Browsing by Thesis Semester "2009 Spring"
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Coping among pregnant, rural, low-income women facing intimate partner violence (pregnancy to three months postnatal)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)The study will examine the coping skills of pregnant, rural, low-income women facing intimate partner violence (IPV) from pregnancy to three months post-natal. Twenty in depth interviews were conducted with women during ... -
Core-based hyperbranched polyethyleneimine coating in capillary electrophoresis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)In capillary electrophoresis (CE), chemical and dynamic modification of a fused silica surface can be used to control the electroosmotic flow (EOF), to minimize the interaction of analytes with the capillary surface and ... -
Corrected above measure : indentured servants and domestic abuse in Maryland, 1650-1700
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This study utilizes seventeenth-century Maryland court records to address the questions of what options were available to indentured servants who were physically abused and how they made use of them, how local and provincial ... -
Correlates of pet-keeping in residence halls on college student adjustment at a small, private, midwestern college
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)A limited number of colleges and universities permit pets other than small aquariums in residence halls. No studies have been published documenting the effect of pets in residence halls. A matched two-group comparison of ... -
Crisis, government performance and support for democracy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Studies of regime performance effects on support for democracy have neglected the possible impact of economic and political crisis. Using survey data from the second and third waves of the Afrobarometer survey, this study ... -
Crossing the school house gates : a media access audit of public high schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This research tested the media access policy adopted by a large independent public school district in Oklahoma to determine if its high schools comport with district rules as applicable to self-governance theory. The ... -
Damn with faint praise : a historical commentary on Plutarch's On the fortune or virtue of Alexander the Great 1
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Plutarch's On the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great is as much a revelation of Plutarch's philosophical thought as it is a display of his rhetorical skill. Writing during the Second Sophistic movement, Plutarch ... -
Desegregation and its impact on institutional culture at a historically black university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)In this case study, 38 Black and White participants shared their recollections of intergroup contact during the first 15 years of desegregation (1954-1969) at a Historically Black University in a predominantly White ... -
Designated hospice rooms in nursing homes : a new model of end-of-life care
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)An aging population, the prediction that approximately 40% of elderly Americans will die in a nursing home by the year 2020, and a paucity of nursing homes designed to meet the needs of dying residents is creating the ... -
Determination of allergen sensitization and comparison of subcutaneous and mucosal (intranasal) allergen-specific immunotherapy in an experimental model of feline asthma
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Rush immunotherapy (RIT) is effective in experimental feline allergic asthma. Further studies evaluating reliable allergen identification and improved ... -
Developing a stand density module in LANDIS to improve simulation realism of stand dynamics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Long-term landscape modeling is dependent on various forest dynamics including large-scale disturbances, environmental effects, land management and stand-scale succession. The stand density module was designed for LANDIS ... -
Developing and automating time delay system stability analysis of dynamic systems using the Matrix Lambert W (MLW) function method
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Stability analysis of time-delayed (TD) systems is not easy to conduct since the addition of delays within a dynamic model results in irrational system equations. Traditional TD analysis methods involve adding approximations ... -
The developing child in three portraits by Anne-Louis Girodet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper examines three portraits by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824) as products of a post-Revolutionary French society, highly ... -
Diet, subsistence and health: a bioarchaeological analysis of Chongos, Perú
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)It is possible to assess important archaeological questions about prehistoric individuals and groups, learning a great deal about their lives through bioarchaeological analysis of human skeletal remains. This dissertation ... -
Disclosure and dividend policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation examines the relation between firm disclosure and dividend policy. It draws on recent research which contends that firm disclosure ... -
Diversification in plant feeding insects : patterns of host-plant specialization and mating signal evolution inferred from species-level phylogeny and population genetics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Speciation yields two reproductively isolated groups capable of living in sympatry without cross-fertilization. Thi inability to hybridize is caused ... -
Do readers believe what they see? : reader acceptance of image manipulation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This study uses a random public sample to measure the level of acceptance the public has of various kinds of image adjustment/manipulation, to discover how frequently the respondents believe the same manipulations are ... -
Educational entrepreneurism in higher education: a comparative case study of two academic centers within one land-grant university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This research explored the relationship of educational entrepreneurism and organizational culture in the creation and evolution of academic centers within one Midwestern land-grant university facing resource constraints. ... -
The effects of approach-avoidance behaviors on goal appraisals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Previous research has demonstrated that behaviors associated with approach and avoidance motivation can influence cognitions in line with the particular motivational state (e.g., Friedman & F̈örster, 2008). The present ... -
The effects of customer participation on service outcomes : a fit perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Previous research in customer participation argues that customer participation positively influences service quality and customer satisfaction. However, ...