Browsing Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2012 Summer"
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Picasso : theatre artist
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-09-27)Picasso: Theatre Artist is centered upon Pablo Picasso‟s work in the theatrical field. Pablo Picasso is internationally known as a Spanish painter who championed the Cubist perspective in graphic art. However, his extensive ... -
Presentation and performance of gender and sexuality in early English defamation litigation
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-10-01)Early English Consistory court records contain hundreds of defamation cases in which one party is suing another party for slander or verbal violence. Slander cases varied greatly, but most often held sexual, economic, or ... -
Reciprocal exchange: understanding the community partner perspective in higher education service-learning
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-08-27)This study investigates service-learning from the community partners' perspective, especially in terms of reciprocity. As a central construct in the theory of service-learning, reciprocity for community partners is ... -
The role of drosophila protein kinase doubletime in circadian period determination, morning and evening oscillators and tauopathy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-10-01)In this dissertation, I used the GAL4-UAS binary expression method to overexpress mutant and wild type forms of the circadian protein kinase DBT in order to address several basic questions about DBT's biological functions. ... -
Situation Aware Mobile Apps Framework
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-10-03)Mobile devices, like smart phones or tablets, have become ubiquitous, with their adoption being driven by their immediacy and sensing capabilities. Applications, or apps, that run on portable computing devices have surged ... -
A study of gossip algorithms for internet-scale cardinality estimation of distributed XML data
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-10-03)After more than a decade of active research and development, the peer-to-peer (P2P) computing model continues to be successful. We have witnessed the deployment of commercial P2P applications in large, Internet-scale ... -
Using current sensing atomic force microscopy to study heterogeneous materials
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-08-27)Two kinds of heterogeneous materials, block copolymer films and Nafion membranes, are studied by using current sensing atomic force microscopy (CSAFM). In the calculated results, correlation between surface morphology ... -
What college women know, think, and do about Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and HPV vaccine
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-08-27)Background: The development of cervical cancer nearly always begins with a sexuallytransmitted Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Approximately 20 million Americans between the ages of 15 and 49 are currently infected ... -
Zinc-dependent interaction of transcriptional co-activator CBP/p300 with MTF-1
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-10-01)One of the major functions of the metal response element-binding transcription factor 1(MTF-1) is to sense and maintain sub-nanomolar to nanomolar zinc levels in response to influxes of labile zinc within the cell. MTF-1 ...