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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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A summarization of the aspects of "The Symmetry of Schizophrenia and The AntiSymmetry of Schizophrenic Life”
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)The following paper is the student’s original theory derived from his radio play written as a sociology protege some years prior. The theoretical objectives outlined in this summary of the radio play can also read as context ... -
Great Expectations: Women's Help Wanted Ads In Kansas City, 1920-1936
(2021)The question of the nature of women’s paid work has been a frequent point of historical inquiry. Using a source previously only tapped quantitatively, this paper seeks to expand our understanding of how women’s employment ... -
The Red Line: An Anthology of Redlining in the United States and Kansas City’s Role
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)This thesis looks at redlining and blatant discrimination within Kansas City. Racial bias remains a fact of American life, and the Federal Housing Administration ultimately failed Black Americans.1 Established covenants ... -
Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of Boron Carbide for Interconnect Applications
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)As the semiconductor industry endeavors to scale integrated circuit dimensions— decreasing layer thicknesses while increasing the aspect ratio of fillable features—the need for novel interconnect materials with highly ... -
Navigation errors
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Navigation Errors is a collection of personal essays that explore the ideas of religious fundamentalism, humanity’s place in—and relation to—nature, physical and mental challenge, paradigm shifts, and the mistakes that ... -
Bureaucracy and other stories
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The following project is the product of three years of intensive research and trial and error. You’ll notice it’s divided into two sections: fiction and nonfiction. However, one of the research questions central to this ... -
Ferroelectric System Dynamics and the Properties of Ferroelectric / Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Heterostructures: a Ginzburg–Landau Study
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)Understanding the electronic response of materials to applied electric fields is an outstanding goal in solid-state theory. One aspect of this goal is to accurately predict the electric polarization of certain materials ... -
The Effectiveness of Reading Folk Literature in Improving English Language Learners’ Reading Proficiency in Elementary Grades
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)This mixed-methods study investigates the effectiveness of reading folktales, fairy tales, and fables in improving English learners’ reading proficiency levels in elementary grades and explores students’ experiences with ... -
Development of Targeted siRNA Therapeutics for Triple Negative Breast Cancer and Liver Fibrosis
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)The objective of this dissertation is to develop various systems to deliver small interfering RNA (siRNA) for the treatment of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) and liver fibrosis. siRNAs targeting vascular endothelial ... -
Evaluation of the Anti-Fibrotic Activity of PCBP2 siRNA in Primary Hepatic Stellate Cells and Discovery of Anti-PD-L1 Peptide and Nanobody for Immunotherapy
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)There are two major research objectives in this dissertation. Our laboratory recently discovered a small interfering RNA (siRNA) that silences the poly (rC) binding protein 2 (PCBP2) gene. It is hypothesized that silencing ... -
Data-Driven Modeling of the Lake Chad Basin Hydrologic Systems
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The drying of the Lake, located in Central Africa, is one example of a water crisis, which requires more research and studies. The lake has been progressively shrinking since the 1960s due to climate change and anthropogenic ... -
Labor Market Outcomes and Employment Policy
(2020)The first chapter contains an empirical analysis of labor market outcomes. Using the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages microdata, individual labor market experiences are tracked over time. Not only is the employment ... -
Income Inequality, Household Borrowing, and the Business Cycle
(2020)Over the thirty years preceding 2008, the United States has experienced increasing income inequality while transitioning to a consumption-led economy. This dissertation investigates the foundations of the 2008 recession ... -
Associations Between Benefit Finding, Disease Severity, Positive Affect, and Health Outcomes Among Patients in Cardiac Rehabilitation
(2020)Following a stressful event, individuals may attempt to create meaning or find benefit from the stressor. Benefit finding (BF) may act as a buffer to minimize the effects of stress on health outcomes. The literature is ... -
Eleanor of Provence: Virago
(2020)Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife to King III and mother to King Edward I lived and reigned in the thirteenth century. Contemporary chroniclers maligned her as both a foreign presence in England and a controlling wife who ... -
Enabling Electronic Structure Calculations of High Z Element Containing Materials Using Dirac Relativistic DFT Methods
(2020)Novel properties may be induced in a host material by doping it with high Z elements to alter its underlying electronic states. Presently, no method exists that can accurately capture both large system sizes and the intricate ... -
Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation for Image Segmentation based on Partial Differential Equations
(2020)As the resolution of digital images increases significantly, the processing of images becomes more challenging in terms of accuracy and efficiency. In this dissertation, we consider image segmentation by solving a partial ... -
Metabolomics and chemical library screening for antibacterial drug discovery
(2020)There are twenty standard amino acids which are proteinogenic and can exist in two stereoisomeric forms, D- and L-enantiomers, except for glycine, which is achiral. The D-amino acids are not incorporated in proteins; ... -
Multi-hazard resilience assessment of river-crossing bridges
(2021)Bridge structures are required to possess high reliability and robustness against the concurrent effect of extreme loads and environmental attacks. To achieve such interrelated goals, it is necessary to assess the system ... -
The development and validation of the appearance satisfaction questionnaire - the first culturally appropriate measure for body image in black women
(2020)Current theories in body image postulate that body dissatisfaction predicts eating disorder pathology. Previous research in body image with Black women claims that Black women do not experience body dissatisfaction and ...