RSS 1.02021 Dissertations (UMKC)
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Second chance competitive autoencoders for understanding textual data
(2021)Every day, an enormous amount of text data is produced. Sources of text data include news, social media, emails, text messages, medical reports, scientific publications, and fiction. To keep track of this data, there are ... -
An Approach For Scalable First-Order Rule Learning On Twitter Data
(2021)Scalable Rule Learning (SRLearn) is a scalable divide-and-conquer approach with graph-based modeling of social media data, to scale up first-order rule learning through Markov Logic Networks on a commodity cluster on large ... -
The Ordinance Project: Commemorating Kansas City's LGBTQ Landmark Legislation
(2021)This project documents the efforts of Kansas City activists, organizers, and politicians who successfully fought for the passage of a municipal nondiscrimination ordinance in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The ordinance ... -
A study of carbon and iron charged point defects in gallium nitride: electronic structure implications for high-power photoconductive solid state switch applications
(2021)There is growing demand for high-performance electronics in high volt- age, high current, and high frequency efficiency requirements that current materials (e.g., Si) are not fulfilling. Within the last few years, the ... -
Unfolding Untapped Stories: A Narrative Inquiry of Teachers' Experiences of Working With Students Who Have Faced Trauma or Traumatic Events.
(2021)The purpose of this narrative inquiry is to understand the teachers’ experiences of working with students who have faced trauma or traumatic events. The number of children facing trauma exposures to violence, crime, and ... -
The moderating role of online racism in the relationship between lived racism, racial trauma symptoms, and well-being
(2021)The relationship between lived experiences with racism, racial trauma symptoms, and well-being has been observed among Black individuals. Lived experiences with racism are related to negative racial trauma symptoms and a ... -
FedSmarteum: Secure Federated Matrix Factorization Using Smart Contracts for Multi-Cloud Supply Chain
(2021)With increased awareness comes unprecedented expectations. We live in a digital, cloud era wherein the underlying information architectures are expected to be elastic, secure, resilient, and handle petabyte scaling. The ... -
The Impact of Climate Variability and Land Cover Change on Groundwater Resources in The Niger River Basin
(2021)The Niger River Basin (NRB) has experienced severe droughts and floods under a significant change of the land use and land cover (LULC) with increasing population over the years. The present study is to understand the ... -
RF coupling to realistic wire systems in complex environments
(2021)With the continuous emergence of new wireless technologies, the possibility of unintentional electromagnetic interference (EMI) increases significantly. EMI coupling pathways to any Device Under Test (DUT) can be classified ... -
Social power in public-private partnerships: shifting sands make an unstable foundation
(2021)This case study examines stakeholder salience and social power in the pre-solicitation phase of a public-private partnership. Public bodies are increasingly exploring public-private partnerships to address high-cost, ... -
Who you are, where you go, and who you know: a study of civic participation of youth in Chicago neighborhoods
(2021)Community violence is a pervasive and damaging social phenomenon, occurring with alarming frequency in economically disadvantaged communities of color. The detrimental consequences of violence exposure in adolescents is ... -
CHamorus' Narratives and Perceptions of Historical Trauma and Contemporary Health in Guam
(2021)Historical trauma refers to the generationally transferred human consequences of cultural oppression in a population associated with colonization, slavery, and genocide. Historical trauma theory suggests that such trauma ... -
Statistical Analysis of Resilience Distribution and Application to Rural Electric Distribution System subjected to Hurricane Wind
(2021)Several mathematical frameworks and models are proposed to quantify the resilience of power systems against hurricane events. However, these frameworks contribute to the urban area's large-scale transmission system or ... -
The Systemic Risk of Consolidation in the Cloud Computing Industry
(2021)The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of consolidation within the cloud computing industry related to the reliability and availability of computing resources. This dissertation begins by assessing the scale ... -
Hydrolysis and aqueous corrosion of silicate and aluminosilicate glasses via ab initio molecular dynamics simulation
(2021)Hydrolysis and aqueous corrosion of glass is a complex and puzzling phenomenon. Although many endeavors have been made to investigate corrosion in glass, it is still an open question with many unanswered fundamental issues. ... -
Nursing Faculty's Experience of Faculty Bullying and its Impacts: A Qualitative Study
(2021)Faculty bullying is an ongoing problem in United States’ nursing schools as it can negatively affect the physical and psychological well-being of the targeted individuals, their careers, and the workplace environment. ... -
Reliability management framework for softwarized networks
(2021)The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies promise to enhance the performance, reliability, and cost of managing both wired and wireless network infrastructures, functions, controls, and services (i.e., Internet ... -
Memories of My Hometown
(2021)My orchestral piece, Memories of My Hometown, has two movements: I. Pine Trees Standing on the Snowy Mountain; II. Passionate Land. After studying abroad for many years, I yearned for my hometown in China and hoped to ... -
Molecular mechanism, binding free energy, and sequence selectivity of intercalation of doxorubicin and DNA
(2021)Many drugs interact noncovalently with DNA either by groove binding or intercalation. Intercalation is a key process in drug discovery and biosensor development. Doxorubicin (DOX) is an intercalator drug that treats a wide ... -
Smart hydrogel for enzyme responsive vaginal delivery of anti-HIV peptide therapeutics
(2021)In response to an urgent need for advanced formulations for the delivery of anti-retrovirals, a stimuli sensitive hydrogel formulation that intravaginally delivers HIV-1 entry inhibitor upon being exposed to a specific ...