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Hot or Not: The Effects of Social Status on Attraction among Male and Female Students
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016)
Evolutionary theology states that attractive qualities change over time and are different between
males and females (Buss, 2012). Males and females have different preferences in both sort and
long-term relationships, ...
Dry as a Cuckoo: The Changing Perceptions on Erik Satie
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016)
No one is entirely sure how to classify this unique composer, though all seem to agree on
one point. He was indeed eccentric. Born Eric-Alfred Leslie Satie in Honfleur, France on May
17, 1866, he has become known for his ...
Grammar Teaching Challenges and Strategies for Refugees
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016)
Teaching students English as a second language is a complex task involving a myriad of
factors. Having taught refugees, who are considered a specialized subset of ESL learners, I knew
there were additional considerations ...
Potentials of rice husk ash for soil stabilization
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016)
Due to the large production of agricultural
wastes, the world is facing a serious
problem of its handling and disposal. The
disposal of agricultural wastes has a
potential negative impact on the
environment causing ...
Bayesian Model Averaging application on Energy consumption model In Saudi Arabia
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016)
The paper attempts to establish the determinants of energy use in Saudi Arabia over
the period (1971 - 2011) Using Bayesian model averaging approach (BMA). In the
literature, there are several explanatory variables that ...
Teaching A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Discussion of Various Interpretations of Themes
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016)
Shakespeare has been at the center of the high school English curriculum in the United
States since the advent of the McGuffey Readers in the mid-nineteenth century to the revision of
the canon at the end of the twentieth. ...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: An Analysis of the Post-Soviet Transition in Belarus
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016)
The republic of Belarus has experienced several stages of transition after the collapse of
the Soviet Union. The first stage was characterized by an attempt to shift away from the soviet
production techniques, experimenting ...
Intercultural Appropriation and the Synagogues of Medieval Spain
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016)
Toledo is a city located along the Iberian Peninsula of Spain. It was declared by
UNESCO in 1986 to be a World Heritage Site because of a phenomenon that occurred
there between the eighth and fifteenth centuries that is ...
The Glorious Revolution, Economic Institutions and the Developing World
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016)
This paper critically examines the relative merits of New Institutional Economics
(NIE, hereafter) versus the critical institutionalist method of institutional analysis. The paper
sketches how the Glorious Revolution, a ...
Factors Associated with Social Justice Beliefs among Undergraduate College Students
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016)
The current study examined how college students’ social justice beliefs associate with levels of
trait anxiety symptoms and religiosity. Secondary education differences were also analyzed. The
sample consisted of 126 ...
Quality of life for hospice caregivers
(2016)
The goal of hospice care is to enhance the quality of life (QOL) of patients and their families during the final stages of illness, the dying process, and the bereavement period. This goal involves using an interdisciplinary approach to attend...
Examining doctoral student education for collaborative authorship in LIS
(ALISE 2020, 2020)
collaborations relevant to doctoral students and their mentors, and makes three recommendations to supplement authorship education in the curriculum of LIS doctoral programs. Special attention is devoted to interdisciplinary collaborations....
Lift every voice
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2016)
In a tempest of cultural misunderstanding, Stephanie Shonekan offers direction through the storm.
Fifteen years after the Bellingham ISSRM : an empirical evaluation of Frederick Buttel's differentiating criteria for environmental and resource sociology. Appendix, Sample studies included in the analysis
(2018)
matters, levels of analysis, spatial focuses, theoretical orientations, policy relevance, and interdisciplinary commitments. These distinctive tendencies have been widely accepted in environmental and natural resource social science but have not been...
Program Evaluation: Preferred Hospice
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2016)
Preferred Hospice is a Missouri-based hospice agency or “comfort care” that is offered to
all terminally ill patients whom, according to a doctor, have a life expectancy of six months or
less. Preferred Hospice has six ...
Empathy, Symbolism, and Synchresis in Under the Skin (2013): How Mica Levi’s Score Shapes the Narrative
(Graduate Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2023)
The 2013 science-fiction horror film Under the Skin, directed by Jonathan Glazer,
revolves around an alien being sent to earth to collect and harvest human bodies. As the film
progresses, the alien begins to question its ...
Lucerna, Volume 9. Preliminaries
(UMKC Honors Program, 2014)
Something old and something new : future directions in vocational research with people of color in the United States
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2019)
interdisciplinary perspectives, merging psychological and educational science with vocational development, using intersectional approaches, examining collective mobility strategies and structural reforms, and assessing the impact of environmental disasters on long...