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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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A Longitudinal Case Study: Language Abilities of Minority Autistic Young Adults
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)One aim in clinical research is furthering understanding of linguistic variation across populations. While important for understanding language acquisition in the context of human development, little is known about the ... -
Bloom and Bust: A Political Ecology of Jellyfish Fisheries on the Miskitu Coast of Nicaragua
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The environment, economy, and culture of the Caribbean (Miskitu) Coast of Nicaragua have been fundamentally shaped, since the colonial period, by boom-and-bust extractive natural resource industries. Coastal residents, ... -
Technology-Based Contingency Management for Walking to Prevent Prolonged Periods of Sitting in the Workplace
(University of Kansas, 2021-01-01)Sedentary behavior is an emerging public health issue. The workplace is one variable contributing to the rising amount of sedentary time, where a growing number of individuals are employed in positions with primarily ... -
Associations Between Coping Styles, Death Anxiety, and Attitudes Towards Palliative Care
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)INTRODUCTION: Palliative care is becoming more widely available and its benefits, including improved quality of life for patients, have been demonstrated. However, misperceptions, lack of knowledge, stigma, and other ... -
Local Modifications of Interfaces and Electronic Properties on the Molecular Scale with Scanning Probe Microscopy
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The nanoscience field is shifting focus from characterizing and synthesizing novel nanomaterials, to incorporating nanomaterials into functional devices for photovoltaic, energy, and sensing applications. Furthermore, ... -
Study of the phase dynamics in moderately damped Josephson junctions and its applications
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The observation of macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) manifests the quantumness of macroscopic variables, such as the phase difference across a Josephson junction (JJ). Since then, MQT has become a hallmark experiment to ... -
Biogeographic plant-microbe patterns and process: natural and anthropogenic impacts across three spatial scales
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The plant microbiome is essential to the maintenance of plant community structure and diversity. In addition, anthropogenic forces are altering these long-standing relationships. Despite the importance of the plant microbiome ... -
Optimization of flavin oxidase enzymes for human health monitoring
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Biosensors are an analytic modality able to quantify, in real time, the abundance of specific analytes in complex biological mixtures such as blood, the brain, and in a variety of organs. However, the use of biosensors has ... -
The Prudential Significance of Care
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Prudence is a domain of action-evaluation, specifically concerned with the agent herself, in particular, with the agent’s own welfare. For instance, if an agent can benefit either herself or a stranger, then in terms of ... -
Mathematical modeling, estimation and application in finance
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Parameter estimation has wide applications in such fields as finance, oil deposit detection,etc. In this dissertation, we discuss the parameter estimation problems in a stochastic differential equation and a partial ... -
ELUCIDATION OF PROTEIN-PROTEIN AND PROTEIN-SMALL MOLECULE INTERACTIONS IN THE TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Many biological processes are characterized by transient and weak interactions. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is a powerful tool to characterize these interactions on a per-residue basis. In this dissertation, I have ... -
Strong Black Woman Archetype in Organizational Life
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Black women face multiple jeopardies—racism, sexism, classism—as they navigate American society (King, 1988). With more Black families economically depending on Black women, and as their presence within the U.S. workforce ... -
Protein Engineering Studies Toward Development of a GABA Oxidase from an N-Methyl-GABA Oxidase
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the principal inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain, and a method for its detection with high temporal and spatial resolution is highly desirable for many research and clinical applications. ... -
Limit distributions for Skorohod integrals and spatial averages of the stochastic wave and heat equation
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)In this dissertation, we study some problems related to the convergence in distribution of functionals of Gaussian processes. The approach used to address the problems presented in this thesis is based on Malliavin calculus ... -
Hyper-palatable Food Consumption during Binge Eating Episodes: A Comparison of Intake during Binge Eating and Restricting
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Background: Binge eating is considered a maladaptive behavior associated with reduced quality of health and functioning. Affect-based models of binge eating propose that binge eating may serve to reduce negative affect. ... -
When Form Meets Desire: The Transformation of the Early Nineteenth-Century Gallows Broadside
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Formerly a relatively stable genre, the format of the British gallows broadside underwent a transformation in the early half of the nineteenth century. A collision between external forces and the desires of a burgeoning ... -
Evaluation of a Functional Analysis Decision-Making Model
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Functional analyses are the most precise method for determining behavioral function (Iwata et al., 2000); however, there are many behavioral and environmental constraints that may prevent clinicians from conducting a ... -
Caenagnathids of the Hell Creek: A new specimen and volumetric mass estimation of Anzu wyliei
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Caenagnathidae is a clade of derived oviraptorosaurian theropods that existed in both Asia and North America during the late Cretaceous, forming the sister clade to Oviraptoridae. While the oviraptorids are known from many ... -
Sequence Coevolution Reveals an Intermediate Step in BamA Assisted Insertion of Outer Membrane Protein FadL
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)A unique characteristic of outer membrane proteins (OMPs) is that they almost exclusively exist as β-barrels. In E. coli, the β-Barrel Assembly Machine (BAM) complex catalyzes insertion of OMPs from the periplasm into the ... -
Occluding Junctions in Tissue Morphogenesis: Roles for Septate Junction Proteins in Drosophila melanogaster Egg Morphogenesis
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Tissue morphogenesis underlies many developmental processes in multicellular organisms and is essential for the basic organization of tissues and organs. Several cellular processes contribute to morphogenesis, including ...