2015 Dissertations (UMKC)
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Self Synchronization of Moving Vehicles
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015)In this dissertation, we investigate and develop a novel scheduling scheme for conflict-free movement of vehicles at road intersections. We claim that our scheduling scheme not only guarantees conflict-free movement at any ... -
College Football in Turmoil: How Violence, Virility and Social Darwinism Defined College Football, 1880-1915
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015)This study investigates the influence of the reform movement within the United States on college football between 1880 and 1915. In response to industrialization and urbanization, reform advocates used sports and athletics ... -
The Radical Frances Wright and Antebellum Evangelical Reviewers: Self-Silencing in the Works of Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Maria Child, and Eliza Cabot Follen
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015)The early antebellum, a nation-building period of industrial progress, financial crisis, and social upheaval, associated the values of evangelical Protestantism with American middle-class respectability. Individuals who ... -
Refinement and Applications of Light Controlled Biological Processes
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)For understanding of biological processes, a spatiotemporal control over these processes is needed. Controlling these processes using light can give us the advantage of a precise control over spacing, timing and degree of ... -
A Multimodal Biometric Authentication for Smartphones
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)Biometrics is seen as a viable solution to ageing password based authentication on smartphones. Fingerprint biometric is leading the biometric technology for smartphones, however, owing to its high cost, major players in ... -
Experiences of African American Baccalaureate Nursing Graduates: Entrance, Culture, and Retention in Nursing School
(2015)The experiences of African American Baccalaureate Nursing Graduates is becoming a phenomenon of interest among university and college administrators, faculty, and staff. Currently there are 2.4 million registered nurses ... -
Energy Efficient Resource Allocation for Virtual Network Services with Dynamic Workload in Cloud Data Centers
(2015)With the rapid proliferation of cloud computing, more and more network services and applications are deployed on cloud data centers. Their energy consumption and green house gas emissions have significantly increased. ... -
Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
(2015)This dissertation probes medieval sources to identify how and why women made transformative choices in their own lives and analyzes the consequences of those choices. The major case study investigates the life of Marie ... -
Software-Defined Mobility Management and Base Station Control for Green Cellular Networks
(2015)Mobile communication systems have revolutionized in order to fulfill exponentially increasing data traffic volume due to the introduction of new devices such as smartphones and tablets and success of social networking ... -
The Study of Initiation Systems and Formulations for the Development of a Novel Silorane Biomaterial
(2015)There are approximately one million hip and knee replacements each year in the United States alone and over 70% are cemented for stabilization. The number of these replacements is expected to rise to 3.5 million per year ... -
Institution: The Control of Social Perception—Toward a Theory of Minority-Directed Institutional Change
(2015)This dissertation seeks to make progress toward a theory of minority-directed institutional change. It begins with a review of research on urban sociology and how, despite tremendous technological and legal change, the ... -
Structure and Mechanical Properties of Cement and Intermetallic Compounds via ab-initio Simulations
(2015)Calcium silicate hydrates comprise a class of minerals formed synthetically during Portland cement hydration or naturally through various geological processes. The importance of these minerals is immense since they are the ... -
Design and Evaluation of HIV Microbicides Loaded mucoadhesive Nanoformulation
(2015)HIV/AIDS had caused more than 25 million deaths since it was first recognized. Women are more susceptible to HIV infection in comparison with men due to human physiology, social, economic disadvantages. To protect women ... -
Physical activity in adolescents with orthopedic limitations: The use of human-animal interaction in the form of dog-walking
(2015)Nine out of ten adolescents fail to achieve Healthy People 2020 recommended levels of aerobic and muscle-strengthening physical activity leading to deleterious consequences for individuals and a public health epidemic (US ... -
Studies of Conjugated Small Molecules, Polymers and Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaic Applications
(2015)This dissertation focuses on the photophysical properties and device studies of three different types of materials, namely polyoxometalate (POM)-containing organic-inorganic hybrids, near-IR absorbing conjugated polymers ... -
Recent Advances in Indole Aryne Cycloaddition Chemistry. Part I: Total Synthesis of (±)-cis-Trikentrin B. Part II: Investigation into the Regioselectivity of 6,7-Indole Aryne Cycloadditions. Part III: Synthesis and Reactions of Novel Tribromoindoles
(2015)Since their discovery in the Buszek laboratories in 2007, the indole arynes and their cycloaddition chemistry has demonstrated its significance in achieving the total synthesis of biologically active indole alkaloid natural ... -
Independent Functions Of Clueless In Differential Integrin Secretion And Mitochondrial Quality Control In Drosophila Muscle
(2015)Drosophila Clueless (Clu) and its conserved orthologs are known for their role in the prevention of mitochondrial clustering. Here, we uncover its independent roles in the delivery of integrin subunits and the regulation ... -
An Exploration of Teachers’ Early Childhood Guidance Beliefs and Practice within Early Learning Classrooms
(2015)Child guidance approaches, models, and strategies impact the quality of the classroom environment through teacher-child interactions, positive and negative climates, and the development of self-regulation and autonomy. ... -
Predicting the STEM Outcomes of Academically Qualified Women: A Longitudinal Examination of Social Cognitive Career Theory
(2015)There is a well-documented gender disparity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, which has been the focus of research for several decades (i.e., Betz & Hackett, 1981; Ceci & Williams, 2009, ... -
Sikh Men Post 9/11: Visible Markers of Religion, Perceived Religious Discrimination, and Career Barriers
(2015)The attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 (9/11) stand out as a monumental event that is marked as a sad day in our society’s recent history and an even scarier reality of religious discrimination for ...