Browsing Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2015 Summer"
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Assessing the Impact of Changing Climate on Agriculture in Missouri and the use of Crop Insurance as Adaptation Strategy (1980-2010)
(2015)Climate change and climate variability affect all sectors of the environment, but agriculture is the most impacted because food production is highly sensitive to weather. The impact of changing climate is evident in the ... -
Attachment and Shame-Coping Style: A Relationship Mediated by Fear of Compassion?
(2015-08-04)Theorists have proposed that shame is a predominant emotion presented in psychotherapy. Research has focused on shame proneness; less is known about how one copes with shame. Research suggests the best antidotes for shame ... -
Chamber Symphony
(2015-08-04)“Chamber Symphony” is a symphony for chamber orchestra (flute/piccolo, oboe/english horn, clarinet, bassoon, two horns in F, piano, and strings) and soprano. It is in a nesting doll structure. That is, there are increasingly ... -
Dance as a Community of Practice: Exploring Dance Groups in the Kansas City Area through the Lifespan
(2015-08-04)This dissertation examines the embodied cultural practice of dance among several groups in the Kansas City area. The dance groups were studied as Communities of Practice (CoP), as outlined in the Lave-Wenger model of ... -
Dynamic Virtual Network Restoration with Optimal Standby Virtual Router Selection
(2015)Network virtualization technologies allow service providers to request partitioned, QoS guaranteed and fault-tolerant virtual networks provisioned by the substrate network provider (i.e., physical infrastructure provider). ... -
Ecological Regionalism: A Synthesis of Ecological Economics and Organicist Regionalism
(2015-08-04)To realize visions of regional ecological and economic sustainability—extant the ecological economics literature—a unified understanding and philosophy of the region is needed. Additionally, this philosophy needs to be ... -
The Effect of Emotion Stimulus Intensity on the selection and Implementation of Distraction and Reappraisal as Emotion Regulation Strategies
(2015)Emotion regulation is an important coping mechanism for handling emotional situations and stimuli in day-to-day life. More effective emotion regulation is linked to better mental and physical health. The present study ... -
Episodic Future Thinking in Young Children: Considering Body Mass and Memory
(2015-08-04)With the increase in pediatric obesity, research continues to evaluate new intervention strategies to improve the effectiveness of current obesity treatments. One area of study which may hold promise for pediatric obesity ... -
An Examination of the Impact of a First Year Experience Course on STEM Persistence
(2015-08-04)A review of STEM literature indicates that increased attention is being paid to STEM initiatives particularly with K-12 teachers and programs designed to foster interest in STEM fields at the secondary education level, ... -
Faculty Beliefs in Early Childhood Teacher Preparation
(2015)Teacher preparation programs in the United States face increasing pressure to restore America as the preeminent leader in a knowledge-based global economy by graduating a highly skilled workforce. A growing national focus ... -
Generalized Multiplicative Error Models: Asymptotic Inference and Empirical Analysis
(2015-08-04)This dissertation consists of two parts. The first part focuses on extended Multiplicative Error Models (MEM) that include two extreme cases for nonnegative series. These extreme cases are common phenomena in high-frequency ... -
High Availability and Scalability Schemes for Software- Defined Networks (SDN)
(2015)A proliferation of network-enabled devices and network-intensive applications require the underlying networks not only to be agile despite of complex and heterogeneous environments, but also to be highly available and ... -
Implications for Multicultural Counseling Training: Motivation, Implicit Race Bias, Empathy and Attribution Bias
(2015-08-04)Multicultural competency is the crux of training mental health practitioners in order to promote clinical skills, awareness, and knowledge when working with clients of diverse backgrounds; research integrating automatic ... -
Measurement And Improvement of Quality-of-Experience For Online Video Streaming Services
(2015)HTTP based online video streaming services have been consistently dominating the online traffic for the past few years. Measuring and improving the performance of these services is an important challenge. Traditional ... -
The Political Economy of the Pacific Northwest: A Surplus Approach
(2015)The dissertation is comprised of three independent essays. Each essay examines the process of qualitative change in the provisioning process from a different vantage, while remaining fixed in relation to the Columbia ... -
Preparation, Characterization and Performance Study of Modified Titanium Dioxide Nanocrystals for the Lithium-Ion Battery
(2015-08-04)The lithium-ion battery is one of the most widely used rechargeable batteries in today’s life. As an energy storage device, it can convert the stored chemical energy into electrical energy when it is being used. Titanium ... -
The Relationship between Change Talk during Motivational Interviewing and HIV Medication Adherence
(2015-08-04)Although studies have demonstrated that change talk (CT) and sustain talk (ST) are related to behavior change in multiple addictive behaviors, few have investigated the relationship between change talk and outcome in ... -
Theory of Mind in Multiple Sclerosis: Disease Subtype Differences and Association with Measures of Social Functioning
(2015-08-11)Theory of mind (ToM) allows a person to make inferences about the mental and emotional states of others. Generally, people with multiple sclerosis (MS) perform more poorly on ToM tests than neurologically intact controls. ... -
Topical Clear Aqueous Nanomicellar Formulations For Anterior And Posterior Ocular Drug Delivery
(2015-08-04)The objective of this study was to develop a clear, aqueous drug loaded nanomicellar formulation (NMF) for the back-of-the-eye delivery. Hydrophobic drugs such as cyclosporine, resolvin analog (RX-10045), dexamethasone ... -
Topical Nanoparticulate Formulation of Drugs for Ocular Keratitis
(2015-08-11)The primary objective of this project is to develop drug-loaded polymeric nanoparticles suspended in a biocompatible gel for topical delivery of therapeutic agents commonly employed in the treatment of ocular viral/bacterial ...