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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Producing for what? GDP and Well-being in China’s Economic Policies
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)China’s economic growth in the 2000s relied heavily on its manufacturing and construction sectors, which expanded disproportionately rapidly. During the period of the Hu-Wen administration (2002-2012), the Chinese government ... -
RHETORIC OF THE FEMINIST KILLJOY: AN ANALYSIS OF BAYLOR UNIVERSITY’S TITLE IX DISCOURSE
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)In October of 2016, Baylor University’s first Title IX coordinator, Patty Crawford, publicly resigned. She alleged that Baylor had failed to provide her with necessary resources to investigate sexual assault on campus and ... -
Pediatricians’ Use of Developmental Screeners to Identify Communication Delays: Trends Across the United States
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)A majority of children are seen in the healthcare setting in the first 5 years of life, specifically for well-child visits, but only a fraction of children with communication delays are identified before school age. Even ... -
The Satellite Population Around Luminous Red Galaxies in the Legacy Surveys
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Luminous Red Galaxies, or LRGs, were originally selected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as good tracers of large scale structure. Subsequent investigations showed them to be among the most massive galaxies in the Universe ... -
Collective Guilt and Selective Avoidance
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Why are Native Americans frequently omitted from mainstream American consciousness? One possible explanation is that reminders of the ways that non-Native Americans historically harmed Native Americans lead to feelings of ... -
Molecular Dissection of the Shigella Type III Secretion System Sorting Platform
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Shigella flexneri is a Gram negative bacterium that invades human intestinal epithelial cells and causes bacillary dysentery (shigellosis). An alarming feature of Shigella species is that as few as 10 organisms is a large ... -
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Land Allotment on the Pawnee Reservation
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)This research explores the patterns and consequences of land allotment for the Pawnee Nation of north-central Oklahoma. During the late nineteenth century, the federal government implemented a policy of breaking up tribal ... -
Moving Beyond “our banal, murderous imagination”: The Ideology of the Weird and the (De)composition of Progress in Environmental Science Fiction
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Weird science fiction is a subcategory of science fiction that adapts horror and supernatural elements, often with a focus on awe- and fear-inspiring monsters. In this paper, I argue for a shift from exploring the generic ... -
Characterizing transcriptional and metabolic regulatory pathways in Chlamydia trachomatis
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Chlamydia species all share a unique, phylum-defining biphasic developmental cycle. This developmental cycle is regulated in a strict temporal pattern, although, how this temporal regulation is controlled is poorly understood. ... -
The Realization of Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 pays testament to the all too familiar idea that a single moment can change your whole life. Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace inspired this musical. Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet ... -
The Forgotten Army: The Republic of Korea Forces’ Conduct in the Vietnam War, 1965 – 1973
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)South Korean participation in the Vietnam War (1964-1973) is like the United States’ endeavors in the Korean War (1950-1953), namely both became soon-forgotten wars. Based on bilingual research in the U.S. and South Korea, ... -
Thermally altered microbialites of the terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation, Sichuan Basin, South China
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)In the Sichuan Basin and surrounding areas, the terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation hosts diverse microbialite forms. Interest in this formation has mainly centered around oil and gas reservoir development, but recent ... -
Accessing Genre/Genre as Access
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)This dissertation project asks: How does writing shape access to particular actions, communities, and/or settings? The author adapts a framework for exploring the relationship between writing and access by synthesizing ... -
Are the Criterion B Binge-Eating Disorder Symptoms Interchangeable in Conveying the Latent Binge-Eating Trait? An Item Response Theory Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Binge-eating disorder (BED) is one of the most prevalent eating-disorder diagnoses among nationally representative samples of adults. Yet, few studies have evaluated the psychometrics of the BED diagnostic criteria. The ... -
Lorraine Hansberry's Radical Activism Beyond Broadway
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)This thesis utilizes two of Lorraine Hansberry’s plays, "Les Blancs" (1970) and "Flowers for the General" (1955), to interrogate the larger misconceptions and myths that surround Hansberry and her most famous play, "A ... -
Reconstruction of Holocene Relative Sea-Level Positions for the Morgan Peninsula and Gulf Shores Area of Alabama Using Ground-Penetrating Radar
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Holocene sea-level rise along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast has been debated. One hypothesis interprets basal peats from the Mississippi Delta to indicate continual sea-level rise for the Gulf of Mexico. An alternate ... -
An Inquiry Concerning the Nature of Racial Discourse
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)In this dissertation, I assess the nature of racial discourse from an interdisciplinary perspective. I argue against the new biological racial realism, according to which races are genetic natural kinds or distinct parts ... -
Kindergarten Readiness Summer Speech Boot Camp—Can Children Make Enough Gains in Their Stimulability of Target Sounds Over Summer Break?
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Children with mild-to-moderate speech sound disorder (SSD) often don’t qualify for an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) in the public-school setting as a result of the large caseloads that school-based speech-language ... -
A Behavioral Economic Evaluation of Preference and Reinforcer Assessment Methods in Organizational Behavior Management
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)There are several available methods for identifying incentives that employees would prefer to work for. However, few organizational behavior management studies have directly evaluated the reliability and validity of these ... -
Restructuring the National Security State: President Richard M. Nixon, the War in Vietnam, and Executive Reorganization
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)My dissertation explains how and why President Richard M. Nixon directed a fundamental rebuilding of the National Security State. I argue that Nixon worked hard to sideline major executive departments, as well as Congress, ...