Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2013 Summer"
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Beneath Mark Twain: Judgments of Justice and Gender in Twain's Early Western Writing, 1861-1873
(2013)By the time Samuel Clemens began writing journalism and crafting what he called the “sensation hoax” for Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise in 1862, Americans had been devouring sensational novels and journalism by ... -
Correlates of gender and achievement in introductory algebra based physics
(2013)The field of physics is heavily male dominated in America. Thus, half of the population of our country is underrepresented and underserved. The identification of factors that contribute to gender disparity in physics is ... -
Cued affective modulation of startle reflex as a measure of emotion regulation
(2013)Emotion regulation is characterized by one's ability to consciously modulate experienced and expressed emotion. Poor emotion regulation skills have been associated with a variety of negative physical and emotional outcomes. ... -
"Defective childhoods": television news and the social construction of the 'child in need'
(2013)The modern media, particularly television news, produces and airs news reports and special programs presenting social justice and human rights stories. Some of these news reports feature children with identified emotional, ... -
Father-daughter relationship and teen pregnancy: an examination of adolescent females raised in homes without biological fathers
(2013-08-27)The aim of this dissertation was to further our knowledge of the processes underlying teenage pregnancy among adolescent females who are reared in “absent-father” homes (i.e., in homes without the biological father), a ... -
HIV stigma reduction and testing in the Hispanic/Latino church setting
(2013)The study explored barriers and facilitators to HIV testing and stigma reduction interventions and developed and evaluated a culturally and religiously adapted measure of predictors of individuals' intentions to obtain ... -
Insight and executive function: investigating the role of dynamic assessment
(2013)The aim of this dissertation was to investigate the relationship among clinical insight, cognitive insight, and executive functioning (EF), as measured by both a dynamic and standard format. Thirty-six participants with ... -
Modern money theory and ecological tax reform: a functional finance approach to energy conservation
(2013)This dissertation contributes to heterodox economics by developing a theoretical and policy-relevant link that will promote the conservation of energy while driving the value of the domestic currency. The analysis relies ... -
Novel targeted lipid prodrugs to improve cellular absorption of acyclovir and topical delivery to the eye via nanomicellar approach
(2013)Biotinylated lipid prodrugs of acyclovir (ACV) were designed to target the sodium dependent multivitamin transporter (SMVT) on the intestine and cornea to facilitate ACV cellular transport. All the prodrugs were screened ... -
The post-conflict odyssey of German communist veterans of the Spanish Civil War, 1939-1989
(2013)In early February of 1939, hundreds of German communists counted among the international volunteers who suffered a crushing rout in what proved their final campaign on behalf of the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil ... -
The spider in the web: the weaving of a new, Lancastrian England in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries
(2013)In late-fourteenth century England, the third surviving son of King Edward III, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, became obsessed with gaining control of the nation and establishing a Lancastrian legacy that would one ... -
Transporter-Targeted Prodrug Delivery to Improve Oral Bioavailability of Saquinavir
(2015-05-22)Saquinavir (SQV) is the first antiretroviral protease inhibitor approved by Food and Drug Administration in the United States for the treatment of HIV infection due to its potent anti-HIV activity. However, some unfavorable ...