Theses: Recent submissions
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Temporal Orientation and the Association Between Adverse Life Events and Internalizing Symptoms in Vietnamese American and European American Adolescents
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Adverse life events predict varying negative outcomes, including internalizing symptoms. However, research finds cross-cultural variation in whether and to what degree factors amplify or buffer the impact of these stressors. ... -
Strange Being
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)My artistic practice is informed by philosophies of consciousness, existentialism, and personal narrative. My life is experienced through waking and dreaming modes of being. This condition informs the context for the ... -
An Analysis of the Effects of a Remote Intervention on Exercise in Adults
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Physical activity is important for overall health. Behavioral strategies such as goal setting, feedback, and reinforcement have been used to increase levels of physical activity to health benefitting levels. The present ... -
The Influence of Parental Bonding on Information Processing in Depression
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The cognitive perspective on risk for depression and depression reoccurrence posits that individuals who suffer from multiple episodes are at-risk because of latent depressotypic schemas. Dysfunctional parental bonding is ... -
School-Based Speech Language Pathologists’ Service Delivery to Students with Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: A Survey Study
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The researcher investigated school-based speech-language pathologists’ service delivery to student survivors of pediatric traumatic brain injury in comparison to the American Speech Language and Hearing Association’s ... -
Using CloudSat and MERRA-2 to Examine the Characteristics and Variability of Individual Cloud Types Associated with Intertropical Convergence Zone Extremes
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Diabatic heating is often inaccurately represented in weather forecast and global climate models (GCMs). These problems are compounded at low latitudes where diabatic heating strongly affects the large-scale circulation ... -
Painting Uyghurs: News Media Representations of Uyghurs
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This thesis examines the portrayal of Uyghurs in fourteen news media outlets from 2014 to mid-2020, revealing the broader discourses deployed in discussions of Uyghurs and the PRC’s treatment of them. The study was carried ... -
The Color of my Skin: A Symphonic Pilgrimage
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The Color of my Skin: A Symphonic Pilgrimage, is an audiovisual symphony consisting of seven movements that were created during the 2020/21 COVID-19 pandemic. The totality of the work has been sculpted, and woven together ... -
An Investigation of How Variables Impact Accuracy of Data Collection
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Assessment of accuracy should be conducted ongoing throughout research and intervention. This study aimed to identify how the number and frequency of behaviors effected measurement accuracy. Participants were students ... -
Zugunruhe (migratory restlessness)
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Zugunruhe is a German word for migratory restlessness used in ornithology that I found applicable to the ideas I am investigating through printmaking and textile-based techniques. In my art I am exploring landscapes both ... -
Al-Azhar's Renewal of Religious Discourse and Power after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This paper focuses on al-Azhar's role in renewing religious discourse after the 2011 Egyptian revolution. I will focus on whether or not the religious discourse is changing in al-Azhar (the Sunni Islamic institution) and ... -
A Dynamical Study of the Poisson-Nernst-Planck System for Three Ions
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Ionic channels and semiconductor devices use atomic scale structures to control macroscopic flows from one reservoir to another. The one-dimensional steady-state Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) system is a useful representation ... -
Phylogenetics and biogeography of two new species of paromomyid plesiadapiforms from a unique, High Arctic ecosystem of Eocene Canada
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The Margaret formation of the Eureka Sound Group in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago samples a unique, warm temperate ecosystem with a polar light regime that dates to the early Eocene epoch ~ 53 Ma. Previous paleontological ... -
Don't give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses: The Trump administration, public charge, and rhetorical constructions of citizenship
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)In August 2019, President Donald Trump and his administration announced a rule that restricted immigrants’ access to visas if they used a variety of social programs, including: Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy ... -
Randomized Subspace Iteration Method for Eigenvalue Problems
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This thesis presents the randomized subspace iteration method for eigenvalue problems. In our analysis, we have considered symmetric positive definite eigenvalue problem. We present deterministic and probabilistic bounds ... -
Effects of Feedback Statements on Staff Procedural Integrity
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)AbstractSupervisor feedback is a powerful and effective tool that can be used to increase employee performance. However, there is a lack of information regarding the essential components of supervisor feedback. This study ... -
“Boasting for Thebes”: A Thebanocentric Reading of Pindar’s Fourth Pythian Ode
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Over the last three decades, the salience of the ancient Greek poet Pindar’s Theban identity and its role in his poetics has found greater awareness among critics. Nevertheless, such discussions of Pindar’s “Thebanicity” ... -
Is Aid Worth it? An Analysis of US Counterterror Programs: Weapons, Training, and Terror
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Is counterterrorism aid effective? Some counterterrorism aid programs focus on training and education, others focus on weapons disbursements. I argue that the type of aid program affects the effectiveness of the aid in ... -
The Case of Israel: Budgets, Matriculation Exams, and the Ethnic Divide
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)In the domain of social justice, ever-diversifying, modern societies work to expand and improve their systems to accommodate multifarious citizen bases; failure to do so results in discrimination and marginalization that ... -
Characterization of Flow in Laboratory and Rock Fractures Using an In-Well Point Velocity Probe
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The In-Well Point Velocity Probe (IWPVP) is a tool deployed in the screened interval of a well that utilizes an internal small-scale tracer test to directly measure groundwater velocity on the centimeter scale. The ability ...