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The relationship between teacher stress and job satisfaction as moderated by coping using single-item measures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Teacher stress has been studied for decades and the negative outcomes of too much stress are well known, such as burnout and lack of teacher retention. The present study focuses on the relationship between teacher stress ...
Structural and kinetic studies of human aldh7a1 and aldh9a1
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The regulation and detoxification of endogenously and exogenously derived aldehydes is paramount to cellular survival due to the highly reactive nature of aldehydes as electrophiles. Human aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs) ...
Introducing a personal-originality approach for scoring children's divergent thinking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Divergent thinking (DT), which can be described as the ability to conceive of and express a variety of novel solutions to open-ended problems (Gibson et al., 2009), is one of the most commonly studied constructs related ...
Improvement of co-digesting swine manure and waste kitchen oil
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Anaerobic co-digestion of swine manure (SM) and waste kitchen oil (WKO) was conducted to evaluate the effect of substrate loading rates on biogas production efficiency. Biogas yields of M4O2 (4 g-VSSM L-1 d-1 + 2 g-VSWKO ...
Understanding acceptance of Autonomous Mobility Services using statistical and deep learning approaches
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The emergence of vehicle automation and its subsequent growth has led to new transport service offerings, generally known as Autonomous Mobility Services (AMS), that have the potential to facilitate or even replace ...
Evaluating effects of neonicotinoid seed treatments and agroecosystem land management practices on solitary bees in Midwestern agroecosystems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Bees are declining due to multiple factors including habitat loss and non-target exposure to pesticides resulting from agricultural intensification. Solitary bees are often overlooked as important pollinators, but they are ...
Investigating the roles and functions of plasma membrane E3 ligases and MKP1 in plant immunity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
When a plant encounters a pathogen, a complex set of responses occurs on both sides of the interaction. In a process known as pattern-triggered immunity (PTI), the plant uses plasma membrane (PM)-localized proteins, or ...
Securing cloud-hosted applications using active defense with rule-based adaptations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Security cloud-based applications is a dynamic problem since modern attacks are always evolving in their sophistication and disruption impact. Active defense is a state-of-the-art paradigm where proactive or reactive ...
Comparison of measured resistance for drilled shafts socketed in weak rock in Oklahoma to previously established SPT and TCP-based predictive design relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The design of drilled shafts socketed in shale and other weak rock is challenging for a multitude of reasons. Sites may be difficult to characterize because the materials may quickly degrade upon sampling. The materials ...
ClaimChain: secure Blockchain platform for handling insurance claims processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Insurance claims processing involves multi-domain entities and multi-source data, along with a number of human-agent interactions. Consequently, this processing is traditionally manually-intensive and time-consuming. ...
Communication at the end-of-life among advanced cancer patients in Ghana: what patients have to say
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Individuals with life-limiting illnesses require information and good communication throughout their illness. Effective end-of-life communication (EOLC) improves patients' understanding of their condition, care, and treatment ...
Accurate, fast, and robust 3D city-scale reconstruction using wide area motion imagery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Multi-view stereopsis (MVS) is a core problem in computer vision, which takes a set of scene views together with known camera poses, then produces a geometric representation of the underlying 3D model Using 3D reconstruction ...
Applied genomics toward targeted improvement of soybean
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The abundance of genomic data produced by the research community in the last decade has offered an unprecedented view into the variation present in the soybean genome and has been exploited to uncover the genetic architecture ...
The influence of role models on trans men's identity development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) individuals face significant stigma and discrimination stemming from negative societal attitudes toward their experienced gender incongruence. Much of the LGBTQ literature on ...
Dissecting the genetic basis of learning, memory, and thermal tolerance in a multi-parental population of fruit flies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Learning, memory, and thermal tolerance are complex traits that are fundamental survival skills in many species. For example, small poikilotherms " like Drosophila melanogaster, have evolved physiological mechanisms to ...
Successful urban elementary music educators : a phenomenological investigation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The purpose of this study was to explore the characteristics and experiences of teachers who have been successful in urban elementary music classrooms. I aimed to garner an authentic picture and capture the essence of what ...
Intercultural adapturgy : twenty-first century women adapting Spanish golden age plays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Transferring work from one culture to another through translation or adaptation is a delicate process which requires careful consideration of both the positionality of the adapter and the intertextual reaction of the adapted ...
Phytoplankton response to water quality threats in Midwest reservoirs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms and invasive species threaten water quality. These threats are expected to worsen in the future, emphasizing the need for creative management solutions and a thorough understanding of their ...
Evaluating the roles spinal plasticity and an accessory inspiratory muscle have in a rodent model of respiratory motor neuron death
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Death by ventilatory failure most frequently occurs in patients with neuromuscular diseases in which there is a loss of respiratory motor neurons. There are currently no significant treatments to prolong or correct for ...
Interactions of parvoviruses with the cellular DNA damage response and CTCF
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Nuclear DNA viruses must be able to simultaneously access cellular factors that aid their life cycle while evading inhibitory factors in order to sustain their expression and replication. Establishment of nuclear sites ...