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SECOND CHANCE: THE PARADOX OF FELONY CONVICTIONS
(2021)Every year hundreds of thousands of individuals with felony convictions are released into the community with the expectation that those re-entering society will be “successful” upon re-entry. Society tells persons with ... -
An Examination of Motivational Characteristics and Academic Self-Efficacy Beliefs Conducive to Experiencing Flow
(2021)The present study examined the degree to which college students’ motivational characteristics and perceptions of their academic self-efficacy were related to trait flow. Participants consisted of students attending a large, ... -
Cracking the code: Building an assessment plan with student discussion boards
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)Library instruction sessions offer students a chance to learn a variety of information literacy skills and often give them a chance to apply these abilities with a librarian close by for assistance. But how can the ... -
Fault Diagnosis and Condition Monitoring of Power Electronic Components Using Spread Spectrum Time Domain Reflectometry (SSTDR) and the Concept of Dynamic Safe Operating Area (SOA)
(2021)Fault diagnosis and condition monitoring (CM) of power electronic components with a goal of improving system reliability and availability have been one of the major focus areas in the power electronics field in the last ... -
The Logic of Violent Conflicts in DR Congo: A Nested-Analysis Approach to the Understanding of Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2020)Violent conflicts have hampered Congo’s development in several ways. Some of the deadliest and longest-running wars in post-colonial Africa happened in Congo. Like many others in sub-Saharan Africa, Congo’s civil wars are ... -
Identification and Development of a Reliable Framework to Predict Passive Scalar Transport for Turbulent Bounded Shear Flows
(2020)Heat transfer modeling plays an integral role in optimization and development of highly efficient modern thermal-fluid systems. However, currently available heat flux models suffer from fundamental shortcomings. For example, ... -
On Both Sides - A Novel
(2020)On August 11 and 12, 2017, Charlottesville, Virginia was the site of a rally for Unite the Right, an Alt-Right (neo-Nazi) group. This group sought to further white nationalist ideals and to protest the proposed removal of ... -
Crosstalk computing: circuit techniques, implementation and potential applications
(2020)This work presents a radically new computing concept for digital Integrated Circuits (ICs), called Crosstalk Computing. The conventional CMOS scaling trend is facing device scaling limitations and interconnect bottleneck. ... -
Increasing Vaccination Rates in Oregon: Novel Approaches to Combating Seasonal Influenza
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)This report provides the reasoning behind, and guidance on, implementing three interventions aimed at increasing vaccination rates against seasonal influenza, with special considerations taken to account for additional ... -
A summarization of the aspects of "The Symmetry of Schizophrenia and The AntiSymmetry of Schizophrenic Life”
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)The following paper is the student’s original theory derived from his radio play written as a sociology protege some years prior. The theoretical objectives outlined in this summary of the radio play can also read as context ... -
Ocular motion classification for mobile device presentation attack detection
(2020)As a practical pursuit of quantified uniqueness, biometrics explores the parameters that make us who we are and provides the tools we need to secure the integrity of that identity. In our culture of constant connectivity, ... -
AudioCNN: Audio Event Classification With Deep Learning Based Multi-Channel Fusion Networks
(2020)In recent years, there is growing interest in environmental sound classification with a plethora of real-world applications, especially in audio fields like speech and music. Recent research works have proven spectral ... -
Automated End-to-End Management of the Deep Learning Lifecycle
(2020)Deep learning has improved the state-of-the-art results in an ever-growing number of domains. This success heavily relies on the development of deep learning models--an experimental, iterative process that produces tens ... -
Exploring school nurse workload through the lived experiences of school nurses caring for students kindergarten through fifth grade
(2020)School nurses support the needs of healthy students, those with chronic diseases, all from diverse racial and ethnic groups. Current nurse-to-student ratios, or caseloads, do not fully capture the extent of their work. The ... -
Great Expectations: Women's Help Wanted Ads In Kansas City, 1920-1936
(2021)The question of the nature of women’s paid work has been a frequent point of historical inquiry. Using a source previously only tapped quantitatively, this paper seeks to expand our understanding of how women’s employment ... -
Comparing Multiple Measure Placement Models in Mathematics
(2020)Accurate placement into an initial college mathematics course is a key step toward the successful completion of college mathematics and, eventually, a college degree. Conversely, misplacement in mathematics may lead to a ... -
A randomized feasibility and acceptability study comparing modes of parenting education delivery for young fathers
(2020)Limited research and reliance on maternal reports of father involvement in caregiving provides an inadequate understanding of adolescent fatherhood. Despite improved outcomes for infants and adolescent mothers when adolescent ... -
Learning Efficient Deep Feature Extraction For Mobile Ocular Biometrics
(2020)Ocular biometrics uses physical traits from eye regions such as iris, conjunctival vasculature, and periocular for recognizing the person. Ocular biometrics has gained popularity amongst research and industry alike for its ... -
Telling Stories of Teacher-To-Teacher Trust in Culturally Relevant Teaching Professional Development
(2020)This study examined White female teachers’ storied experiences of teacher-to-teacher trust as they navigated culturally relevant teaching practices presented through professional learning, using the qualitative research ... -
Strategic Mourning: America's Journey After the Death of George Washington
(2020)This thesis examines the eulogies delivered after the death of George Washington in 1799, identifying themes in the texts and motivations of the authors. The death of the first president occurred during a series of national ...