Browsing University of Missouri-Kansas City by Thesis Semester "2019 Spring"
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Access to Nature, Access to Health: The Government Free Bathhouse at Hot Springs National Park, 1877 to 1922
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Scholars of environmental history have written extensively about the role of federal control of public lands. In the past few decades, others have begun to explore connections between the natural environment and health. ... -
Analysis Of A Distribution System Integrated With Photovoltaic Charging Facilities
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Electricity generation and transportation account for most of the global primary energy demand. The majority of the world’s coal demand is for electricity generation and the majority of the world’s oil demand is for ... -
Assessment of Anthropometric Development of Transgender and Gender Non Binary Youth Assigned Female at Birth Across Prepubertal and Pubertal Growth
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Objective: Growth and final height are impacted by many factors including sex steroids. Increasing numbers of transgender and gender non binary youth who are assigned female at birth (transmasculine (TM) youth) avoid ... -
Association of weight with drug dosing guideline adherence in children hospitalized with asthma
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Background: Obesity can result in physiologic alterations that may be important to drug disposition. Despite this, dosing recommendations for hospitalized children with obesity remain limited, including drugs for asthma ... -
Automated Software to Count Stains in Immunostaining Applications
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Quantification of cells from immunostained images is a vital procedure in biomedical analysis, as it helps in the measurement of proliferation, immunodetection and differentiation of nuclear markers, which in turn play ... -
Barriers to and Facilitators of Infertility Medication Adherence: A Mixed Methods Study
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Background. Infertility treatment protocols require women to engage in self management of their prescribed medication regimens, yet adherence to infertility medication schedules have been suboptimal. No prior research ... -
Be a Man and Stop Sexual Assault: Take the I-Position?
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Personal and peer attitudes toward sexual assault and their connection to positive bystander intervention have been widely studied in the current literature. Most researchers examining bystander intervention and sexual ... -
Characterizing Road Conditions via Smart Mobile Crowd Sourcing
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Bad road conditions can cause vehicle damage and create hazardous driving conditions. Current reporting methods for bad road conditions is a burden for the reporter, so much so that these conditions might not be ... -
Choral Directors’ Experiences with Gender-Inclusive Teaching Practices Among Transgender Students
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)As adolescent gender identity expands to encompass non-binary forms of gender expression in contemporary social contexts, some music educators are beginning to examine their role in fostering an environment that is ... -
Data-Driven Modeling of the Lake Chad Basin Hydrologic Systems
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The drying of the Lake, located in Central Africa, is one example of a water crisis, which requires more research and studies. The lake has been progressively shrinking since the 1960s due to climate change and anthropogenic ... -
Daughter of Bird and Earth
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The single movement symphonic poem Daughter of Bird and Earth draws its inspiration from my own long poem in modern Chinese, The Resurrection of Poems, which narrates an imaginary woman’s life journey, both internally and ... -
Design and Implementation of Firewall to Inspect Traffic in Encrypted VPN Tunnels
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)For the past 30 years, security is the greatest factor in internet and even in intranet. Starting from world war 1, we are striving to improve the security and now in 2019, we are confident enough to send the data ... -
Detrital zircon geochronology of the Upper Miocene Boleo Formation in the Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The Santa Rosalía Basin (SRB), Baja California Sur, is a transtentional to rift basin that formed during the opening of the Gulf of California. The Boleo Formation is the oldest and dominant sedimentary fill of the ... -
Developing and Utilizing Multivariate Stochastic Wireless Channel Models
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Developing accurate channel models is paramount in designing efficient mobile communication systems. The focus of this dissertation is to understand the small-scale fading characteristics, develop mathematical tools that ... -
Development of Aerial-Ground Sensing Network: Architecture, Sensor Activation, and Spatial Path-Energy Optimization
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The advent of autonomous navigation, positioning, and in general robotics technologies has enabled the maturity of small to miniature-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs; or colloquially called drones) and their wide ... -
Due Process for Whom?: Evaluation of Sexual Misconduct Policies at Institutions of Higher Education From the Lens of the Respondent
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Critics of the implementation of Title IX at institutions of higher education (IHEs) argue that due process in the investigation and adjudication of sexual misconduct is severely lacking. In response, the Office for ... -
The Effect of Peer Presence on Risk Taking Behavior Among Late Adolescents
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The present study used an experimental method to examine risk-taking in a simulated environment involving risky driving behaviors. The study examined the effects of peer presence on risk-taking behavior among late ... -
Former Inmates’ Perceptions and Beliefs About The Value of Earning a High School Diploma
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Previous studies on correctional education have focused on recidivism. There is limited research from a qualitative perspective on the perceptions of education prior to incarceration. This constructivist narratological ... -
Frequency and Field Strength Materials Characterization with Complementary Split-ring Resonators, Coplanar Waveguides, and the Virtual Ground Method
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)In the radiofrequency bands, measuring the power-dependent complex permittivity and permeability of materials that undergo metal–insulator transitions is a significant challenge which is important for defense and ... -
A Heuristic Narratological Case Study of the Literacy Experiences of High School Seniors in an Urban High School
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The intended purpose of this heuristic, narratological, descriptive case study is to capture the individual experiences of a group of urban high school students as they pertain to literacy developmental opportunities. ...