2014 UMKC Theses - Freely Available Online: Recent submissions
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Discomfort
(2014)The stories in this collection are concerned with the lives of middle class Midwestern people who all feel some sense of discomfort or inability to feel at ease in their lives. Throughout this collection there are examples ... -
Understanding the relationship between barriers to timely primary care and emergency department utilization across insurance categories : an analysis of the National Health Interview Survey Data (1999-2011)
In the United States (US), where access to and affordability of healthcare remains a critical challenge, emergency departments (ED) have increasingly served as a source for primary care and a portal to hospital admissions. ... -
Lotte Reiniger’s career in animation and her first full-‐length animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed
(2015)Lotte Reiniger was the woman responsible for making the world’s first full-‐length animated film, Die Geschichte des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926). Along with her collaborators, she worked on the ... -
Ms. Linto
(2014-09-30)Ms. Linto is inspired by a famous Taiwan legend called Ms. Linto. This story happened in Tainan. Linto who is a widow and raises three kinds alone, was tricked out of her life saving by a smooth talking handsome man, ACSi ... -
Chapel Hill, Missouri: Lost Visions of America's Vanguard on the Western Frontier 1820 to 1865
(2014-09-30)Despite its present circumstance as an extinct Missouri town in the geographic heart of the Midwest, Chapel Hill College was once the vanguard of the burgeoning American empire. In 1852, Chapel Hill College stood as a ... -
A Comparison Study of Grace-Based Groundwater Modeling for Data-Rich and Data-Scarce Regions
(2014-09-30)Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) modeling in water resources is an emerging field in hydrology. Investigation of groundwater change using remote sensing data helps overcome data limitation at a regional ... -
A Quack on Trial: Advertising and Education in Missouri's Medical Marketplace, 1850--1890
(2014-09-30)This study compares the lives and practices of Dr. Galen Bishop (1824-1902) and Dr. George Catlett (1828-1886), physicians emblematic of a larger struggle to shape the future of medical practice in America. The orthodox ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...