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Vessels of humility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
My ceramic work is influenced by historical pottery and the vast barren Southwestern landscape. It consists of wheel thrown and hand formed pots such as jars, boxes and vases. These vessels become a vehicle for conversation ...
Predicting the structure and energetics of protein-ligand interaction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Molecular docking has been a crucial component and remains a highly active area in computer-aided drug design (CADD). In simple terms, molecular docking uses computer algorithms to identify the "best" match between two ...
Tales of an 'invisible' life stage : survival and physiology among terrestrial juvenile ambystomatid salamanders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The vital rates (e.g., survival, growth, and reproduction) of distinct life stages within a species are known to influence the growth and persistence of populations. As such, studies describing stage-specific vital rates, ...
Exploring defects and induced magnetism in epitaxial graphene films
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Graphene has been demonstrated to have unique properties not only in its virgin state but also by altering its environment through rotations in bilayer graphene, doping, and creating heterostructures with other 2D materials, ...
Mechanisms of polar growth in the alphaproteobacterial order rhizobiales
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
All bacteria elongate and divide to faithfully reproduce their cell shape. Understanding the mechanisms that drive bacterial morphology requires an intimate knowledge of how the cell wall is synthesized. During cell ...
A mixed-methods research predicting intentions and perceptions about intimate partner violence screening among nursing students and nurse educators in Thailand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
IPV screening in healthcare settings is an effective secondary prevention strategy for IPV that can reduce negative consequences IPV survivors may experience. However, healthcare providers have not tended to screen patients ...
Development of an amenable system for site-specific addition to a maize chromosome
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Currently, transgenic maize is produced by random integration of a transgenes into the plant. This works for single genes, but not as well for multiple traits. Identifying plants that contain several transgenes becomes a ...
How financial decision-making changes when a marriage ends : evidence from the 1992-2016 health and retirement study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Transitioning from being married to divorced or widowed is difficult, financially as well as emotionally. Individuals who had left money matters to their partners during marriage enter a period of decreased financial control ...
Identification, characterization and use of novel thermogenetic tools in drosophilia melanogaster
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Extrinsic control of neural activity is necessary to decipher the neural mechanisms underlying behavior. Molecular tools that employ light (optogenetics) or temperature (thermogenetics) are primarily used for extrinsic ...
Water harvesting and condensation heat transfer enhancement induced with electrowetting-on-dielectric
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
As demand for the world's natural resources continues to rise, energy saving has become an urgent topic. Water harvesting and condensation heat transfer enhancement represent two vital energy-saving objectives. Many ...
Design of global sustainable supply chains
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Increasing concern about the sustainability of supply chain operations is motivating companies and organizations to pursue strategies to reduce their contribution to global environmental and social negative impacts. While ...
A sociophonetic study of Cape Girardeau, Missouri English
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper explores speech patterns of participants from Cape Girardeau, MO. Cape Girardeau Missouri is located just south of St. Louis along the ...
Workplace relationships and professional burnout among child life specialists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Certified child life specialists (CCLSs) work in children's hospitals to provide psychosocial support and education to pediatric patients and families ...
A study of Monteverdi's three genera from the preface to Book VIII of Madrigals in relation to operatic characters in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and L'incoronazione di Poppea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The construction of character on the early operatic stage by means of musical gestures is an indisputable achievement of Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643). Such an accomplishment was the result of a continuing development of ...
Fuzzy-based conversational recommender for data-intensive science gateway applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Neuro-scientists are increasingly relying on parallel and distributed computing resources for analysis and visualization of their neuron simulations. Although science gateways (SG) have democratized relevant high ...
Indoor human activites recognition using audio signals based on support vector machines and convolutional neural networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Indoor human activities recognition can be of great importance in our daily life, especially for surveillance and security purposes, such as informing elderly people affected in hearing capabilities about environmental ...
Electrophysiological studies of identifying and modulating the preparatory strategic processes involved in episodic memory retrieval
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Successful retrieval of episodic memories has been shown to depend on the overlap between the processes engaged during encoding and those re-engaged during retrieval. The ability to strategically adapt cue processing to ...
Participatory effects of political satire revisited in the age of digital media : the role of hard news, political expression and social media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This study examines the participatory effects of political satire, specifically late-night talk shows, in the age of digital media. Based on the O-S-R-O-R (background Orientation-Stimulus-Reasoning-outcome Orientation-Response) ...
An examination of organizational learning and data driven decision making within two university enrollment management programs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
As the number of United States high school graduates continue to decline, research into the most effective ways to recruit and retain college students becomes increasingly valuable. According to the United States Department ...
Brain catalogue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Brain Catalogue is a creative dissertation that combines comics and nonfiction. Specifically, it deals with the type of nonfiction often called the essay. It is an experimental autobiography that is broken down across four ...