Theses: Recent submissions
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The Comparison of Sexual Attitudes and Knowledge of Female College Students, Their Mothers, and Their Same-Sexed Best Friend
(University of Kansas, 2023-12-19)This descriptive comparative study was designed to examine the similarities and differences in sexual attitudes and knowledge among female college students, their mothers, and their same-sexed best friend. A convenience ... -
The Effects of Biofeedback Assisted Relaxation Training Upon Vascular, Muscle Contraction, and Mixed Headache Disorders
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)Headaches are one of the most common complaints of people seeking medical treatment. This study investigated the effects of thermal biofeedback assisted relaxation training upon child and adult tension, migraine, and mixed ... -
Level of Homophobia and Graduate Counseling Students' Clinical Judgments
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)It was the purpose of this study to examine the differences in clinical judgment ratings of counselor trainees, based on a client's sexual preference, with the counselor trainee's level of homophobia. Eighty graduate ... -
Parental Perception of Changes in Family Functioning From Late Pregnancy to Early Parenthood
(University of Kansas, 1984-03-02)This study was designed to identify whether changes occur in parental perception of family functioning from the third trimester of pregnancy to the early postpartum period. A secondary purpose was to compare maternal and ... -
The Vinland, Kansas Church of Christ: Its History and Significance
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A Multi-Materials Approach to Teaching The Civil War to Eighth Grade American History Students
(University of Kansas, 1979-05-31)This paper reports the findings of a study designed to offer an effective alternative to a traditional textbook approach to teaching the Civil War to eighth grade students. The research design was a two group pretest-posttest ... -
Effects of Total Internal Water Content on Freeze-Thaw Durability and Scaling Resistance of Internally-Cured Concrete
(University of Kansas, 2023-05-31)The effects of total internal (TI) water, provided by normalweight coarse and fine aggregates and pre-wetted fine lightweight aggregate (LWA), in the range of 6.8 to 17.3%, corresponding to internal curing (IC) water in ... -
A new species of abyssal sea anemone and its symbiotic relationship with a scaphopod
(University of Kansas, 1996-08-31)In this thesis I report the results of the first study of a symbiosis between an abyssal sea anemone and a scaphopod. I describe the sea anemone as Benthactis nomadas n. g., n. sp. The sea anemones and scaphopods were ... -
Adelaide Lukanina's "A Year in America": A Critical View of Nineteenth Century America
(University of Kansas, 1995-05-15)The following text is a translation of Adelaide Lukanina's "A Year in America." First published in 1881-82 as a series of articles in the Russian journal Vestnik Evropy, one of Russia's most progressive journals in the ... -
Dietary Patterns And Nutrient Intake Of Asian/Indian American Teenagers In Kansas City
(University of Kansas, 1984-06-07)This study was conducted in the Kansas City metropolitan area (1) to investigate food habits and dietary intakes of 25 female and 25 male Asian/Indian American adolescents; (2) to determine if food consumption patterns ... -
A classificatory investigation of self-concept development of Junior High and High School Students as measured by autodescriptive responses
(1980-05-31)The purpose of this study was to describe the normative patterns of self-concept development in adolescents. Responses from the "Who Am I?" questionnaire were categorized by frequency into consensual and nonconsensual ... -
The effectiveness of group counseling with a rehabilitation facility population
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AN ANALYTICAL SURVEY OF THREE SCHOOL DISTRICT STRING PROGRAMS: COMMONALITIES AND DIFFERENCES
(University of Kansas, 1974-05-31)The purpose of this study has been to examine three different school districts and the status of their string programs. The districts studied were Kansas City, Kansas (USD 500), Lawrence (USD 497), and Shawnee Mission ... -
The effects of hearing protection on speech intelligibility in noise
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)Speech intelligibility was investigated in subjects with and without the use of hearing protection in a high noise environment. Fifteen normal hearing subjects and fifteen subjects with high-frequency hearing losses were ... -
Differential academic performance among post secondary school students in Nigeria
(University of Kansas, 1984-12-31)Sex, age and state differences in Physics, Chemistry and Biology achievement were investigated among post-secondary school students in Nigeria. The analysis of variance technique was applied to the 1983 Joint Matriculation ... -
Analysis of peroxynitrite-mediated post-translational modifications of caveolin-1
(University of Kansas, 2006-05-31)Caveolin-1 is an important protein in caveolae, which plays a role in cholesterol transport, signal transduction, and transcytosis and tumor suppression. Caveolin-1 is found in endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells and ... -
A study of variation in the Bryozoan Fistulipora decora (Moore and Dudley) from the Beil Limestone Member of the Lecompton Limestone of Kansas
(University of Kansas, 1971-12-31)An increasing number of bryozoan systematists are recognizing the need for a more quantitative treatment of variation in taxonomic studies of Bryozoa. The principal objective of this study was to isolate, as far as possible, ... -
Get in to Get Out: Peele-ian Horror and Consciousness-Raising
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)One area that has not fully been explored in terms of its ability to engage in Black feminist consciousness-raising (CR) is the horror film genre. This project examines Jordan Peele’s 2017 Black horror film Get Out, arguing ... -
Who is empathetic to the disaster you are going through? Mining Emotions (Empathy) in government and nonprofit responders’ tweets.
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This project establishes and tests a measure of empathy in Twitter posts. The project intends to find evidence on whether community leaders and decision makers are showing compassion for the vulnerable communities undergoing ... -
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 ...