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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Workplace Violence in Applied Behavior Analysis: Prevalence and Victimization Response Training
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Workplace victimization involves an employee performing an act of violence towards another employee within the work environment. Prevalence data of workplace victimization within the field of behavior analysis do not ... -
Discovery of Cellular Kinase Inhibitors that Impair the Early Phase of HSV-1 Lytic Infection
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) is a prevalent human pathogen infecting approximately 80-90% of the global population. HSV-1 establishes life-long infections due to its ability to cycle between a lytic and latent phase. ... -
A Metric Tensor Approach to Data Assimilation on Adaptive Moving Meshes
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Data assimilation (DA) combines noisy, partial data with imperfect physical models in order to make better predictions about the past, current, or future state of some dynamical system. Often the partial differential ... -
Advances in soil genesis and morphology and their impact on the water cycle
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Broad-scale approaches to soil genesis and morphology and their impact on the water cycle are critically important to address widespread ecosystem service challenges in the future especially given increasing climatic and ... -
Applications of Malliavin-Stein Method: Spatial averages of solution to stochastic heat equation and Breuer-Major theorem
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)This thesis includes four main parts. The first part is an exposition about Malliavin calculus, Malliavin-Stein method, Walsh stochastic integral and existence and regularity of mild solution to stochastic heat equation. ... -
A General Search for Supersymmetry in Compressed Scenarios Featuring a Novel Fake Lepton Estimation Method
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)The overarching, foundational theory of our universe, the Standard Model, is a powerful predictor of known physics. However, there are still open questions in this model of physics that are currently being explored, such ... -
New generation fast Silicon detectors for timing and particle Identification High Energy Physics and applications
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)The High Energy Physics (HEP) community is working towards the upgrade of existing research facilities, as well as paving the way for the construction of state-of-the-art particle colliders. The increased rate of collisions ... -
Using Simulated Clusters to Analyze and Develop Snow Radar Products in Grand Mesa, Colorado
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Obtaining timely basin-scale winter and early spring characteristics of snowpack in the Western United States are important for modeling water availability during the melt season, especially with increased warming due to ... -
An Ailing Republic: How Covid-19 Affected the 2020 Presidential Election
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)The United States presidential election is an event that surpasses all others in American politics. Since the beginning of the American “experiment”, the presidency has served as the most visible and recognizable branch ... -
Ideological Framing: Key to Overcoming Motivated Reasoning on Climate Change
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Research has demonstrated that the presentation of scientific information about climate change strengthens Democrats’ belief in the scientific consensus on this issue and increases their support for mitigation policy ... -
Carbonate Carbon Isotope Chemostratigraphy from the Ruby Ranch Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation in the Western San Rafael Swell
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)The Ruby Ranch Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation in East-Central Utah represents terrestrial deposits in the early Cretaceous Period. This member has been studied at multiple field locations and has been determined ... -
An Evaluation of an Electronic Picture-Based Multiple-Stimulus-Without-Replacement Preference Assessment
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Reinforcers are critical for skill acquisition and behavior reduction for children with intellectual and developmental disorders (IDD). Identifying reinforcers is often a routine part of the assessment and treatment ... -
Upwelling
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)My thesis consists of the first three chapters of Upwelling, a literary fantasy novel examining the intersection of relationships, power, and storytelling through the narrative of a mermaid coming to live on land. The ... -
Online misogynistic harassment and response rhetoric: A case study of Anita Sarkeesian and her harassers
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Online misogynistic harassment has created both a degrading and violent space for many people who have social media profiles. Even though social media platforms have started to update their rules regarding content and ... -
The Imperial Drawbridge: Alaska and the U.S. Pacific Empire
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Historians of the nineteenth-century West generally agree that the United States created a continental empire in the U.S. West. Historians of U.S. foreign relations have long characterized the U.S. presence in the Pacific ... -
Population genomics, systematics, and phylogenomics of the tapeworm order Trypanorhyncha
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)The order Trypanorhyncha is a ubiquitous and speciose group of commercially relevant marine tapeworms. As adults, trypanorhynchs inhabit the guts of sharks and rays (i.e., elasmobranchs). They sport attachment organs with ... -
Making Black Public Humanities in South Florida: Fugitive Pedagogies, Self-Making, and Memory Work
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)“Making Black public humanities in South Florida: Fugitive Pedagogies, Self-Making, and Memory Work” seeks to make a contribution to the field of Black public humanities by examining the history and achievements of the ... -
Histamine dehydrogenase from Rhizobium sp. 4-9: a potential enzyme for histamine biosensing applications
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Dehydrogenases are enzymes that consist of a flavin cofactor in their catalytic unit and a heme or an Fe4S4 cluster in their electron transfer subunit, thereby having the ability to undergo direct electron transfer processes. ... -
Essays on Divisia Monetary Aggregates and Global Monetary Policies: Evidence from the United States and China
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The Divisia Monetary Aggregate Index was based on aggregation theory in microeconomics and index theory in statistics. It has a solid theoretical foundation and is generally recognized by the academy as the monetary ... -
TIP AND TIP CHAPERONE INTERACTION IN YERSINIA AND PSEUDOMONAS
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Spectroscopy is one of the most wildly used approaches to determine various properties ofproteins. A wide range of spectroscopic methods are available to answer biological questions such as protein structure dynamics and ...