2015 UMKC Dissertations - Freely Available Online
This community contains the collections of dissertations submitted electronically to the School of Graduate Studies by doctoral degree candidates at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2015. The items in this collection are dissertations that are available to the general public.
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Flow and the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of Personality Characteristic
(2015)Flow is an area that has had a flourish of research emerge within the past couple of decades originating in the sport psychology literature (Jackson & Eklund, 2006; Hefferon & Ollis, 2006; Kee & Wang, 2008) and in a multitude ... -
From Revolution To Ruin: A Preliminary Look at Rwanda’s First Two Presidents, Grégoire Kayibanda and Juvénal Habyarimana, and Their Administrations
(2015)This paper brings together primary and secondary materials from a vast number of sources related to the first two presidents of Rwanda, Grégoire Kayibanda and Juvénal Habyarimana, in a preliminary look at the men and ... -
Cryptogram (2011) for wind ensemble
(2015)Cryptogram is a nine-minute, one-movement composition for wind ensemble that explores the use of embedded musical quotations to generate basic melodic, harmonic, and formal structures. In contrast to traditional quotation, ... -
The Effect of Emotion Stimulus Intensity on the selection and Implementation of Distraction and Reappraisal as Emotion Regulation Strategies
(2015)Emotion regulation is an important coping mechanism for handling emotional situations and stimuli in day-to-day life. More effective emotion regulation is linked to better mental and physical health. The present study ... -
High Availability and Scalability Schemes for Software- Defined Networks (SDN)
(2015)A proliferation of network-enabled devices and network-intensive applications require the underlying networks not only to be agile despite of complex and heterogeneous environments, but also to be highly available and ... -
Dynamic Virtual Network Restoration with Optimal Standby Virtual Router Selection
(2015)Network virtualization technologies allow service providers to request partitioned, QoS guaranteed and fault-tolerant virtual networks provisioned by the substrate network provider (i.e., physical infrastructure provider). ... -
Measurement And Improvement of Quality-of-Experience For Online Video Streaming Services
(2015)HTTP based online video streaming services have been consistently dominating the online traffic for the past few years. Measuring and improving the performance of these services is an important challenge. Traditional ...