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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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A Decolonial Perspective of Knowledge, Power and Place in the Eastern Cape Education System
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)South Africa has a complex history of contested places and knowledges. Through colonization and apartheid, places of importance were taken from the indigenous people and the education system aimed to colonize their minds. ... -
Genome-wide Investigation into Chlamydial Factors Important in Host-Specific Pathogenesis
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Chlamydia are unique obligate intracellular organisms responsible for disease in a wide variety ofhosts. A defining feature of these bacteria is their biphasic developmental cycle, through which Chlamydia interact with the ... -
Examination of Plains Middle Woodland Community Networking Dynamics through Ceramic Analysis: A Dual Geochemistry Approach
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The Plains Middle Woodland communities of Kansas, the Kansas City Hopewell (KCH), is the western-most center of the Hopewell culture. Community networking for KCH is suggested to have focused on populations interactions ... -
Tradition Reinvented: The Reimagination of Kanpō Medicine in Twentieth Century Japan
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)This dissertation examines the ideological development of classical Japanese medical (later known as kanpō) philosophy and practice between the Edo period (1603-1868) and the mid-twentieth century. During this time, kanpō ... -
Interrogating War Stories: Dramaturgical Encounters with National Trauma
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Interrogating War Stories: Dramaturgical Encounters with National Trauma examines the intersection between dramaturgy and trauma studies. I argue that by incorporating trauma-informed approaches to the practice of dramaturgy, ... -
Functional Characterization of Musashi1 in Mouse Postnatal Development and Intestinal Homeostasis
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Tightly regulated gene expression is essential for normal development and maintenance of tissue homeostasis. RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are essential facilitators of spatiotemporal gene expression control by regulating ... -
EVALUATING THE ICHNOFOSSIL TEREDOLITES AS AN INDICATOR OF SALINITY AND PALEOENVIRONMENT
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The ichnogenus Teredolites and Teredolites Ichnofacies is an accepted proxy for marine influence in paralic to open marine depositional environments (EOD). Actualistic approaches and the process-ichnologic framework allow ... -
The Fairer Sex: Ethnocentric Explanations of Racial Differences in Sexual Behavior.
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)This research examines the intersection of racial and gender discourse in beliefs about sexuality. The sexual habits of women of color have been pathologized in popular and scientific discourse. White women and the behavioral ... -
Typology and Analysis of Change in Person Marking Reference
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The two-fold goal of this dissertation is to conduct a thorough survey of diachronic changes to person marking reference within paradigms (here called Person Marking Referent Shifts or PMRS) across a wide set of languages ... -
Down the Garden Path: Misleading Narratives in French and Francophone Video Games and Texts.
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The cognitive benefits of playing have been established by many studies but video games are still widely considered a trivial activity compared to literary texts. There has been excellent scholarship on cognitive implications ... -
If It Bleeds, It Leads: Accessing the Impact of Media Coverage of Human Rights Violations on Future Terrorism.
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Previous studies of terrorism have addressed the impact of human rights abuses on future terrorist activity and the role of mass media has played shaping public perceptions of terrorism and terrorist activity, yet little ... -
The Interregnum Court of Chancery; a study of the career and writings of John Lisle, Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal (1649-1659)
(University of Kansas, 1971-05-31)John Lisle was one of the most powerful, yet one of the least well known political personages of the English civil wars and Interregnum. His reputation survives only as one of regicide and unswerving loyalty to the military ... -
Sound Decisions: A Theoretically Informed Process Model of Somatic Experiencing for the Integration of Clinical Music Therapy
(University of Kansas, 2022-01-01)Adults living with unaddressed complex or developmental trauma frequently suffer from intrapersonal and interpersonal challenges resulting from the trauma they experienced early in life. The lasting impacts of unaddressed ... -
Cognitive Attitudes of Leveling and Sharpening in Time-Error Assimilation Tendencies
(University of Kansas, 1952-05-01)In the following sections I will discuss (a) some recent attempts to explain the time-error in successive comparison studies; (b) the occurrence of indicial differences in time-error experiments; and (c) the introduction ... -
The Comparison of Sexual Attitudes and Knowledge of Female College Students, Their Mothers, and Their Same-Sexed Best Friend
(University of Kansas, 2023-12-19)This descriptive comparative study was designed to examine the similarities and differences in sexual attitudes and knowledge among female college students, their mothers, and their same-sexed best friend. A convenience ... -
The Superintendency and Boards of Education
(University of Kansas, 1953-07-01)This investigation is concerned with relationships between boards of education and the superintendents of schools they employ. While a vast amount of literature is available on efficient administration of modern public ... -
The Effects of Biofeedback Assisted Relaxation Training Upon Vascular, Muscle Contraction, and Mixed Headache Disorders
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)Headaches are one of the most common complaints of people seeking medical treatment. This study investigated the effects of thermal biofeedback assisted relaxation training upon child and adult tension, migraine, and mixed ... -
Level of Homophobia and Graduate Counseling Students' Clinical Judgments
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)It was the purpose of this study to examine the differences in clinical judgment ratings of counselor trainees, based on a client's sexual preference, with the counselor trainee's level of homophobia. Eighty graduate ... -
Parental Perception of Changes in Family Functioning From Late Pregnancy to Early Parenthood
(University of Kansas, 1984-03-02)This study was designed to identify whether changes occur in parental perception of family functioning from the third trimester of pregnancy to the early postpartum period. A secondary purpose was to compare maternal and ... -
The Vinland, Kansas Church of Christ: Its History and Significance
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)