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Assessing the Impact of Retirement Resources on U.S. Older Female Workers’ Retirement Timing: A Theory of Planned Behavior Model
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Retirement is an important life event for all workers. Most older workers look forward to retirement and having a retirement plan is important for a successful transition. Those who plan also demonstrate a more positive ... -
Phylogeny and Mating System Evolution of Tolpis (Asteraceae) in Macaronesia
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Tolpis (Asteraceae) is a flowering plant genus with a center of distribution in the Macaronesian archipelagos. The genus has gained considerable interest, most recently, for elucidating patterns of mating system evolution, ... -
Fighting a War: Svetlana Alexievich’s Prose between History and Literature
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)In this dissertation, I analyze three books from Svetlana Alexievich’s Nobel Prize-winning cycle, Voices of Utopia, in their initial and later heavily revised editions and demonstrate how Alexievich turns oral history into ... -
Effects of Noncontingent Reinforcement with Competing Stimuli for Decreasing Problem Behavior Maintained by Social Positive Reinforcement
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) is an evidenced-based procedure that has been shown to be effective for reducing problem behavior maintained by social positive reinforcement (Carr et al., 2009). NCR typically involves ... -
Silicon's Second World: Scarcity, Political Indifference and Innovation in Czechoslovak Computing, 1964-1994
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)How societies invent, adopt, adapt, distribute and innovate with computers is an important puzzle for historians of technology, economists, educators and government planners alike. This dissertation examines the developmental ... -
Gothic Heterotopias: Dracula's Physical Space of Illusion and The Dying Detective's Penumbra Space of Compensation
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-21)This thesis studies embodiments of deviancy in two fin-de-siècle Gothic texts — Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Dying Detective — using Michel Foucault’s notions of heterotopias and ... -
The Art of Retribution: Holocaust Memory and Justice in People's Poland and Soviet Lithuania, 1944-69
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The pursuit of Holocaust justice and representation in the European socialist borderlands is a story of the navigation of the murky terrain of responsibility for violence. In the closing days of World War II, territories ... -
An In-Depth Analysis of the Performance Diagnostic Checklist – Human Services (PDC-HS)
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The current study aims to assess a digital version of the Performance Diagnostic Checklist – Human Services (PDC-HS; Carr et al., 2013; Carr & Wilder, 2016). In Experiment 1, within three non-concurrent multiple baseline ... -
An Assessment of Token Value and Effectiveness
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Token systems are a commonly used treatment procedure to increase levels of a desired behavior (e.g., compliance) or decrease levels of an unwanted behavior (e.g., aggression) for a variety of different responses (Hackenberg, ... -
Resisting Temptations of Infidelity in Imagined and Virtual Contexts
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Relationship scientists have focused on the attitudes, perceptions, motivations, and consequences of infidelity, though a framework of the decision-making process that underlies infidelity is lacking. The central aim of ... -
Playa-Lunette System Mapping and Characterization in the High Plains of Western Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Playa-lunette systems (PLSs) are common landscape features in the Great Plains that have been investigated from various perspectives including ecologic, geographic, hydrologic, and geologic. One of the region’s most important ... -
Assessing the Potential Aversiveness of Vicarious Reinforcement Arrangements in Preschool Children
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Vicarious reinforcement (VSR) refers to a change in behavior as a result of observing the delivery of reinforcement to another person (Kazdin, 1973). As such, VSR procedures would appear to be a viable teaching strategy ... -
EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS OF THE FAMILY CORVIDAE (AVES): A SYNTHESIS OF PHYLOGENETICS, BIOGEOGRAPHY AND NICHE EVOLUTION
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Despite intensive research attention over the decades, many aspects of the evolutionary history of the bird family Corvidae remain to be assessed. This dissertation focuses on several such details, such as the (a) phylogenetic ... -
Factors Governing Cloud Growth and Entrainment Rates in Shallow Cumulus and Cumulus Congestus During GoAmazon 2014/2015
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Shallow cumulus and cumulus congestus clouds play an important role in the large-scale tropical circulation by mixing heat and moisture vertically and preconditioning the environment for deeper convection. Different ... -
A quantitative approach to diversity, preservation, and taphonomic bias in fossil spider assemblages in lacustrine deposits
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Spiders (Araneae) are an incredibly diverse and abundant group that has colonized nearly every terrestrial habitat and existed for about 300 million years. These attributes make spiders an excellent group for investigating ... -
Enhanced Written Instructions for Creating Publication-Quality Single-Case Design Graphs in Microsoft Excel
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Graphs are visual descriptors of functional relations between behavior and the environment, and behavioral researchers and clinicians make informed decisions on current and future procedures by evaluating such functional ... -
Assessing Passive In Situ Reactive Media Hydraulics by Direct Velocity Measurements In the Laboratory and Field
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)A Horizontal Reactive Media Treatment Well (HRX Well) is a novel groundwater remediation technology, which comprises a horizontal well filled with reactive media. Point Velocity Probes (PVPs) were installed in a pilot HRX ... -
Inkjet Printed Thin films and Graphene Nanohybrid Photodetectors and Sensors
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) atomic materials, starting with graphene in 2004, and now including MoS2, WS2, and hBN, has led to great interest in their potential use in microelectronic devices. These atomic dimension ... -
Light-driven Catalysis in Decarboxylative Small Molecule Functionalization
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Herein, the development and mechanistic elucidation of light-driven decarboxylative processes for the installation of olefins is described. The primary focus has been to devise methodology that allows for the installation ... -
Fungal pathogen diversity and composition respond rapidly to changes in plant diversity and composition
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Accumulating evidence suggests that plant pathogens play a major role in maintaining plant community diversity. Accumulation of host-specific pathogens is expected to negatively impact productivity at low plant diversity ...