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This community contains the collections of theses submitted electronically to the School of Graduate Studies by masters degree candidates at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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Perceptions of Sex Trafficking Legislation By Sex Workers
(2020)In April of 2018, President Donald Trump signed into law the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act/Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA/FOSTA) package. This set of bipartisan legislation was ... -
The record of magma storage conditions in mineral compositions below a glacial to ice-free Askja volcano, Iceland
(2020)Askja is a caldera volcano located in central Iceland that was glaciated approximately 70,000 to 10,500 years ago. Askja’s basaltic lavas have been classified into one preglacial, six glacial, one Early Holocene and thirteen ... -
Mineral ecology and network analysis of chromium, platinum, gold and palladium
(2020)Data collected on the location of mineral species and related minerals from the field have many great uses from mineral exploration to mineral analysis. Such data is useful for further exploration and discovery of other ... -
Retirement Satisfaction of Married Individuals in the Health and Retirement Study
(2020)High levels of satisfaction in retirement are as much a guarantee as promising immigrants to the United States happiness in their new American life. The authors of the United States Constitution understood this concept and ... -
Thermal Performance Modeling of a Novel Dual-PCM Evacuated U-Tube Solar Collector
(2020)Solar water heating (SWH) systems are a well-established and eco-friendly way to generate hot water for household or commercial applications as it utilizes energy from solar radiation which is readily available all year ... -
Pictographic dress: decoloniality in the performance of memory
(2020)My thesis examines pictographic War Honor Dresses collaboratively hand-sewn and painted in North America, attributed to the final decade of the eighteenth century. As a natural progression of the centuries-long Indigenous ... -
From the King’s Will to the Law of the Land: English Forest Litigation in the Curia Regis Rolls, 1199-1243
(2019)While regulations governing the use of Medieval English land and game previously existed, William I implemented a distinct Anglo-Norman version of forest law after the Norman Conquest in 1066. Forests as a legal term, ... -
The Unicorn Theatre: A Brief History 1974-2020
(2020)The Unicorn Theatre was originally founded under the name Theatre Workshop in 1974. It was a theatre company formed by three UMKC graduates, Jim Cairns, Rohn Dennis, and Liz Gordon who wanted to create an Off-Off-Broadway ... -
In Old Kentucky: A Study of American Melodrama
(2020)This project, a graduate research thesis, means to unearth Charles T. Dazey’s most famous work, In Old Kentucky. This thesis examines the facets of In Old Kentucky which made it a perennial favorite across the entirety of ... -
Numerical Analysis of Helical and Log-periodic Antennas for Short Pulse Applications
(2020)The planar log-periodic (LP) and helical antennas are numerically studied as two antennas with a wide range of applications. The advantages of the LP antenna are the large adjustable bandwidth as a frequency independence ... -
Topic Sentiment Trend Detection and Prediction for Social Media
(2020)Social media often plays a crucial role in disseminating information to warn the public about health concerns. Opioid addiction has become of the significant outbreaks in the United States. Studying opioid issues in social ... -
DeepSampling: Image Sampling Technique for Cost-Effective Deep Learning
(2020)Deep learning is beneficial from big data while facing computationally expensive, with an increase in data size. Some severe data issues, such as the presence of highly skewed, sparse, and imbalanced data, would substantially ... -
Distributed Collaborative Framework for Deep Learning in Object Detection
(2020)Object detection has gained much attention in recent years because of its ability to localize and classify the objects in videos and images that can be incorporated into many applications. Traditional object detection ... -
Evelyn Gleeson and The Dun Emer Guild: Redefining a Woman’s Place in the Arts
(2020)This thesis will explore a myriad of topics not often analyzed within the art historical academic field. It adds to recent endeavors to understand the role of women as artists in the early twentieth century by highlighting ... -
Viability and Validation of Near-Passive Descent Control for Quadrotor Systems
(2020)A quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle capable of lifting small payloads can be used to deliver small payloads from high altitudes rapidly and with high accuracy. This thesis explores the viability of three methods for ... -
Siamese Network-Based Multi-Modal Deepfake Detection
(2020)Deep learning widely applies to solve various problems in healthcare, robotics, and computer vision. Presently, an emerging deep learning application called "deepfake" has raised concerns about the multiple types of security ... -
Human Computer Interface for all: Understanding Barriers and Bridges in Technology to bring Equity to Parkinson’s Patients
(2020)This study was designed to investigate the daily challenges that Parkinson’s patients face and understand how they are related to technology and communication. A human-centered design was used in conjunction with the first ... -
Allied Armada, A Dynamic Soundtrack for a Real-Time Strategy Computer Game
(2020)Allied Armada is a Real-Time Strategy game, with a Sci-Fi setting in outer space. The soundtrack was composed with a dynamic system that allows it to respond to what is happening within the game; broadly, it can switch ... -
Expanding Theatre: Directing Approaches from Contemporary Chilean Women Directors
(2020)This thesis examines the careers, theatrical ideologies, and directing methodologies of three contemporary Chilean women stage directors: Andrea Giadach, Alexandra von Hummel, and Ignacia González. Respective chapters ... -
Impact of Systematizing the Evaluation of Patients with Acute Heart Failure Presenting to the Emergency Department
(2020)The huge burden of acute heart failure (HF) on the emergency department (ED) warrants the need for a systemized method of management. The lack of a standardized care path for acute HF patients presenting to the ED has ...