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UMKC's College of Arts and Sciences strives to be a model urban liberal arts and sciences college reputed for both traditional and cutting-edge undergraduate and graduate academic programs; a highly diverse and dynamic faculty, staff, and student body; an active engagement with its city and region; and a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and research. The College is organized into 18 departments that offer instruction in specific academic disciplines across the arts, sciences, and humanities.
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Exploring the Perceptions, Uses, Rhetoric, and Reality of ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection Technology Among Police Officers and Analysts
(2022)After two years of historic levels of gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri, this thesis asks how local police officers and analysts experience, utilize, and conceive of the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system. Using ... -
A Program Evaluation of the Seniors Who Paint Program
(2022)Aging research suggests that community-based art programs may serve as more practical interventions to improve the quality of life and cognition in older adults than more traditional or pharmacological interventions. ... -
No One is Looking For You
(2022)The poems in this manuscript explore the emotional landscape of an emotionally repressed speaker to explore opposing themes of isolation and connection; self-denial and self discovery; and rage and hope. It is perpetually ... -
Evaluation of Penetrating Sealers on Service Life of Concrete Infrastructure
(2022)In cold regions, thermal cycles and corrosion of reinforcements are the main factors that cause deterioration in concrete structures. Per each storm event, salt is used to melt snow and ice. Ultimately, water contains ... -
Chemical and biochemical applications of vibrational spectroscopy
(2022)Vibrational spectroscopy is a technique that probes a molecule’s vibrational modes via infrared absorption and Raman scattering, and is often used as a tool for characterization and/or functional group determination. Because ... -
(Un)natural Bridges, (Un)safe Spaces: A Critical Qualitative Study of Spanish as a Foreign Language Educators’ Perceptions of Heritage Language Learners in Mixed Classrooms
(2022)Chicana feminist scholar Gloria Anzaldúa has been an integral part of research on hybrid identities and consciousness. In an increasingly multicultural and multilingual school system, educators of Spanish as a foreign ... -
The nature and functional significance of intra-individual neurocognitive ability across serious mental illness diagnoses
(2022)Intra-individual performance variability (IIV) is defined as lawful, transient, within-person changes in cognitive performance. IIV has been found to predict functional and other crucial real-world outcomes among clinical ... -
Far-UV to Mid-IR Spectral Energy Distributions of Nearby Merging Galaxies
(2022)Simulations of gas-rich, major galaxy mergers predict elevated amounts of star formation (SF) and nuclear black hole growth (active galactic nuclei, or AGN). This model is supported by observations that find enhanced SF ... -
An Analysis of the Stellar Mass Properties of Distant Galaxy Clusters From the Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey (MaDCoWS)
(2022)The epoch at redshift z ∼ 1 and above is an important one for the study of the evolution of galaxy clusters, as this is the epoch where star formation in clus- ter cores in quenched. Most wide-area cluster surveys at this ... -
The Forgotten Lands: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems in Transition
(2022)This study focuses on transition economies of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). These countries have lagged considerably in their transformation from a planned to a market-based system and are therefore ... -
The Gospel of Judas: Polemic, Pop Culture, Fictious History
(2022)The following essay is about the polemical nature of The Gospel of Judas. So much was initially said about the impact the publication of The Gospel of Judas would have upon our understanding of the history of Christianity, ... -
Exploration of the Application of Machine Learning to the Improvement of Interatomic Potentials
(2022)Current methods for atomistic simulations of material systems suffer from limitations which restrict the ability of the simulations to correctly characterize certain material behavior and physical phenomena. Small scale ... -
Show Me My Rights: Queer Activism in Kansas City and St. Louis, 1977-1993
(2022)Radical queer (a term not in use at the time, but now more frequently employed) activists seized national headlines in the second half of the twentieth century with their fiery tactics, from so-called “die-ins” in the ... -
Factors Related to Mental Health Stigma Among Church-Affiliated African Americans
(2022)African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population, yet represent nearly 20% of persons diagnosed with a mental illness. Studies suggest African Americans experience higher levels of mental health related stigma (MHS) ... -
Three Essays at the Intersection of Social Theory and Political Economy
(2022)This study revisits classic questions of political economy through an interdisciplinary lens, wedding the insights of modern social theory with heterodox political economy. The first chapter synthesizes the economic and ... -
Confluences
(2022)This collection of poems, essays, and fictional stories is meant to mirror a confluence of rivers, made navigable by threads—or currents—that weave through and redirect my life. Some of my life’s water (so far) has been ... -
Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
(2022)The quest for African Americans to gain emancipation and equal civil rights occupied the efforts of abolitionists and antislavery advocates for much of the nineteenth century. For both men and women who valued the democratic ... -
Resilience, Risk and Protective Factors among Nigerian Youth
(2022)Poverty or low socioeconomic status has been known to negatively impact the educational achievement of children across the world. However, some children have managed to succeed despite the daily challenges they face because ... -
Determinants of Perceived Social Support in Individuals with Serious mental Illness: A Secondary Analysis
(2022)Social support appears to provide protective effects for those with serious mental illness (SMI), but these effects may be attenuated by factors that hinder positive perceptions of support. Improved understanding of social ... -
Ab Initio Density Functional Theory Charge Distributions of Vinyltrimethylphosphonium, Vinylphosphorinium, and Vinyldiphosphonium Tetrafluoroborate Salts with Mechanistic Studies of Phospha-Michael Additions to Activated Acetylenes
(2022)While vinylammonium and vinylpyridinium tetrafluoroborate salts have previously been well investigated by the Buszek research group in their applications to Diels-Alder and other reactions, very little is known about their ...