Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2019 Fall"
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A Spatial Analysis of Homicide and Dangerous Buildings in Kansas City, Missouri
(2019)Criminological theories such as routine activities theory, rational choice theory, broken windows and disorder theory, crime pattern and environmental criminology, and social disorganization and collective efficacy theory ... -
Adding Insult to Injury: How Neoliberal Ideology Convinces the Disadvantaged to Blame Themselves for Poor Health
(2019)Health outcomes are strongly tied to social class. Childhood environment, level of education, income, and even neighborhood characteristics are strongly correlated with negative health outcomes such as obesity, diabetes, ... -
An Investigation into the Contribution of Hybrid Renewable Energy System to Utility Grid in the Regions with Arid Climate
(2019)Increasing the emissions of carbon have a negative impact on our environment, since the beginning of industrial revolution. There is a wide consensus that climate change occurred due to human behavior, mainly from burning ... -
Cake for Fighting
(2019)Although individual freedom is so integral to western ideology, the idea that culture can supersede an individual’s basic human rights is surprisingly common in the United States. This is due to another western value: ... -
Efficient sequential designs with asymptotic second-order lower bound of Bayes risk for estimating product of means
(2019)In order to estimate the reliability of sequentially designed procedures under the Bayesian framework with conjugate priors, a sharp lower bound for the Bayes risk has been derived. Chapter 1 and 2 introduce the background ... -
Introduction and application of GEANT4: A comparison of depth-dose
(2019)Geometry ANd Tracking 4 (GEANT4) is an object-oriented C++ based program that uses Monte Carlo methods to simulate the passage of particles through matter. A powerful application, GEANT4, allows the user to define variables ... -
Measuring smokers' inhibitory control to smoking cues by a novel mouse trajectory tracking method
(2019)Deprivation from nicotine has been shown to affect executive cognitive functioning in smokers causing an inability to maintain cognitive control over their behavior, which may be directly linked to smoking relapse. Past ... -
Ouroboros
(2019)I find it boring to write about myself. I think this begins with the fact that I do not consider myself to be an inherently interesting person. This isn’t a bad thing. There is no right way. For those of us non-interesting ... -
Part I: Synthesis of functionalized bile acids towards the construction of steroidal macrocycles. Part II: Evaluation and expansion of a modular card game for teaching organic chemistry
(2019)In Part I, the synthesis of chenodeoxychoic acid (CDCA) derivatives towards the construction of unique chemical architectures are reported. Building on previously described methods, CDCA based macrocycles with inner cavities ... -
Representations of the Dreaming Mind in Nineteenth-Century French Art
(2019)During the nineteenth century, philosophic and popular interest in dreams and the unconscious increased dramatically. Simultaneously, artists and writers increasingly recognized the immense creative impulses that resided ... -
Sequential test allocation for estimating software reliability with associated cost
We use a sequential method to allocate software test cases among partitions of a software to minimize the expected loss incurred by the Bayes estimator of the overall software reliability. The Bayesian approach allows us ... -
Sites of trauma, bodies of recovery: the work of contemporary South African artist Jane Alexander
(2019)Sites of Trauma, Bodies of Recovery: The Work of Contemporary South African Artist Jane Alexander explores the interconnections between the aesthetics of trauma in post-apartheid culture, history, and politics through the ... -
The Investigation of Configurationally Stable Longitudinally Twisted Acenes and the Development of a Silorane-Based Biomaterial for Use as an Antimicrobial Delivery Device
(2019)Longitudinally twisted acenes (LTAs) adopt a helical twist in order to alleviate steric congestion caused by bulky substituents along the acene backbone and are inherently chiral. As is observed in helicenes, this helical ... -
The Lieber Codes Effectiveness in Jackson County, Missouri
(2019)This thesis is a case study that examines the problems the US Army encountered in the implementation of the Lieber Code in 1863 Jackson County, Missouri. My arguments are largely based on manuscript sources and microfilmed ... -
The Nature of Night Eating Syndrome: Using Network Analysis to Understand Causal Symptomological Relationships
The purpose of this study was to examine and characterize the core symptoms in a psychopathology network for night eating syndrome (NES) among persons with and without overweight/obesity, and to compare the network density ... -
Whitewashing or amnesia: a study of the construction of race in two Midwestern counties
(2019)This inter-disciplinary dissertation utilizes sociological and historical research methods for a critical comparative analysis of the material culture as reproduced through murals and monuments located in two counties in ...