Browsing 2016 Theses (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2016 Spring"
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Acute Fetal Behavioral Response to Prenatal Yoga: A Single Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial
(2016)Yoga is becoming a popular exercise to perform in pregnancy. A recent literature review on prenatal yoga noted a reduction in some pregnancy complications in those who practiced yoga; to date there is no evidence on ... -
an Aid in the Process
(2016)an Aid in the Process is a work featuring an unusual orchestral configuration, making use of two distinct groups, each with their own conductor. Programmatically, the work addresses aid in-dying legislation and contemporary ... -
August Wilson’s Century Cycle: Preserving History and Honoring African Rituals Through the Proverb of the Sankofa
(2016)August Wilson’s Century Cycle has been studied by scholars as a documentation of the history of African Americans. His ten plays in that cycle use historical events to chronicle the African American experience in ... -
Automatic GUI Based Counting Software for Immunostaining Analysis Using Matlab GUIDE
(2016)Typically, researchers need to the manually count the number of cells in many histological sections. However, this manual counting method is labor intensive and time consuming. Manual counting is also subject to bias, ... -
Biopsychosocial Comparison of Adherent and Nonadherent Multiple Sclerosis Patients
(2016)OBJECTIVE: Between 30-50% of patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) prematurely discontinue disease modifying therapies (DMTs). Despite this, relatively little is known about clinical factors that ... -
Clean Break
(2016)Clean Break is a feature-length screenplay about a pool hustler named Jimmy Grey and Blake, Jimmy’s threemonth pregnant girlfriend. The couple attempt to take one last vacation before the baby arrives. On the evening before ... -
Clear Sound for Clarinet and Orchestra
(2016)Clear Sound is the opening movement of a larger three movement concerto for solo clarinet and orchestra being written for clarinetist and conductor Luis Viquez Cordoba. I set out to compose a traditionally structured ... -
Contemporary Landscape Photography: Dissolving Boundaries in Jungjin Lee’s Wind Series
(2016)In the Wind series (2004-2007), Korean photographer Jungjin Lee captures tumultuous views of the American desert. These photographs are printed on handmade mulberry paper, which Lee sensitizes by hand and heavily edits ... -
Content Analysis of Consent Forms for Clinical Whole Exome Sequencing
(2016)As genomic sequencing becomes increasingly incorporated into clinical care, the patient informed consent process must successfully manage many ethical challenges, including whether to seek secondary findings and which ... -
Creep City and Five Short Stories
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)This collection includes one novella and five short stories, focused on young women and their formative experiences. These stories explore themes of sexuality, latent violence, changing technology and weird feelings. ... -
Directing Molière: Presenting the French Master to American Audiences
(2016)This thesis examines the presentation of the plays of Molière by American directors for American audiences. How have his works been produced and reimagined by directors from his own country? What are the qualities ... -
Enabling Large-Scale Storage and Retrieval of Whole Slide Images: A Big Data Approach
(2016)Telepathology has the potential to transform the practice of pathology and be a game changer for patients and pathologists. It can lead to wider, rapid access to expert pathologists across hospitals in the US, improve ... -
Examining the Impact of Childhood Adverse Experiences on Adulthood Health Related Quality of Life
(2016)The Purpose of this study was to investigate how traumatic experiences in childhood impact adulthood Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) among women experiencing homelessness. HRQoL was determined to be an important ... -
Expression Pattern of Drug-Resistance Genes in Matched Clinical Isolates of Candida albicans at Variable Fluconazole Exposure Times
(2016)Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungus that exists naturally in the vaginal, urinary, and gastrointestinal tracts of humans. Typically, this yeast remains balanced with the body’s other natural microbial flora and the ... -
The Footsteps Die Out For Ever (2016) for narrator, drum set, and orchestra
(2016)A Tale of Two Cities, serialized in weekly and monthly installments and finally published as a single volume in November 1859, is one of Charles Dickens’s best-loved and most-analyzed novels. In The Footsteps Die Out ... -
Fresh Meat Rituals: Confronting the Flesh in Performance Art
(2016)Meat entails a contradictory bundle of associations. In its cooked form, it is inoffensive, a normal everyday staple for most of the population. Yet in its raw, freshly butchered state, meat and its handling provoke ... -
A Gathering of Voices: Storytelling with Nilo Cruz and Students in the Urban Core
(2016)“A Gathering of Voices: Storytelling with Nilo Cruz and Students in the Urban Core” examines the importance of storytelling and the impact it can have in our lives through theatre, literature, and our own context and ... -
Gulshan Muraqqa’: An Imperial Discretion
(2016)This thesis researches two folios (pages) from the Gulshan muraqqa’, an imperial album of the Mughal Empire. The two folios, The Poet and the Prince and A Buffalo Hunting a Lioness, are currently in the permanent ... -
Heartbeat for Orchestra
(2016)Heartbeat is a work for orchestra inspired by our heart, which starts from the day we are born. My work is concerned with both the abstract representation of the heartbeat in graph form, and also the emotional expressions ... -
Hello, Cruel World: Antonin Artaud’s Pursuit of Primal Theatre
(2016)This thesis delves into the most volatile years of the notoriously volatile life of French poet and theatrical theorist Antonin Artaud (1896–1948). At the heart of the research is an examination of his voyages to Mexico ...