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Search For Exclusive Diphoton Production with Intact Protons in pp Collisions at the LHC
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The Standard Model of particle physics has been largely successful in describing observed phenomena in the universe, but it is still believed to be incomplete.Many theories that address the shortcomings of the Standard ... -
Bernoulli shift and Poisson system factor map constructions
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)In ergodic theory, where measure-preserving dynamical systems are common objectsof study, the entropy of a system can sometimes be used to determine if two systems are isomorphic. In this dissertation, we construct factor ... -
Faith and Firearms: An Exploration of Religion’s Entanglement with Guns in America
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Numerous studies show that religion predicts an individual’s likelihood of owning a gun, but the role of religious tradition in shaping attitudes and outcomes about guns and gun policy in the United States is undertheorized. ... -
Tradition, Innovation, and Agency in a City of God: The Philadelphia Cité de Dieu and Early Fifteenth-Century Parisian Manuscript Culture
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-21)In 1371, Raoul de Presles, a lawyer associated with the French royal court, translated the twenty-two books of St. Augustine’s City of God into French and appended additional commentary to each chapter. Raoul's preface, ... -
Using Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Peer Support Workers to Respond to a Boundary Crossing
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Peer support is an evidence-based model of care for people living with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder. Peers, who are people living with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder, use their lived ... -
Search for Production of Supersymmetric Top Quarks in Hadronic and Multi-leptonic Final States, Using a Deep Neural Network Based Soft B-tagger For Compressed Mass Scenarios
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)A search is performed for pair produced supersymmetric top (stop) quarks in hadronic andmulti-leptonic final states. The search uses a sample of proton-proton collision data at p s = 13 TeV, corresponding to 137 fb?1, ... -
Development of microfluidic methods for the determination of products of nitrosative and oxidative stress
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)When the pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory immune responses becomeimbalanced, an excess of pro-inflammatory reactive nitrogen and oxygen species (RNOS) may be produced, which in turn can react with biomolecules such ... -
Dirty Work: Reframing Western Acting Techniques in Contemporary Adult Film Performance
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)My research examines the adult film industry’s approach to technique in actor-training including the commodification and fetishization of people of color, queer-identifying performers, and other marginalized bodies who ... -
Beyond Arrhenius: Fluctuation Theory for Dynamics
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)A long-standing challenge for simulation and experiment has been the accurate calculation ofactivation energies and activation volumes via Arrhenius analyses which typically require rate constants or dynamical timescales ... -
Modulational and Subharmonic Dynamics of Periodic Waves
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The overarching theme of this dissertation is to investigate the stability and dynamics of spatially-periodic travelling and stationary wave solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) arising from physical applications. ... -
Poéticas y políticas de la movilidad en el cine del Abya Yala
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Traditionally, images of indigenous people in film are often misrepresented and based on a colonial gaze that reinforces stereotypes and romanticizes indigenous histories and cultures. Yet, during the late 20th century, ... -
Which Meritocracy? An Exploration of Gender Differences in Meritocracy Belief and Experiences in Relation to Advancement in Academic Medicine
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This research contributes to the gender and medical sociology literature with two explorations: 1) a comparison of how men and women perceive the institution of academic medicine as a meritocracy and 2) linking these ... -
Pokot and Western Christian Missions: A Postcolonial Story of Place and Perception
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)In 1931, after decades of British colonial control, the first Western Christian missionaries came to Pokot, the region inhabited by the pastoralist Pokot people in western Kenya and eastern Uganda. For the past ninety ... -
A Behavioral Economic Approach to Preventing Adolescent Violence
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Youth violence is a serious public health and criminal justice concern that disproportionately affects African American and Hispanic/Latinx youth. Prevention Science researchers have identified co-occurring behaviors and ... -
Clinical Assessment of Tinnitus Following Concussion
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-21)People who experience tinnitus after a concussion represent some of the most challenging clinical cases to see. However, little is known about the underlying mechanisms of this symptom. Concussion may facilitate tinnitus ... -
“Right to Painless Death”: The Fight for Humane Animal Slaughter in the Cold War United States
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)During the 1950s, animal welfare advocates launched a campaign for the passage of a law to require the use of improved slaughtering methods in packinghouses across America. The campaign ignited a widespread debate between ... -
Cross-Saving in the Classroom: The Intersections of Transfer and Game-Based Learning
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This dissertation seeks to discover and examine the intersections between writing knowledge transfer and game-based learning. Writing knowledge transfer represents one of the ultimate goals of composition pedagogy: the ... -
Fire and fungi: fungal ecology in pyrophilic ecosystems
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Fire is a global phenomenon that annually burns approximately 3% of Earth’s terrestrial surface. While fire is an important component of many terrestrial ecosystems, climate change and anthropogenic influence are expected ... -
Stubborn Structures: Revaluing Masculinity in Mexican Women-Authored “novelas sobre la Revolución” (1963-2010)
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The 1910 Mexican Revolution is one of the most important and most represented events in 20th-century Mexican history. Although narratives written by men about men on the battlefield dominated representation in the first ... -
Worlding Modernism: The Political, the Postcolonial, and the Modern Body
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This dissertation contends that the population one belongs to shapes their relation to the modern state. State laws and power structures allow lives to flourish, or neglect people or kill them, based on classifications of ...