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Pictures of strangers
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-10-25)
Pictures of Strangers is primarily concerned with the differences between perception and
reality. These differences are approached both conceptually and musically through a variety
of means. The movement titles are drawn ...
Indole Arynes in organic synthesis : discovery and applications for the total synthesis of complex natural products
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2011-05-03)
Arynes and heteroarynes are very important and useful reactive intermediates with many applications in organic synthesis, including natural products total synthesis. Although benzyne, the parent and most famous aryne, has ...
Formulation of nanoparticles encapsulating hydrophilic molecules following their ionic complexation
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-01)
Part 1: Dexamethasone is one of the most widely used drug molecules for the treatment of posterior segment ocular diseases. The major problems associated with the delivery of dexamethasone include its poor aqueous solubility ...
Sinfonietta for wind ensemble augmented with string quartet
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-09)
A small consort of strings joins a full-sized wind ensemble in Sinfonietta. Although it is
not a concerto, Sinfonietta flips the classical notion of an orchestra on its head. Whereas the
Classical orchestra represented ...
Cleared to land in the desert: commercial air travel's role in the growth and development of Las Vegas as a world-class travel destination
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-04)
This study provides a history of commercial aviation in Las Vegas, focusing on the
powerful influence commercial air travel had with the financial help of the federal
government on Las Vegas‟s growth and development as ...
Common Plan Time at the middle school level
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-27)
In this study, supporting conditions necessary to study the common plan time phenomenon at the middle level school were present. This study investigated what occurs during common planning time for two middle school level ...
Assessment of transient negative affect in synesthesia
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-22)
The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate how synesthesia may influence affect and sensorimotor gating in synesthetes. Synesthesia is the phenomenon in which a sensory experience triggers a conscious perception ...
Part I: The synthesis of chenodeoxycholic acid derived macrocyles and cage compounds. Part II. Sonogashira coupling for the synthesis of well-defined π-conjugated arylene ethynylene oligomers as blue-light-emitting materials
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-20)
The design and development of novel chenodeoxychoic acid (CDCA) derivatives and its molecular architecture was accomplished. A novel CDCA derivative with an ambient CO2 insertion to 7α-side chain has been serendipitously ...
The power of teacher-student relationships in determining student success
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-11)
The purpose of this ethnomethodological exploratory descriptive case study was to
investigate and understand teacher perceptions of the relationships between teachers and
students and how those teachers perceive relationships ...
The roles of client religion, counselor religiosity, and spiritual competence in counselors' clinical judgment
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-07-15)
The present study explored the roles that clients' religious beliefs, therapists'
spiritual/religious beliefs, and therapists' attitudes toward spirituality and religion may play in
how therapists conceptualize a prospective ...
Promoting ethical behavior among local government employees: the roles of ethical leadership, ethics codes, training, and audits
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-03)
The purpose of this research was to learn the impact that ethics codes, ethics training, and audits have in promoting ethical behavior among local government employees. The research began with a survey of city auditors and ...
The roles of differentiation of self, emotional self awareness and anxiety on destructive countertransference reactions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011)
The present study investigated the mediating role of emotional self awareness and
state anxiety in predicting overinvolved and underinvolved countertransference feelings and
behaviors from level of differentiation of ...
Recovery from Infidelity: Exploring Variables Related to the Healing Process
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011)
Clinicians and researchers report that growth and improvement is possible after infidelity takes place. However, research has not explored specific variables that should relate to improvement in the aftermath of infidelity. ...
Developing an understanding of cultural aspects and beliefs of Latino/a families experiencing the American educational system
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-24)
The purpose of this qualitative study was three fold: (a) to understand the cultural
context from where our Latino/a learners come from, (b) to explore how Latino/a families'
perspectives of the American educational ...
Queen of Heaven for piano and electronics
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-11-04)
Queen of Heaven is a large-scale composition for piano and electronics, cast as five
meditations on the Virgin Mary. Each of the five movements is set in musical materials that both
subjectively and symbolically express ...
A quality metric to improve wrapper feature selection in multiclass subject invariant brain computer interfaces
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-05)
Brain computer interface systems based on electroencephalograph (EEG) signals
have limitations which challenge their application as a practical device for general use.
The signal features generated by the brain states ...
Blasphemous bodies: Transgressive morality as cultural interrogation in romance fiction of the long nineteenth century
(2011)
The long nineteenth century was characterized by advances in medical, biological and technological knowledge that often complicated definitions of human life and blurred the lines between life and death. These changes ...
Jazz elements in select Finnish and Swedish choral music
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-09)
Jazz was born in the United States around the turn of the twentieth-century and arrived in the Nordic lands in the 1920s and '30s. After this initial encounter, jazz spread throughout Finland and Sweden, the two countries ...
Differentiation of Self Inventory - short form: creation and Initial evidence of construct validity
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-07-18)
This study sought to retain the structure and reliability of the four subscales of the
Differentiation of Self Inventory - Revised yet make the instrument more efficient by
reducing the total number of items within each ...
Insanity, rhetoric and women : nineteenth-century women's asylum narratives
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-02)
Among reform movements in nineteenth-century America was insane asylum reform and
women played a role in this. Some women within the walls of asylums living as patients
turned to the pen as a means of informing the ...