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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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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 ... -
The Awakening of Insects
(2020)The Awakening of Insects is the third of the twenty-four solar terms in the traditional Chinese calendars. In China, people believe that during this solar term, thunderstorms will wake up the hibernating insects, indicating ... -
Electronic Structure of Three Center Two Electron Bonds in Boron Rich Materials: A Study of Molecules, Crystals, and Amorphous Solids using the ab initio Orthogonalized Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals Method
(2020)It has been shown that isomers of carborane, α and β rhombohedral boron, α and β tetragonal boron, γ boron, and boron carbide tend to form icosahedral structures. If the icosahedra were formed with pure boron, it has been ... -
Henri Rivière, Japonsime, and Les Trente-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel
(2020)Les Trente-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel is a bound book that contains 36 lithographs by Henri Rivière printed in 1902. These lithographs reflect the social, political, and artistic changes that had occurred in Paris by the ... -
Mobile hyperspectral imaging for structural damage detection
(2020)Numerous optical-imaging and machine-vision based inspection methods are found that aim to replace visual and human-based inspection with an automated or a highly efficient procedure. However, these machine-vision systems ... -
Pro-Black Prosody
(2020)This thesis speaks to the triumphs and tragedies of the Black experience. It attempts to look at Blackness through the lens of my combined experiences as a spoken word artist, a student in the University of Missouri-Kansas ... -
Beyond Prima Donna: Pauline Viardot’s Collaboration on Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète, Gounod’s Sapho, and Berlioz’s Arrangement of Orphée
(2020)Prima donnas of the nineteenth century enjoyed celebrity status and were the wealthiest women of their time. Mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot’s (1821–1910) diva status provided her with a platform from which to share the full ... -
Getting to Know Rodgers and Hammerstein: Education and Adaptation in 21st-century performance
(2020)Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II forever changed the face of American musical theatre when Oklahoma! opened on Broadway in 1943. This collaboration is often cited by historians as the first fully-integrated book ...