Browsing 2016 Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2016 Spring"
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The Battle of Westport: Along Union Lines A Chamber Work With Electronics and Narration in Eight Movements
(2016)The Battle of Westport: Along Union Lines is an eight-movement chamber piece for 12 instruments (3 woodwinds, 3 brass, 1 percussion, string quintet), electronics and narration. Live audio has been captured at eight of the ... -
Becoming a Healthier Guitarist: Understanding and Addressing Injuries
(2016)The field of performance arts medicine is supplying musicians with alarming statistics regarding their health. Authors give statistics as high as 93% when discussing the injury rate among instrumentalists. As guitar ... -
A Case Study of Two 21ˢᵗ Century Schools: Are We Preparing Students for the Global World?
(2016)There is no question that we live in a global society. The ability to compete successfully in the global marketplace is a fact facing our world today as it never has before. American education must prepare students ... -
Characters in Theatre for Orchestra
(2016)Beijing Opera is a form of traditional Chinese theater that combines singing, reciting, performing, acrobatics acting, and instrumental accompanying, along with rich face make-up, costume and stage setting. I applied ... -
Cohomology of Finite Modules over Short Gorenstein Rings
(2016)We study two formal power series in the indeterminate t that generalize the Poincar´e series of a module. In the context of a Gorenstein local ring whose maximal ideal m satisfies m³ = 0, we prove that these two power ... -
Conformational and Structural Investigation of Substituted Hydrocarbons and Ring Compounds by Vibrational and Microwave Spectroscopy
(2016)The physiochemical properties of a molecule of interest are usually obtained from its molecular structure, and it involves the orientation of one part of the molecule about a particular bond with respect to the rest ... -
Cooperating Music Teachers’ Opinions Regarding the Importance of Selected Traits as Predictors of Successful Student Teaching Experiences
(2016)The purpose of the study was to determine the perceptions of cooperating mentor teachers regarding the importance of certain teacher traits as predictors of a successful student teaching experience. The data collection ... -
Cytochrome P450 enzymes and oxidative stress in tobacco/nicotine mediated HIV pathogenesis
(2016)In the US, the prevalence of cigarette smoking in the HIV-infected population is 50-70% compared to 15-20% in the general population, which further increases the risk of smoking-related health problems in this group. ... -
Development of Advanced Delivery Systems for Microbicides
(2016)HIV/AIDS still continues to be a pandemic and global emergency and is a leading cause of death among the women of reproductive age (15-49 yr). Women are more vulnerable for HIV infection due to anatomical and physiological ... -
Entrepreneurial Search, Innovation, and Initiative: The Stage, Network, and Level Analysis
(2016)Drawing on the lean startup model, network theory, institutional theory, learning theory, and symbiosis view, this dissertation examines three important issues of entrepreneurship. This dissertation consists of three ... -
Evaluating the Outcomes of a Concept-Based Curriculum in an Associate Degree Nursing Program
(2016)A complete overhaul of nursing education has been commanded due to concerns regarding the proficiency of novice nurses and the clinical care they provide in today’s increasingly complex health care environment. Novice ... -
Finding and Mitigating Geographic Vulnerabilities in Mission Critical Multi-Layer Networks
(2016)In Air Traffic Control (ATC), communications outages may lead to immediate loss of communications or radar contact with aircraft. In the short term, there may be safety related issues as important services including power ... -
A Graph Analytics Framework for Knowledge Discovery
(2016)In the current data movement, numerous efforts have been made to convert and normalize a large number of traditionally structured and unstructured data to semi-structured data (e.g., RDF, OWL). With the increasing number ... -
Hydrologic Analysis of Rain Garden Performance
(2016)Urban flooding became a significant issue for many cities worldwide due to rapid urbanization and increased impervious areas over the past two decades ([1]). Rain gardens are considered to be an economically-friendly ... -
Impact of the Implementation of Accountable Care Organizational Structure on Pediatric Emergency Department Visits
(2016)In 2010, the United States was spending more per capita on healthcare than other similar countries but did not have better outcomes and spending was increasing at an unsustainable rate. That same year, the Patient ... -
Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Microfinance Institutions
(2016)This dissertation focuses on the interface between social ventures, particularly microfinance institutions, and their institutions. The first two parts of this dissertation work focus on the impact of institutional ... -
Investigation of Interconnect and Device Designs for Emerging Post-MOSFET and Beyond Silicon Technologies
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)The integrated circuit industry has been pursuing Moore’s curve down to deep nanoscale dimensions that would lead to the anticipated delivery of 100 billion transistors on a 300 mm² die operating below 1V supply in the ... -
Invisible Life in the Academy: Understanding the Workplace Experiences of African American Women Staff in Higher Education
(2016)The purpose of this qualitative, heuristic study was to explore the experiences of African American women staff in higher education. Specifically, the emphasis was on staff at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) ... -
Making the Connection: J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Forms of Africa
(2016)This dissertation focuses on the artwork of J.B. Murray, an African American artist from Mitchell, Georgia. The goal of this dissertation is to explore J.B. Murray’s production of protective scripts and spirit figures. ... -
Mexican-American Females and the Bachelor's Degree Challenges and Success Stories
(2016)The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the challenges encountered by Mexican-American females and how they address those challenges in order to successfully complete a bachelor’s degree. Mexican-American ...