Theses: Recent submissions
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A garden party for spinsters, queers, and whores: Gender performance and nature imagery in the novels of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf
(University of Kansas, 2007-08-31)In Victorian Britain, separate sphere theory entrapped women in domesticity, and normative discourse used nature imagery to legitimize this confinement as "natural." In this project, I argue that the fiction of George Eliot ... -
Genetic polymorphisms in disease susceptibility: Gene-gene and gene-environment interactions
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Genetic polymorphisms within genes encoding biotransformation enzymes can alter the biotransformation process of exogenous and endogenous chemicals. The purpose of this thesis is to review and evaluate the associations ... -
"We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?": Reading and writing the romantic hero in "The Old Manor House" and "The Age of Innocence"
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)What does it mean, to “behave like people in novels”? More importantly, what does it mean for a novelist to put this comment in the mouth of one of her characters? Edith Wharton and Charlotte Smith, and their representations ... -
Developing a dataset for simulating urban climate impacts on a global scale
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Urbanization is a dramatic example of how people alter the surface of the Earth and have a significant impact on local climates. Understanding how urban characteristics interact with the environment on varying scales will ... -
Attitudes toward Americans: Exploring the influences of Japanese sojourners’ communication experiences with Americans
(University of Kansas, 2007-08-31)Guided by the intergroup contact hypothesis, this study examined the relationships among three sets of variables: Japanese sojourners' ( N = 103) communication experiences, relational solidarity with their most frequent ... -
Onitsha market literature and negotiations of modernity in Nigeria
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Nigeria, during its period of decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s, was marked by extensive cultural, economic, and political change. The primary objective of this research is to understand the ways in which modernity was ... -
An evaluation of the performance and database access strategies of Java object-relational mapping frameworks
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-31)With an object-relational mapping (ORM) tool, the software developer does not have direct control over the structured query language (SQL) calls to the database and thus relies on ORM decisions regarding how the database ... -
Representation of marriage in selected Harold Pinter plays
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This thesis explores the institution of marriage as it is depicted in six plays by Harold Pinter. The married couples in Pinter's plays struggle to maintain the balance between normalcy—the socially accepted behaviors ... -
Incomplete neutralization of /t/ and /d/ in flapping environments: An analysis of the North Midland dialect of American English
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This paper presents an acoustic study of alveolar flaps in American English as produced by twenty speakers of a North Midland dialect spoken in the Kansas area. Vowel duration differences in monosyllabic and disyllabic ... -
Polyethylene oxide-polyester micelles for drug delivery
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-31)Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-poly(ester) copolymers are biocompatible, biodegradable diblock polymers that spontaneously form core-shell nanoparticles (i.e. micelles) in water. The hydrophobic polyester core of these micelles ... -
Germany 2000: A question of identity
(University of Kansas, 2007-08-31)This work investigates aesthetic form and narratives, reception by scholars and critics as well as context within applicable historic events of German films ranging from 1999 to 2006. It is vital to see the way in which ... -
"Every child my child, every man my man": The ideology and strategy of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in the beginning of the Nuclear Age, 1945--1965
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is an international women's peace organization formed in 1915. In "'Every Child, My Child, Every Man, Man,'" I examine the WILPF after World War II and its ... -
Nothing more terrible than humanity: Obstinacy, withdrawal, and desire in Sophocles’ "Antigone"
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This study contests the view that Sophocles' Antigone is "unphilosophical," and argues that addressing the contest of ideas is central to the play. It is thus an inquiry not only into the play itself but its relationship ... -
Barriers within: Examining gender, race, and participation in the TRIO program with college success
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)In today's society earning a college education plays an extraordinarily important role in obtaining a living wage and thus is of importance for every individual. However, cross disciplinary research has found that gender, ... -
Exemplum fidei: Marcus Atilius Regulus as a moral exemplum
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This paper focuses on the story of Marcus Atilius Regulus as an exemplum fidei. Taking Matthew Roller's division of exemplary discourse into the following categories as a model (2004), it discusses Regulus according to ... -
A descriptive and experimental evaluation of preschooler aggressive toy play
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Aggressive toy play is commonly observed in early childhood classrooms, yet strategies to address this problem behavior have not been articulated in the research literature. In Study 1, we examined the relation between ... -
Andrzej Munk’s cinema of internalized exile (1957--1961)
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This thesis defines Andrzej Munk's feature films as a cinema of internalized exile by conducting a stylistic analysis of Man on the Tracks (1957), Eroica, (1958), Bad Luck (1960), and Passenger (1961). I extend Melinda ... -
Field investigation of Love waves in near-surface seismology
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Seismic surface waves have the potential to yield important information about the subsurface. In particular, the spectral analysis of Rayleigh waves has been used to determine near-surface shear-wave velocities that are ... -
"Performing between the acts": Issues of personal identity and performance in Frances Burney’s "The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties" (1814)
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)In her final novel The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties (1814), Frances Burney addresses contemporary philosophies of personal identity in complex ways that expose the ambiguities inherent in eighteenth-century notions of ... -
Representations of Waikiki: An analysis of Hawaiian tourism through hotel brochures and websites
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Tourism dominates the Hawaiian economy, and the economic stronghold of the tourism industry is Waikīkī. This thesis focuses on the various representations of Waikīkī from a postcolonial perspective, using textual analysis ...