Browsing by Thesis Semester "2013 Fall"
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Case study of interactive digital forms on orthopedic patient satisfaction and score
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In orthopedic clinical settings there are many well-designed and validated outcomes instruments that are commonly used. The "usability" of the current ... -
A case study of the GARROBO Project
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This study explores the changes in the social of the GARROBO project trainees after they join the career-training program. Bebbingtons' (1999) theory of capitals explained how possessing different types of capital or assets ... -
The Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Prostaglandin E₂ in Myogenesis
(2013)Prostaglandin E₂ (PGE₂), the most abundant prostaglandin (PG) in our body, has multiple biological functions related to physiological activities and the development of diseases. Emerging evidence has shown that PGE2 plays ... -
Churches addressing domestic violence : the spaces between discourse & identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Religious communities have historically treated domestic violence as a non-issue, or as a private matter best kept within families. However, research shows that rates of domestic violence within religious groups are reported ... -
The class blog : Chinese EFL non-English major college students' online writing experiences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore the Chinese EFL non-English major college students' online English writing and communication experiences through blogging activities. From late October 2011 through ... -
Closomers at a click : a treatise on the design, synthesis and in vivo MRI of novel click closomers as high performance and efficacious contrast agents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The advent of Magnetic Resonance Imaging or MRI has truly revolutionized the field of medical diagnostic and imaging. The signal intensity and the ... -
The Cold War, the New World Order, and the War on Terror : U.S. presidents' use of Orwell's big brother myth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation argues a dystopian myth exists in the United States' political consciousness that warns citizens about the fear totalitarianism. Born ... -
Community college developmental reading teachers’ feelings of teacher self-efficacy and related variables
(2013)This study described community college developmental reading teachers’ feelings of teacher self-efficacy using a demographic survey and the Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES). The 125 participants in the study were ... -
Comparing TCP-IPv4TCP-IPv6 network performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) has been the backbone of the Internet since its inception. The growth and success of the Internet has accelerated the consumption of the IPv4 address space and hence its exhaustion ... -
Comparison of mosquito communities collected from differing livestock locations and an examination of phenotypic traits exhibited by four latitudinally separated populations of Aedes albopictus (Skuse)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Mosquito presence and fitness play key roles in the spread of zoonotic pathogens affecting human as well as livestock and wild populations of vertebrates. This study examined the (1) differences between mosquito communities ... -
Computer simulation of the methane plasma enhanced deposition of carbon film
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Graphene is a hybridized carbon sheet with a honeycomb structure and has drawn much attention for its extraordinary characteristics such as a high mechanical strength and electrical conductivity. However for the purpose ... -
A content analysis of reproductive health articles in Jezebel.com and Glamour.com
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This study explored health coverage by the popular women's websites Glamour.com and Jezebel.com from May through October 2012. In these months preceding the November 2012 U.S. election, the media frequently referenced "The ... -
Controlling SIBLING protein orientation and conformation via native binding interactions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Native bone tissue is comprised of a mixture of collagen, non-collagenous proteins, and hydroxyapatite (HA). The SIBLING (small integrin binding, N-linked glycoprotein) family of proteins is the primary group of non-collagenous ... -
Corruption and economic growth in transition economies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The general understanding of corruption is that the corruption harms economic growth because it increases transaction costs and information uncertainty (Rose-Ackerman, 1997). However, there are studies showing that corruption ... -
Counterexamples to Strichartz Type Inequalities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The study of Strichartz s inequality is very important in the theory of nonlinear Shrodinger equations. The inequalities do not hold for all choice of ... -
Creating a culture :
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The main purpose of this research is to demonstrate how cultures and subcultures can be created and disseminated through media, and how newer forms of media such as websites can have a tangible effect on the content of ... -
Crustal stress across the northern Arabian plate and the relationship with the plate boundary forces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The region encompassing the collision of northern Arabia with Eurasia is a tectonically heterogeneous region of distributed deformation. The northern Arabia plate is bounded to the west by the subducting Sinai plate and ... -
Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)During the Second World War, the American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht had been one of the lone voices to break the silence about the Nazi Holocaust. Then, in 1947, Hecht shocked and outraged people across the ... -
CSISE: cloud-based semantic image search engine
(2014-03-27)Due to rapid exponential growth in data, a couple of challenges we face today are how to handle big data and analyze large data sets. An IBM study showed the amount of data created in the last two years alone is 90% of the ... -
Culture, capital and community : gentrification and redevelopment in a St Louis neighborhood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Gentrification is described loosely as the return of the middle class to poor and working-class urban neighborhoods, resulting in social and cultural changes to the surrounding community. The process of gentrification is ...