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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Large Scale Structure: Dynamics and Statistics
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The peculiar velocity of galaxies and galaxy clusters is the only dynamical probe of gravity on cosmic scales, which makes it a crucial tool in studying gravitational instability, mass distributions and density fluctuations ... -
Regional Disparities in Cognitive Functioning of Rural and Urban Older Adults in Costa Rica
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Prior research examining health disparities by region (urban vs. rural) on dementia and cognition have been studied using screening tools mostly, with conflicting results. Some studies support a rural health disadvantage, ... -
The Gods of the Roman Family: Domestic Religion and Imperial Literature at Rome
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This thesis addresses the deities of domestic Roman religion, i.e. the lares, penates, and genii, and how references to these deities in Latin literature evolved during the first century CE. I chart how domestic religion ... -
“Focus Your Indiscriminate Rage in a Useful Direction”: Understanding Audience Engagement and Participation in the News Satire Genre
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This project aims to study the generic characteristics of current news satire on television, focusing on how audiences interact with this genre in order to learn more about audiences’ expectations and responses to these ... -
Modeling Moderators in Psychological Networks
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)It is an important goal for psychologists to develop and improve upon methods for describing multivariate relationships among observed variables. Psychological network models represent one class of methods for studying ... -
Phenomenology of Models with New Scalar Particles
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The discovery of a 125 GeV Higgs boson is one of the greatest successes of the Standard Model of particle physics, but it is also one of the paths to finding its failings. The scalar sector of the Standard Model is only a ... -
On the Edge of the Wild: Representations of Peru’s Montaña Region and its Indigenous Peoples, an Enduring Frontier between the Andean and Amazonian Worlds
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)On the Edge of the Wild demonstrates how Indigenous peoples, Spanish conquistadors, missionaries, scientific explorers, and early national elites have formulated conceptions of the montaña region—located at the eastern ... -
Teaching Dog Safety Skills to Children via Remote Technology
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Behavior analysts have been effective in teaching various safety skills (e.g., Dancho et al., 2008; Himle et al., 2004; Miltenberger et al., 2009); however, few studies have evaluated dog safety skills. Over 4.5 million ... -
The Gendering of Virtue: Cultural Influence on the Semantic Development of Aretē and Virtus
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The centrality of aretē and virtus in the value systems of the Greeks and Romans has been examined by many scholars, yet the lack of a comprehensive study directly comparing the semantic development of each term within ... -
Development and Application of Hybrid Methods
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This thesis focuses on the development and application of hybrid methods for modeling excited state properties of large systems. The rapid growth of technology and computer processing power allows the wide application of ... -
The Impact of Sunlight Variation on Depressive Symptoms Following Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Introduction: Seasonal variation in sunlight has been implicated in the pathogenesis and maintenance of major depressive disorder (MDD), but has not yet been evaluated as a potential moderator of recovery. Given the high ... -
Considering Visual Stimuli as an Active Ingredient in Vocabulary Interventions with Children on the Autism Spectrum: Evidence from a Scoping Review
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Purpose: Children with ASD demonstrate different visual processing profiles than typically developing children (Walton & Ingersoll, 2013; DiCriscio & Troiani, 2018). Evidence suggests that children with ASD may demonstrate ... -
Simulating and Analyzing Use of Water and Renewable Energy in Agricultural Areas Using FEWCalc and DSSAT
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)As much of farmland in the middle USA is located in arid and semi-arid regions, agricultural practices depend primarily on irrigation. Widely prevalent large-scale groundwater extraction for agriculture began in the 1950s ... -
Youth Perceptions of Staff as a Predictor of Restrictive Housing and Recidivism in Juvenile Detention Facilities
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Background: Youth perceptions of detention center staff may be particularly important for achieving desired outcomes both within juvenile detention centers and after youth are released. In order to fill gaps in the literature, ... -
Wnt signaling in human colonocytes: roles for the tumor suppressor APC in β-catenin cytoplasmic retention and destruction complex localization
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The Wnt signaling pathway is remarkably conserved across all metazoans. This pathway coordinates a large variety of processes involved in development, establishment of cell polarity, maintenance of tissue homeostasis, and ... -
Beyond the Traditional Sexual Script: How Consent Is Negotiated in Sexual Encounters Involving Eroticized Pain and/or Power Play
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Women are disproportionally the victims of sexual assault, and feminist scholars have partially attributed this disparity to consent dynamics within normative sexual encounters. BDSM/kink sexuality exists outside the norm ... -
Reach-scale Denitrification and Nitrogen Concentrations in Six Streams Draining Grassland and Cropland Landscapes
(University of Kansas, 2022-01-01)Denitrification is a critical microbial process that removes bioavailable nitrogen (N) in natural and human-altered ecosystems. Methods for measuring denitrification in aquatic ecosystems are fairly studied. However, the ... -
Utilization of funds and perceptions of corporate funding resources for university dance performance programs
(University of Kansas, 1986-08-31)The purpose of the study was to determine financial resources utilized for the promotion of university dance performance programs and to compare these funding resources (1) in their extent of funding of these dance programs, ... -
Scenography for Alice By Heart: The Art of Growing Up
(University of Kansas, 2023-01-01)Alice By Heart is a new musical by Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater, and Jessie Nelson. The story follows Alice, a young girl sheltering in an underground train station during the London Blitz of World War Two. There, she takes ... -
The Development of Evelyn Waugh's Career: 1903-1939
(University of Kansas, 1962-05-31)The purpose of this dissertation is to trace the development of Evelyn's manifold achievement and to show how he used with artistic skill an increasing authority in public causes which he took upon himself to support in ...