2022 Theses (UMKC)
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The Nonstory and Other Stories
(2022)The following is a selection of my writing from 2018 to present. I consider the work I have completed during my years at UMKC to be a series of experiments in the short fiction form, and I believe that this thesis is a ... -
Assessment of Dental Students' Attitudes and Awareness of Climate Change in a Midwestern Dental School
(2023)The purpose of this project was to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of dental students toward climate change, and whether certain demographic characteristics were associated with high or low knowledge as well as ... -
The Pompeii of Kansas: Race, Environment, and Memory in Quindaro, 1982-1991
(2022)In January 1981, Browning-Ferris Industries entered into a lease agreement with the Kansas City Commission of Kansas City, Kansas to construct a landfill in the historic neighborhood of Quindaro. This agreement resulted ... -
A Court of Public Opinion: American Sex Work in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
(2022)Late nineteenth-century sex workers in the United States left behind few written records. In contrast, men and women not involved in the sex work trade made their opinions well known. To peacefully exist in the public ... -
3D Printing of Microneedles via Embedded 3D Printing using an Associative Surfactant System
(2022)Microneedles are drug-delivery devices specially adapted to penetrate the outer-most layer of the epidermis (stratum corneum). These devices have gained popularity over the last decades because they provide non-invasive ... -
Daughters of Shanghai
(2022)Daughters of Shanghai is an historical fiction novel set in China between 1937 and 2014. It is centered around resilient Lucy Lau who struggles to survive war, natural disaster, betrayal, and grief while raising four ... -
Increasing Equitable Food Access Within Food Deserts in Urban Areas: A Case Study of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
(2022)There has been growing interest in the factors that contribute to poor health outcomes, particularly in areas where health disparities are pronounced. The locations of food deserts, or unhealthy food environments, correspond ... -
Exploring the Correlation between Civil Unrest and the Mobilization of Hate in the United States
(2022)The mobilization of hate in the United States has greatly ramped up since 2000. There are a lot of factors that go into why hate crimes continue to persist, but civil unrest seems to be one of the biggest factors. Through ... -
A Systematic Review of Huikahi Reentry Circles: A Restorative Justice Process for Families Impacted by Incarceration
(2022)Research and criminological theory indicate that familial support is one of the most crucial aspects of the reentry process. Historically, the criminal justice system does not meet the reentry needs of incarceration-impacted ... -
Ab Initio Density Functional Theory Optimized Geometries of Vinyl Trialkylammonium, Vinylpyridinium and Vinyldiazonium Tetrafluoroborate Salts with Natural Bond Orbital Charge Distributions in the Gas Phase
(2022)N-Vinyltrialkylammonium and N-vinylimmonium tetrafluoroborate salts are novel classes of compounds discovered by Buszek and Jung. They were originally used as dienophiles and as ß-dialkylamino equivalents in Diels-Alder ... -
Opus Ignotum
(2022)“Vocibus concide,” Ennius commanded, in the single line of an otherwise lost work preserved in Varro’s De lingua latina: “With words destroy him.” Not even Ennius’ context did Varro record, only the imperative that an ... -
MAX-phase Partial Optical Properties
(2022)The optical and electrical properties of MAX-phase materials have been thoroughly studied in the past. We present here a new technique to determine and study the partial contributions to the optical properties. Following ... -
Constant Time Sorting and Searching
(2022)To study the sorting of real numbers into a linked list on Parallel Random Access Machine model. To show that input array of n real numbers can be sorted into a linked list in constant time using n²/logᶜn processors for ... -
The Impact of COVID-19 on Care Work and Paid Work in the United States
(2022)Informed by disaster literature, the current study offers a quantitative, social structural analysis that reveals the inadequacy of the market to provide care during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2021. This thesis focuses ... -
Intense Shallow Magma Sediment Mingling within Dikes at Guffey Butte Maar, Idaho
(2022)The interactions between magma and shallow unconsolidated sediments on the way to the surface influences the eruption behavior and products. Phreatomagmatic eruptions are a result of the interaction of magma and water ... -
Assessment of Underrepresented Minority Enrollment in Orthodontic Residency Programs
(2022)This study examined current advanced orthodontic resident demographics and their association with factors residents’ rank as most important for residency program selection and future practice plans. A 10-question survey, ... -
Anne of France as Madame La Grande: The Strategies of a Self-Fashioned Woman 1483-1522
(2022)A century and a half before Elizabeth I was the “Virgin Queen,” Anne of France created her own image in the form of “Madame la Grande,” a moniker specially formed to denote Anne’s high status and authority. Born in 1461 ... -
Effect of Build Angle and Model Body Type (Solid vs Shell) on Accuracy of 3D-Printed Orthodontic Models Using a DLP Printer
(2022)This study examined the effect that print angulation and model body type (solid vs. shell) have on the accuracy of orthodontic models printed with a digital light processing (DLP) 3D printer. The following six configuration ... -
The Current Use of Soft Tissue Lasers in Orthodontic Practices
(2022)This study investigated the use of soft tissue lasers in orthodontic practices, specifically whether the orthodontist demographics and practice characteristics influenced the use of soft tissue laser within an office. The ... -
P2P Based Personalized Federated Learning for Collaborative Model Sharing and Inferencing
(2022)Existing Federated Learning (FL) relies primarily on client-server architecture to train a single global model utilizing various local datasets. There are ongoing initiatives to improve the present state of federated ...