Browsing Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2019 Fall"
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A descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational exploration of perceived stress, quality of life, and family functioning in parents of a child with congenital heart disease: The PinCHeD Study
(2020)Background: As survival rates for infants born with severe forms of cardiac disease improve, attention is directed to evaluating factors that affect the child’s short- and long-term outcomes, including parental stress, ... -
A Heuristic Multiple-Case Study of Culturally Relevant Practices of Six Urban Elementary School Principals
(2019)The purpose of this heuristic multiple-case study was to explore the practices of six urban elementary school principals regarding the use of culturally relevant practices in their schools. The central question was: How ... -
A qualitative case study deconstructing teachers' decisions in the pre-active stage of teaching to illuminate considerations made for teaching 21st-century skills and knowledge
(2019)The purpose of this heuristic case study was to develop a deeper understanding of how middle-level teachers in one Midwestern middle school account for teaching 21st-century skills and knowledge, within the context of a ... -
A retrospective study of the clinical capstone experience on perceptions of practice readiness in associate degree student nurses and perceptors
(2019)Purpose of the Student Transitional Experience into Practice (STEP) study was to explore differences in perceptions of practice readiness between associate degree student nurses and their preceptors after a clinical capstone ... -
An Investigation into the Contribution of Hybrid Renewable Energy System to Utility Grid in the Regions with Arid Climate
(2019)Increasing the emissions of carbon have a negative impact on our environment, since the beginning of industrial revolution. There is a wide consensus that climate change occurred due to human behavior, mainly from burning ... -
Development and pilot test of a conscientization intervention for nurses who have experienced moral distress
(2019)Nurses act as moral agents for patients and use their moral sensitivity to build trusting relationships to act in patients’ best interests. However, nurses also lack power in their place of employment due to inequality in ... -
Efficient sequential designs with asymptotic second-order lower bound of Bayes risk for estimating product of means
(2019)In order to estimate the reliability of sequentially designed procedures under the Bayesian framework with conjugate priors, a sharp lower bound for the Bayes risk has been derived. Chapter 1 and 2 introduce the background ... -
Ember for orchestra
(2019)Ember is a single-movement piece for orchestra which combines my years of compositional experience, the exploration of musical aesthetics, an experiment of adapting electronic music technique in acoustic writing, and a ... -
Novel High Performance Ultra Low Power Static Random Access Memories (SRAMs) Based on Next Generation Technologies
(2019)Next Big Thing Is Surely Small: Nanotechnology Can Bring Revolution. Nanotechnology leads the world towards many new applications in various fields of computing, communication, defense, entertainment, medical, renewable ... -
Part I: Synthesis of functionalized bile acids towards the construction of steroidal macrocycles. Part II: Evaluation and expansion of a modular card game for teaching organic chemistry
(2019)In Part I, the synthesis of chenodeoxychoic acid (CDCA) derivatives towards the construction of unique chemical architectures are reported. Building on previously described methods, CDCA based macrocycles with inner cavities ... -
Sequential test allocation for estimating software reliability with associated cost
We use a sequential method to allocate software test cases among partitions of a software to minimize the expected loss incurred by the Bayes estimator of the overall software reliability. The Bayesian approach allows us ... -
Shame shapeshifters masking as disengagement: a grounded theory study examining academic achievement-related emotions in high school
(2019)Each student brings their past experiences, current working identity, and cultural perspectives with them into the learning environment, which is a highly charged emotionally reciprocating space where information is being ... -
Sites of trauma, bodies of recovery: the work of contemporary South African artist Jane Alexander
(2019)Sites of Trauma, Bodies of Recovery: The Work of Contemporary South African Artist Jane Alexander explores the interconnections between the aesthetics of trauma in post-apartheid culture, history, and politics through the ... -
Soy El Primero: First-Generation Latino/a College Students' Experiences of Acculturative Stress and Coping Response in College
(2019)First-generation Latino/a student enrollment in U.S. Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) is increasing. However, first-generation Latino/a students' ability to persist and graduate from PWIs has been and continues to ... -
Teacher Perceptions of Student Growth Measures in Performance Evaluation
(2019)The accountability measures for schools originally outlined in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation established links between student and teacher performance. Race to the Top (RttT) initiatives and waivers for the ... -
Telemedicine Quality Improvement Study
Telemedicine is a novel field that contributes to the modernized healthcare system we have today, wherein a need exists for further refinement of applied methods and technology that is readily available and economical. ... -
The Investigation of Configurationally Stable Longitudinally Twisted Acenes and the Development of a Silorane-Based Biomaterial for Use as an Antimicrobial Delivery Device
(2019)Longitudinally twisted acenes (LTAs) adopt a helical twist in order to alleviate steric congestion caused by bulky substituents along the acene backbone and are inherently chiral. As is observed in helicenes, this helical ... -
The Nature of Night Eating Syndrome: Using Network Analysis to Understand Causal Symptomological Relationships
The purpose of this study was to examine and characterize the core symptoms in a psychopathology network for night eating syndrome (NES) among persons with and without overweight/obesity, and to compare the network density ... -
Whitewashing or amnesia: a study of the construction of race in two Midwestern counties
(2019)This inter-disciplinary dissertation utilizes sociological and historical research methods for a critical comparative analysis of the material culture as reproduced through murals and monuments located in two counties in ... -
Women's aspirations for the high school principalship: a heuristic phenomenological inquiry
(2019)In the United States the teaching profession is primarily comprised of female teachers. However, men continually hold a disproportionality large percentage of the high school principalships. This qualitative study explores ...