Browsing Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2011 Summer"
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War sirens: how the sheet music industry sold World War I
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-26)During World War I the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI) sponsored a national culture of war in posters, speeches, and films. Against this war-soaked cultural backdrop, the sheet music industry echoed the pervasive ... -
The use of superabsorbent polymer in standard and pervious concrete
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011)The use of internal curing and specifically the use of super absorbent polymers has recently become an important topic in concrete research. Internal curing has been shown to reduce autogenous shrinkage in concrete mixtures, ... -
Subversion of the gaze Degas and the social implications of his Dancers
(2011)Edgar Degas' portrayal of women has generated particular interest. His subjects were often thought to be women of ill-repute, yet Degas shows them hard at work. I believe that Degas purposefully set out to chronicle the ... -
SiDR: a Secure inter-Domain Routing protocol for future internet
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-26)Inter-domain routing is a critical functionality that help connect autonomous systems in the Internet. In recent years, there have been concerns in regard to its vulnerabilities such as IP prefix hijacking and worm ... -
A semantic framework for event-driven service composition
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-14)Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a popular paradigm for designing distributed systems where loosely coupled services (i.e. computational entities) can be integrated seamlessly to provide complex composite ... -
Security in pervasive health care using location-based key generation schemes
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-15)Remote health monitoring has tremendous potential to improve quality of health care services in modern and ubiquitous medical environments. It helps to cut the cost in modern healthcare by avoiding unnecessary hospital ... -
The roles of client religion, counselor religiosity, and spiritual competence in counselors' clinical judgment
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-07-15)The present study explored the roles that clients' religious beliefs, therapists' spiritual/religious beliefs, and therapists' attitudes toward spirituality and religion may play in how therapists conceptualize a prospective ... -
The role of physical health on life satisfaction in people with serious mental illness
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-20)The purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution of physical health and mental health on quality of life reports in people with serious mental illness. Examining the role of physical health is especially ... -
The risks of nonfatal violent victimizations across individual-and structural-level characteristics
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-22)The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of individual characteristics and structural conditions on non-fatal violent victimization risks. Using the criminological theories known Routine Activities/The Lifestyle ... -
Racial residential segregation in the Kansas City area: a comparative study between Blacks and Hispanics
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-01)There is considerable literature on racial residential segregation but there are few examples that examine similarities and differences between two ethnic groups within an urban area. Racial residential segregation among ... -
A quality metric to improve wrapper feature selection in multiclass subject invariant brain computer interfaces
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-05)Brain computer interface systems based on electroencephalograph (EEG) signals have limitations which challenge their application as a practical device for general use. The signal features generated by the brain states ... -
Quality and intensity of pain associated with continuously applied orthodontic stresses of relatively high and low magnitudes
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-07-21)The purpose was to assess longitudinally pain intensity and quality during tooth translation by 2 continuous stresses. Eight subjects (five males, 3 females) who required maxillary first premolar extractions had maxillary ... -
A qualitative study of the Extended Care Permit dental hygienists in Kansas
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-01)Currently, thirty-two states allow some type of alternative practice settings for dental hygienists. This qualitative study was designed to explore the experiences of the Extended Care Permit (ECP) dental hygienist in the ... -
Pressure-impulse diagrams using finite element analysis for reinforced concrete columns subjected to blast loading
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-11)Reinforced concrete is one of the prime building materials widely used to construct protective structures. One of the purposes of this project is to study the non-linear response of reinforced concrete structures when ... -
The power of teacher-student relationships in determining student success
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-11)The purpose of this ethnomethodological exploratory descriptive case study was to investigate and understand teacher perceptions of the relationships between teachers and students and how those teachers perceive relationships ... -
Orthorexia nervosa: real construct or newest social trend?
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-07-25)Despite a plethora of anecdotal evidence, there are very few empirical studies on orthorexia nervosa, which has been described as an obsession with proper nutrition and the consumption of healthy food. Accordingly, the ... -
Novel in vitro cell culture models for studying pharmacokinetic drug-drug interactions following oral administration
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-21)In this study different in vitro models were developed to study the long term and short term drug- drug interactions occurring upon oral administration. MDCK cells were stably transfected for the simultaneous expression ... -
MIGUEL MATEO DALLO Y LANA, MEXICAN BAROQUE COMPOSER: A FORGOTTEN TREASURE OF PUEBLA
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015-03-09)As research into the Mexican Baroque continues to expand, forgotten composers and their works are garnering deserved attention. Miguel Mateo Dallo y Lana (c. 1650-1705), who served as maestro de capilla [chapel master] at ... -
Insanity, rhetoric and women : nineteenth-century women's asylum narratives
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-02)Among reform movements in nineteenth-century America was insane asylum reform and women played a role in this. Some women within the walls of asylums living as patients turned to the pen as a means of informing the ... -
The effect of simulated oral and clinical conditions on the fracture strength of ceramic bracket tie-wings
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-12)This study examined the effect of simulated oral and clinical conditions on the tie-wing fracture strength of a polycrystalline and a monocrystalline bracket. Fracture strength was measured for brackets as-received ...