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Theses: Recent submissions
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Hidden Beneath
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Hidden Beneath is an exhibition of fifteen paintings and two drawings. It is an exhibition about change: the uncomfortable and beautiful feelings experienced during a state of transition. I explore growth in both a positive ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
HOW DID WE GET HERE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)HOW DID WE GET HERE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING? is a thesis exhibition that consists of two series of lithographic prints, All I’ve Seen, and Encounters on a Hog Farm and a self-portrait titled It Weighs on You Like Heavy Rain. ... -
Political Institutions and Public Health: The Dynamics of Covid Policy Response
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)What is the relationship between institutions, the restrictions of civil liberties, health outcomes, and polarization during the Covid pandemic? This question is of enormous importance because we need to know whether the ... -
The Effects of Fading Schedules of Noncontingent Reinforcement with and without Extinction
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are at an increased risk of problem behavior, which can result in various impediments to daily living and injury to themselves and others. Noncontingent reinforcement ... -
The Effects of Signs on Unwanted Touching of Museum Displays
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Museums struggle with the issue of visitors touching the artworks without consent, sometimes causing extensive damage. Although this is an important issue, no known empirical data on the frequency of touching art pieces ... -
Reduction of Speech Disfluencies Through Online Awareness Training
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Public speaking in a virtual format is becoming increasingly common given the rise in online education programs and changes necessitated by COVID-19 (Gupta et al., 2021). Therefore, it is important to establish a teaching ... -
The Moral Foundations of Knowledge: Seeking and Avoiding COVID-19 Information
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)An abundance of work in social and political psychology suggests a positive relationship between political conservatism, disgust sensitivity, and disease avoidance. Yet, despite this link, recent research suggests that ... -
Coseismic pore pressure changes linked to local, induced earthquakes
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)An unprecedented increase in seismicity in south-central Kansas (KS), starting in 2013, has been linked to elevated pore fluid pressures in the subsurface resulting from high rate wastewater injections. Improving the ... -
The Cumulative Cost of Care: Caregiving Over the Life Course and Severity of Depression
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Caregiving research is typically well-contained within silos focusing on those who are actively providing care or based on the nature of the caregiver/care recipient relationship. Little research has investigated how ... -
Indigenous Film in a Colonized Theater: The Role of Independent Exhibition in Screening Indigenous Films
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)The decisions that non-Indigenous independent film exhibitors make regarding exhibiting Indigenous film have the possibility of impacting the films themselves, as well as the audience’s experience of engaging with these ... -
Evaluating the Effects of COVID-19 on a Truancy Prevention and Diversion Program
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-31)Being present in school is essential to academic success. Students who drop out of high school are more likely to experience both negative short- and long-term consequences as compared to their graduating peers. To negate ...