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Design and Evaluation of Stochastic Processes as Physical Radar Waveforms
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Recent advances in waveform generation and in computational power have enabledthe design and implementation of new complex radar waveforms. Still despite these advances, in a waveform agile mode where the radar transmits ... -
Event Memory for Intelligent Agents
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)This dissertation presents a novel theory of event memory along with an associated computational model that embodies the claims of view which is integrated within a cognitive architecture. Event memory is a general-purpose ... -
Antibody Discovery, Optimization, and Application: Translational Protein Engineering for Precision Medicine
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)Next-generation, “omics-based”, translational research is rapidly characterizing genetically determined pathophysiology at an unprecedented depth. Through the application of high-throughput sequencing technologies and ... -
Extracellular Vesicle Profiling Towards Disease Detection by Using Micro/Nano-fluidic Devices
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Based on the American Cancer Society, in 2020 there will be an estimated 1.8 million new cancer cases diagnosed and about 0.6 million cancer patients will die because of cancer. Meanwhile, millions of people in the United ... -
Confined Fluid Phase Behavior and Its Influence on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Recovery
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Unconventional reservoirs are predominantly consisted of meso to nanoscale pores, which impose strong confinement effect to the encapsulated reservoir fluids and result in drastic deviations of confined fluid properties. ... -
Process Intensification in a Liquid Biphasic Reaction System by Application of an External Electric Field
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Due to the increasing concerns on global warming and depletion of fossil fuels, sustainable chemistry and engineering has been a research focus in the 21st century. Tremendous efforts have been devoted to designing inherently ... -
Single Molecule Particle Analysis using Nanotechnology
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Nanotechnology is the area of science that involves creation of devices/materials or systems in the nanometer scale. The last few decades have seen an increasing demand for rapid, sensitive, and cheaper diagnostic tools ... -
Empirical Analysis of Issue Management in Small Vertical Construction Projects: Relationship between Project Performance, Project Team Actions, and Issue Types
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-21)Public institutions seek to maintain their built-environment assets by allocating sizable budgets to small construction projects that renovate or expand upon existing facilities. Small building construction projects are ... -
Micromorphic continuum model: granular materials to designed granular metamaterials
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This work investigates the mechanical response of granular-microstructured solids (natural and synthetic) in static and dynamic problems. Firstly, a non-classical micromorphic theory of degree n based upon granular ... -
Tuning Emulsion Chemistry to Control Electrospun Fiber Morphology, Topography, and Drug Release
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-21)Electrospinning is a complex fabrication technique capable of producing non-woven mesh with fiber diameters in the nanometer to micrometer scale. Applications for mesh with fibers at this scale are promising in many fields, ... -
Enhanced Lipase – Catalyzed Triglyceride Hydrolysis
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The use of microbial lipases for the hydrolysis of natural oils such as triglyceride esters is a green alternative to conventional high temperature, high pressure steam-based technologies and other chemical synthesis. The ... -
A New Fault-Tolerant Topology and Operation Scheme for the High Voltage Stage in a Three-Phase Solid-State Transformer
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Solid-state transformers (SSTs) are comprised of several cascaded power stages with different voltage levels. This leads to more challenges for operation and maintenance of the SSTs not only under critical conditions, but ... -
MANAGEMENT PRACTICES TO IMPROVE ADOPTION AND EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING DURING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES IN THE AEC INDUSTRY
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)The business world is in a continuous state of change. Changes create opportunities for businesses to enhance their processes and create challenges to survive in the market. For organizations to survive and remain competitive ... -
Health and Well-being Perspectives of African American Learners with Emotional Disturbance Labels: Opportunities for a Population Health Reframing of Special Education Disproportionality
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Abstract Special education disproportionality, or the over-identification of African American students with an Emotional Disturbance (ED), remains a persistent education issue, with adverse effects on African American ... -
Multispectral Remote Sensing and Spatiotemporal Mapping of the Environment and Natural Disasters Using Small UAS
(University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)This dissertation focuses on development of new methods for multispectral remote sensing, measurement, and mapping of the environment and natural disasters using small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Small UAS equipped ... -
The Thin Black Line: How Black Housing Staff Make Meaning of Their Encounters with Campus Police
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)This study explored how black housing staff at predominantly white colleges in the Midwest thathave their own campus police departments, engage, and interact with police and make sense of their beliefs about police in their ... -
What Influences the Diffusion of Foreign Language Programs in U.S. K-12 Public Schools
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)As the United States becomes ever more pluralistic and globalization makes the world more closely connected, it has never been more necessary to build an educational system that helps students grow into competent world ... -
Lives in classrooms described as inclusive: From the stand-point of equity-based inclusive education
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)This dissertation study aimed to understand the roles educators play in designing and supporting inclusive classroom communities and the degree to which students have participatory parity in classrooms described as inclusive. ... -
Scholars in Rural Health: Mentoring Experiences of Former Participants
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Providing healthcare across Kansas is a primary mission of the University of Kansas School of Medicine. The University of Kansas School of Medicine established the Scholars in Rural Health program to meet the growing need ... -
A creolizing curriculum: Multicultural education, ethnopolitics, and Teaching Kreol Morisien
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)In January 2012, Kreol Morisien, the main lingua franca of the Republic of Mauritius, was officially introduced within the National Curriculum Framework as one of the country’s ancestral languages. Since the colonial period, ...
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