Browsing by Thesis Semester "2008 Spring"
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Wildlife response to spatial and temporal changes in forest habitat
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)A common goal in land-management planning is to describe the relationship between management actions, vegetation and wildlife habitat conditions for large landscapes. Achieving this goal can be challenging because ecological ... -
Wealth accumulation differences between wage-earning and entrepreneurial families : the role of active saving behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)This study examines the causal relationship between entrepreneurship and wealth accumulation. Saving behavior is a potential source of family wealth differentials. It is proposed that entrepreneurial families exhibit more ... -
Volume change and swelling pressure of expansive clay in the crystalline swelling regime
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)A significant amount of research has been carried out to characterize expansive clay behavior from either microstructural or macrostructural perspectives; however, there exists a current gap in our knowledge about the basic ... -
Visual depictions of gender in parenting magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)This study examines gender-behavior modeling in the photographs of parenting magazines. This magazine category has been largely ignored in research on gender depictions in the media, even though the content may have primary ... -
Vasubandhu's consciousness trilogy: a Yogacara Buddhist process idealism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)This work is a philosophical investigation into Vasubandhu's consciousness trilogy, comprised by the Trisvabhāva-Nirdeśa ("Instruction on the Threefold Own-State-of-Being,") and the Vijñaptimātra-Kārikas ("Verses on ... -
Variations in the perceptions of urban canals in Fresno, California
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)In the fertile but dry San Joaquin Valley in California, Irrigation canals serve as the life blood of the agricultural industry. These canals predate urbanization and the expansion of cities in the valley have incorporated ... -
Value-framing of issues in the 2004 presidential campaign by American newspapers in Russian
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Which election issues of the 2004 presidential campaign received the most coverage in American newspapers for Russian-American readers? Were the arguments supporting issue stances framed in terms of human rights and values, ... -
Valuable drops of gold : exploring economics in John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Though John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam is not completely unfamiliar to literary scholars studying eighteenth-century depictions of African chattel slavery, ... -
Using theory of reasoned action (TRA) in understanding selection and use of information resources : an information resource selection and use model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)With advanced computer and networking technologies, more and more information can be accessed electronically. Information overload has become an issue and it is increasingly difficult for a user to quickly identify and ... -
Using and coming to own : a left-proprietarian treatment of the just use and appropration of common resources
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)How is it that people come to appropriate (privately own) and justly use resources in the world that initially exist within conditions of "common ownership"? The historical story in our world is surely that the strong ... -
Upregulation of COX-2 protein expression in porcine macula densa with L-NAME treatment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] COX-2 inhibitors are newly developed drugs which are widely used for controlling pain and inflammation. Blocking this enzyme impedes the production ... -
Uneven turns oscillating heat pipes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)An experimental investigation on oscillating heat pipes with uneven turns was conducted in order to determine the effect of short turns on the heat transport capability. The shorter turns do not go through both the evaporating ... -
Under the auspices of privacy � or not : surveying the state judicial treatment of access to government records
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)While privacy is paramount to a person's liberty interest, it is not absolute in all circumstances. Often, public interests trump an individual's right to privacy. Since the enactment of freedom of information statutes by ... -
A typology of online sponsorships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)This research provides a broad look at sponsorships across the Internet. The research sought to examine the characteristics of sponsorships across and within different website types, with a focus on health websites and ... -
The type I IFN of Bos taurus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)The Type I interferons (IFN) have major roles in the innate immune response to viruses, a function that is believed to have led to rapid expansion in the number and complexity of their genes. IFNT, which is a unique Type ... -
Two paths to advanced placement calculus : an examination of secondary students' mathematical understanding emerging from integrated and single-subject curricula
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)This study examined high school students' mathematical understanding of calculus readiness concepts after studying four years of college preparatory (integrated or single-subject) mathematics. Data were collected from 505 ... -
Two aspects of peripheral immune tolerance : systemic and mucosal tolerance mechanisms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Autoimmune diseases are a significant cause of human morbidity and mortality. The defects in immune system that lead to the pathogenesis of autoimmune ... -
Transformational leadership and its correlation to the effective placement of completers of area career centers in the State of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)The purpose of this research was to determine if there was a correlation between the leadership style of the director of area career centers in the state of Missouri and the placement of career education completers. The ... -
Towards a deconstructive ethics : an economic sacrifice and the logic of the gift
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)This thesis argues that deconstruction as a practice has been, from its inception, inherently ethical, focusing in particular on Derrida's reading of the gift. Deconstruction, insofar as it remains committed to interrogating ... -
Toroidalization of locally toroidal morphisms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Let X and Y be nonsingular varieties over an algebraically closed field [kappa] of characteristic zero. A toroidal structure on X is a simple normal crossing divisor DX on X. Suppose that DX and DY are toroidal structures ...