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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Resource Allocation in Multi-user MIMO Networks: Interference Management and Cooperative Communications
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Nowadays, wireless communications are becoming so tightly integrated in our daily lives, especially with the global spread of laptops, tablets and smartphones. This has paved the way to dramatically increasing wireless ... -
Translating Educational Research into Classroom Practice: Working Together to Close the Gap
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The research-to-practice gap, the disconnect between what we know about education and what we do in practice (Olswang & Prelock, 2015) or the gap between the production of new knowledge through research and its inclusion ... -
Postmodern Views of Work: The Effects of Narrative on the Perceived Value of Work
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Abstract As a result of the changing landscape of the world of work and the reduction of stability in occupations over the last few decades, many in the field of vocational psychology have suggested a reconceptualization ... -
Decision Factors Contributing to Music Therapy Students Selecting an Internship in the Hospice Setting
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the general factors that contribute to the decision-making process when choosing a music therapy internship and ascertain targeted factors that might impact an individual ... -
Mountain Sound: Norway's Jazz Identity
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Jazz musicians in Norway have cultivated a distinctive sound, driven by timbral markers and visual album aesthetics that are associated with the cold mountain valleys and fjords of their home country. This jazz dialect was ... -
A Mixed Methods Investigation Into Single-Sex Choral Ensembles at the Middle-Level
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)The purpose of this study was to comprehensively examine the frequency of single-sex choirs in middle school music programs, motivations for offering these ensembles, and both strategies for the implementation of and ... -
Neuroendocrine and Lymphocyte Responses to Varied Intensities of Exercise
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)Introduction: Dual stress challenges combine the stress of exercise with additional psychological stresses. Under many circumstances, such as military training, these stresses are inseparable. The dual stress challenge ... -
Good Catholics, Bad Acts: Sacrilege, Blasphemy and Lived Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)Histories of the Spanish Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often view it as a militant champion of Catholic orthodoxy, where the Spanish Inquisition eradicated all erroneous behaviors and beliefs. Thousands ... -
Kinetic, Spectroscopic, and Computational Insight into the Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactivity of Manganese Complexes Supported by Pentadentate Ligands
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)In biological systems, manganese enzymes have been shown to perform vital proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions. In manganese lipoxygenase, a mid-valent MnIII-hydroxo moiety is proposed to abstract a hydrogen ... -
Direct and Indirect Probing of Higher-Lying Excited-States of Photoactive Molecules
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)It is often assumed that optically accessible excited-states above S1 play only a marginal role in the photochemistry and photodynamics of molecular systems. However, many classes of molecules have been found in which the ... -
Artificial Futures and Posthuman Subjects: Social and Moral Implications of Technology and Scientific Advancement in Spanish Science Fiction
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)Science fiction (SF) is one area where fictional and theoretical writings on science naturally converge. Despite this inherent nature of the genre and its potential to bridge the “two culture” divide between the arts and ... -
In Our Country, but Outside Our Homeland: Identity and Diaspora Among Ukraine’s Internally Displaced Crimeans
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)In response to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, tens of thousands of Crimean residents have relocated to mainland Ukraine as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), including many ethnic Ukrainians, ... -
Rethinking the Scales of Eurasia: Geopolitical Narratives and Borders in Ukraine
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)Geopolitics relies on discursive constructions of world affairs to forge privileged meanings in the service of particular aims involving spatial relations. This study interrogates how geographical scale is used to spatialize ... -
No Longer Your Best Black Friend (BBF): The Roles and Expectations of Black Women in Contemporary Television
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)There are still certain expectations held about black women and certain roles that they are expected to fit into. This is heavily prevalent in the film and television industry. This study aims to analyzes the black female ... -
Characterization and Thermodynamic Analysis of a Series of MnIII-OH Complexes that undergo Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)Abstract Mononuclear MnIII-hydroxo motifs employ hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) reactions in biology and synthetic systems to oxidize a wide range of CH or OH bonds. Extensive studies on high valent Fe and Mn model systems ... -
Carboxylated Organic Matter Influences Magnesium Uptake in Three Low-Temperature Dolomite Models
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Numerous geochemical models explain the formation of dolomite at low temperature, a controversial mineral due to its abundance in geological deposits but paucity in modern environments. Several of these models are based ... -
The Design and Synthesis of β-Keto Vinyl Sultams and Macrocyclic β-Keto Vinyl Sultams: Novel Analogs of Tetramic Acids
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Sulfur (S)-containing heterocyclic compounds possessing R1R2N–SO2R3 functionality have been recognized as important due to their innate physical properties that affect biological systems marking them as attractive targets ... -
ADULT-GERONTOLOGY NURSE PRACTITIONER STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF PREPAREDNESS FOR PRACTICE
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Problem: The role of the nurse practitioner (NP) continues to gain clarity in terms of the skills needed to meet the increasing demands of primary care practice. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in ... -
The effects of resistance training on motor unit firing rates and recruitment during submaximal contractions
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Introduction: Previous investigations regarding the effects of resistance training on motor unit (MU) behavior during submaximal contractions have yielded inconclusive results. These investigations have predominantly ... -
Tutoring Chinese English-as-Foreign-Language Learners to Read: An Exploratory Research of Customized Reading Scaffolding Instruction
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Given the status quo that Chinese English-as-foreign-language (EFL) learners’ reading practice is mainly confined to teach-to-test pedagogy, many of them who are struggling in reading have neither the interest nor the ...