Browsing Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2023 Spring"
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A 100-Year Historical Study of East High School in Kansas City, Missouri
(2023)East High School was opened in 1926 to over nine hundred students from the surrounding neighborhoods. At that time, East High School was an all-White suburban school in comparison to its identity today as the most diverse ... -
A Descriptive Analysis of Fatal and Non-Fatal Shootings in Kansas City, Missouri, from 2015-2020
(2023)Firearm usage in homicides has become a significant concern within the United States. While our understanding of what elements comprises a firearm-based homicide is well studied, what is not is the characteristics, and ... -
A Narrative Case Study Exploring The Preparation Experiences of Novice Teachers In Urban Elementary Schools
(2023)Literature has shown that qualified, effective, and confident teachers are the number one predictor of student success inside the classroom. Students in urban schools experience a greater number of inexperienced or qualified ... -
A Narratological Inquiry into U.S. African Refugee Youths’ Educational Experiences
(2023)The arrival of refugees over the past two decades changed the face of classrooms in Kansas City, Missouri, resulting in refugee youth being unprepared for post-secondary opportunities. This critical narrative study aimed ... -
A Novel Deep Learning-Based Framework for Context Aware Semantic Segmentation in Medical Imaging
(2023)Deep learning has an enormous impact on medical image analysis. Many computer-aided diagnostic systems equipped with deep networks are rapidly reducing human intervention in healthcare. Among several applications, medical ... -
A Quantitative Examination Of Community College Students' Self-Efficacy Inside Mathematics Pathways
(2023)The purpose of this quantitative study was to measure the change in mathematics self-efficacy of students enrolled in a college mathematics course at a community college in Missouri. The change was measured over a single ... -
ACS Data Conversion From Census Geographies To Neighborhood & Community Boundaries
(2023)American Community Survey (ACS) data from one geography can be converted into the appropriate boundaries for communities and neighborhoods using a weighting approach. The American Community Study (ACS) is an annual study ... -
Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
(2023)This dissertation examines representations of women artists—writers, musicians, painters, and photographers—in nineteenth-century British novels and poetry written by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George ... -
An Educational History of Immigrant and Refugee Children in Kansas City
(2023)This is an educational historiography of immigrant and refugee children who resettled with their families in Kansas City, Missouri, after the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. The dissertation concludes with a ... -
Chemical Surface Modification of Polycarbonate to Increase Hydrophilicity
(2023)Polycarbonate, commonly used in glasses lenses, is prone to fogging. Fogging can be reduced by modifying the structure of polycarbonate to be more hydrophilic, ideally superhydrophilic with a contact angle less than 10°. ... -
Community Perspectives of Police Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
(2023)The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in March 2020, forced police to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, including new police, tasks, and different work tactics. Based on surveys of community members, this study explores ... -
Comparative Study of LRFR and LFR Methods of Rating for Missouri Steel Bridges
(2023)Bridge load rating is a method used to check on the ability of bridges to carry a given live load. Bridge rating is important to ensuring public safety in that it helps the concerned agencies to enforce weight restriction ... -
Design, Preparation, And Applications Of Novel N-Vinyliminium Salts in Organic Synthesis. Design and Synthesis of Tau Aggregate-specific Fluorescent Probes for Postmortem Imaging of Brains with Tauopathies
(2023)PART I Efforts to optimize the electrophilic coupling partners for the Suzuki reaction by electronically and sterically tuning the pyridinium moiety are described. Both reaction temperature and catalyst loading have been ... -
Dispatches
(2023)Dispatches is an eight-movement work that focuses on the very human emotions of love and desire, including the darker side of these, as well as the effects of separation on the heart and mind. Using a small chamber ensemble ... -
Dynamic Activity Predictions using Graph-based Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting
(2023)Time series forecasting is a vital task in numerous fields, and traditional methods, machine learning models, and neural graph networks have been employed to improve prediction accuracy. However, these techniques need ... -
Echoes from the Mountains: Capturing and Recalling Memories of the Climb, Ascension and Extension of the J. S. Chick African Centered Education Shule (School) Model, Methodology and Instructional Practice, 1998–2012
(2023)This research sought to better understand how the instructional foundations for J. S. Chick African Centered School [Shule] from 1998 to 2012 used a culturally relevant learning model to motivate and inspire African American ... -
Exploring the Lived Experiences of Students who have Overcome Academic Probation
(2023)Students placed on academic probation are at a greater risk of not completing a four-year degree in higher education. This qualitative study applied Schlossberg’s Adult Transition Theory to understand the experience of ... -
Factors that lead to principal retention: an arts-based narrative inquiry
(2023)Building principals are more than the face of the school. School administrators spend their time guiding teachers and students, collaborating with parents, establishing a responsive culture, and navigating accountability ... -
Faculty Identity Development Through Story: A Narrative Study in a Higher Education Context
(2023)Many higher education faculty members are not trained to teach during their graduate study; thus, faculty development programs (FDPs) can provide systematic opportunity for teaching training. While FDPs are prevalent in ... -
Fringes
(2023)This thesis is a collection of short stories that I have written throughout my time as a graduate student in the University of Missouri-Kansas City Master of Fine Arts program. These pieces were picked because, and I believe ...