Browsing Theses (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2015 Spring"
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Alignment of Do-Not-Resuscitate Status with Patients’ Likelihood of Favorable Neurological Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)After patients survive an in-hospital cardiac arrest, discussions should occur about preferences for future resuscitative efforts. Given the value patients generally place on possessing normal neurological function, these ... -
Assembling the Fragments: A Collection of Essays
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)Grief and grieving hovers around this essay collection, both the author's grief over losing her mother and also what that loss meant to the other people in her life. An essay about the tragic death of the author's uncle- ... -
Asymmetric Positron Annihilation in Chiral Tartrate and Tartaric Acid Crystals
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) has been used to study the interactions of positrons with chiral tartaric acids and tartrates. Differences in lifetimes of and its intensity I2 were compared between large ... -
Bird-like: five scenes for sinfonietta (or chamber orchestra)
(2015-07-28)Bird-like is a continuous series of five musical scenes for sinfonietta, or, optionally, chamber orchestra (single winds, with a small string section). Each scene is inspired by the motions, behaviors, and physical ... -
Bleeding Risk Following Percutaneous Intervention in Patients with Diabetes Prescribed Dual Anti Platelet Therapy
(2015-07-28)Patients with diabetes (DM) experience higher rates of in-stent restenosis and therefore greater benefit from drug eluting stent (DES) implant at the time of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). DES stent implantation ... -
Classification of Clinical Tweets Using Apache Mahout
(2015)There is an increasing amount of healthcare related data available on Twitter. Due to Twitter’s popularity, every day large amount of clinical tweets are posted on this microblogging service platform. One interesting ... -
The Coterie Theatre’s Transition from Children’s Theatre to Multigenerational Theatre: 1991-2014
(2015)The programming of The Coterie Theatre of Kansas City, Missouri, under Artistic Director Jeff Church, was studied from September 1990 to August 2014. The works researched included world, commissioned and American premieres ... -
Darwin's Thought
(2015-07-28)It is difficult to describe accurately the bond between humans and society. Our current society is morphing at such a gradual pace that no one seems to notice many changes. Those changes, however, accumulate and in fact ... -
Detrimental Determinants: The Impacts of Neoliberalism on Pro-Environmental Behaviors
(2015-07-28)The mounting evidence of anthropogenic climate change in the past 30 years has beckoned the social sciences to illuminate and address the complex phenomena underlying actions that impact the environment. While many studies ... -
Dialogue at the Threshold: The Artist Between Museum and Community
(2015)Artists Suzanne Lacy and Ann Hamilton use forms of language to produce experiences that challenge the individual’s perception. While differing in methods and outcomes, Lacy and Hamilton construct environments that allow ... -
Effect of electric fields on the synthesis of nanoparticles of tin and silicon in a liquid environment
(2015-07-28)The effect of externally applied electric fields on the size and morphology of nanoparticles fabricated by laser ablation was investigated. In this method, a pulsed laser beam was focused onto a solid target of either ... -
The Effect of Performance Condition on Second-Grade Student’s Rhythmic Accuracy While Sight-Reading
(2015-07-28)The purpose of this study was to examine rhythmic performance accuracy while sightreading rhythms using either rhythmic speaking, body percussion, or instruments. A secondary purpose of this study was to study possible ... -
The Effect of Thermal Annealing on Phase Separation in Organic Photovoltaic Films
(2015)In our research, we used amplitude modulated atomic force microscopy to study the effect of thermal annealing on the morphology of four recently developed bulk heterojunction photovoltaic films. Each cell was fabricated ... -
Effects of a violence prevention program on the aggressive scripts and prosocial behavior of "high risk" students
(2015-07-28)The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a school-based violence prevention program, Project SAFE, which was designed to decrease beliefs supporting the use of aggression in response to conflict, as measured ... -
Electrical Carrier Mobility Measurements of Amorphous Hydrogenated Boron Carbide Using Space-Charge-Limited Current Techniques
(2015-08-11)Within the field of neutron detection, there has been a push to develop solid-state direct-conversion devices. Amorphous hydrogenated boron carbide (a-BxC:Hy) is of particular interest for this purpose because it has a ... -
Escape from the Evil Empire
(2015-07-28)A dirge for soprano, women’s chorus, and orchestra, ‘Escape from the Evil Empire’ was created with the idea of composing original music for an epic, major motion picture. The original text speaks of unwanted souls in a ... -
Evaluation of Fatigue and Toughness of Fiber Reinforced Concrete as a New Highway Pavement Design
(2015-07-28)Concrete pavement design is currently centered on steel reinforcement. Whether that reinforcement be in the form of dowel bars, as is the case in jointed plain concrete pavement (JPCP), or in the form of continuous rebar ... -
Evaluation of Resistivity Meters for Concrete Quality Assurance, Project TR201414
(2015-07-28)This research evaluated a series of MoDOT concrete mixtures to verify existing relationships between surface resistivity (SR), rapid chloride permeability (RCP), chloride ion diffusion, and the AASHTO penetrability ... -
Excursus: Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media
(2015-07-28)Commissioned by coloratura soprano Mikaela Sullivan for performance in April 2014, Excursus explores the methods in which modern television broadcasting attempts to provide different facets of human desire, thus propagating ... -
Financial Aspects of Stand-alone Solar Power Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2015-08-12)Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have struggled with low electrification rates in rural areas. This research examines various methods of achieving higher rural electrification rates. Among the factors that impede rural ...