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"The sphinx of the nineteenth century": Helena Blavatsky's syncretism in Britain, 1887-1891
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Helena Blavatsky, the enigmatic co-founder of the Theosophical Society, has an extensive biographical record, much of which is dedicated to proving or disparaging...
Sequence and secondary structural analysis of a novel class of RNA aptamers that inhibit reverse transcriptase
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
either C or U). Aptamer secondary structural families are correlated with inhibitory behavior. F2Pk aptamers inhibit a broader range of RT subtypes compared to F1Pk. In the present work we present results of a screen into the inhibitory behavior of a...
Growing ZnO nanowires through electrochemical deposition for spintronic applications with metal-insulator-metal structures as tunnel junctions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Nowadays, the research for spintronic materials has aroused extensive interest. Spintronic devices offer the possibility of enhanced functionality, higher speed, and reduced...
Semiparametric methods for regression analysis of panel count data and mixed panel count data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Recurrent event data and panel count data are two common types of data that have been studied extensively in event history studies in literature. By recurrent event data, we mean...
The Attentional Demands of Positive Reappraisal in a Dual Task Paradigm
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Emotion regulation refers to the ability to modulate experienced and expressed
emotions. A specific emotion regulation strategy, cognitive reappraisal, has received
extensive attention in the literature, as the strategy ...
Living acts of semiosis: John Dewey's model of esthetic experience as key to a temporal theory of signs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
nuanced model for a theory of signs. Anthropologist Victor Turner's theory of social drama is shown to be compatible with the pragmatists' assumptions about experience. Based on Turner's extensive anthropological fieldwork, social drama theory can...
Forgetting in short term memory : the effect of time
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Forgetting in short-term memory has been studied extensively and yet no consensus has emerged to explain its cause. Two theories continue to provide competing explanations of forgetting in short-term memory: decay and interference. Decay presupposes...
Simplified model for reinforced concrete beams under catenary action
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
and a system of springs that represents the load extension behavior and moment rotation behavior of a reinforced concrete beam element. Spring properties are based on material, geometric, and design parameters. The tensile definition of the axial...
Extension theorems in vector spaces over finite fields
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
We study the L[superscript p] - L[superscript r] boundedness of the extension operator associated with algebraic varieties such as nondegenerate quadratic surfaces, paraboloids, and cones in vector spaces over finite fields. We obtain the best...
Voluntary teeth clenching during exercise in a natural environment: prevalence and gender differences
(2013)
during leg extension and general weight-lifting exercises in 7 male and 10 female subjects recruited from UMKC soccer teams. All subjects gave informed consent to participate in IRB-approved study protocols. Laboratory surface EMG recording during static...
Agriculture during the Reagan years
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The Farm Crisis of the 1980s occurred during the Reagan Presidency. To date virtually nothing has been written concerning the approach taken by the Reagan administration to combat the crisis. To fill that gap, this study makes extensive use...
Appearance modeling for persistent object tracking in wide-area and full motion video
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
systems. Airborne WAMI presents a host of challenges for object tracking including large data volume, multi-camera arrays, image stabilization, low resolution targets, target appearance variability and high background clutter especially in urban...
Mechanical properties of complex biological systems using AFM-based force spectroscopy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
An atomic force microscope (AFM) was designed and built to study the mechanical properties of small collagen fibrils and the plasma membrane of living cells. Collagen is a major component of bone, skin and connective ...
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)
-fold functionalization of closoB12(OH)12 2- with a varying range of Gd-chelates such as DTTA and AAZTA. This work also presents an extension of the azide-alkyne click chemistry to the closomer platform that generates an efficient tool for rapid and multifold...
How secondary school principals build trust in Kenyan secondary schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
efforts to develop trust as well as their efforts to adapt to unstable parental demands and expectations. Multiple interviews with six high school principals were conducted. The interview data was triangulated with extensive observation data collected...
Pattern recognition through source signal separation /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
, however, the observed vector is not a single, but a mixture of multiple learned patterns and the challenge becomes to recognize all the present patterns and not just one of them. In order to do so, the patterns in the observed feature vector must first...
Video-based motion detection for stationary and moving cameras
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
sophisticated ones. In this thesis, we present two moving object detection frameworks. The first framework is designed for robust detection of moving and static objects in videos acquired from stationary cameras. This method exploits the benefits of fusing a...
Statistical model-based methods for observation selection in wireless sensor networks and for feature selection in classification
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
We apply statistical model-based approaches to address temporal and spatial observation selection challenges in wireless sensor networks. For temporal observation selection, we present an improved version of VoIDP algorithm that is the first optimal...
Synthesis and application of calcium phosphate fibers/whiskers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Calcium phosphate is the main inorganic constituent of human hard tissues such as bone and teeth. It has been studied extensively and used clinically because of its excellent...
Broadband, reconfigurable and multifunctional elastic wave control with smart metamaterials
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Over the past two decades, an extensive research effort has been devoted to elastic metamaterials, structured artificial materials at subwavelength scales, for elastic wave manipulations in solids. Due to the extreme values of material parameters...