Browsing by Thesis Department "Honors College (UMKC)"
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Analyzing Value Propositions to Understand Consumer Motivation: Increasing Attendance at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Marketing research was conducted to learn how to increase the number of people who visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM). Specifically, this research was completed to learn how to motivate more local Kansas Citians ... -
Art and the Healing Process-Improving Mental Health
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This study aims to find what art processes have been used to help with mental dysfunctions in a variety of populations. While many dysfunctions and many interventions were included in the paper, the main focus was to find ... -
Being and Humor
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016-05-25)Being and Humor is an original philosophic thesis exploring the connection between the study of phenomenology and the human concept of humor. Humor is the cure for the ego with out losing ones persona; but it is dependent ... -
The Effects of Calorie Information on Food Choice
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016-05-17)Decision making is a constant activity, from making the decision to get out of bed to choosing which TV channel to watch at night. Food choice is especially pervasive – it’s estimated that a person makes approximately 220 ... -
I Can; Analyzing Self- Reflection Statements of French Language Learners
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)This paper investigates the nature of student open-ended reflectional responses on French foreign language exams. We hypothesized that these types of responses may indicate how students change over the first four ... -
Innovation Management: A Shifting Paradigm to Innovation Management Styles, Culture, and Strategies
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016-05-01)The purpose of the thesis is to analyze historical management viewpoints to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of management in order to evaluate current trends. Scientific management, classical management viewpoints, ... -
Muscle-Tendon Crosstalk: Evidence by Protective Effects Against Oxidative Stress
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 5/1/2016)Findings of non-endocrine organs being able to perform endocrine functions have sparked the possibilities of other unknown functions of many organs. Skeletal muscle and bone are such that have been known to only have a ... -
The Philosophy of the Freedom of Expression: Speech and Press Examined Philosophically and Implemented Legally
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The First Amendment to the Constitution explicitly protects the rights to five things: speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly. Of those five, two of these, the freedoms of speech and press, have been hotly contested ... -
Regulation of Src Family Tyrosine Kinases in the Rat Striatum by Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Acetylcholine is an important neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain. This transmitter binds to muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChR) to regulate activity of a variety of intracellular signaling molecules. Fyn ... -
Reproducibility in high-throughput mutagenesis and gene expression analysis
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016-05)In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, meiosis is controlled by expression of the IME1 gene. To examine, how IME1 is regulated, ~ 100 mutants were constructed, each containing a different point mutation in the promoter of this gene ... -
Sociogeographic Voter Turnout Disparities and Public Health in Kansas City, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Politics should be included in the academic and community discussion of spatial disparity. Poverty, healthcare, and access to transportation are frequent metrics when comparing geographic social advantage, but politics is ... -
‘A Sudden Temptation’: Slave Agency, Enlightened Jurisprudence and Power Struggles in Antioquia. New Granada 1804-1808.
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Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels and Tenocyte Response to Oxidative Stress
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016-05-01)Voltage-gated channels are important for excitable cells, such as neurons or muscle cells. Surprisingly, they have been described, at the gene expression and protein levels, in nonexcitable cells such as bone, kidney, ...