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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The adulteress in Spanish tragedy (1830--1930)
(University of Kansas, 2009-05-31)The origins of the tragic adulteress in Spain may be traced back to ancient myths in western tradition, but her most potent theatrical appearance takes form during the height of the Baroque theater—that is, the Calderonian ... -
Jugando con estereotipos : los extranjeros y la identidad nacional en México y el área del Caribe hispano, 1978-1993
(University of Kansas, 1997-05-31)El presente estudio tiene por objeto observar como se explora la identidad nacional, en una serie de novelas de Mexico, Puerto Rico y Cuba escritas entre 1978 y 1993, por medio de la utilizacion de personajes extranjeros. El ... -
Multiscale analyses of cellular signaling and regulation in response to multiple stress conditions
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Understanding the relationship between signaling and its corresponding cellular response is critical to combating stress responses, especially responses related antibiotic resistance and non-genetic phenotypic transitions ... -
Live coding the Communication Complexity Scale: Validation of a clinically relevant observation tool
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)In this preliminary research study, the effect of live scoring versus video scoring of the observational rating tool, the Communication Complexity Scale (CCS), was examined through three participant variables and one ... -
Investigating Structural Barriers to Community Participation: A Political Ecology Analysis of Risk Reduction in Coastal Louisiana
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast is an ambitious policy suite directed at reducing coastal risk and building resilient communities in the midst of a coastal erosion crisis that threatens the ecological ... -
A Study of the Dimensionality of the Brief Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives and Dependence Motive Profiles Among African American Daily Smokers
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Introduction: African American (AA) smokers consume fewer cigarettes per day (CPD) and are less likely to report nicotine withdrawal, yet quit smoking at lower rates than White smokers. Racial differences in dependence-related ... -
Towards measurement of UHECR with the ARA experiment
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) experiment at the South Pole aims to detect GZK (Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin) neutrinos (of energies from some PeV to higher energies) from extra-galactic sources. ARA looks for Askaryan emission ... -
Genetic and functional characterization of antimicrobial secondary metabolites produced by Burkholderia species
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Within the bacterial genus Burkholderia, the Bptm group is made up of three closely related species: Burkholderia pseudomallei, B. thailandensis, and B. mallei. This group contains both pathogenic and non-pathogenic species ... -
SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION IN INDIA: SOCIAL STRUCTURES, WOMEN’S AGENCY, AND MEDIA DISCOURSE
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This dissertation seeks to understand the full context within which sex-selective abortion (SSA) occurs in India. It examines the historical forces, political movements, government policies, and gender regimes that have ... -
The Impacts of Hostile Events on Partisan Evaluation in East Asia
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This research focuses on how foreign influence, such as threats to national security and financial crises, changes the attitudinal patterns of citizens. Specifically, this research empirically examines the effects of ... -
Assessing the Impact of Retirement Resources on U.S. Older Female Workers’ Retirement Timing: A Theory of Planned Behavior Model
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Retirement is an important life event for all workers. Most older workers look forward to retirement and having a retirement plan is important for a successful transition. Those who plan also demonstrate a more positive ... -
Phylogeny and Mating System Evolution of Tolpis (Asteraceae) in Macaronesia
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Tolpis (Asteraceae) is a flowering plant genus with a center of distribution in the Macaronesian archipelagos. The genus has gained considerable interest, most recently, for elucidating patterns of mating system evolution, ... -
Fighting a War: Svetlana Alexievich’s Prose between History and Literature
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)In this dissertation, I analyze three books from Svetlana Alexievich’s Nobel Prize-winning cycle, Voices of Utopia, in their initial and later heavily revised editions and demonstrate how Alexievich turns oral history into ... -
Effects of Noncontingent Reinforcement with Competing Stimuli for Decreasing Problem Behavior Maintained by Social Positive Reinforcement
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) is an evidenced-based procedure that has been shown to be effective for reducing problem behavior maintained by social positive reinforcement (Carr et al., 2009). NCR typically involves ... -
Silicon's Second World: Scarcity, Political Indifference and Innovation in Czechoslovak Computing, 1964-1994
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)How societies invent, adopt, adapt, distribute and innovate with computers is an important puzzle for historians of technology, economists, educators and government planners alike. This dissertation examines the developmental ... -
Gothic Heterotopias: Dracula's Physical Space of Illusion and The Dying Detective's Penumbra Space of Compensation
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-21)This thesis studies embodiments of deviancy in two fin-de-siècle Gothic texts — Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Dying Detective — using Michel Foucault’s notions of heterotopias and ... -
The Art of Retribution: Holocaust Memory and Justice in People's Poland and Soviet Lithuania, 1944-69
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The pursuit of Holocaust justice and representation in the European socialist borderlands is a story of the navigation of the murky terrain of responsibility for violence. In the closing days of World War II, territories ... -
An In-Depth Analysis of the Performance Diagnostic Checklist – Human Services (PDC-HS)
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The current study aims to assess a digital version of the Performance Diagnostic Checklist – Human Services (PDC-HS; Carr et al., 2013; Carr & Wilder, 2016). In Experiment 1, within three non-concurrent multiple baseline ... -
An Assessment of Token Value and Effectiveness
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Token systems are a commonly used treatment procedure to increase levels of a desired behavior (e.g., compliance) or decrease levels of an unwanted behavior (e.g., aggression) for a variety of different responses (Hackenberg, ... -
Resisting Temptations of Infidelity in Imagined and Virtual Contexts
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Relationship scientists have focused on the attitudes, perceptions, motivations, and consequences of infidelity, though a framework of the decision-making process that underlies infidelity is lacking. The central aim of ...