LAS Theses and Dissertations
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Delineation of isomers and structural elucidation of macromolecules using high-field ion mobility spectrometry with mass spectrometry
(Wichita State University, 2022-12)Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry (IMS) is a powerful tool that has been utilized to disentangle components out of a complex mixture, distinguish isomers and elucidate geometries. Linear IMS is based on the absolute mobility ... -
Synthesis and characterization of polymer nanocomposite materials for advanced application
(Wichita State University, 2022-12)This research attempted to reduce the effect of Corrosion problem in petroleum sector by developing a new series of polymeric inhibitor and polymer nanocomposites coatings. A major aim of these studies was to synthesis a ... -
An investigation of cyanopyrazole ligands and cyanopyrazole scorpionate ligands in the creation of novel transition metal complexes
(Wichita State University, 2022-12)Pyrazole ligands are popular ligands in inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry due to isoelectronic structural isomers of imidazole. Pyrazole ligands can combine with metals to make mononuclear structures, polynuclear ... -
Conspiracy beliefs, bullshit receptivity, and social media behaviors
(Wichita State University, 2022-12)Conspiracy theories have a long history in America, but have managed to garner the attention of mainstream media in the wake of the Trump presidency. Over the course of his tenure, Trump made over 30,500 false or misleading ... -
Tactile-speech perception with gamified training on the vibey transcribey
(Wichita State University, 2022-12)Access to information is indispensable in this modern age, and more inclusive methods for communication should be explored so that all people may benefit from this information. Tactile communication systems have many ... -
Boronic acid: A versatile handle for the enrichment of cross-linked peptides
(Wichita State University, 2022-12)Virtually all cellular processes in living organisms rely on protein machinery of complex three-dimensional structures and protein-protein interactions (PPIs). Therefore, significant effort has been devoted for elucidating ... -
I'll show you mine if you show me yours: Refuting TERF rhetoric with vagina art
(Wichita State University, 2022-12)What follows is an examination of a biological body part, the vulva, represented in art and how people of differing sex and gender identities can protest society’s notions of normal and abnormal with the same imagery. With ... -
Vascular flora of the Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie Preserve
(Wichita State University, 2022-12)The Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (FHTPP) comprises 3 parcels of land owned and protected by The Nature Conservancy of Kansas. It sits approximately 8 km (5 miles) east of Cassoday, Kansas in Butler and Greenwood ... -
More than beefsteak and a cup of coffee: Reinterpreting the Harvey Girls in Kansas
(Wichita State University, 1996-05)This work provides the historical research and conceptual framework for a new interpretation of the Harvey Girls. The women who worked in Harvey eating houses were more than just waitresses -- they were Harvey Girls ... -
American settlers on the Canadian prairies
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Problems of university students as reflected by Mooney problem check list
(Wichita State University, 1953-05)The plan of the study was to obtain data on the problems of college students for these purposes: (a) To execute the major research project of relating problems to other variables; (b) to make available to administrative, ... -
Myra McHenry, Kansas crusader
(Wichita State University, 1953-05)The purpose of this dissertation is to preserve the historical facts pertaining to the last of the Kansas crusaders . This work attempts to show the influence of Myra McHenry upon the struggle between vice and corruption ... -
Gerald Burton Winrod: Defender of Christianity and democracy in the United States
(Wichita State University, 1994-05)This research attempted to uncover the effects, if any, that the pronouncements of Gerald Burton Winrod, an evangelist from Wichita, Kansas, had upon President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the American ... -
Eternal rivers : An historical novel of southern Kansas, 1865- 1974
(Wichita State University, 1951-06)It has been my purpose, in completing this thesis, to write an historical novel of southern Kansas, dealing with the period of 1865 to 1874. For a study of the life of this period, and the events which actually took place, ... -
Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West
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A preliminary investigation of visual hallucinations
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A critical study of the material of James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-stocking series
(Wichita State University, 1951-06)The following chapters will be a study of the novels within the skeleton of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leather Stocking Series. By this, it is meant that the novels included in the series will be individually examined in an ... -
Measurement of the behavorial status of children with cerebral palsy
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An analysis of job performance of dairy product retail routemen
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Henry Lane Wilson, ambassador to Mexico
(Wichita State University, 1950-00)The purpose of this study is to consider the diplomatic relations of the United States and Mexico during the earlier phases of this last revolutionary period, dealing in particular with the diplomacy of Henry Lane ...