Browsing Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2011 Spring"
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Just war, legitimate authority and non-State actors
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-08)In the classical just war tradition, legitimate authority is central to the just use of force. This tradition is consistent with the argument, as posited by Augustine and Aquinas, that legitimate authority is the guiding ... -
Life without my head
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-24)This book of poems understands the human body as artifice, a device to broadcast and receive pain, even as it promises great pleasure. Here, this device is mostly female: a hyper-sexualized screensaver for a voyeuristic ... -
Living and acting in Kansas City versus Southern California
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-31)The purpose of this thesis is to compare theatre students' and recent theatre student alumni's descriptions of acting opportunities in Kansas City versus Southern California. Students from Southern California and Kansas ... -
Love and Reform: a chamber operetta
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-23)"Love and Reform" is a chamber operetta composed from a libretto written by the composer for female narrator, soprano, tenor, bass, and string quintet. The drama is an Epicurean satire concerning the imagined afterlife ... -
A medicare benefit expansion: inpatient clinical and economic outcomes in deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011-07-08)Background: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, (CMS) implements National Coverage Decisions (NCD) to expand access or eliminate regional reimbursement differences. Policymakers may estimate clinical and economic ... -
Model development to measure resilience in adolescents
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-13)Coping with painful events and unpleasant emotions is a struggle for every human being. The ability to cope effectively with these events and emotions can be termed resilience (Blum, 1998). The study of resilience is ... -
Network partition for switched industrial ethernet using combined search heuristics
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-06)A large industrial company needs a cost efficient telecommunication network to support heavy telecommunication needs among its different departments which are distributed in various locations. Because of the huge amount ... -
A new constraint-based algorithm to learn Bayesian network structure from data: Control of Spurious Pairwise Information (CSPI)
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-01)A Bayesian network is a directed acyclic graphical representation of a set of variables. This representation occupies the middle ground between a causal network and a simple list of pairwise correlations by including ... -
The origins of money: evaluating chartalist and metallist theories in the context of ancient Greece and Mesopotamia
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-02)Tracing the origins of money in archaic Greece (roughly 900-500 BC) and ancient Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, this thesis assesses the applicability of Chartalist and Metallist theories of money's origins. It ... -
Perceptions of gender in English news pamphlets 1660-1700
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-18)Sensational murders were a popular topic for news pamphlets in England from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth. Early pamphlets are characterized by religious and dramatic imagery, but beginning in the late seventeenth ... -
Performance standards for walk-in coolers and freezers in the United States as a function of local weather conditions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-26)Walk-in coolers and freezers are medium (~35º F) and low (~-10º F to -20º F) temperature commercial food preservation equipment, with high market demand. There is considerable potential for energy savings through ... -
Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-17)At the turn of the twentieth century, young women began to see themselves and to been seen as a distinct social group for the first time in the history of the United States. This recognition was fostered by historical ... -
Pray for the lights to go out: the portrayal of Blacks in Kansas City published sheet music
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-20)This study examines sixteen pieces of sheet music published in Kansas City, Missouri, dating from the 1880s through the 1930s. The pieces are located in the LaBudde Special Collections at the University of Missouri-Kansas ... -
Promoting ethical behavior among local government employees: the roles of ethical leadership, ethics codes, training, and audits
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-03)The purpose of this research was to learn the impact that ethics codes, ethics training, and audits have in promoting ethical behavior among local government employees. The research began with a survey of city auditors and ... -
A qualitative study of relationship building between alternative high school students and their teachers
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-14)The purpose of this phenomenological, narratological, heuristic study is to understand the phenomenon of relationship building between teachers and students at an alternative high school. For this study, the phenomenon of ... -
Quality of service and channel-aware packet bundling for capacity improvement in cellular networks
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-26)We study the problem of multiple packet bundling to improve spectral efficiency in cellular networks. The packet size of real-time data, such as VoIP, is often very small. However, the common use of time division ... -
Recovery from Infidelity: Exploring Variables Related to the Healing Process
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011)Clinicians and researchers report that growth and improvement is possible after infidelity takes place. However, research has not explored specific variables that should relate to improvement in the aftermath of infidelity. ... -
The relationship between police and citizen collaboration regarding crime in multifamily rental complexes
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 5/6/2011)The goal of the police is to be effective and efficient in controlling crime. The community needs to be involved in this endeavor. Through community oriented policing with an emphasis in problem oriented policing, this ... -
Resistance networks as a model for conduction on the nano-scale
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-13)In this thesis, we calculate transport properties of amorphous materials in one, two, and three dimensions. We take into account site disorder, manifest as a random variation of the locations of atomic species. We employ ... -
Scheduling schemes for throughput optimization in wireless adhoc networks using directional antennas
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-09)This thesis presents a scheme for scheduling of wireless adhoc networks by using directional antennas using the concept of frequency reuse. The idea of wireless adhoc network communication is taken one step further by ...