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Between the old and the new : Friedrich Gentz, 1764-1832
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This dissertation reviews the life and political impact of Friedrich Gentz, who was born in Breslau, Prussia, in 1764, and died in Vienna, Austria, in 1832. Though remembered today as only a second- (or even third)- tier ...
Turning money into speech: campaign finance, political advertising, and the civic sphere
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
In this dissertation, I trace the history of campaign finance reform's influence on political advertising. I track the discourses held within Congress and court hearings to uncover what I call the money-speech paradigm, ...
Genetic mapping of soybean cyst nematode resistance and evaluation of resistant germplasm in soybean and pennycress
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
A single mode of genetic resistance derived from PI 88788 (rhg1-b) has dominated the $57.5 B US soybean market for almost three decades. The breakdown of resistance and selection of virulent nematode populations poses a ...
Multifunctional Banking and Financial Fragility: What Should Banks Do?
(2015-05-22)
This dissertation traces the evolution of the U.S. banking system since the 1980s
with a specific focus on the role of the relaxation and eventual repeal of Glass-Steagall Act
(GSA) on the stability of the financial ...
Effects of high fat loading on substrate utilization and performance during intermittent exercise in trained athletes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
High intensity intermittent exercise is the most common form of exercise in competitive sport yet dietary factors that affect an athlete's performance in this capacity are rarely investigated. The purpose of this investigation ...
Creating an imperial city: Kansas City in the 1920s
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-04)
This thesis is a community study of Kansas City in the
1920s as a city working to assume a prominent place within the
emerging American market empire. It begins by exploring the
role that men and women played in altering ...
A semantic framework for event-driven service composition
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-14)
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a popular paradigm for designing
distributed systems where loosely coupled services (i.e. computational entities) can be
integrated seamlessly to provide complex composite ...
After Watteau: Nicolas Lancret and the creation of the hunt luncheon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Dining is inarguably one of the oldest, most prevalent and pervasive acts of social interaction. In the modern age the ability to display one's taste or refinement with regard to fashionable or trendy food items has become ...
The Monstrous Ordinary : the erasure of the women of Weird Tales and the implications for monster theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] My dissertation offers a new approach to monstrosity, called the Monstrous Ordinary, which articulates monstrosity not as something new, different, or aberrant, but originating from the normal, ...
The Brazilian Flute Topic
(2023)
such as Melanie Plesch, Raymond Monelle, and Michael Klein with regard to topic theory, I analyze how the flute and its sonority appear represented and/or used in Brazilian iconography, literature, and musical practices from colonial times up to the 1940s, also...
Fascists, communists, and the national government : civil liberties in Great Britain, 1931-1937
(University of Missouri Press, 1983)
Britain witnessed a milder brand of fascism and communism than
did most other European countries. Neither the extreme Left nor the extreme Right ever assumed proportions that directly threatened the regime or even approached ...
Identification of immune-related gene signatures to evaluate immunotherapeutic response in cancer patients using exploratory subgroup discovery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity are characteristic features of cancer patients. To tackle patients[trademark] heterogeneity, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) represent one of the most promising therapeutic ...
"When people push us, it just makes us feel better" : a multi-case exploration of the tools, relationships, and contexts of near-peer mentoring for college
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This study sought to explore the unique ways near-peer mentors serving in three different public high schools help historically marginalized students address and overcome informational and psychological barriers to college. ...
Displaced voices and accentscapes in French and Francophone Sub-Saharan cinema : recasting, reshaping, and restoring identity (-ies) in transnational films
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This study features notions of identity, language, integration, journeys of home seeking and homecoming, and the wanderings of homelessness. It explores displaced voices and the self-coined term "accentscape" in ten films ...
The Effectiveness of Reading Folk Literature in Improving English Language Learners’ Reading Proficiency in Elementary Grades
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This mixed-methods study investigates the effectiveness of reading folktales, fairy
tales, and fables in improving English learners’ reading proficiency levels in elementary
grades and explores students’ experiences with ...
Ushering in the Post-Oil Era: A Functional Finance Approach to Development, Diversification and Sustainability in Saudi Arabia
(2023)
decades and has been largely dependent on its oil sales proceeds. However, with volatility in oil prices and the need to find sustainable energy practices, it has started to diversify its economy and develop other sectors. As the country is not monetarily...
Spirals of silence : examining Afrocentric and Eurocentric hairstyling for black women in broadcast newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Three essays regarding U.S. crop policy and risk
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Agricultural policy is an important component of risk management in U.S. agriculture. This dissertation focuses on various aspects of this topic. In the first essay, we find that baselines generated for policy analysis can ...
Modeling the hippocampus : finely controlled memory storage using spiking neurons
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The hippocampus, an area in the temporal lobe of the mammalian brain, participates in the storage of personal memories and life events. As such traumatic memories and the consequent symptoms of post-traumatic stress are ...