Browsing by Thesis Semester "2016 Spring"
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At your service: how an award-winning Denver magazine caters to its readers with its eye-popping service journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Service journalism takes over cover after cover of each monthly issue. The feature well contains one, two, sometimes three service pieces. At 5280, Denver's city magazine, service journalism drives sales and draws in loyal ... -
The attainment of social capital with adoelcsent girls living at the intersection of race and poverty in a community-based pedagogical space known as Auntie's Place
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This study examines how Black adolescent girls living at the intersection of race and poverty access social capital through involvement in a community-based pedagogical space known as "Auntie's Place." Employing a theoretical ... -
Attenuation of rapid onset vasodilation with advanced age : roles of adrenergic and endothelial signaling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Rapid onset vasodilation (ROV) occurs immediately in response to skeletal muscle contraction and initiates a prompt increase in blood flow and oxygen delivery that facilitate the transition to exercise. Muscle blood flow ... -
August Wilson’s Century Cycle: Preserving History and Honoring African Rituals Through the Proverb of the Sankofa
(2016)August Wilson’s Century Cycle has been studied by scholars as a documentation of the history of African Americans. His ten plays in that cycle use historical events to chronicle the African American experience in ... -
Automatic GUI Based Counting Software for Immunostaining Analysis Using Matlab GUIDE
(2016)Typically, researchers need to the manually count the number of cells in many histological sections. However, this manual counting method is labor intensive and time consuming. Manual counting is also subject to bias, ... -
The banality of racism : the spirit of capitalism and mass incarceration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] I question how does a country that claims to be post-racial, post-colonial, and modern incarcerate such a disproportional amount of African Americans? ... -
The Battle of Westport: Along Union Lines A Chamber Work With Electronics and Narration in Eight Movements
(2016)The Battle of Westport: Along Union Lines is an eight-movement chamber piece for 12 instruments (3 woodwinds, 3 brass, 1 percussion, string quintet), electronics and narration. Live audio has been captured at eight of the ... -
Becoming a Healthier Guitarist: Understanding and Addressing Injuries
(2016)The field of performance arts medicine is supplying musicians with alarming statistics regarding their health. Authors give statistics as high as 93% when discussing the injury rate among instrumentalists. As guitar ... -
Beliefs about individuals with disability as related to media portrayal of disability in Glee
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This study explores how exposure to disability portrayal on television is related to beliefs about individuals with disability. This study uses show-specific cultivation theory and its discussion of how television viewing ... -
Bellini's Norma: a comparative study of significant leading ladies from Pasta to Callas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)In the rich tradition of bel canto opera the surviving details surrounding the performances of the leading role from Norma (1831) of Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) provide ample basis for a comparison of seven celebrated ... -
Betting on technology : the diffusion of mobile live-streaming apps within news startup actor-networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This research combines the diffusion of innovations and actor-network theoretical models to present a detailed explanation of how the live-streaming mobile apps Meerkat and Periscope were adopted at two digital news startups, ... -
Biopsychosocial Comparison of Adherent and Nonadherent Multiple Sclerosis Patients
(2016)OBJECTIVE: Between 30-50% of patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) prematurely discontinue disease modifying therapies (DMTs). Despite this, relatively little is known about clinical factors that ... -
The borderlands : living between archetypes in young adult Chicana literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This thesis focuses on two models for Chicana womanhood, which are the La Virgen de Guadalupe archetype and the La Malinche archetype. They are both mythic figures in Mexican culture that are diametrically opposed to one ... -
Brazen creature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Brazen Creature spans a young woman's awakening. The poems' concerns are twofold: violence against women and girls that has become rooted in the land, ... -
The brown glass ceiling? A qualitative study of Hispanic women/Latinas leaders in higher education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The percentage of Hispanics in the state of Missouri, and its universities, continues to grow. However, few Hispanic women/Latinas advance into leadership ... -
Bullying the resource-rich : the effect of natural resource wealth on coercive diplomacy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Natural resource wealth has been shown to have a significant impact the on the domestic politics of states. However, the current literature has failed to provide a complete picture of the influence it has on the interactions ... -
Business models of digital longform publications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Despite a widespread conviction that longform reporting, one of the most established and respected genres of journalism, will become unsustainable because of the challenges posed by the internet and the digital environment, ... -
Calderon-Zygmund theory for singular integral operators associated with second-order elliptic partial differential systems on rough subdomains of Riemannian manifolds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is a treatise on the theory of Calderon-Zygmund type singular integral operators capable of handling boundary layer potentials arising ... -
Campus crime : an examination of its relationship to student, institutional and community characteristics /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] U.S. higher education institutions are facing growing pressure with regard to campus crime. Furthermore, there is a rising public concern about campus ... -
Can Second Life make health a first priority? : examining exercise efficacy and body image through Priming Theory and the Proteus effect /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The present study examined prosocial and antisocial effects of avatar embodiment in a virtual world on health and body image in emerging adult women. ...