Theses: Recent submissions
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Identifying the classics: An examination of articles published in the "Journal of Pediatric Psychology" from 1976--2006.
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The purpose of the present investigation was to identify the top 100 most highly cited articles in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology , from 1976-2006, which yielded a total of 104 articles that ranged in citations from ... -
Childhood moral insanity: Another "Turn of the Screw"
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Henry James' The Turn of the Screw has never been an easy story to analyze due to the author's penchant for ambiguity. Since it was published in 1898, the novella was read as a terrifying ghost story until 1934, when scholar ... -
Augmentative and alternative communication: General education teachers’ attitudes and knowledge
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge level and attitudes of general education teachers across the United States relative to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). A nationwide online survey ... -
Abstracting the hardware/software boundary through a standard system support layer and architecture
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Reconfigurable computing is often lauded as having the potential to bridge the performance gap between computational needs and computational resources. Although numerous successes exist, difficulties persist bridging the ... -
A ped’s story: Weathering out climatic change during the mid-Cretaceous
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The upper Ruby Ranch Member and basal Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation in the vicinity of the Price River II Quarry (CEU-PR2) in the Price River area, East Central Utah, consists of fluvially derived ... -
The acquisition of English unaccusative verbs by Arabic native speakers
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This study examined the acquisition of English unaccusatives by low, intermediate, and advanced Arabic learners of English using a grammaticality judgment task. The study tested two hypotheses. The first hypothesis is the ... -
Local social networks and decentralization in Ghana
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Developing countries have been undergoing decentralization on the premise that involving local people in the identification of their needs will bring them closer to participatory democracy. However, the effectiveness of ... -
Simplified homodyne detection for FM chirped lidar
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-31)The investigation of global warming requires more sensitive altimeters to better map the global ice reserves. A homodyne detection scheme for FM chirped lidar is developed in which dechirping is performed in the optical ... -
MUDHA: History of Haitian and Dominican-Haitian women’s organizing in the Dominican Republic
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This thesis examines how women members of the Movement of Dominican-Haitian Women (MUDHA) have created an alternative model of development for poor Dominican-Haitian and Haitian women living in batey communities on sugar ... -
Principal component analysis demonstrates trunk muscle pattern variation with fall direction
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)This study examined the role of the direction of a fall on neuromuscular response. Electromyography sensors were positioned on the erector spinae of twenty subjects. Falls, simulating slips, occurred in the anterior, ... -
Enabling task level parallelism in HandelC
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-31)HandelC is a programming language used to target hardware and is similar in syntax to ANSI-C. HandelC offers constructs that allow programmers to express instruction level parallelism. Also, HandelC offers primitives that ... -
Whole body vibration and neuromuscular response
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)Whole body vibration is considered to be a significant risk factor for low back and other related musculoskeletal disorders, resulting in substantial financial costs to society and loss in quality of life. Both direct and ... -
A collection of folk stories of the American Indian
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A study of Black English syntax in the Midwest and its relation to Black standard English
(University of Kansas, 1972-05-31)The existing controversy concerning the status of Black English as either a standard language or a dialect can only be solved with the collection of more data from different dialect and geographic regions. It must be ... -
Design of general cold-formed steel shapes
(University of Kansas, 1988-05-31)The structural design or cold-formed steel members is a complex process. In addition to limiting the stresses to those allowed by the material, other modes or failure must be considered. Typically, cold-formed steel shapes ... -
U-Pb detrital zircon and geochemical provenance study of Precambrian low-grade metasedimentary rocks from eastern Kansas and western Missouri
(University of Kansas, 1998-05-31)U-Pb analyses of single detrital zircons and bulk geochemical analyses were conducted to test the idea that pre-Late Cambrian, low-grade metasedimentary rocks from the basement of eastern Kansas and western Missouri were ... -
The National Flute Association’s Twentieth Anniversary Anthology of American Flute Music and the Development of American Compositional Style in the Twentieth Century
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)In 1993, the National Flute Association published an Anthology of American Flute Music, edited by John Solum, to commemorate the organization’s twentieth anniversary. Of the eighteen pieces included in The Anthology, ... -
A Healthier Gram: Assessment of Peer-to-Peer Influence in Healthy Behavior Social Media Engagement
(University of Kansas, 2020-01-01)The development of social media has quickly grabbed our global attention by finding innumerable ways for teens to communicate all over the world. However, as both adolescent mental and physical health continues to decline ... -
CIRCADIAN LIGHT EVALUATION OF A SPACE EQUIPPED WITH CLEAR GLASS WINDOW AND OPTIMIZED SHADE VERSUS LOW-E GLASS WINDOW WITHOUT SHADE
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)The aim of this research was investigating the effect of (i) Low-E glazing window and (ii) clear glass window equipped with optimized shade on the circadian light distribution across an interior space. To that end, computer ... -
Validation of Climate and Motivational Measures from the College Exercise Class Setting to the Physiology Laboratory Setting
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)The purpose of this study grounded in the Achievement Goal Perspective Theory (AGPT) and a Caring framework was to effectively adapt previously validated measures of caring, task-involving (CTI), and ego-involving (EI) ...