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Optical and impedance based sensors for chemical/biological and foodborne pathogens applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2025] An impedance based microfluidic biosensor for rapid simultaneous detection of different Salmonella serogroups in food product was investigated. Foodborne pathogens contamination in the United ...
Novel chemical mechanisms of DNA damage by natural products
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
. Early biological studies suggested that fasicularin's cytotoxic properties may stem from its ability to damage cellular DNA. Here in our laboratory, we have shown by sequencing gel studies that treatment of a 5'- [superscript 32]P-labeled DNA duplex...
Mathematics textbooks and state curriculum standards : an analysis of the alignment between the written and intended curricula
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This study documented the alignment between state curriculum standards and the treatment of fraction concepts and computation in popular elementary and middle grades mathematics textbooks. Grade-level Learning Expectations ...
Living buildings as communication tools and informal learning environments for sustainable building education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The idea that sustainable buildings can be used as teaching tools for both formal and informal environmental education and sustainable building education (SBE) has gained attention in both research and practice. Evidence bases from existing studies...
Nam mihi carmen erit Christi vitalia gesta : book one of the Evangeliorum libri iv of Juvencus and the evolution of Latin epic in late antiquity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This thesis presents the text of Book One of the Evangeliorum libri IV of Juvencus with a facing English translation. This fourth-century poem of 3,200 hexameters and four books is one of the least studied Latin epics and ...
Directory of graduates and brief historical sketch of the School of education.
([publisher not identified],, 1928)
The chivalric world of Don Quijote : style, structure, and narrative technique
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
The purpose of this book is to examine the characters, style, themes, structure, and narrative technique of that chivalric world. I hope to show, among other things, that Don Quijote begins to retreat from his chivalric ...
Power efficient machine learning-based hardware architectures for biomedical applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The future of critical health diagnosis will involve intelligent and smart devices that are low-cost, wearable, and lightweight, requiring low-power, energy-efficient hardware platforms. Various machine learning models, ...
Seeing through satire : how contemporary American fiction critiques the world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this dissertation, I argue some contemporary authors intermingle modes of satire and transparency to encourage a twenty-first century reading ...
Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature: African and African Diaspora Studies scholarly dissertation, & House on a jade sea : creative writing, fiction, dissertation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature is a study of my broad interests in the peculiar ...
Experimental and theoretical studies of CO2 capture from air and of crystalline, ferroelectric, non-linear optical materials
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The combination of experimental and computational chemistry gives us a chance to explore organic materials with more breadth and depth. In this dissertation, we studied different organic materials with both experimental ...
"To move wild laughter in the throat of death" : an anatomy of Black Humor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
, the asylum, and the prison; (5) That man is threatened by technology; and (6) That the world may be at, or near, the Apocalypse. The apocalyptic vision of the Black Humorist ranges from Nathanael West’s and Vonnegut’s traditional images of fire, war, plague...
War and the novelist : appraising the American war novel
(University of Missouri Press, 1976)
This study, based on a comprehensive examination of a representative cross-section of the literature, attempts a fresh evaluation of the contemporary American War novel. Many of the authors discussed here have done more ...
Four essays in empirical corporate finance and financial markets : social captial, corporate risk-taking, external financing, and financial market development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This dissertation consists of four essays examining a range of topics in empirical corporate finance and financial market. The first essay tests the impact of CEO social capital on corporate risk-taking. Using a large panel ...
A directory of graduates and former students of the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 9th edition
(University of Missouri, 1958)
Nitrosative guanosine deamination : pyrimidine ring opening implications of effects in homogeneous solution as well as anisotropic environments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In recent years a great deal of interest has been focused on the exposure to nitrous acid (HNO2), nitric oxide (NO) and other nitrosating species because they are mutagenic...
Investigation of the replacement of cysteine residues in DOTA-(Tyr³)-octreotate: synthesis, characterization and evaluation of biological activities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Modification of the peptide sequence of DOTA-Tyr³-octreotate is carried out by substituting the cysteine moieties with D-Cysteine, L-Penicillamine and D-Penicillamine in one or both positions to study the effect of this ...
La Revista ilustrada de Nueva York : history, anthology, and index of literary selections
(University of Missouri Press, 1976)
The numerous Spanish-language periodicals that were published in the United States during the last decades of the nineteenth century and in the early years of the twentieth provide a fascinating but much-overlooked view ...