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Inter-population Response of White Ash to the Emerald Ash Borer: Is Vegetative Regeneration Possible?
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Emerald ash borer (EAB) (Agrilus plannipennis Fairmaire) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is the costliest invasive pest in North American history (Aukema et al., 2011; McCullough, 2019) due to its extensive killing of ash trees ... -
A Multiple-Baseline Study of a Mobile Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Treatment of Eating Disorders in College Students
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Introduction: Eating disorders are serious psychiatric disorders associated with substantial morbidity and the highest rate of mortality of all psychiatric disorders and they are especially prevalent among college students. ... -
The Assessment and Treatment of Inappropriate Self-Feeding
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Pediatric feeding disorders encompass an array of problematic feeding behaviors observed in early childhood. The effects of these behaviors range from mild (e.g., delayed social and developmental outcomes) to severe (e.g., ... -
Redefining Age in 21st Century Science Fiction Media Through Transhuman Characters
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Science fiction (SF) films have historically featured limited understandings of aging, by not including aged characters as often, not featuring them in major roles, and by expounding singular ageist cultural narratives of ... -
Evaluating the Relationship between Objective and Perceived Cognitive Impairment Induced by Adjuvant Chemotherapy among Breast Cancer Survivors
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)A wide-range of breast cancer survivors (BCS) report cognitive-related concerns (e.g., changes in memory) after receiving adjuvant chemotherapy, a standardized treatment protocol for breast cancer. With adjuvant chemotherapy ... -
Industrial Heterogeneity in Response to Factor Price Shocks: A Dynamic Framework of Production with Money Input
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)This thesis studied heterogeneity in firms' use of monetary assets and how it led to differential reactions to monetary shocks. I reviewed studies on the dynamics in industry-level and firm-level output, sales, employment, ... -
Terminal Web and Associated Proteins Mediate Signaling to Promote Nematode Single-Cell Tubulogenesis
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Single-celled tubules represent one of the most difficult structures to form during development, requiring extension of a narrow cytoplasm surrounding a lumen exerting osmotic pressure that can burst the luminal membrane. ... -
Microfluidics for Liquid Biopsy toward Early Stage Cancer Diagnosis
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. The most effective way to improve survival rate is to diagnose cancer at the early stage. Cancer screening has been developed for early stage cancer diagnosis. ... -
Mirage of Understanding: Challenging the Dominant Perspective in Food Desert Discourse
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)In recent years there has been increasing concern over the lack of fresh, affordable, healthy food in certain neighborhoods, especially poor ones. The worry is that the residents of these “food deserts,” as they are often ... -
Tracking Multi-Decadal Lake Dynamics using Optical Imagery, Digital Elevation Models, and Bathymetric Datasets
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)The goal of this research is to review the current state of long-term, multi-decadal lake dynamic monitoring and develop novel techniques for scalable analysis at local, regional, and global levels. This dissertation is ... -
Producing for what? GDP and Well-being in China’s Economic Policies
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)China’s economic growth in the 2000s relied heavily on its manufacturing and construction sectors, which expanded disproportionately rapidly. During the period of the Hu-Wen administration (2002-2012), the Chinese government ... -
RHETORIC OF THE FEMINIST KILLJOY: AN ANALYSIS OF BAYLOR UNIVERSITY’S TITLE IX DISCOURSE
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)In October of 2016, Baylor University’s first Title IX coordinator, Patty Crawford, publicly resigned. She alleged that Baylor had failed to provide her with necessary resources to investigate sexual assault on campus and ... -
Pediatricians’ Use of Developmental Screeners to Identify Communication Delays: Trends Across the United States
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)A majority of children are seen in the healthcare setting in the first 5 years of life, specifically for well-child visits, but only a fraction of children with communication delays are identified before school age. Even ... -
The Satellite Population Around Luminous Red Galaxies in the Legacy Surveys
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Luminous Red Galaxies, or LRGs, were originally selected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as good tracers of large scale structure. Subsequent investigations showed them to be among the most massive galaxies in the Universe ... -
Collective Guilt and Selective Avoidance
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Why are Native Americans frequently omitted from mainstream American consciousness? One possible explanation is that reminders of the ways that non-Native Americans historically harmed Native Americans lead to feelings of ... -
Molecular Dissection of the Shigella Type III Secretion System Sorting Platform
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Shigella flexneri is a Gram negative bacterium that invades human intestinal epithelial cells and causes bacillary dysentery (shigellosis). An alarming feature of Shigella species is that as few as 10 organisms is a large ... -
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Land Allotment on the Pawnee Reservation
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)This research explores the patterns and consequences of land allotment for the Pawnee Nation of north-central Oklahoma. During the late nineteenth century, the federal government implemented a policy of breaking up tribal ... -
Moving Beyond “our banal, murderous imagination”: The Ideology of the Weird and the (De)composition of Progress in Environmental Science Fiction
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Weird science fiction is a subcategory of science fiction that adapts horror and supernatural elements, often with a focus on awe- and fear-inspiring monsters. In this paper, I argue for a shift from exploring the generic ... -
Characterizing transcriptional and metabolic regulatory pathways in Chlamydia trachomatis
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Chlamydia species all share a unique, phylum-defining biphasic developmental cycle. This developmental cycle is regulated in a strict temporal pattern, although, how this temporal regulation is controlled is poorly understood. ... -
The Realization of Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 pays testament to the all too familiar idea that a single moment can change your whole life. Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace inspired this musical. Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet ...