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Crossroads of the Earth
(2024)Crossroads of The Earth is a single-movement mixed quartet in five sections, set for flute/piccolo, alto saxophone, violoncello, and piano. My inspiration for this composition stemmed from the environmental awareness film ... -
The Nonstory and Other Stories
(2022)The following is a selection of my writing from 2018 to present. I consider the work I have completed during my years at UMKC to be a series of experiments in the short fiction form, and I believe that this thesis is a ... -
Dental Students' Knowledge Related to Peri-Implantitis Diagnosis and Willingness to Treat or Refer: A Pilot Study
(2024)This pilot study examined whether demographic factors affect student knowledge, ability to diagnose, and willingness to refer biological implant complications, specifically peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis. This ... -
DELIVERY OF STING AGONIST USING LIPID NANOPARTICLES AND DISCOVERY OF ANTI-TIGIT PEPTIDES FOR CANCER THERAPY
(2023)Over the past decades, cancer treatment has significantly advanced with the approval of new therapeutic entities aimed at treating this disease. However, these advancements have not universally benefitted all patients or ... -
"Nobody Can Say It Wasn’t": Language of Power and the Bosnian Genocide, 1992–1995
(2023)Between 1992 and 1995, Bosnian Serb nationalists, with aid from the Republic of Serbia, committed genocide against Bosnian Muslims in an effort to secure territory for a larger Serbian state. General debates over the ... -
The History of Elementary Literacy Instruction in the Kansas City Kansas Public School District from 1990 until 2022
(2023)This dissertation outlines a comprehensive research endeavor focused on the history of elementary literacy instruction in the Kansas City Kansas Public Schools (KCKPS) from 1990 until 2022. The research methodology combines ... -
ADInsight: A Multimodal and Explainable Framework for Alzheimer's Disease Progression and Conversion Prediction
(2023)ADInsight represents the crux of this dissertation, introducing an integrated and explainable framework centered on predicting Alzheimer's disease (AD) conversion, particularly for those at the early stage of mild cognitive ... -
Deep learning-based optimization of light field processing
(2023)As commonly acknowledged, light field technology offers a multi-dimensional extension for image processing by capturing both the intensity and direction of light rays, resulting in a more comprehensive representation of ... -
Bearing Witness: Essays, Stories, And A Novel In Progress
(2023)Storytelling is like the air that we breathe. We need the stories to thrive, to be enriched, and to grow like the plants and animals around us. Stories are the places where we are rooted. And to tell a story is to bear ... -
Mutterrecht to Mauerfall: Cassandra and Penthesilea in 1980s East German Art
(2023)Two important mythological figures emerged in East German art in the 1980s: Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess, and Penthesilea, the Amazon warrior queen. Christa Wolf’s 1983 novel, Cassandra, exerted a profound influence ... -
Exploring Multivalency and Chemical Modifications in the Development of Anti-PD-L1 Peptide Inhibitors for Cancer Immunotherapy
(2023)The PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint axis is one of the most common pathways exploited by cancers to evade immune surveillance. Many cancers overexpress PD-L1 (programmed cell death ligand 1) on their surface through which ... -
Discovery of IKBKE and CD24 siRNAs for the Treatment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
(2023)Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) represents approximately 10-20% of all newly diagnosed breast cancers and is classified as a subtype with the absence of ER, PR, and HER2 expression. TNBC displays high aggressiveness, ... -
Cross-cultural musical encounters: Muslim Mediterranean in the Enlightenment imagination
(2023)The rise of Enlightenment thinking during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prompted many thinkers to search for new knowledge in varied ways. This shift motivated travelers to journey to places farther outside of ... -
Three essays on Platform Capitalism and its alternative
(2023)This dissertation delves into the intricate landscape of platform capitalism and its multifaceted relationship with labor dynamics, bringing forth a nuanced understanding of the evolving economic terrain. The first ... -
“It has already exposed you to some very impertinent remarks": Intertextual regulation of women from the early British novel to the twenty-first century screen
(2023)This interdisciplinary dissertation examines twenty-first century film adaptations of Jane Austen’s work as intertextual, intermedial products with roots in the early-British novel. Rather than being direct offspring of ... -
Investigation of Process–Structure–Property Correlations for Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposited Complex Disordered Solids: Towards Data-Driven Computational Materials Design
(2023)Complex disordered solids, characterized by multicomponent, multiphase, sub-structured configurations, coupled with a lack of long-range order, represent an application-rich class of materials, exhibiting a vast number of ... -
Direct Extrusion Printability of Internal Phase Nanostructured Hydrogels
(2023)An experimental study in open-air direct extrusion of fatty acid-based ternary system gels is presented. When promising self-supporting mechanical abilities are observed in some pure ternary experiments, photoinitiators ... -
Investigation and development of wideband antenna gain enhancement techniques
(2023)The far-field gain of an antenna relies on its physical dimensions, often posing a challenge for achieving higher gain without increasing size. We address this issue by exploring innovative design strategies to enhance the ... -
Targeting Extracellular Matrix Using siRNA for the Treatment of Liver Fibrosis and Pancreatic Cancer
(2023)The objective of this dissertation is to develop peptide-based siRNA delivery systems for the treatment of liver fibrosis and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). We recently discovered that silencing the poly (rC) ... -
MITIGATING ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT PATHOGENS: A MULTIFACETED STRATEGY FOR NOVEL ANTIBACTERIAL DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND COMPREHENSIVE LCMS/MS APPLICATIONS FOR DIVERSE THERAPEUTIC ADVANCEMENTS
(2023)In response to the escalating threat of antimicrobial resistance, our study adopted a multifaceted strategy to combat antibiotic-resistant pathogens. The initial phase involved the screening of the GSK TB box set against ...