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Evaluation of a Computer-Based Version of Child Planned Activities Training
(University of Kansas, 2019-01-01)Challenges to implementation, such as engagement in intervention activities and maintaining implementation fidelity, exist within traditional delivery systems of evidenced-based parenting programs that can impact either ... -
America versus the Environment? Humanity, Nature, and the Sacred 1973-2014
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)The relationship between environmental concern and religiosity in the United States is complex and contentious. Analyses of survey research have yielded mixed results. Historical research has indicated that some strands ... -
Classified by Genre: Rhetorical Genrefication in Cinema
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This dissertation argues for a rethinking and expansion of film genre theory. As the variety of media exhibition platforms expands and as discourse about films permeates a greater number of communication media, the use of ... -
Dynamics of Essentially Unstable Nonlinear Waves
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)In this thesis we primarily consider the stability of traveling wave solutions to a modified Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation equation modeling nanoscale pattern formation and the St. Venant equations modeling shallow water ... -
Essays in Education and Labor Economics
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This paper explores treatment effects in three different contexts: an extended school year pilot program in an urban school district, a library summer reading program serving twenty-one urban school districts, and states ... -
Dancing in the Dark: The evolution of visually mediated courtship behaviors and sexual dimorphisms in spotted winged Drosophila
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)I employed a multidisciplinary approach to examine the function and evolution of sexual dimorphisms, male wing spots and male wing displays, across four species subgroups of Drosophila. In chapter one, I explored the ... -
On the Existence and Stability of Normalized Ground States of the Kawahara, Fourth Order NLS and the Ostrovsky Equations
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)In this dissertation we show the existence and stability of the normalized ground states for the Kawahara, fourth order nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) and the generalized Ostrovsky equations. One of the starting points in our ... -
Local Histories of Composition and the Student Writer: Women Students Writing Within, Against, and Beyond Required Classroom Genres
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This study argues for the importance of analyzing individual students’ responses to writing instruction in crafting histories of the field of rhetoric and composition. I engage in an archival study of student writing at ... -
Faith Healers and Latinx Literature: Subversive Medicine and Radical Alternatives
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This dissertation undertakes representations of faith healing in contemporary Latinx literature in order to argue for and explore the possibilities for radically different realities afforded by holistic, intersubjective ... -
Materials for Molecular Electronics Devices: Anchoring Azulene Derivatives to A Gold Surface via Molecular Self-Assembly
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)The use of molecular electronics to build nano-scale devices is potentially applicable to the development of electronic components, such as wires, switches, or diodes. The work described herein involves the self-assembly ... -
Transnational Feminism in 21st Century Black American Drama and Performance
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)“Transnational Feminism in 21st Century Black American Drama and Performance” explores twenty-first century works from playwrights who I group together loosely under the current transnational moment of playwriting. I include ... -
Structural diversity and ecosystem-resource relationships in tropical savanna and a legume-cereal intercrop
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)While the most productive ecosystems on Earth, correspondingly the most diverse, function within limitations of energy and resource flows, the general approach of high-yielding agriculture, in contrast, has been to simplify ... -
Collusion or Representation?: The Cartel Party Theory Reexamined
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Political discontent appears to be growing across the aging democratic world, with an increase in popular support in many nations for niche or populist parties. Although often connected to this declining support for ... -
Female Firepower: Exploring the Politics of Gun Ownership and Gender
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Pro-gun organizations have made great strides in mobilizing women and have been successful in inculcating women into gun culture. This raises questions about the intersection of gun ownership, an emerging political identity, ... -
Wild bee responses to land use change: investigating the role of bee body size
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Land use change impacts biodiversity through many facets including an alteration of habitat and the resources required to sustain species and populations. Wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) are essential pollinators for many ... -
Metal-Templated Assembly of Heterocyclic Rings via Nucleophilic Cyclization of Cyclopropenes
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This thesis is focused on the development and application of methods for the intramolecular nucleophilic addition of tethered nucleophiles to cyclopropenes. Addition of carbon-, nitrogen, and oxygen-nucleophiles was ... -
Predicting the Most Tractable Protein Surfaces in the Human Proteome for Developing New Therapeutics
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)A critical step in the target identification phase of drug discovery is evaluating druggability, i.e., whether a protein can be targeted with high affinity using drug-like ligands. The overarching goal of my PhD thesis is ... -
Color, Line, and Narrative: Visual Art Techniques in Lev Tolstoy’s Fiction
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This dissertation investigates Tolstoy’s anxiety over the written word and its ability to communicate truth to the reader. I examine how Tolstoy compensates for the shortcomings of language by borrowing techniques from ... -
Surface and bulk moving mesh methods based on equidistribution and alignment
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)In this dissertation, we first present a new functional for variational mesh generation and adaptation that is formulated by combining the equidistribution and alignment conditions into a single condition with only one ... -
Using Chemical Biology to Modulate Antibody Activity
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Monoclonal antibodies have shown promising results as therapeutic agents, and yet they can also be associated with adverse side effects due to activity outside the disease site. Aiming to reduce these side effects, we have ...
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