As one of the most adapted literary works of all time, filmmakers throughout the twentieth century have tried to answer one inexplicable question in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Why ...

In every young writer's heart there is a dream, a dream that one day all of their hard work will lead to a successful, published novel. And not just any novel, but the next Great American novel that will be taught in classes ...

Language defines the survival and persistence of the human species. Poetics has been one of the most revered forms of both oral and written languages. Over the ages, poetry in the English language has morphed and evolved ...

The social sciences have four explanations for the gender wage gap: preference, crowding, power, and socialization. Neoclassical economists explain the wage gap as the result of employers and employees' work-related ...

We study the problem of multiple packet bundling to improve spectral efficiency in cellular networks. The packet size of real-time data, such as VoIP, is often very small. However, the common use of time division ...

What it is like to be a foreign journalist in China? This is the central question this project tries to answer. Through three micro-documentaries and eight in-depth interviews, this project tries to get a glimpse of foreign ...

Despite recommendations from professional nursing and other health organizations, including the Institute of Medicine the frequency of routine assessment for intimate partner violence and other forms of family violence ...

Disordered eating behavior (DEB) is an important health problem among adolescent girls in the United States. DEB has been correlated with the subsequent development of clinically diagnosed eating disorders and with other ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Recent work in both the philosophy of language and epistemology has relied on the premise that there is a norm of assertion, that there are certain ...

Houses Divided argues that congregational and local denominational schisms among Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterians in the Border State of Missouri before, during, and after the Civil War were central to the crisis of ...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are a group of complex and increasingly common neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by deficits in language and social skills. One factor that could plausibly contribute to language ...

This work attempts to re-delineate Paul's theological boundaries of sexual immorality, porneia, in the early church by way of the sexually available bodies of first-century slaves. While most scholars of Paul's ideas of ...

The piezoelectric transformer plasma source (PTPS) is a compact RF driven plasma source developed for near-space and microspacecraft propulsion. The PTPS uses the mass transfer of emitted charged particles from the plasma ...

The boreal winter monsoon over the Malaysian region has long been associated with heavy rainfall activity and flood disaster. One of the main features that characterized this monsoon is the presence of the Borneo vortices. ...

Our research is involved in the transcriptional dynamics of perinatal liver development. The transcription factors and their downstream effects have been well studied in regards to early liver development, yet perinatal ...

The purpose of this project was to develop a secure and HIPAA-compliant EMR system in TigerPlace. Any information that is processed over the network or internet is exposed to various security threats. Malware infections ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Recently developed wireless inertial sensor systems provide a means to objectively detect lameness as a horse is trotted over natural footing. The ...

Public relations as a profession has existed in Europe for more than a century, yet most current practice and teaching is based on the American model. To address this situation, in 1998 the European Association of Public ...

The effects of sibship size and structure on delinquency are well established, but despite strong links between delinquency and alcohol use, the contribution of these factors to drinking behaviors remains largely unexplored. ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Excavations at a church in the village of Kalavasos-Kopetra in southern Cyprus revealed a small plaster relief of the Virgin Mary holding the infant ...