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Elimination Through the Production of Race: The Settler Colonial Constitution of "Native Americans" and Indigenous Attempts to Define Themselves
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)The ability of Native American and Indigenous peoples and nations to rhetorically constitute who they are and who their ancestors are is a fundamental act of sovereignty. The constitution of race has supported many settler ... -
A Multiwavelength Analysis of the Effect of Cluster Environments on Galaxy Evolution
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)In this work, we present analysis to constrain the role of local environment on galaxy evolu- tion. The hot, dense galaxy cluster environment is utilized as a comparative laboratory to galaxies that reside in the less dense ... -
A Descriptive Analysis of Preference for and Delay Discounting of Community Reinforcers in Substance Use Treatment
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)The community reinforcement approach (CRA) to substance use treatment involves providing individuals who use substances access to community and leisure activities. The delivery format of CRA and availability of community ... -
Possibilities and Limitations of IMERG Datasets for Estimating Probable Maximum Precipitation
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)The probable maximum precipitation (PMP), which is conventionally derived based on precipitation gauge data, is an important input for hydrological models useful for accurate storm predictions, flood modeling, and general ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(University of Kansas, 2023-08-31)This dissertation has three chapters. In the first two chapters, I have studied the left-behind children issue in China. According to the latest statistics (2018 Ministry of Civil Affairs), there are 69.7 million children ... -
Hedonic Appetite, Inhibitory Control Training, and Food Consumption in Adolescents
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Hedonic appetite is a psychological and motivational process that refers to the drive to consume palatable foods for pleasure, rather than for physiological sustenance. Hedonic appetite can be associated with excess energy ... -
Traumatic Stress and Positive Growth Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)It is important to understand how people respond to catastrophic events and crises. The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak introduced widespread concern for impacts on mental health and wellbeing during and beyond the ... -
“Colonized By Freedom:” Making the State, Private Property, and Race in Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)State power operates through institutional attempts to define who fully counts as a person. “Colonized By Freedom: Making the State, Private Property, and Race in Kansas” examines the mechanisms of state power in Kansas ... -
Tracing Carbon Through Lotic Food Webs Using Amino Acid Stable Isotope Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2021-09-31)Understanding the flow of carbon in ecosystems is important for the conservation and management of diverse organisms and environments. In lotic systems, quantifying the trophic basis of production on which entire food webs ... -
Charting the Unknown: the Hunt for Dark Matter Continues
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)For thousands of years, the human mind struggles to answer a simple question: what is the universe made of? The majority of what composes our universe, dark matter and dark energy, are just mysteries. Undoubtedly, dark ... -
Semantic Feature Analysis and Self-Cueing Strategies in Aphasia
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Purpose: Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) has proven to be successful in facilitating naming of trained words in persons with aphasia and is grounded in current theories of word retrieval. Briefly, traditional Semantic ... -
Uncovering the early diversification of core eudicots in western North America: structurally preserved fruits from Late Cretaceous deposits of Sucia Island
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Core eudicots are the most diverse lineage of flowering plants with a fossil record that dates back to the Late Cretaceous. Making up much of the diversity in flowering plants today, it is important to investigate the core ... -
Use and Implementation of Preference Assessments by Special Educators
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Stimulus preference assessments are used to identify preferred stimuli that can be utilized to increase responding (DeLeon & Iwata, 1996) and may be important in special education settings. Researchers have extensively ... -
Women and the Namibian Liberation Struggle: Unquestionable Commitment
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)The experiences of women during war and liberation struggles have increasingly been a topic of scholarly focus. This dissertation enhances the scope of such scholarship by showing how women in the Namibian liberation ... -
Finding Maximal Cohen-Macaulay and Reflexive Modules
(University of Kansas, 2021-018-3)In this work we study two classical objects in algebra - maximal Cohen-Macaulay and reflexive modules. We show the existence of a small Cohen-Macaulay module or algebra for a newclass of rings in mixed characteristic. In ... -
The Role of Siblings in Emotion Reactivity for Preschool-Aged Children
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Background: Emotion reactivity and regulation are underlying mechanisms of social-emotional functioning. Social learning theory and family systems theory suggest that sibling relationships may contribute to emotion processing ... -
New species of Tetragonocephalum (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea) parasitizing members of the stingray genus Pateobatis (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) and an update of host associations of the genus
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)The lecanicephalidean tapeworm genus Tetragonocephalum comprises 12 valid species and a species inquirendum. Species in this genus are easily identifiable among lecanicephalideans based on their possession of a unique ... -
Projective normality and normal presentation for adjoint linear series on minimal varieties
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)In this thesis, we study projective normality and normal presentation of adjoint linear series associated to an ample and globally generated line bundle on higher dimensional smooth projective varieties with nef canonical ... -
Associations Between Behavioral Economic Constructs and Alcohol Use and Consequences among Young Adult Alcohol Users
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Alcohol use among young adult college students is a significant public health concern. Behavioral economic (BE) research provides a framework for understanding maladaptive health behaviors, such as alcohol use/misuse. BE ... -
Essays in Health, Migration, and Labor Economics
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in the intersection of health, migration, andlabor economics. The first chapter documents what I term the “Healthy Undocumented Immigrant Effect": undocumented immigrants ...