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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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An Analysis of the Effects of a Remote Intervention on Exercise in Adults
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Physical activity is important for overall health. Behavioral strategies such as goal setting, feedback, and reinforcement have been used to increase levels of physical activity to health benefitting levels. The present ... -
Faith and Firearms: An Exploration of Religion’s Entanglement with Guns in America
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Numerous studies show that religion predicts an individual’s likelihood of owning a gun, but the role of religious tradition in shaping attitudes and outcomes about guns and gun policy in the United States is undertheorized. ... -
The Influence of Parental Bonding on Information Processing in Depression
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The cognitive perspective on risk for depression and depression reoccurrence posits that individuals who suffer from multiple episodes are at-risk because of latent depressotypic schemas. Dysfunctional parental bonding is ... -
School-Based Speech Language Pathologists’ Service Delivery to Students with Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: A Survey Study
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The researcher investigated school-based speech-language pathologists’ service delivery to student survivors of pediatric traumatic brain injury in comparison to the American Speech Language and Hearing Association’s ... -
Tradition, Innovation, and Agency in a City of God: The Philadelphia Cité de Dieu and Early Fifteenth-Century Parisian Manuscript Culture
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-21)In 1371, Raoul de Presles, a lawyer associated with the French royal court, translated the twenty-two books of St. Augustine’s City of God into French and appended additional commentary to each chapter. Raoul's preface, ... -
Using CloudSat and MERRA-2 to Examine the Characteristics and Variability of Individual Cloud Types Associated with Intertropical Convergence Zone Extremes
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Diabatic heating is often inaccurately represented in weather forecast and global climate models (GCMs). These problems are compounded at low latitudes where diabatic heating strongly affects the large-scale circulation ... -
Painting Uyghurs: News Media Representations of Uyghurs
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This thesis examines the portrayal of Uyghurs in fourteen news media outlets from 2014 to mid-2020, revealing the broader discourses deployed in discussions of Uyghurs and the PRC’s treatment of them. The study was carried ... -
Using Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Peer Support Workers to Respond to a Boundary Crossing
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Peer support is an evidence-based model of care for people living with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder. Peers, who are people living with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder, use their lived ... -
Search for Production of Supersymmetric Top Quarks in Hadronic and Multi-leptonic Final States, Using a Deep Neural Network Based Soft B-tagger For Compressed Mass Scenarios
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)A search is performed for pair produced supersymmetric top (stop) quarks in hadronic andmulti-leptonic final states. The search uses a sample of proton-proton collision data at p s = 13 TeV, corresponding to 137 fb?1, ... -
Development of microfluidic methods for the determination of products of nitrosative and oxidative stress
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)When the pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory immune responses becomeimbalanced, an excess of pro-inflammatory reactive nitrogen and oxygen species (RNOS) may be produced, which in turn can react with biomolecules such ... -
Dirty Work: Reframing Western Acting Techniques in Contemporary Adult Film Performance
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)My research examines the adult film industry’s approach to technique in actor-training including the commodification and fetishization of people of color, queer-identifying performers, and other marginalized bodies who ... -
The Color of my Skin: A Symphonic Pilgrimage
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The Color of my Skin: A Symphonic Pilgrimage, is an audiovisual symphony consisting of seven movements that were created during the 2020/21 COVID-19 pandemic. The totality of the work has been sculpted, and woven together ... -
An Investigation of How Variables Impact Accuracy of Data Collection
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Assessment of accuracy should be conducted ongoing throughout research and intervention. This study aimed to identify how the number and frequency of behaviors effected measurement accuracy. Participants were students ... -
Beyond Arrhenius: Fluctuation Theory for Dynamics
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)A long-standing challenge for simulation and experiment has been the accurate calculation ofactivation energies and activation volumes via Arrhenius analyses which typically require rate constants or dynamical timescales ... -
Zugunruhe (migratory restlessness)
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Zugunruhe is a German word for migratory restlessness used in ornithology that I found applicable to the ideas I am investigating through printmaking and textile-based techniques. In my art I am exploring landscapes both ... -
Modulational and Subharmonic Dynamics of Periodic Waves
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The overarching theme of this dissertation is to investigate the stability and dynamics of spatially-periodic travelling and stationary wave solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) arising from physical applications. ... -
Al-Azhar's Renewal of Religious Discourse and Power after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This paper focuses on al-Azhar's role in renewing religious discourse after the 2011 Egyptian revolution. I will focus on whether or not the religious discourse is changing in al-Azhar (the Sunni Islamic institution) and ... -
Poéticas y políticas de la movilidad en el cine del Abya Yala
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Traditionally, images of indigenous people in film are often misrepresented and based on a colonial gaze that reinforces stereotypes and romanticizes indigenous histories and cultures. Yet, during the late 20th century, ... -
Which Meritocracy? An Exploration of Gender Differences in Meritocracy Belief and Experiences in Relation to Advancement in Academic Medicine
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This research contributes to the gender and medical sociology literature with two explorations: 1) a comparison of how men and women perceive the institution of academic medicine as a meritocracy and 2) linking these ... -
Pokot and Western Christian Missions: A Postcolonial Story of Place and Perception
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)In 1931, after decades of British colonial control, the first Western Christian missionaries came to Pokot, the region inhabited by the pastoralist Pokot people in western Kenya and eastern Uganda. For the past ninety ...