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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The effects of hearing protection on speech intelligibility in noise
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)Speech intelligibility was investigated in subjects with and without the use of hearing protection in a high noise environment. Fifteen normal hearing subjects and fifteen subjects with high-frequency hearing losses were ... -
Differential academic performance among post secondary school students in Nigeria
(University of Kansas, 1984-12-31)Sex, age and state differences in Physics, Chemistry and Biology achievement were investigated among post-secondary school students in Nigeria. The analysis of variance technique was applied to the 1983 Joint Matriculation ... -
La regeneración nacional y el discurso de género en la ficción española de 1900 a 1931
(University of Kansas, 2002-12-31)Este proyecto analiza la ansiedad social reinante en la España del cambio de siglo a través de los productos culturales, específicamente literarios, generados en las tres primeras décadas del siglo XX. El discurso cultural ... -
Cultural icons in Latin American theater : studies of Frida Kahlo, Carlos Gardel, Eva Perón and Selena Quintanilla-Pérez
(University of Kansas, 2001-05-31)My dissertation entitled Cultural Icons in Latin American Theater : Studies of Frida Kahlo Carlos Gardel, Eva Perón and Selena Quintanilla-Pérez demonstrates that the thread that unites these figures is their foundation ... -
Borderland identities and contemporary Spanish fiction
(University of Kansas, 2003-12-31)During the post-Franco period, national borders have constituted a subject of great debate in Spain. The country's reorganization into a state of autonomies in 1978 officially recognized distinct national entities within ... -
Political asylums: Locating mental illness in Latin American literature (1980–2000)
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This study contemplates the representation of asylums and psychiatric hospitals in a diverse selection of late twentieth-century Latin American texts, finding that these literary spaces are involved in contemporary mental ... -
El sueño polʹitico de los primeros modernistas en Centroamʹerica a travʹes de la imagen de sus ciudades: Rubʹen Darʹio, Juan Ramʹon Molina, Francisco Gavidia, y Enrique Gʹomez Carrillo
(University of Kansas, 2003-05-31)This dissertation analyzes the image of the city in texts by the first modernist Central American writers: Rubén Darío, Juan Ramón Molina, Francisco Gavidia and Enrique Gómez Carrillo, as a critical exploration of the ... -
Sujetos (trans)nacionales: la negociaci6n de la etnia, el genero sexual y la clase social en cine y literatura de fines de siglo XX
(2004-05-31)Hasta el momento, el análisis de la representación femenina en la literatura y cine latinoamericanos ha usado el concepto de negociación tangencialmente. Además, mucha de la crítica feminista se concentra en personajes ... -
Sheherazada en el Espejo: una aproximacion a lo fantastico femenino
(University of Kansas, 2004-05-31)The present dissertation project is an attempt to capture the female textual identity as conveyed by a series of fantastic texts by Hispanic women writers from the last decade of the twentieth century (Isabel Allende, ... -
The moving boundary method for determining transference numbers
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Native American perceptions of the prairie-plains environment
(University of Kansas, 1978-12-31)The purpose of this work is to discern Native American initial perceptions of the Prairie Plains by examining and comparing environmental attitudes of various Indian groups asked to accept reservations in the Prairie-Plains ... -
Petrology and stratigraphy of the Kiowa and Dakota Formations (basal Cretaceous), north-central Kansas
(University of Kansas, 1966-05-31)The Kiowa Foundation (formerly Kiowa Shale) of Early Cretaceous age and the Dakota Foundation of Early(?) and Late Cretaceous age have been studied and mapped on a detailed reconnaissance basis in an area encompassing some ... -
Rationality and legitimation : a study of the National Flood Insurance Program
(University of Kansas, 1985-05-31)The dissertation consists in the study of the historical development and present workings of the National Flood Insurance Program. The National Flood Insurance Program is the result of the U.S. government's continued ... -
Analysis of peroxynitrite-mediated post-translational modifications of caveolin-1
(University of Kansas, 2006-05-31)Caveolin-1 is an important protein in caveolae, which plays a role in cholesterol transport, signal transduction, and transcytosis and tumor suppression. Caveolin-1 is found in endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells and ... -
A study of variation in the Bryozoan Fistulipora decora (Moore and Dudley) from the Beil Limestone Member of the Lecompton Limestone of Kansas
(University of Kansas, 1971-12-31)An increasing number of bryozoan systematists are recognizing the need for a more quantitative treatment of variation in taxonomic studies of Bryozoa. The principal objective of this study was to isolate, as far as possible, ... -
Get in to Get Out: Peele-ian Horror and Consciousness-Raising
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)One area that has not fully been explored in terms of its ability to engage in Black feminist consciousness-raising (CR) is the horror film genre. This project examines Jordan Peele’s 2017 Black horror film Get Out, arguing ... -
Convergent patterns suggest parallel processes of insular anuran diversification between oceanic archipelagos of the Southwest Pacific and the sky islands of the continental Western Ghats
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The unprecedented surge in frog species descriptions over the last two decades has been attributed to increasing access to remote regions, more advanced technology and techniques, and greater interest in these groups. The ... -
Linguistic Cues Guide Prediction in the Processing of Mandarin Relative Clauses: An ERP Study
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Sentence processing has been increasingly considered as a strongly incremental and grammatically guided process in which the comprehender builds a syntactic structure and computes semantic meanings as the sentence unfolds. ... -
Branching particle systems, stochastic partial differentiable equations and nonlinear rough path analysis
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)In this dissertation, we study some problems related to the stochastic partial differential equations, branching particle systems and rough path analysis. In Chapter 1, we provide a brief introduction and background of the ... -
Who is empathetic to the disaster you are going through? Mining Emotions (Empathy) in government and nonprofit responders’ tweets.
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This project establishes and tests a measure of empathy in Twitter posts. The project intends to find evidence on whether community leaders and decision makers are showing compassion for the vulnerable communities undergoing ...