful parts and conveys a modification relation between the two. The de construction can be used in both the ...