Browsing Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2023 Spring"
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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 ... -
A Narrative Case Study Exploring The Preparation Experiences of Novice Teachers In Urban Elementary Schools
(2023)Literature has shown that qualified, effective, and confident teachers are the number one predictor of student success inside the classroom. Students in urban schools experience a greater number of inexperienced or qualified ... -
A Narratological Inquiry into U.S. African Refugee Youths’ Educational Experiences
(2023)The arrival of refugees over the past two decades changed the face of classrooms in Kansas City, Missouri, resulting in refugee youth being unprepared for post-secondary opportunities. This critical narrative study aimed ... -
A Novel Deep Learning-Based Framework for Context Aware Semantic Segmentation in Medical Imaging
(2023)Deep learning has an enormous impact on medical image analysis. Many computer-aided diagnostic systems equipped with deep networks are rapidly reducing human intervention in healthcare. Among several applications, medical ... -
A Quantitative Examination Of Community College Students' Self-Efficacy Inside Mathematics Pathways
(2023)The purpose of this quantitative study was to measure the change in mathematics self-efficacy of students enrolled in a college mathematics course at a community college in Missouri. The change was measured over a single ... -
Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
(2023)This dissertation examines representations of women artists—writers, musicians, painters, and photographers—in nineteenth-century British novels and poetry written by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George ... -
An Educational History of Immigrant and Refugee Children in Kansas City
(2023)This is an educational historiography of immigrant and refugee children who resettled with their families in Kansas City, Missouri, after the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. The dissertation concludes with a ... -
Echoes from the Mountains: Capturing and Recalling Memories of the Climb, Ascension and Extension of the J. S. Chick African Centered Education Shule (School) Model, Methodology and Instructional Practice, 1998–2012
(2023)This research sought to better understand how the instructional foundations for J. S. Chick African Centered School [Shule] from 1998 to 2012 used a culturally relevant learning model to motivate and inspire African American ... -
Exploring the Lived Experiences of Students who have Overcome Academic Probation
(2023)Students placed on academic probation are at a greater risk of not completing a four-year degree in higher education. This qualitative study applied Schlossberg’s Adult Transition Theory to understand the experience of ... -
Factors that lead to principal retention: an arts-based narrative inquiry
(2023)Building principals are more than the face of the school. School administrators spend their time guiding teachers and students, collaborating with parents, establishing a responsive culture, and navigating accountability ... -
Faculty Identity Development Through Story: A Narrative Study in a Higher Education Context
(2023)Many higher education faculty members are not trained to teach during their graduate study; thus, faculty development programs (FDPs) can provide systematic opportunity for teaching training. While FDPs are prevalent in ... -
From P.E. to Protests: the History of Dance Activism in Academia: 1920–2022
(2023)Throughout history, dance has been regarded as an act of rebellion. This art form has persisted to become a means for the common person to demonstrate impassioned objections to issues from racism and religious oppression ... -
Functional Analysis of TET-Family 5-Methylcytosine Dioxygenases in Non-CpG DNA Demethylation
(2023)One of the most widely studied epigenetic marks in DNA is 5-methylcytosine (5mC). Research has indicated that in the mammalian genome around 5-6% of all cytosines are methylated (5mC), with a strong preference for the CpG ... -
Library Screening and Focused Multiomics of Antibacterial Action on Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci faecium
(2023)Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health threat, and there is an urgent need for new strategies to address this issue. In a gram-positive bacteria, the peptidoglycan layer is thick as compared to gram negatives ... -
Machine Learning based Predictive Modeling of Stochastic Systems
(2023)Complex signals are ubiquitous in our daily lives, and interpreting and modeling them is vital for scientific advancement. Traditional methods for predictive modeling of complex signals include statistical signal processing ... -
Methods and experimental design for high power measurements of materials and devices
(2023)Current trends in Radio Frequency (RF) devices, such as the miniaturization of RF devices, wide-bandwidth communications, wide use of radar, communications, and positioning systems lead to an increased need to understand ... -
Mothers Making Meaning: An Exploration of Contemporary Ritual Practices Surrounding Childbirth
(2023)Many contemporary American women undergo one of the most intense identity shifts of their lives—becoming a mother—without prescribed ritual resources to navigate that transition. Lacking a common cultural script to follow, ... -
Multimedia Big Data Analytics and Fusion for Data Science
(2023)Big data is becoming increasingly prevalent in people's everyday lives due to the enormous quantity of data generated from social and economic activities worldwide. As a result, extensive research has been undertaken to ... -
Pan-American Musical Exchange: The Relationship between Camargo Guarnieri And Carleton Sprague Smith
(2023)This dissertation focuses on the relationship between Brazilian composer Camargo Guarnieri and American flutist Carleton Sprague Smith, exploring their intersecting lives and the compositions that emerged from their ... -
Post-intentional phenomenology inquiry to explore white educators’ stories of developing a critical consciousness of race
(2023)The current makeup of the PK-12 educational workforce is largely White persons. However, the demographic makeup of the student body is soon to be a majority of students of color. This is problematic due to the disproportionate ...