Dissertations (UMKC)
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The History of Elementary Literacy Instruction in the Kansas City Kansas Public School District from 1990 until 2022
(2023)This dissertation outlines a comprehensive research endeavor focused on the history of elementary literacy instruction in the Kansas City Kansas Public Schools (KCKPS) from 1990 until 2022. The research methodology combines ... -
ADInsight: A Multimodal and Explainable Framework for Alzheimer's Disease Progression and Conversion Prediction
(2023)ADInsight represents the crux of this dissertation, introducing an integrated and explainable framework centered on predicting Alzheimer's disease (AD) conversion, particularly for those at the early stage of mild cognitive ... -
Deep learning-based optimization of light field processing
(2023)As commonly acknowledged, light field technology offers a multi-dimensional extension for image processing by capturing both the intensity and direction of light rays, resulting in a more comprehensive representation of ... -
Three essays on Platform Capitalism and its alternative
(2023)This dissertation delves into the intricate landscape of platform capitalism and its multifaceted relationship with labor dynamics, bringing forth a nuanced understanding of the evolving economic terrain. The first ... -
“It has already exposed you to some very impertinent remarks": Intertextual regulation of women from the early British novel to the twenty-first century screen
(2023)This interdisciplinary dissertation examines twenty-first century film adaptations of Jane Austen’s work as intertextual, intermedial products with roots in the early-British novel. Rather than being direct offspring of ... -
A universal approach to stabilize water-oil interface via surfactant self-assembly
(2023)Liquid-liquid interfaces represent an advantageous setting for the confinement, manipulation, and controlled assembly of colloids. Stabilizing liquid-liquid interfaces, whether between miscible or immiscible liquids, is ... -
Beyond the Abyss: American Gaslight and Popular Literature
(2023)The mainstream feminist movement in the United States has struggled to include women of color and marginalized women. However, two constants emerge from the work of both white feminists and feminists of color: first, writing ... -
How Spirituality and Fatigue Interact to Affect Quality of Life in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer
(2023)The cognitive theory of stress and coping by Lazarus and Folkman can explain how individuals cope with a stressful chronic illness, specifically metastatic breast cancer (MBC). If an individual appraises their MBC as ... -
Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned: The Dramatic Potency of Confession on the Early Modern English Shakespearean Stage
(2023)Though forcefully absent in its traditional practice by political and religious reformation, evidence of confession in early modern English drama remained and became representative of an exchange of power between dramatic ... -
Turkic Educators and Students Breaking Their Silence: An Oral History of a Tangled Web of Political Power
(2023)The social genocide of the Hizmet people by the Erdoğan regime has left an indelible mark on Turkic educators and students worldwide. The practice of genocide as a form of political control is steeped in the history of the ... -
Spirituality in American Muslim Marriages: An Investigation of Marital Sanctification, Spiritual Intimacy and Emotional Intimacy
(2023)The current study investigated how spiritual intimacy and emotional intimacy potentially mediated the impact of marital sanctification on positive and negative marital quality. Moreover, the present study examined if gender ... -
Coping Methods of College Women of Color Facing Discrimination
(2023)Scholars have documented that experiencing microaggressions can have a negative impact on the psychological and physical health of women of color. Female college students of color specifically have shown to experience ... -
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 ... -
Evaluation of the relationship between lacunar wall strain and osteocyte β-catenin signaling pathway activation using finite element methods and confocal fluorescence imaging.
(2023)Mechanical loading of bone has been shown to result in activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling in osteocytes, leading to increased bone formation, but the mechanism of mechanotransduction is still unknown. It has been observed ... -
A Synthesis and Optimization of Patented Direct Air Capture Technology
(2023)An engineering method termed direct air capture is used to take CO₂, the predominant global warming greenhouse gas, out of the atmosphere directly. Given that CO₂ levels in the air are only 0.04%, it presents a technical ... -
Examination of postoperative outcomes following elective colorectal surgery
(2023)While a considerable amount of progress has been made on reducing poor postoperative outcomes following elective colon resection, including the design of a colectomy-specific Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) program, ... -
Social Anxiety Among Black Women
(2023)Social anxiety disorder is one of the most prevalent and chronic types of anxiety disorders. Yet, social anxiety often goes undetected and untreated, particularly among racial-ethnic minority groups. Existing research ... -
Acceptability and Feasibility of Using Virtual Reality to Address Mental Health Stigma with African American Young Adults
(2024)African Americans are disproportionately affected by mental illness compared to White Americans. Studies have reported that African Americans experience higher levels of mental health-related stigma (MHS) than White ... -
Advanced Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing Systems with Cyclic Prefix-Less Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output Discrete Fourier Transform Spreading and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-Assisted Cyclic Postfixed Windowed Schemes
(2023)In the proper designing of spectrally efficient 5th Generation (5G)/Beyond 5G (B5G) systems, minimization of Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of the time domain Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM)/Cyclic ... -
Explainable AI framework through Multi-Context Multi-Dimensional Graph Neural Network
(2023)In this research, we explored the multifaceted realm of digital communication, emphasizing social media channels such as Twitter and Reddit, complemented by conventional data-gathering techniques like focus group discussions ...