Browsing 2020 UMKC Dissertations - Freely Available Online by Thesis Semester "2020 Spring"
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Making the Frontier’s Anatomical Engineers: Osteopathy, A. T. Still (1828–1917), his Acolytes and Patients
(2020)This project seeks to understand osteopathy as patients, students, and doctors did during the late nineteenth century. A. T. Still’s osteopathic medical theories proclaimed manual therapeutics to treat disease. Still’s ... -
Mechanisms of Action in Motivational Interviewing
(2020)Despite the demonstrated efficacy of disease modifying therapies (DMT), many MS patients (~ 40%) stop using DMT within 3 years of starting. A cross-over randomized controlled trial demonstrated that a theoretically based ... -
Mindfulness as a treatment for military women's chronic pelvic pain: A randomized controlled trial (MoCHI)
(2020)Purpose: The long-term aim of this study was to test the feasibility of a non-invasive, easy to learn, alternative method found online that can successfully assist Active Duty (AD) women with CPP regulate daily perceptions ... -
Modeling HIV-1 Infection in the Brain: The Effect of the Blood-Brain Barrier
(2019)Despite the advancement of antiretroviral therapy (ART), the development of HIV associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) remains a major concern among HIV infected patients. As many ART drugs may fail to penetrate the ... -
Money, Work, and Mass Extinction: Transformational Degrowth and the Job Guarantee
(2020)This dissertation is composed of three independent essays. Each essay traces social and ecological crises to capitalist institutions and proposes how a job guarantee (JG) can be adapted to resolve them in the context of ... -
Narrative as a Critical Component for Violent Weaker Actor Success
(2020)Conflicts exist within a narrative about a society, a government, and the people’s place within it that they use to make sense of their world. Since 1945, conventionally weaker military actors have had increasing success ... -
Non-genomic control of neuronal calcium signaling by the steroid hormone estrogen leads to neuroprotective effects
(2020)It has been well documented that the onset of menopause correlates with an increase in the onset of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. Estrogen supplementation was used as treatment/prevention for a ... -
Nursing Student Perceptions of the Effects of Interprofessional Communication and Teamwork on Time to Rescue
(2020)Simulation has been used in healthcare and other industries for many years. Advances in technology have made simulation a feasible teaching/learning pedagogy for undergraduate nursing students. Healthcare delivery continues ... -
On the advancement of core/shell titanium dioxide nanomaterials for microwave absorption
(2020)Controlling the interactions between incident electromagnetic energy and matter is of critical importance for many civil and military applications, such as photocatalysis, solar cells, optics, radar detection, communications, ... -
Resilience and survivability of 5G networks
(2020)5G is going to be the central force behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It is the next-generation wireless technology which is slated to provide a wide range of services. It is geared to provide greater capacity, ... -
Second Generation Photoactivated Insulins
(2020)The photoactivated depot (PAD) is a minimally invasive approach developed for a continuously variable light stimulated release of insulin. In this approach, a protein depot that can last for days is injected under the skin. ... -
The Investigating Meaning/Purpose and Connectedness (IMPACT) Study: A Comparative Case Study of Parents of Adult Children with Schizophrenia
(2020)Schizophrenia is a chronic and disabling disease that causes significant stress for a family from the time of onset throughout the individual’s life. For families with members who live with schizophrenia, spirituality can ... -
The Objectification and Blame of Revenge Porn Victims
(2020)The current study sought to explore the relationship between objectification and victim blame in cases of revenge porn across cases in which the victim was sexually diverse (i.e., bisexual, lesbian, straight). Participants ... -
The Story of Our Journey
(2020)The Story of Our Journey for clarinet, fixed media electronics, and projected video is a 50-minute musical work commissioned by the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture for their IN FLUX program. Audio and video ... -
Topical Clear Aqueous Nanomicellar Formulations for Age-Related Macular Degeneration
(2020)Disorders affecting the posterior segment of eyes represent a significant burden to healthcare and patients’ wellbeing. Among the back of the eye disorders, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the major ailments ... -
Uranium Oxides for Solid-State Direct-Conversion Neutron Detection
(2020)This study is focused on studying the potential of uranium oxides as solid-state direct-conversion neutron detectors. By modeling uranium oxides as neutron detectors, we found that thick detectors with suitable uranium ...