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Backdating Stock Options: A Primer in Social Irresponsibility
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
Backdating stock options refers to the falsification of stock issuance documentation by corporate officials in order to receive a favorable stock price. A lower stock price provides assurance of a greater payoff once the ...
Penitence, Punishment, and Pain: Negotiating Personal Authority in Francis Lathom's The Midnight Bell
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
Francis Lathom's novel, The Midnight Bell (1798), uses conventional gothic themes of crime, guilt, and punishment to interrogate gender roles and to explore how individuals may conform to, reject, or subvert mechanisms of ...
Until We See His Blessed Face: Sight as Privileged Insight in the Spirituality of Margery Kempe
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2009)
This paper explores how, despite an inherited Christian tradition that worked to elevate hearing and denigrate sight in an unofficial hierarchy of the senses, the fifteenth-century English mystic Margery Kempe came to ...
Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (JIDR), vol. 2, no. 1 (2008) Preliminary Materials
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
Includes editorial board, IDSC 2007-2008 Representatives, JIDR Referees, table of contents, and note from the editor.
Both P-gp and MRP2 mediate transport of Lopinavir, a protease inhibitor
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
Polarized epithelial non-human (canine) cell lines stably transfected with human or murine complementary DNA (cDNA) encoding for various efflux transporters (P-gp/MDR1, MRP1, MRP2, and Bcrp1) were used to study transepithelial ...
Diverse Struggles to Preserve Tribal Identity on the Plains: Religion as Survival Strategy in the Late Nineteenth Century among the Lakota and Osage
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
Goethe's Plant Morphology: The Seeds of Evolution
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
It has long been debated whether
the scientific writing of Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
provided the seeds for the theory of
evolution. Scholars have argued both
sides with equal passion. German
biologist ...
Heterodox Microfoundations: A Methodological Appraisal
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
This paper examines underlying methodological commitments in orthodox and heterodox approaches to micro and macro. Identifying methodological advantages and drawbacks of existing microfoundations, macrofoundations,
and ...
Why Geography Matters: How geography and path dependency have aided in the black and white divide in Kansas City, MO
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
Questions of space were very important in shaping Kansas City. Over time, space has aided in the geographic and hence social isolation of many people. This paper will look at the causes of segregation in the US and Kansas ...
Indiscriminate or Intentional: Locations of Nonprofit Organizations in Kansas City
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
This study examines the locations of Kansas City metropolitan area nonprofit organizations, as defined by the eleven-county Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Although several authors have conducted similar studies of nonprofits ...
Quest for the Legitimizing Jesus Deployment of a Contested Symbol by a Non-traditional Religious Movement
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
There have always been alternative interpretations of Jesus throughout Christian history. The meaning of such a symbol is never static. However, a general theological consensus had maintained an essentially hegemonic ...
Gardiner C. Means and the 1980s Shareholders' Attempted Revolution
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
Gardiner C. Means was one of the first twentieth-century economists to have noticed the concentration of corporate power in the hands of managers. He believed that this power arrangement caused production inefficiency and ...
Critical Realism and the Biographical Film Project
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
This paper explores aspects of a critical realist approach that have practical application to biographical documentary filmmaking as an ontological and methodological guide in the planning, production, and editing processes. ...
An Oreo Ain't Nothing But A Cookie: An Analysis of Identity Struggles of African Americans in Desegregated Public Schools from 1950 to 1968
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
“It is not just the white man who does not know the Negro's name, however; the Negro does not know either. . .the controversy over name is bound up with the most fundamental question of identity: the flight from blackness, ...
Security in User- Assisted Communications
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
Today, companies called service providers enable communications and control the
related infrastructures. However, with increased computing power, advanced wireless
technologies and more standardized terminals, users in ...
“I Cannot Rule Myself” The Pitfalls of Sensibility in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
Investigating trustworthiness and tolerance of others and shared power within youth-adult partnerships
(University of Mssouri--Kansas City, 2000)
The purpose of this study was to broaden the limited body of research concerning the relationship between trustworthiness and tolerance of others and shared power within a youth-adult partnership. The theoretical models ...
The Impact of the Miracle in Memphis on Racial Reconciliation Initiatives of the Assemblies of God Churches in the Greater Kansas City Area
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2004)
The Miracle in Memphis can provide insight on an effective method for
churches to address racial reconciliation. Pentecostal denominations met in
Memphis in 1994 to address the segregated nature of their denomination, ...