KU ScholarWorks: Recent submissions
Now showing items 61-80 of 29009
-
Tradition Reinvented: The Reimagination of Kanpō Medicine in Twentieth Century Japan
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)This dissertation examines the ideological development of classical Japanese medical (later known as kanpō) philosophy and practice between the Edo period (1603-1868) and the mid-twentieth century. During this time, kanpō ... -
Interrogating War Stories: Dramaturgical Encounters with National Trauma
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Interrogating War Stories: Dramaturgical Encounters with National Trauma examines the intersection between dramaturgy and trauma studies. I argue that by incorporating trauma-informed approaches to the practice of dramaturgy, ... -
Functional Characterization of Musashi1 in Mouse Postnatal Development and Intestinal Homeostasis
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Tightly regulated gene expression is essential for normal development and maintenance of tissue homeostasis. RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are essential facilitators of spatiotemporal gene expression control by regulating ... -
EVALUATING THE ICHNOFOSSIL TEREDOLITES AS AN INDICATOR OF SALINITY AND PALEOENVIRONMENT
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The ichnogenus Teredolites and Teredolites Ichnofacies is an accepted proxy for marine influence in paralic to open marine depositional environments (EOD). Actualistic approaches and the process-ichnologic framework allow ... -
The Fairer Sex: Ethnocentric Explanations of Racial Differences in Sexual Behavior.
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)This research examines the intersection of racial and gender discourse in beliefs about sexuality. The sexual habits of women of color have been pathologized in popular and scientific discourse. White women and the behavioral ... -
Typology and Analysis of Change in Person Marking Reference
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The two-fold goal of this dissertation is to conduct a thorough survey of diachronic changes to person marking reference within paradigms (here called Person Marking Referent Shifts or PMRS) across a wide set of languages ... -
Down the Garden Path: Misleading Narratives in French and Francophone Video Games and Texts.
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The cognitive benefits of playing have been established by many studies but video games are still widely considered a trivial activity compared to literary texts. There has been excellent scholarship on cognitive implications ... -
If It Bleeds, It Leads: Accessing the Impact of Media Coverage of Human Rights Violations on Future Terrorism.
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)Previous studies of terrorism have addressed the impact of human rights abuses on future terrorist activity and the role of mass media has played shaping public perceptions of terrorism and terrorist activity, yet little ... -
The Interregnum Court of Chancery; a study of the career and writings of John Lisle, Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal (1649-1659)
(University of Kansas, 1971-05-31)John Lisle was one of the most powerful, yet one of the least well known political personages of the English civil wars and Interregnum. His reputation survives only as one of regicide and unswerving loyalty to the military ... -
Sound Decisions: A Theoretically Informed Process Model of Somatic Experiencing for the Integration of Clinical Music Therapy
(University of Kansas, 2022-01-01)Adults living with unaddressed complex or developmental trauma frequently suffer from intrapersonal and interpersonal challenges resulting from the trauma they experienced early in life. The lasting impacts of unaddressed ... -
The Cultural Responsiveness of the Communicative and Task-Based Instructional Approaches to African English Language Learners in a College ESL Classroom: A Qualitative Case Study
(2023-11)In the United States school education system, there are students who are identified as English Language Learners (ELLs). ELLs are multilingual students who speak any other language apart from English at home. While majority ... -
Poskus razlage razvoja stalnih naglasnih sistemov v slovanskih jezikih
(Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, 2023)The paper provides a brief overview of existing research on continuous accent systems and highlights past findings. Building on these insights the author makes suggestions for further consideration as well as proposes some ... -
Care of plastic objects
(Kansas Museum Association webinar series, 2023-07-06)I routinely deal with plastics in my job as a library and archives conservator. Plastics conservation is a fairly new area for all of us, and conservators are still learning about how to care for these objects as they begin ... -
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum. [Review Essay]
(Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 2017)Review of a published book. -
The Role of Gelatin in Paper Permanence, Part II, Phase One: Gelatin as a Relative Humidity Buffer
(1997-12-15)For over four decades, conservators and scientists have been interested in why papers produced in the 15th and 16th centuries have remained in much better condition than many modern papers. One factor, overlooked until ... -
Акцентологические наблюдения к реконструкции праславянского диалекта в Паннонии
(Институт славяноведения РАН (Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences), 2023)The paper represents the authors’ first attempt to collect the accentual peculiarities recoverable from the extinct Late Common Slavic dialect traditionally named “Pannonian” Slavic as a prequel to their entry the topic ... -
Relationships among cost, citation, and access in journal publishing by an ecology and evolutionary biology department at a U.S. university
(PeerJ, 2023-01-04)Background: Optimizing access to high-quality scientific journals has become an important priority for academic departments, including the ability to read the scientific literature and the ability to afford to publish ... -
The Public Digital Humanities Institute - A National Endowment for the Humanities Institute to Support Academic & Community Collaborations in the Digital Humanities
(2024-01)The Public Digital Humanities Institute (PDHI) brought together teams of academics and community partners from 12 community-based digital humanities projects for an intensive week of digital humanities training and discussion ... -
Discursive Constructions During COVID-19: Calling for the Critical Analysis of Discourse in Social Work During and After the Pandemic
(University of Chicago Press, 2021-10-19)At the Society for Social Work and Research 2021 Annual Conference, the authors of this commentary presented at or attended a roundtable discussion to critically examine discourses around age, race, and gender that had ... -
Psychosocial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Men’s Gender-Related Attitudes, Employment and Housework, and Demographic Characteristics
(2022-11-03)Background and objective: Globally, men are at greater risk of mortality and serious physical consequences from COVID-19 infection than women, but are less impacted by the pandemic’s impact on labor force participation and ...