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A study of the interrelationships existing between Bacillus cereus, Bacillus mycoides and Bacillus anthracis
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The Landscapes of African American Short Stories, 1887 – 2014
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)My dissertation addresses the dearth of scholarship on short stories by using quantitative data and text-mining software to explain how the repeated inclusion of short fiction by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph ... -
Pacifist Battlegrounds: Violence, Community, and the Struggle for LGBTQ Justice in the Mennonite Church USA
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This dissertation focuses on the movement for LGBTQ inclusion within the Mennonite Church USA, a Christian denomination of just under 100,000 members. Mennonites are part of a nearly five century Christian tradition known ... -
Stalin's Cold War Strategy, 1945-1953
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Today, the post-Cold War world order based on the US unipolar supremacy is no longer a main paradigm in world affairs. Militarily, the US number one global power has still no questions. However, other powers have risen ... -
Journey to Parenthood: How New Fathers and Mothers Make Sense of Perinatal Emotional Distress
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This dissertation study drew on in-depth interviews with a class diverse sample of 30 mothers and 17 fathers who experienced emotional distress as a new parent. The definitional boundaries of perinatal mental health ... -
Re-grounding the Cogito: Descartes and the Problem of the Baroque
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The dissertation offers a historically-based critique of the foundations of modernity in view of the truth claims it struggled to articulate and which continue to dominate the West.At the very core of this problem are the ... -
EMBODYING MODERNITY IN MEXIO: RACE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE BODY IN THE MESTIZO STATE
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Mexico’s traumatic Revolution (1910-1917) attested to stark divisions that had existed in the country for many years. After the dust of the war settled, post-revolutionary leaders embarked on a nation-building project that ... -
Wahunsonacock's Gambit: Powhatan Foreign Relations and the Success of Virginia, 1570-1622
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)In an effort to explain the speed with which a small band of English colonists was able to supplant the expansive and powerful Chesapeake Algonquian paramountcy of Tsenacommacah, this work asks why the leaders of the ... -
Crossing Idiomas: Negotiating Translingual Rhetoric within Global Health Publics
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Increasing numbers of U.S. students and practitioners in the health professions travel annually to developing countries with global health programs. In these programs, visiting practitioners and local residents often work ... -
Imagery to the Crowd, MapGive, and the CyberGIS: Open Source Innovation in the Geographic and Humanitarian Domains
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The MapGive initiative is a State Department project designed to increase the amount of free and open geographic data in areas either experiencing, or at risk of, a humanitarian emergency. To accomplish this, MapGive seeks ... -
Quantitative methods to elucidate and characterize various aggregation pathways of an IgG1 monoclonal antibody
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)The term protein aggregation is used in pharmaceutical biotechnology literature to describe a collection of different mechanisms that produce non-native, net irreversibly associated protein molecules. The presence of protein ... -
Novel Cys crosslinks and Trp side chain cleavages in proteins and peptides exposed to light
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Protein pharmaceuticals, like monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), are sensitive to many degradation pathways, such as oxidation and photodegradation. Photostability testing provides essential information to characterize protein ... -
Signaling Through the Flames: Theatre Fires and Disaster Sociology
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)“Signaling Through the Flames: Theatre Fires and Disaster Sociology” re-examines archival evidence relevant to three of the most destructive and deadly fires in American theatre history: Richmond, Virginia in 1811, Brooklyn, ... -
Impact of Sustainable Business Practices on Strategic Performance for Commercial Building Contractors
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The existing commercial building construction industry is not sustainable and sustainability is not a prominent matter in construction. The construction industry has made strides in sustainability efforts over the past ... -
The Origins, History, and Development of the Tiento de medio registro from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)ABSTRACT “The Origins, History, and Development of the Tiento de medio registro from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century” The tiento de medio registro was one of the most popular types of organ music in the Iberian ... -
RDH10 is Necessary for Initial Vagal Neural Crest Cell Contribution to Embryonic Gastrointestinal Tract Development
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Retinol dehydrogenase 10 (RDH10) catalyzes the first oxidative step in the metabolism of vitamin A to its active form retinoic acid (RA). Insufficient or excess RA can result in various congenital abnormalities, such as ... -
EXPRESSION, REGULATION AND RELEASE OF HUMAN PLACENTAL ANTIGENS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MATERNAL IMMUNE RESPONSE TO THE FETUS
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Pregnancy represents a unique immunological arrangement where the maternal immune system must tolerate and support the genetically foreign fetus. The mechanisms by which maternal tolerance to the fetus is achieved and the ... -
Telomere architecture and maintenance in schizosaccharomyces pombe
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Telomeres are specialized nucleoprotein structures located at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes that promote genomic integrity. Impaired telomere function has been implicated in cancer as well as several degenerative ... -
Structural Brain Imaging in People with Low Back Pain
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Low back pain (LBP) is a common chronic pain condition affecting millions of people worldwide. Conventional methods of diagnosing LBP have provided limited guidance; consequently most patients get a general diagnosis of ... -
Parametric and Non-Parametric Models in Health Research: Analysis and Design
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Personalized medicine is emerging in both clinical practice and clinical trials. “Precision” medicine not only promises improved safety and efficacy but also lowered cost in clinical practice and clinical trials. In 2015, ...
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