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Expression Pattern of Drug-Resistance Genes in Candida Albicans at Different Fluconazole Concentrations
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungus that is part of the normal flora of our gastrointestinal and urinary tracts, but can cause infections in immune compromised individuals. Fluconazole (FLC), which is a fungistatic ... -
Asymmetric Positron Annihilation in Chiral Tartrate and Tartaric Acid Crystals
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) has been used to study the interactions of positrons with chiral tartaric acids and tartrates. Differences in lifetimes of and its intensity I2 were compared between large ... -
Modeling and Design of a Silicon-Based High-Pressure 3HE Replacement Neutron Detector
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)3He has stood as a major isotope used for neutron detection for many years. Due to national concerns of a possible 3He shortage, significant effort has been put forth, in the form of 3He alternative research, to push the ... -
Neutron Response Vectorization and Optimization of Moderating Neutron Spectrometers for Active Interrogation
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)The detection of special nuclear material (SNM) is no trivial task; the low activity of isotopes such as 235U and the ease of shielding make their passive detection virtually impossible in the maritime environment. Active ... -
Using WISE to Find Obscured AGN Activity in SDSS Mergers and Interactions
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)In simulations, major encounters between gas-rich galaxies are predicted to drive gas to the centers of interacting and merging systems triggering new star formation (SF) and fueling an active galactic nucleus (AGN). ... -
Topical Clear Aqueous Nanomicellar Formulation for Anterior and Posterior Ocular Drug Delivery
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)The objective of this study was to develop a clear, aqueous drug loaded nanomicellar formulation (NMF) for the back-of-the-eye delivery. Hydrophobic drugs such as cyclosporine, resolvin analog (RX-10045), dexamethasone, ... -
Alignment of Do-Not-Resuscitate Status with Patients’ Likelihood of Favorable Neurological Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)After patients survive an in-hospital cardiac arrest, discussions should occur about preferences for future resuscitative efforts. Given the value patients generally place on possessing normal neurological function, these ... -
Data Structures and Algorithms for Partitioning a Set into Sets of Non-Descending Cardinality
(2015)Data structures have been around since the structured programming era. Algorithms often associate with data structures. An algorithm is a sequence of instructions that accomplishes a task in a finite time period. The ... -
Redating Pericles: A Re-examination of Shakespeare’s Pericles as an Elizabethan Play
(2015)Pericles's apparent inferiority to Shakespeare’s mature works raises many questions for scholars. Was Shakespeare collaborating with an inferior playwright or playwrights? Did he allow so many corrupt printed versions ... -
Tsuki no Shirabe for flute and koto
(2015)Tsuki no Shirabe was composed at the request of Jun Aita-san to commemorate her 60th birthday of her mother, Michiko Saito-san. I asked to compose music that is both reminiscent of Japanese music and aesthetics, and also ... -
Experimental Behavior of High Strength Concrete Slabs Subjected to Shock Loading
(2015)The design to resist blast loading is required in many private and governmental buildings. The research presented in this thesis characterizes the response of high strength concrete panels, reinforced with high strength ... -
Dynamic Model Generation and Semantic Search for Open Source Projects using Big Data Analytics
(2015)Open source software is quite ubiquitous and caters to most common software needs developers come across. Many open source projects are considered better than their commercial equivalents as a larger pool of developers ... -
Coupon Redemption System
(2015)A number of trends in e-commerce have become evident in recent years. Online storefronts have proliferated, and advertisements for these storefronts in the form of click through banners have become popular. Recently, the ... -
Demonstration of an Effective 4G LTE Network Simulator to Analyze Performance and Ensure Reliable Communication
(2015)With the growing population, technology is growing without any bounds. With these advancements, we have reached a footing where we cannot imagine the world without communications. This dependability on communications strikes ... -
A Clinic Coordinator Improves Clinic Efficiency and Decreases Missed Appointments in a Multidisciplinary Setting
(2015)Introduction: Missed appointments represent a significant problem in the medical community. A clinic coordinator was hired to provide a dedicated source for communication, scheduling, and care of patients between multiple ... -
Setting the Stage for Kansas City talent and Diversity The KC Meltingpot Theatre
(2015)This thesis aims to chronicle the origins of The KC MeltingPot Theatre Company, owned and operated by Kansas City area couple Harvey and Linda Williams. The primary focus will be on the works produced by The KC MeltingPot ... -
Improving Transaction Acceptance of Incoherent Updates Using Dynamic Merging In a Relational Database
(2015)Despite its tenure, mobile computing continues to move to the forefront of technology and business. This ever expansive field holds no shortages of opportunity for either party. Its benefits and demand are abundant but it ... -
Feature-based Analysis for Open Source using Big Data Analytics
(2015)The open source code base has increased enormously and hence understanding the functionality of the projects has become extremely difficult. The existing approaches of feature discovery that aim to identify functionality ... -
Searching for Interacting Early Type Galaxies at Late Cosmic Times
(2015)Major gas-poor (dry) merging between two comparably massive spheroidal galaxies are post u-lated to be the central mechanism responsible for the assembly of the most massive (M[subscript star,tot] ≥ 10¹¹ M[subscript ☉]) ... -
Negative Mood Impacts the Relationship between Explicit and Implicit Age-Related Attitudes
(2015)The Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, and Schwartz, 1998) has become a widely used method of measuring individuals’ implicit preferences based on the speed of sorting words or images into respective ...