Theses: Recent submissions
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Resting Energy Requirements in Overweight and Obese Adolescents: Do Prediction Equations Accurately Estimate Needs?
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Background: Resting energy expenditure (REE) accounts for the largest portion of total energy expenditure (TEE) and is a valuable tool for clinicians to provide individualized energy needs recommendations. Accurate ... -
The Role of Stress on Black Women’s Food Motivation and Food Choice
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)The highest rates of obesity in the U.S. are among black women with a prevalence of 54.8%. Stress has been associated with differences in eating behaviors, such as emotional eating which can lead to obesity over time. ... -
Adherence to STARD 2015 Reporting Recommendations in Pathology
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Diagnostic accuracy studies compare the performance of an index test against a reference standard test. The Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (STARD) is a checklist of items that should be reported in ... -
T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets and the Contemplation of Nature
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)This thesis reads T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets as a dramatization of the progress of the spiritual life as elaborated within early Christianity, moving from praxis, where the soul engages in ascetical practice in an effort ... -
Intergenerational Choir Participation: Examining the Effects on Voice, Speech, and Quality of Life of Two Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)This research examines the concept of intergenerational choral singing as a behavioral intervention for speech and voice in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Prior research examining music therapy and group singing protocols has ... -
Un Gran Esfuerzo para Sobrevivir
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Un gran esfuerzo para sobrevivir is an exhibition about what immigrants crossing into the United States experience as they risk everything for a better life, job, education, or freedom from danger. The installation has a ... -
The Attitudes and Perspectives of Filipino-Americans Regarding Speech and Language Disorders
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)The study investigated Filipino-Americans’ cultural knowledge and perspectives of stuttering, speech sound disorders, and users of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). The study’s research questions included: ... -
Personal time constants and the relation between hand tapping and time judgments
(University of Kansas, 1951-05-31)Heuristically, a distinction between the perception of time and the judgement of time is justifiable. The problem of the perception of time as here understood, includes the development and appreciation of time concepts; ... -
Taxonomy and distribution of the spadefoot toads of North America (Salientia: Pelobatidae)
(University of Kansas, 1956-05-31)The aim of the present study is to assemble in.one paper the pertinent taxonomic history and distributional information of the spadefoot toads of the New World; point out and correct certain errors or nomenclature perpetuated ... -
The characteristics of a bubble chamber using liquid nitrogen and argon
(University of Kansas, 1962-05-31)The last ten years have seen the development of a useful new tool for the study of high energy nuclear reactions and fundamental particles. This device, the bubble chamber, makes use of a superheated liquid to display the ... -
A preference study of musical activities of senior citizens
(University of Kansas, 1980-05-31)The study of musical activity preferences of older persons is important because it can establish the activities in which the elderly tend to involve themselves in a program setting. More effective and efficient programs ... -
Party finance and government regulation, a comparative analysis
(University of Kansas, 1967-05-31)Political parties and candidates need money for their activities. How to provide the necessary funds is a problem in most countries with a democratic system of freely competing political forces. Different approaches to a ... -
Ovulatory Dysfunction and Compromised Granulosa Cells: Where does Adar fit?
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Mural granulosa cells (mGCs) undergo waves of proliferation throughout the reproductive lifespan, and facilitate a timely gene expression response to the surge of luteinizing hormone in order to achieve ovulation and corpus ... -
Disparities in Ovarian Cancer Survival at the only NCI-designated Cancer Center in Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Ovarian cancer is the fifth most deadly cancer among women and the deadliest gynecologic cancer in the United States. Although it is a relatively rare form of cancer, its toll on morbidity and mortality is not equally ... -
Using a Social Determinants of Health Framework to Understand Clinical Trial Participation, Long-term Follow-up, and Outcomes Among Women Leaving Jail
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Abstract Background: Participants from vulnerable populations in most modern clinical trials are underrepresented thereby impacting the generalizability of clinical trial results. This is particularly worrisome – where the ... -
The Changing Health and Social Circumstances of Women Leaving Jails: A Three-Year Study
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Ninety-five percent of all inmates are eventually released back into communities. Women, in particular, face complex health and social challenges before incarceration that they must also face upon reentry. Unfortunately, ... -
The historical development of drum and bugle corps with a focus on Kansas
(University of Kansas, 1986-05-31)The purpose of this study is to trace the historical development of drum and bugle corps and·to discover their origins, their purposes, and their evolution. Since the drum and bugle corps style of marching has been implemented ... -
A spatio-temporally constrained injection rate threshold for the mitigation of induced seismicity
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)The Cambrian-Ordovician Arbuckle Group is the primary disposal zone for Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class I and II wells across much of the U.S. midcontinent. Increases in wastewater disposal into the Arbuckle ... -
Evaluating Models for Cretaceous Paleodrainage and Sediment Routing using Detrital Zircon U-Pb Provenance and Geochronology in the Colorado Front Range
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)The Late Jurassic Morrison Formation through the Aptian to Cenomanian Dakota Group is a succession of fluvial, deltaic, and shallow-marine strata deposited within the back-bulge of the Mesozoic Sevier retroarc foreland-basin ... -
DEVELOPMENT, CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF A TWO-COMPARTMENT ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT FOR USE AS AN ALTERNATIVE DISSOLUTION METHOD FOR PHARMACEUTICAL TESTING
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The purpose of this research was to develop, construct and validate a two-compartment dissolution testing instrument as an alternative test methodology to the current standard USP apparatus II system. The current USP ...