Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2017 Fall"
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Behind the Mask
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)This book explores the struggles of one woman living in London during an outbreak of the bubonic plague. Charles, as she has named herself, has to not only maintain her masculine guise, but also has to fight to cure ... -
Building Bridges: An Anthology of the War on Prostitution and the Greater Women’s Movement in Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This research looks at Kansas City’s War on Prostitution in 1977 and the larger women’s movement of second-wave feminism throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The War on Prostitution makes the women’s movement in Kansas City ... -
Design of Instrumentation and Methodologies for Determination of Free Neutron Characteristics
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)Measuring neutron source‐dependent free neutron properties over a large neutron energy range, with human‐portable instrumentation, continues to push the frontier of neutron detection instrumentation design and analysis ... -
Determining Elemental Concentrations of Nickel-Doped Iron Samples through the Method of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Accurate information about the composition and concentration of the elements comprising a material is oftentimes of the utmost importance. Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a method for determining ... -
Discovery of PSMA-Specific Peptide Ligands and Development of A Noncovalent Method to Attach Chemical Moieties to siRNA
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)The objective of this dissertation is to discover PSMA (Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen)-specific peptide ligands using phage display and employ peptide nucleic acid as a complementary linker to attach chemical ... -
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 ... -
First-Principles Calculation of Laser Crystal Multiplet Levels via Hybridized Density Functional Theory and Configuration Interaction within the OLCAO Method
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Computation of highly-localized multiplet energy levels of transition metal dopants is essential to the design of materials such as laser host crystals. A purely first-principles density functional theory-configuration ... -
From Pop Culture to Nuclear Debate: The Impact of The Day After in Lawrence and Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This thesis examines the creation and response in America to the 1983 nuclear disaster film The Day After. Fueled by renewed nuclear buildup of the 1980s Cold War, the release of the movie became a worldwide sensation, ... -
Half and Half
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)This thesis is a collection of short stories that I wrote and rewrote between my time as an undergraduate at Knox College and my time as a graduate student at UMKC. These stories were picked over other fictional works ... -
Improving Medication Adherence in Underrepresented Patients with Heart Disease: Piloting a Motivational Intervention
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Essential to reducing the risk of recurrence in individuals with cardiovascular disease (CVD), adherence to cardioprotective medications has been shown to decrease risk of cardiac-related hospitalization and mortality. ... -
Mesh Adaptation in Fractured Reservoir Simulation
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Natural fractures exist in many oil and gas reservoirs. On the other hand, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is needed to create fractures in some reservoirs to improve the production rate. For example, shale gas reservoirs ... -
Metals hosts in the Pennsylvanian Hushpuckney and Stark Black Shales from Selected Areas in Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)The Hushpuckney Shale of the Swope Formation and the Stark Shale of the Dennis Formation, two black shales in the Pennsylvanian Kansas City group, contain elevated concentrations of transition and based metal elements, ... -
Modeling the Effects of Drugs of Abuse on HIV Infections with Two Viral Species
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Injection drug use is one of the greatest risk factors associated with contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and drug abusers infected with HIV suffer from a higher viral load and rapid pathogenesis. Replication ... -
Positron interactions with oriented polymers and with chiral quartz crystals
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Positron annihilation in various materials has been applied to characterize microstructure for decades. In this work, PALS was used to study material nanostructure, with a focus on the size and density of free volume ... -
Representative Bureaucracy and Racial Profiling in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)There have been inquiries regarding the extent, nature, and causes of racial profiling. Numerous studies have been and continue to explore whether and how the experience of people of color differ from those of majorities ... -
Skywalk
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This project, a full-length play, intends to illuminate the facts surrounding the architectural collapse at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in July 1981, when two bridges in the hotel lobby called skywalks collapsed, ... -
Sticky
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2017)No matter how you slice it, our current understanding of the human brain is decidedly limited. “Will we ever understand the human brain?” asks Jonathan Gornall of the World Economic Forum. “Today, I can't tell you – ...