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Item Expressions of Belief in the QAnon Conspiracy Movement(Taylor & Francis || Routledge, 2025-09-08) Connor, Christopher T.; Hannah, Matthew N.QAnon is a conspiracy movement that began largely in online spaces in October 2017. The movement has been implicated in a variety of violent actions, including participating in the January 6 insurrection, spreading medical misinformation, perpetrating multiple murders, and fomenting distrust in the American system of governance. While researchers and journalists have painted the movement as a monolithic belief system with a homogenous group of participants, we urge caution in using this approach. This paper is a content analysis of 3,251 comments made by online users in response to posts made by Q between November 3 and November 5, 2017, during the early days in which QAnon coalesced. We coded comments to the “Q Drops” and found participants fall into one of the three categories: 1) Believers, 2) Skeptics, and 3) LARPers (live action role players). We chose this section of content to analyze because of a series of failed predictions by Q, just as the conspiracy theory began to crystallize into a research community, which we believed would be an inflection point for the movement. We find that participants in the QAnon movement during these heady early days remained invested in developing the theory despite the failed predictions and that the movement’s formation was far more heterogenous than previously assumed.Item Webinar - In Service of Equity: Essays in Honor of Kathleen de la Peña McCook(2025-02) Phenix, , K.; Lenstra, N.; Copeland, A.; Long, A.; Villagran, M.; Davis, K.; Harger, E.; Poole, A.; Pritchard, S.; Bossaller, J.; McCook, K.Item RNA-seq raw data for article entitled: MIG-6 Regulates HDAC1-Mediated Angiogenesis and Tumorigenesis in PTEN-Deficient Endometrioid Endometrial Cancer(2025) Nahar, Shamsun; Jeong, Jae-WookThis dataset supports the article entitled: MIG-6 Regulates HDAC1-Mediated Angiogenesis and Tumorigenesis in PTEN-Deficient Endometrioid Endometrial Cancer. DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA: In this study Pgrcre/+ Ptenf/f Mig-6over female mice were generated by breeding Pgrcre/+Ptenf/f male with Mig-6over females. The total RNA from mouse uterus were isolated by QIAGEN RNeasy Mini Kit following the vendor's manual. The library was prepared by University of Missouri Genomic Technology Coe Total RNA Library Preparation (rRNA depletion) service. The raw reads were initially filtered by removing low quality reads (average quality scores >50) and aligned to the mm39 genome and assembled using Star 2.7.9a. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified by the exact negative binomial test in the EdgeR software. The file containing the normalized counts for each samples. This work was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01CA264944 (to J.W.J).Item Generative AI Alcohol and Breast Cancer Dataset (v1 - 20251107)(2025) Bautista, John Robert; 0000-0002-4892-9543Text and screen capture of generative AI health information about alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk.Item Memoir of a Missouri River Rat(2025) Krause, William J."There are times when I sit quietly and reflect on the past, and the memories come back like an old black-and-white film--grainy, simple, yet vivid. I've often been asked what it was like growing up in America during the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. My brothers, children and grandchildren have posed questions about my childhood, curious about what life was like in an era so different from today. It feels important--urgent even--to share these stories, not just as a record, but as a window into a world that has nearly vanished. Thus, over the past few years, I jotted down a few memories to share." -- page 6