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"Oh, When the Wiz": An Ethnography of Communal Music-Making in Kansas City Soccer Culture
(2021)If you have spent any amount of time in the United States, you have certainly encountered the frenzied culture around professionalized sports. Attending a game, you have likely engaged in some participatory music-making ... -
Examination of self-determination theory constructs as mediators of the effect of motivational interviewing on tobacco cessation outcomes
(2021)Despite an abundance of evidence supporting the efficacy of motivational interviewing for health behavior change, little is known about how it works. This study conducted a secondary analysis of autonomous motivation as a ... -
Trilobites and the Culture of Wonder in Antebellum America
(2021)This thesis examines a “culture of wonder” in the United States from 1800-1850 through the exploration of invertebrate fossils, especially the trilobite, in historical sources. A short discussion of Charles Willson Peale’s ... -
Shared Context through Multi-Level Attention Transformers for Text Classification
(2021)Natural language processing (NLP) has seen recent explosive growth by creating artificial intelligence with human-level intelligence. Understanding the context using an attention mechanism could be further improved by ... -
Wideband high-power transmission line pulse transformers
(2021)Geometric transformers are often used in radar and communications systems to transition between signal driving and radiating elements that terminate in significantly different geometries with unity input/output impedance. ... -
Treatment Trajectories of Preschoolers with Severe Trauma Exposure
(2021)Children who have experienced severe trauma during early development are at increased risk for a variety of mental and behavioral health symptoms. Early intervention is commonly recommended to support healing, yet little ... -
Compromise (Fusion)
(2021)Compromise (Fusion) (for suona and orchestra) is a work that delves into the chemistry between the suona and a Western approach to orchestration. The suona has not yet been fully “discovered” by composers. Traditionally, ... -
Sex and Jesus: Notes from a Pastor's Daughter
(2021)This thesis is a collection of nonfiction and poetic works that represent the author’s output as a candidate for Master of Fine Arts. These personal essays and poems are interested in intersections and unlikely combinations: ... -
Outside the Lines: How Moberly Junior College Basketball Players Negotiated Social and Racial Norms of Little Dixie On and Off the Court, 1955-1967
(2021)Moberly, located in the north central Missouri region historically known as “Little Dixie,” has deeply rooted practices concerning racial relations and its own unique history around integration. The Moberly Greyhounds ... -
Incidence of adverse drug events in COVID-19 patients on anticoagulants: a pharmacovigilance study
(2021)Pharmacovigilance is a crucial component of today’s health science studies that allows researchers to detect, assess, understand, to ultimately prevent any adverse event associated with drugs. Today, with the world struggling ... -
Flashbacks
(2021)Flashbacks is a five-movement piece for percussion trio. This work aims to explore the unique sounds and effects of various combinations of percussion instruments. Each movement emphasizes a distinct theme: motif and ... -
Our End Times
(2021)In the spirit of novels like The Mothers and The Incendiaries, Our End Times explores the pain of leaving faith communities. Daniel and Ethel are caught up in a sex scandal in their small, Pentecostal church. They leave ... -
Family Portraits
(2021)This thesis is a collection of poems in two parts. The first section is comprised of poems about my grandfather and his genealogy research. It endeavors to explore the ways we see people after they are gone. My grandfather ... -
Quantitative Characterization of Billowed Structures Along the Margins of Basaltic Intrusions to Determine Process and Timing of Formation: Case Studies from Big Bend National Park, Texas and 71 Gulch, Idaho
(2021)By constraining the conditions in which billowed structures form, the conditions of explosive vs. non-explosive magma-water interaction can be further revealed, improving our understanding of how magma propagates and ... -
Interfacial self-assemblies of surfactants at water-oil interfaces
(2021)The generation of novel synthetic materials with functionality and hierarchical ordering is a major focus of current studies in materials science and engineering. Self-assembling amphiphilic materials (such as lipids or ... -
String Quartet I
(2021)String Quartet I is a composition in four movements for string quartet. Each movement expresses a specific emotional and sensory experience with rainwater. Movement I, "Flood Plain," was inspired by wetlands in Nebraska ... -
Book of Birds
(2021)Book of Birds is a composition for flute and electronics inspired by birds. Throughout human history, artists have developed stories and music about the natural world around them. In this piece, Book of Birds, I am adding ... -
From Galton to Globalization: The Transatlantic Journey of Eugenics
(2021)How did eugenics go from an idea in Britain to a movement in America? That was the question this dissertation originally set out to answer. Also, of interest was how the theory of eugenics went from the fringes to becoming ... -
Viola Concerto
(2021)This work seeks out a few different questions in each of its movements, present always though is the question of the relationship between the individual and group. This relationship comes to the fore in the genre of concerto ... -
Challenges and solutions for large-scale integration of emerging technologies
(2021)The semiconductor revolution so far has been primarily driven by the ability to shrink devices and interconnects proportionally (Moore's law) while achieving incremental benefits. In sub-10nm nodes, device scaling reaches ...