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First Impressions of the Persian Other in Aeschylus and Herodotus
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)This thesis focuses on the characterization and representation of the Eastern Other for a Greek audience in the introductory sections of two works of 5th century Greek literature. In particular, I will examine the parodos ... -
Evaluating the Effects of Remote Behavioral Skills Training and In Situ Training on Response to Bullying
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Those who experience bullying endure significant repercussions (e.g., Nansel et al., 2004; Sterzing et al., 2012). Thus, it is important to teach individuals who experience bullying how to respond. Many researchers have ... -
The Associations between Student Debt and Precarious Employment on Millennial Homeownership in the United States
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)Millennials have shifted into adulthood amidst great economical barriers, which reduce rates of homeownership for this cohort. Trends suggest that Millennials spend much of their young adulthood pursuing education and ... -
Evolution of Oneida Science Through Tsyunhehkw^ (Life Sustainers): A Look at the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin.
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)The Oneida Nation in Wisconsin has exhibited place-based adaptation and resiliency, resulting from years of knowledge accumulated and now being shared throughout the community. The emergence of Oneida Science as a new and ... -
Symmetric 6,6′-Biazulenic π-Linkers Asymmetrically Terminated Along Their Molecular Axes
(University of Kansas, 2021-08-31)During the past four decades, the field of molecular electronics relied on the design of molecules capable of fulfilling the roles of electronic components such as wires, diodes, and rectifiers. The work described in this ... -
Temporal Orientation and the Association Between Adverse Life Events and Internalizing Symptoms in Vietnamese American and European American Adolescents
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Adverse life events predict varying negative outcomes, including internalizing symptoms. However, research finds cross-cultural variation in whether and to what degree factors amplify or buffer the impact of these stressors. ... -
Strange Being
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)My artistic practice is informed by philosophies of consciousness, existentialism, and personal narrative. My life is experienced through waking and dreaming modes of being. This condition informs the context for the ... -
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 ... -
An Analysis of the Effects of a Remote Intervention on Exercise in Adults
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Physical activity is important for overall health. Behavioral strategies such as goal setting, feedback, and reinforcement have been used to increase levels of physical activity to health benefitting levels. The present ... -
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. ... -
The Influence of Parental Bonding on Information Processing in Depression
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The cognitive perspective on risk for depression and depression reoccurrence posits that individuals who suffer from multiple episodes are at-risk because of latent depressotypic schemas. Dysfunctional parental bonding is ... -
School-Based Speech Language Pathologists’ Service Delivery to Students with Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: A Survey Study
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)The researcher investigated school-based speech-language pathologists’ service delivery to student survivors of pediatric traumatic brain injury in comparison to the American Speech Language and Hearing Association’s ... -
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 CloudSat and MERRA-2 to Examine the Characteristics and Variability of Individual Cloud Types Associated with Intertropical Convergence Zone Extremes
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)Diabatic heating is often inaccurately represented in weather forecast and global climate models (GCMs). These problems are compounded at low latitudes where diabatic heating strongly affects the large-scale circulation ... -
Painting Uyghurs: News Media Representations of Uyghurs
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)This thesis examines the portrayal of Uyghurs in fourteen news media outlets from 2014 to mid-2020, revealing the broader discourses deployed in discussions of Uyghurs and the PRC’s treatment of them. The study was carried ... -
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 ...