KU ScholarWorks: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Aesthetics and Politics of Feminist Tragic Narratives at the Turn of the Nineteenth-Century into the Twentieth
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Abstract My dissertation focusses on American feminist tragic novels between 1890 and 1925, which deal with women’s tragic lives in a patriarchal society. I will show that the thematic and structural similarities among ... -
Comprehensive Model of Jupiter's Polar Aurora
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)The source of auroral X-ray emission from the Jovian polar caps, whether from electron bremsstrahlung or heavy ion precipitation, has been a topic of debate for the past 40 years, beginning with the Einstein Observatory's ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)In Chapter 1, I study how asset test elimination of Medicare Savings Programs affect elderly seniors financial difficulty to access health care. In the United States, most elderly seniors are covered by Medicare. However, ... -
Thomistic Approaches to Welfare Theory
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)The purpose of this work is primarily to defend the Thomistic approach to well-being on three fronts. First, it is often said that objective theories of well-being are vulnerable to the objection that, if well-being is ... -
Three Papers on Monetary Aggregation under Knightian Uncertainty, Kernel Estimation, and Dynamic Modelling
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This dissertation considers monetary services aggregation theory in Macroeconomics, the nonparametric approaches in Econometrics with censoring data and endogenous variables, and the macroeconomic dynamic modelling. It ... -
Not Quite White: Arab Americans and the Boundaries of Racial/Ethnic Similarity
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Across four studies, we examined the implications of shifting racial designation of Arab Americans. The studies primarily concerned multiple factors influencing the ways that Arab and European Americans respond to ... -
Essays in Female Labor Supply in Ecuador
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This is a solo-authored dissertation that contains three papers that each examines a specific aspect of the labor supply in the Ecuadorian labor market between 2007 and 2017. The chapters of this dissertation all use data ... -
Matroid Independence Polytopes and Their Ehrhart Theory
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)A \emph{matroid} is a combinatorial structure that provides an abstract and flexible model for dependence relations between elements of a set. One way of studying matroids is via geometry: one associates a polytope to a ... -
PROMOTING SEXUAL PURITY IN A CALL-OUT CULTURE ERA: ONE PURITY MOVEMENT LEADER’S STRATEGIES IN NAVIGATING CRITIQUES OF THE #METOO/#CHURCHTOO MOVEMENTS
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)While a sizable body of research has examined the impact of purity movement rhetoric on its target audience (e.g., Bearman & Brückner, 2001; Brückner & Bearman, 2005; DeRogatis, 2015; di Mauro & Joffe, 2009; Diefendorf, ... -
THE RHETORIC OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN PROFESSIONAL SPORTS: GENDER, RACE, AND WHITE HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Violence, specifically gendered violence, has seemingly become commonplace in professional sports. In recent years, sports and news media have navigated a storm of violence allegations. For example, Larry Nassar, former ... -
"No, no, we prefer print": Why do Romance language librarians buy eBooks?
(2019-06-29)While the literature on eBooks is extensive, there are only a handful of studies focused on the perspectives of librarians. To answer this question, two librarians distributed a survey to ARL member institutions in 2017 ... -
Conversion of CO2 in a packed–bed dielectric barrier discharge reactor
(AIP Publishing, 2018)The conversion of CO2 into CO and O2 in a quartz cylindrical packed-bed dielectric reactor has been studied using CO2 and Ar gas mixtures at atmospheric pressure and near ambient temperature with quartz wool, γ-Al2O3, and ... -
Field key to the bats of Costa Rica and Nicaragua
(2019-12)With more than 1,400 species of bats described worldwide, the order Chiroptera is second only to rodents in ecological and taxonomic diversity. Bats play critically important roles in natural systems as seed and pollen ... -
The ASM’s Bylaws: a brief history and summary
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PLANETARY ORBITS IN CONSTANT CURVATURE PLANES
(University of Kansas, 2019-11-09)A law of gravitation is defined and justified for constant curvature planes and it is demonstrated that Kepler’s three laws of planetary motion have natural analogs in this new context.
