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Reframing School Readiness: Case Studies of African-American and Latina Head Start Parents
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)The “school readiness gap” has been attributed to differences in family life, home school connections, and social inequalities. The current school-parent partnership model fails to acknowledge the ways in which parent ... -
Formulation of Hyaluronidase Enzyme Sensitive Topical Nanomicrobicides for HIV Virus Transmission Prevention
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)The objective of this dissertation is to design and optimize a nanoformulations (nanoparticle and nanofiber) delivery system loaded with anti-HIV topical microbicides for HIV prevention in women. In chapters 1 and ... -
Ultra Low Power SubThreshold Device Design Using New Ion Implantation Profile
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)One of the important aspects of integrated circuit design is doping profile of a transistor along its length, width and depth. Devices for super-threshold circuit usually employ halo and retrograde doping profiles in ... -
Development and Evaluation of Nanocarriers against Atherosclerosis
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)The objective of this project was to develop advanced nanocarriers such as nanographene and graphene quantum dots against atherosclerosis. Mannosylated-reduced graphene oxide (Man-rGO) was developed as a targeted ... -
Essays on Complexity and Design Thinking in Entrepreneurship
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)The New venture creation context is experiencing unprecedented change. Rapid shifts in technology, customer needs, and institutions have translated into a very complex, uncertain, and dynamic landscape, for those who ... -
Ghost Fists
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)Ghosts animate the stories and essays of this collection in ways both bodied and disembodied—as loops, as refrains, as stories that can’t be outrun. Moving across time and space to consider collective memory in Cambodia, ... -
The Effects of a Clinical Decision Support Software Program Stability Requirement on Glycemic Outcomes
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Although dysglycemia has been linked to poor clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients, 30 50% of inpatients continue to have out-of-range glucose values. The use of clinical decision support software to manage intravenous ... -
A Vitamin D Protocol Post Liver Transplantation
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Adults with compromised liver function are inherently deficient and especially vulnerable to the consequences of vitamin D deficiency. Consequences of vitamin D deficiency include liver disease progression, infection, ... -
Irreverent Faith: Neoclassicism, Catholicsm, and Humor in Francis Poulenc's Sacred Choral-Orchestral Works
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Francis Poulenc's (1899-1963) music, along with that of his early twentieth-century French contemporaries, occupies a unique place in the classical music canon. Its accessibility, and often its humor, led many scholars ... -
The Laboring Irish: Developing Community and Industry in Early Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)By 1880, the Kansas City community had experienced phenomenal growth. Since 1820, the new city had evolved from a fur trading post, an outfitting center for western trails, a trading center for Native Americans, a ... -
Advanced Light Field Frame Prediction For Optimized Compression
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Current light field compression techniques lack robustness to handle both rate distortion optimized motion compensation as well as latency during the encoding and decoding process. This paper focuses on a contribution ... -
Analyzing Bit Error Rate using Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) Software Defined Radio in Indoor and Outdoor Environments
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Wireless Communications had radical growth because of the necessity of people being connected. However, interference, noise, and multiple fading have adverse effects to a reliable system. Bit Error Rate has its own ... -
Automated Prediction of Hepatic Arterial Stenosis
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Several thousand life-saving liver transplants are performed each year. One of the causes of early transplant failure is arterial stenosis of the anastomotic junction. Early detection of transplant arterial stenosis ... -
A Quantitative Exploration of the Educational Paths to Completion Taken by First Generation College Students and Students Who Have a Parent with A Four-Year College Degree
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This quantitative study examines students’ survey responses as they begin the transition from high school into and through their initial year of college then to completion of a four-year college degree, to explore ... -
Growth of Power Electronics: The Effort Required to Mitigate the Harmonics
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Power Electronic (PE) devices are welcomed and have improved human lives substantially, but the harmonics produced are a bane to our power systems. This paper details the growth of PE devices and the effort required to ... -
Social Media and Ideal Body Image Representation
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This research is an independent study of Social Media and Body Image representation focusing on 2015- 2017 trends. Over the years, the issue on how the ‘ideal’ body image is represented on social media has created cause ... -
A Framework for Ultra Reliable Low Latency Mission Critical Communication
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Mission-critical communication is one of the central design aspects of 5G communications. But there are numerous challenges and explicit requirements for development of a successful mission-critical communication system. ... -
Electronic Structure in the Organic-based Magnet [Feᴵᴵ(TCNE)(NCMe)₂][FeᴵᴵᴵCl₄] using the Orthogonalized Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals Method with Hubbard U
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)The Hubbard U parameter is applied to the organic-based magnet [Feᴵᴵ(TCNE)(NCMe)₂][FeᴵᴵᴵCl₄] using the Orthogonalized Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals (OCLAO) methods. The Local Spin Density Approximation (LSDA) ... -
Wearable Technologies in Academic Libraries: Fact, Fiction and the Future
(Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), 2017)Chapter 7 of Canuel, R & Crischton, C (2017). Mobile Technology and Academic Libraries: Innovative Services for Research and Learning. Chicago, IL. ACRL. Nick Moline, a developer and early Google Glass Explorer, can still ... -
Simulation and Experimental Testing of Additively Manufactured Strain Gauges
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Additive manufacturing has seen a rapid increase as a method of fabricating both design phase prototypes and end-user products. The increase in development of the technology has driven the development of new products such ...