2014 Theses (UMKC): Recent submissions
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Relationship Between Hospital Procedure Volume and Complications Following Congenital Cardiac Catheteriazation: A Report from the IMPACT Registry
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2014)The association between institutional volume and outcomes has been demonstrated for many procedures within the field of cardiology, but whether this relationship exists within the field of congenital cardiac catheterization ... -
Pieter Bruegel The Elder’s The Months: A Perspective
(2014)In the year 1565, Antwerp merchant Nicolaes Jongelinck commissioned Pieter Bruegel the Elder to paint a series of paintings, The Months, for his suburban villa. Unfortunately, Jongelinck lost possession of the series of ... -
Whereof we cannot speak
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Machined Music
(2014)In this master thesis, the candidate presents his collection of original poems, accompanied by a critical introduction, which explains his writing and revision process. In the critical introduction, careful attention is ... -
Photosensitivity and Magnetosensitivity of The Drosophila Circadian Clock
(2014)The experiments in this thesis addressed whether magnetic fields can enhance entrainment (phase determination) of the circadian clock by light. The experiments were conducted using a species of small fruit flies, Drosophila ... -
Association between cardiac rehabilitation participation and health status outcomes after acute myocardial infarction
(2014)Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a class Ia recommendation and endorsed performance measure for the quality of care in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) survivors. While participation in CR after AMI is associated with reduced ... -
1897 Exposition Congolaise, Tervuren: Colonialism and the Belgian Avant-Garde
(2014)In May of 1897, the Exposition Coloniale in Le Palais des Colonies, opened on the site of the Royal Park in Tervuren in conjunction with l'Exposition internationale de Bruxelles held at the same time in the city center. ... -
No Place Like Home
(2015-06-02)This collection of stories portrays a variety of lives dealing the aftereffects of loss. In “Robert the Lionheart” a boy seeks the DNA of his parents to recreate them and struggles with what that might mean. In “Weeds” ... -
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Months: A Perspective
(2015)In the year 1565, Antwerp merchant Nicolaes Jongelinck commissioned Pieter Bruegel the Elder to paint a series of paintings, The Months, for his suburban villa. Unfortunately, Jongelinck lost possession of the series of ... -
The yield strength of molybdenum under pressure and temperature
(2015-06-02)Knowledge of the elastic properties of materials under high pressures and temperatures is important in planetary science as well as giving a more comprehensive understanding of material properties in general. Molybdenum ... -
A Semantic Approach for Automatic Recovery of Software Architecture
(2014)Open source projects have been continuously growing in popularity. As a result, a number of open source projects begin to play an important role in current software development. In practice, limited assistance has been ... -
High Speed and Low Power Pipelined ADC Design for MRI Application
(2014)The advancement in the integrated circuit technologies has led to the development of many high speed devices. This lead to the necessity to have a fast and efficient circuit which can provide high computational capability. ... -
Three Images of the Vicissitude of Weather : a chamber orchestra
(2014)Three Images of the Vicissitude of Weather is a piece for chamber orchestra and consists with three movements (Darkness Before a Storm, The Chaos, and One Fine Morning) by describing images of changing weather. The piece ... -
Identifying relationships among drug side-effects using probabilistic association rule mining
(2014)Side-effects of medical drugs have important implications for health care. Knowledge of side-effects can help guide appropriate prescription of drugs to patients. The study of drug side-effects is also a rich area of ... -
Home Almost
(2014)This thesis explores the concept of home, what it means to be at home – or not at home – in one’s nation, family, dwelling or even in one’s own body. The speakers in these poems, whether through participation, observation ... -
From ‘Remedy Highly Esteemed’ to ‘Barbarous Practice’: The Rise and Fall of Acupuncture in Nineteenth-Century America
(2015-05-27)This thesis analyzes the prevalent use of acupuncture in nineteenth-century American medicine. Using medical journal articles, school catalogs, lecture notes, fee tables, newspaper clippings and other primary sources, I ... -
Effect of Delayed Polymerization Time and Bracket Manipulation on Orthodontic Bracket Bonding
(2014)This study examined the effect of bracket manipulation in combination with delayed polymerization times on orthodontic bracket shear bond strength and degree of resin composite conversion. Orthodontics brackets were bonded ... -
Modified Virtual Internal Bond Model for Concrete Subjected To Dynamic Loading
(2014)Concrete is often used as a primary material to build protective structures. There is a wide range of research work being performed to simulate the behavior of reinforced concrete under impact and blast loading. This ... -
Aspiration Differences in Female High School Students Based on Parents' Education Level
(2015-05-26)This study uses data from 61 in-depth interviews with high school junior and senior girls to examine differences in educational aspirations by parental education level. By examining how young adults’ aspirations are ... -
Exploiting the ability of Self Organizing Networks for inter-cell interference coordination for emergency communications in cellular networks
(2014)In the current scenario, radio planning of wireless cellular networks and analysis of radio performance should be agile because it is expected that in the near future we will be reaching to the point where there will be ...