2014 Theses (UMKC): Recent submissions
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The Johnson Treatment: Cold War Food Aid and the Politics of Gratitude
(2014-09-30)In 1966, President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared, "India is a good and deserving friend. Let it never be said that bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap that we turned in indifference from her bitter ... -
A Comparison of ADRR Scores in Very Young, School-age, and Adolescent Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
(2014-09-30)Glycemic variability (GV) in children is remarkably dissimilar to GV in adults, and furthermore is unique to age-specific pediatric groups. The Average Daily Risk Range score has been shown to be a good indicator of GV ... -
Introduction of a Fully Relativistic Capable Basis Set in the ab initio Orthogonalized Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals Method
(2014-09-30)Large simulation cell sizes, relativistic effects, and the need to correctly model excited state properties are major impediments to the accurate prediction of the optical properties of candidate materials for solid-state ... -
Charles Mingus Played Bass?: Rediscovering a Jazz Soloist Through Transcription
(2014-09-30)Bassist and composer Charles Mingus (1922-1979) was one of jazz music's most influential and prolific artists. Both his instrumental and compositional abilities were highly regarded during his life, and remain so today. ... -
Multiscale Study of the Interactions between Climate, Land Use, and Agricultural Productivity in Western Sahel: A Case Study of Chad
(2014-09-30)This study employed an integrated approach to investigate drivers and impacts of environmental change from the 1980s to 2012 using geospatial and statistical analyses of atmospheric, climate, land use land cover, and ... -
Kalabari Masquerade and the gaze: identity and spectatorship in the sculptures of Sokari Douglass Camp
(2014)Kalabari masquerade performances are centered around a core male performer, who disguises himself by wearing an intricate costume. The costume propels the dancer into the mystical spiritual realm, where through the ... -
Cul-de-Sacs
(2014-09-30)The following eleven stories are a culmination of three years of investigation through creative writing of life at home and family relationships. While the stories are closely related by theme, the form of each piece varies ... -
Parametric Soil-Structure Modeling for Rapid Climatic Disaster Response
(2014-09-30)Global climate changes have seemly caused acerbating impacts on coastal environments in terms of severe meteorological hazards, such as hurricanes and their induced storm surges, flooding, and heavy precipitation. Recent ... -
Temporal Bandwidth-Intensive Virtual Network Allocation Optimization in Data Centers
(2014-09-30)In this paper, we consider bandwidth-intensive services for customers that want virtual networks (VN) in a data center environment. In particular, we consider this problem in a temporal context where bandwidth-intensive ... -
Progenitor or Mere Predecessor: A Study of Ukiyo-e's Place in the Development of Modern Manga Through the Works of Rumiko Takahashi
(2014)In their efforts to understand the history of manga, or Japanese comics, scholars have struggled determining the timeline of this art form. While some historians begin their narrative as far back as the twelfth century ... -
A Data mining study of ranking within social networks
(2014-08-27)Social networks have become very popular in the past few years and have become a significant part of our personal and professional lives. As the number of participants in social networks has grown, they have become a ... -
Distributed RDF query processing and reasoning for big data / linked data
(2014-08-27)The Linked Data Movement is aimed at converting unstructured and semi-structured data on the documents to semantically connected documents called the "web of data." This is based on Resource Description Framework (RDF) ... -
Art Monster: Stories and a Novella
(2014-08-27)Monsters external and internal stalk the margins of the stories and novella that make up this collection. Though each selection engages in its own distinct exploration of the monstrous, the pieces hint at a shared question: ... -
Bushwhacker Belles : Exploring Gender, Guerrilla Warfare, and the Union Provost Marshal Records
(2014-08-26)The objective of this study is to illuminate the stories of women involved with guerrilla warfare in Missouri during the Civil War by creating a website that will collectively draw on primary and secondary source materials ... -
Narong Prangcharoen and Thai cross-cultural fusion in contemporary composition
(2014-07-30)Narong Prangcharoen (b.1973) has become one of the leading Asian classical composers since he won a number of international awards and received numerous commissions from major orchestras and individual distinguished ... -
Evidence based medical query system on large scale data
(2014-07-30)As huge amounts of data are created rapidly, the demand for the integration and analysis of such data has been growing steadily. It is especially essential to retrieve relevant and accurate evidence in healthcare and ... -
Self adapting smart electrical grid
(2014-07-30)Following the invention of electricity the electrical grid system was one of the biggest achievements of the twentieth century. It has been responsible for delivering power to millions of homes and businesses. As the demand ... -
Beneath the light: stage-bound and ankle-cuffed
(2014-07-30)The creative thesis includes both plays and poetry which cover multiple themes surrounding the female performer, in the media, on the stage, and in everyday life. The play, "An Evening of Alli Jordan" is a meta-theatrical ... -
A Knowledge-based approach of satellite image classification for urban wetland detection
(2014-07-30)It has been a technical challenge to accurately detect urban wetlands with remotely sensed data by means of pixel-based image classification. This is mainly caused by inadequate spatial resolutions of satellite imagery, ... -
Battles of the sexes onstage: explorations of changing Gender roles by four American women playwrights of the 1910s-1930s
(2014-07-30)Battle of the Sexes Onstage: Explorations of Changing Gender Roles by Four American Women Playwrights of the 1910s-1930s analyzes plays by Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, and Dawn Powell in order to ...