Theses: Recent submissions
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Effect of Parkinson's disease on the step response to a backwards pull
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This study was designed to identify parameters of balance recovery that are sensitive to postural instability early in the progression of Parkinson's disease. The response to a backwards pull was analyzed in a group of ... -
Women who act: Performance in Elizabeth Inchbald’s "Nature and Art" and Mary Robinson’s "The Natural Daughter"
(University of Kansas, 2007-08-31)Elizabeth Inchbald's Nature and Art (1796) and Mary Robinson's The Natural Daughter (1799) reveal the preoccupation with distinguishing between "natural" feeling and social artifice in the late-eighteenth century. Their ... -
The company they keep: Homophily in preschool friendship dyads
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Developmental literature suggests that being liked by the peer group and having reciprocated friendships is commonly associated with positive outcomes, while being disliked or lacking reciprocated friends is associated ... -
Impermanence and retribution: A re-examination of two unifying themes in the "Tale of the Heike"
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The primary theme of impermanence for all things and the secondary theme of retribution are widely acknowledged by literary scholars to be unifying themes in the Tale of the Heike, a medieval Japanese narrative. These ... -
Sources of attachment in politically-oriented organizations: Congruence and difference
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Organizational attachment is a phenomenon that has compelled scholars to spend countless hours examining how and why people feel the need to "attach" to their organizations. While much of the research on organizational ... -
Socioeconomic change and language endangerment
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Language endangerment is acute in the world. In China Salar (ISO 639-3: SLR) is one of those language that is endangered. There are several different hypotheses for the causes of language endangerment; to better understand ... -
A cinematic dialogue between Nicaragua and Costa Rica: Shaping a transnational cinema through filmic exchanges
(University of Kansas, 2007-08-31)This thesis focuses on the ways in which Costa Rican filmmakers and the Centro Costarricense de Producción Cinematográfica (CCPC) privileged the social documentary format of the New Latin American Cinema (NLAC) movement ... -
Analyzing highway damage costs attributed to truck traffic of processed meat and related industries in southwest Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Kansas is one of the leaders in meat production in the United States. In the southwest Kansas region, there are more than three hundred feed yards and several of the biggest meat processing plants in the nation. Heavy ... -
Of barren boulders and glowing granite: Natural metaphors in Daniel Webster’s commemorative orations
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)New England struggled throughout the 1800's to maintain its place as the nation's anchor while competing forces of progress and uncertainty, slavery, and westward dispersal of the population threatened the country's unity. ... -
Analysis of children’s written responses to Hurricane Andrew
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)As part of a longitudinal evaluation of children living in Dade County, Florida, during Hurricane Andrew, the current study examines children's ( n = 334) written perceptions of the worst aspects of the storm. Data were ... -
Social organizations and aging: The benefits of VFW membership
(University of Kansas, 2007-08-31)Civic engagement in social organizations is a way to gain social capital, which benefits communities and people. By volunteering in organizations, older adults can improve well-being for themselves and their communities. ... -
A comparative study of N-generation’s mobile phone use between the United States and Korean society
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)In the midst of ongoing discussions about youths' new media use, this study examined the N-Generation's mobile phone usage, usage patterns, motives, and functional usage between the U.S. and Korean society. Both the U.S. ... -
Managing malaria: Selected maps of the twentieth century
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Understanding malaria's geographic occurrence throughout the world is amazingly complex. Jacques May wrote that "a whole atlas, comprising several dozens of maps, could justifiably be devoted to the cartographical ... -
Implementing human rights in Kansas to ensure equal educational opportunities for Spanish speakers
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This thesis is about Spanish speakers in Kansas and whether their right to an education is being guaranteed. It is understood that the state of Kansas has not enacted legislation to make education a fundamental human right. ... -
Document similarity based on concept tree distance
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The Web is fast moving from an era of search engines to an era of discovery engines. Discovery engines help you find things that you never knew existed or did not know how to ask for. One of the ways this can be done is ... -
Feasibility of serial ATA cables for the physical link in high performance computing clusters
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)A novel solution for inexpensive computing cluster networks is proposed and tested for feasibility. The network uses Serial ATA cables---commonly used in personal computers for connecting hard drives---as the physical media ... -
Topic specific spider for taxonomic documents
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The overall goal of the project being developed at KU as a part of SEEK is to provide an interface tool for a taxonomist through which he/she can obtain taxonomic revisions depending for the species provided to the system. ... -
On benefits of adaptive bidding with the contract net protocol in multi-robot systems
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This thesis investigates the effectiveness of using the Contract Net Protocol, an auction type system, for controlling task allocation among a group of robots, and presents and evaluates a strategy of using Artificial ... -
Antennal biomechanics of house crickets (Acheta domesticus L.)
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The structure of insect antennae is greatly influenced by the functional demands which the antennae fill, the environment in which they operate and the way these two factors interact with the biomechanical properties of ... -
The development of generative social comprehension in children with autism
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Social comprehension refers to the ability to understand social concepts which entail the interactions between two or more individuals. The present study utilized commercially-available children's books to evaluate the ...