Browsing by Thesis Semester "2009 Spring"
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Adaptation of the innovation configurations for school-based staff developers for the development of a measure of reading coach job performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The problem in the study was that a consistent instrument to evaluate the job performance of Missouri Reading First coaches had not been identified. ... -
Adaptive array signal processing using the concentric ring array and the spherical array
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This thesis introduces new methods for partial adaptive beamforming using concentric ring and spherical arrays for acoustic signals on a partially known interference environment. We propose novel methods to choose intra-ring ... -
Adaptive temporal difference learning of spatial memory in the water maze task
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)The goal of this work was to evaluate the performance of a biologically inspired Temporal Difference (TD) approach to the learning of spatial memory for a robot in a dry version of the Morris water maze task. The Morris ... -
Almanacs and American popular theology, 1730-1820
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation centers on the relationship between religion and popular culture in early America. It argues that the religious content of almanacs, ... -
The American dream and the margins in twentieth century fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)While the American Dream is an oft trod, even clich'ed, terrain in literary criticism, discourse around the topic tends to rely on a dichotomized discourse of celebration or critique. This tendency is a result of understanding ... -
Analysis and optimization of electroformed dendritic structures as enhanced heat transfer surfaces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Over the past several years, the use of passive cooling devices in electronics such as heat pipes and vapor chambers has increased. Due to their more widespread use, these technologies have a high demand for more adaptable ... -
Analysis of the average crop revenue election program, a representative farm approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)The Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program was created in the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008. The program is intended to help offset years of low market revenues for agricultural producers. However, those ... -
Approximate isometries and distortion energy functionals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)A fundamental problem in Riemannian Geometry and related areas is to determine whether two diffeomorphic compact Riemannian manifolds (M, [subscript g][subscript M]) and (N, [subscript g][subscript N]) are isometric; that ... -
Aquatic and terrestrial exposure of amphibians to estrogenic endocrine disrupting contaminants
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Hormones play an important role in shaping growth and development. Endocrine disrupting contaminants (EDCs) come from the external environment and can mimic or block internal hormone pathways. Many amphibians begin to ... -
Architecting the spatial enablement of a film location database for enhanced geographic analysis and query
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Missouri Film Commission hosts data and resources that producers of film and video need in order to choose locations. This data includes only ... -
An assessment of inhibition in the Simon task
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Different from some other context tasks, the Simon task is featured with a congruency effect decreasing with increasing RT. Ridderinkhof proposed a two route model to account for the negative slope of this congruency effect ... -
Association rule mining in cooperative research
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This study applies the data mining methods in economics research. Association rule mining and clustering techniques are used in the cooperative (United Producers, Inc) survey study, in order to find interesting patterns ... -
Asymptotic unconditionality in Banach spaces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)We show that a separable real Banach space embeds almost isometrically in a space [Upsilon] with a shrinking 1-unconditional basis if and only if lim [subscript n] [subscript arrow] [subscript infinity] [norms] [chi] [group ... -
Atrazine transport through a glacial till aquifer in north-central Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Although the claypan of North Central Missouri is traditionally believed to protect the groundwater from contamination, low concentrations of the herbicide atrazine have been detected in a shallow glacial till aquifer. The ... -
Attending to our work : a framework for understanding and evaluating the division of labor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)The division of labor is a pervasive and long-standing feature of human life. Yet there is little consensus--either in philosophy or in other disciplines--regarding its status. Using a contemporary evaluation provided by ... -
Banal : sculptural meditations on the unfamiliar
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This creative research is about filtering my own displaced experience, of being part of the Filipino Diaspora. With Judeo-Christian spirituality as ... -
Bastions of turf : frisians, terpen and the re-adoption of a "working" landscape
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Terpen are dwelling mounds constructed from the sixth century BCE through the present. This thesis examines the landscapes formation and re-adoption ... -
Battle on the home front : a contingency approach to analyzing how an army unit communicates with families during a deployment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)A case study with an Army aviation unit was conducted to determine what factors in Cameron's contingency theory contribute to how Army rear-detachment commanders and family readiness group leaders communicate with families ... -
The Bavarian model? : modernization, environment, and landscape planning in the Bavarian nuclear power industry, 1950-1980
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Perhaps no state in the Federal Republic of Germany witnessed a more pronounced state sponsored modernization effort than Bavaria, 1950-1980. This vast transformation, particularly in the field of nuclear energy, required ... -
A behavioral feedback-based intervention to improve medication adherence in older adults with hypertension
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Medication adherence among older adults is far below the levels needed for clinical effectiveness from many medications. Control of hypertension prevents the development of further chronic disease and limits morbidity and ...