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Building a media agenda on health disparities : how issue perceptions and news values work to influence effectiveness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Building on prior literature conceptualizing the role of public relations in influencing the media agenda, this study proposes a model of agenda building that explores the determinants of the agenda building process and centers around the dynamics...
Visible reflectance spectroscopy to observe the effect of copper embedded socks on erythema in feet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Objective assessment of skin characteristics is necessary to aid in the clinical detection of erythema and debilitating skin conditions. The ability to treat different skin pathologies based on individual patient skin ...
Penelope : digital exhibition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Penelope, the legendary queen of Ithaca, has long been regarded by the public as a faithfully waiting matron and astute wife of Odysseus. This project is designed to present the viewer with different Penelopes as seen through the eyes...
Scholar Team Finder - link prediction model for identifying scholars in academic social networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
of federal grant awards, scholars' publication data, and two other widely used datasets. They also propose a beam-search algorithm for scholar team prediction based on the model. The results show that the ScholarTeamFinder outperforms state...
Effective cooperation between rural school patrons and the schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
In 1909, ten states had commissions searching out the causes of the wretched condition of schools in the country and villages. While the city schools have improved their courses of study, erected fine buildings, and are ...
The changing face of American theatre : colorblind and uni-racial casting at the New York Shakespeare Festival under the direction of Joseph Papp
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
It is widely acknowledged that Joseph Papp started colorblind casting in the United States in a sustained and visible way. In addition, he utilized uni-racial casting at various times in the history of the New York Shakespeare ...
Airing equity : the impact of activism and federal policy on women in broadcast journalism, 1964-1985
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
and relationship, the American public bore witness to the opening of the field to women. The public's involvement increased when citizens gained the ability to actively pressure networks to implement antidiscrimination policy. In this way, broadcast journalism...
Home schooling in the Show-me-State: a preliminary study of perceptions and academic performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
, the study will examine how home-school parents and public school officials perceive the current state of regulation for home school students. This study was of mixed design. It was a quantitative study with a between subjects research design in which the ACT...
Comparison of media portrayals of poverty in low-income versus affluent metropolitan areas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Poverty has become a salient issue for many Americans. The economic recovery from the Great Recession has been uneven, with large portions of the country continuing to live in poverty. The public has a range of views on the subject, shaped...
MizzouSMP
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This paper covers the implementation of a 32 Bit RISC multiprocessor MizzouSMP. It was developed from MizzouRisc, simulated on Aldec Active HDL, implemented on a Altera DE2 board. The MizzouSMP core can be configured to ...
The effectiveness of the practice of correction and republication of the biomedical literature : a bibliometric analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
that of the corrected versions), then correction and republication is not effective at preventing the citation of flawed publications that have been officially withdrawn by their authors or publishers. A statistically significant difference between citation levels...
The influence of developing a web-based course on university professor classroom instructional techniques as measured by the MTQ
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
(CS) and Information Systems (IS) instructors' classroom instructional methods. The 12 independent variables included demographics; tenure status, faculty rank, total years teaching, gender, teaching within a private or public institution, teaching...
The spirit of exhibition and visual pedagogy in the work of Charles and Ray Eames
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This project examines the ways in which Charles and Ray Eames promoted visual pedagogy in their exhibitions and new media experiments. Through cooperative efforts with various artists, designers, educators, scholars, ...
Australian narratives and Charles Dickens - retelling the history of the transport convict network
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
. Using first-hand research obtained at The British Library and the State Library Victoria, this paper analyzes both convict narratives as well as Dickens's shift from portraying transportation as a necessary evil to his glowing reports from Australia...
The instituionalization of the public school system in Missouri: 1865-1882
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
By the early 1870s, the public school system in Missouri became an embedded institution in the state's cultural and political fabric. This thesis provides an explanation of how and why Missouri powerholders solidified a government...
Donor relations and stewardship and their relationship to private philanthropy in universities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Universities depend on private gifts to help fill the funding gap between tuition and state and federal funding sources and thus, it is imperative that university personnel do all they can to retain donors who support them. ...
Forging a national diet : beef and the political economy of plenty in postwar America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
undifferentiated by diet and unified by eating a meal fit for the leader of the free world. Drawing on primary research materials found at the National Archives in College Park, MD, and at five presidential archives, along with government publications and beef...
Duplicity: The University of Missouri Confronts Gay Lib, 1971-78
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
is illuminated. While this story is very legalistic, the narrative looks past dry legal history and instead highlights how public officials designed a strategy to block Gay Lib at every turn while duplicitously claiming they had no stakes or motives in the legal...
Educational entrepreneurism in higher education: a comparative case study of two academic centers within one land-grant university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
as they relate to the creation of two, not-for-profit centers. The findings of this study indicate that these centers have utilized entrepreneurial processes within an academic and non-academic setting to serve a public interest. Primary factors supporting...
Informatically-informed biochemical characterization of aptamer-protein complexes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
the assembled HIV-1 capsid lattice and the characterization of aptamer CA15-2. A capsid differentiation selection was then performed starting with the lattice round 15 library to identify subsets of aptamers capable of binding the assembled capsid lattice only...