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Stages of change, coparenting patterns, and post-divorce parent education programming : a pre-program assessment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Given concerns about the effect of divorce and interparental conflict on children, many judges now require divorcing/legally separating parents with ...
Reliability-based design (RBD) of shallow foundations on rock masses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The reliability-based design (RBD) approach that separately accounts for variability and uncertainty in load(s) and resistance(s) can be incorporated ...
Genetic linkage of multiple modifications in the pig
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Genetic engineering facilitates heritable modification of target genomes. Modifications can be site-specific or random. Though inefficient, homologous recombination allows for precise genome modification. Random integration ...
High-throughput visual knowledge analysis and retrieval in big data ecosystems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Visual knowledge plays an important role in many highly skilled applications, such as medical diagnosis, geospatial image analysis and pathology diagnosis. Medical practitioners are able to interpret and reason about ...
A climatological and contextual analysis of Roman water technologies in Cyprus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This thesis explores the trends of water usage in Cyprus during the Roman period. It seeks to challenge traditional ideas of water usage as a constant off-take system and apply the methods of Andrew Wilson and Zena Kamash ...
In the high country : crafting long-form stories on recreation and the environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Magazine deck: The journalism profession needs to develop a process of best practices for avoiding cliche in environmental stories by treading a thin line between familiarity with a story arc that resonates with a reader ...
Investigative reporting, digital security and source protection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Obama administration has been historically unfriendly to journalists and their whistleblowing counterparts. The U.S. Department of Justice has ...
Robust and efficient process for acceptance testing of radiation therapy machines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The current (legacy) paradigm for acceptance testing (AT), commissioning, and ongoing quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) of linac and treatment planning systems (TPS) is extremely inefficient requiring substantial ...
No people like #showpeople : Broadway performers' ethnographic social media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The occupational folk group of Broadway musical theater performers uses folklore in public spaces as a kind of representational strategy for the group as a whole. This strategy is significant in representing the group’s ...
Linking wetland management decisions to secretive marsh bird habitat use during spring migration and summer breeding on public wetlands in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The extent to which secretive marsh birds rely on wetlands in Missouri during spring migration is relatively unknown. My objective for chapter one was ...
Exploring the relationship between international news and foreign policy : how the New York Times, The Xinhua News Agency and Itar-Tass differed in their coverage on the Ukraine crisis?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Throughout the research component of my master's professional project, I sought to effectively capture the relationship between international news coverage and foreign policies of a country through studying the sourcing ...
UNICEF's Tap Project : an analysis of western representation of third world others and their environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examines the representations of Third World Others and their environment in the United Nation Children's Fund (UNICEF)'s online Tap Project ...
Working hard or hardly working : career-related magazine headlines and their relation to anxiety in female readers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Career‐related headlines are making their way on to the covers of prominent women's magazines. Publications such as Cosmopolitan and Glamour are working to devote more cover space to the many sub-categories of the working ...
Narrative as archive : ethno-historical paratexts in British literature, 1760-1830
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Narrative as Archive contributes to the small-but-growing body of scholarship on paratexts -- specifically footnotes -- in imaginative literatures of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. I argue that these ...
Intrinsic properties of bone as predictors of differential survivorship
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Investigating intrinsic properties as determinants of bone survival has major implications in forensic anthropology. It is useful in the incomplete recovery of a skeleton to know if certain bones that are missing are those ...
Campus en-counter : counter narratives of the persistence of black males at a PWI
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Given the low retention and completion rates, research on Black men typically focuses on the problems or barriers they face, even when successful. Rather than focusing on the problems Black men are experiencing, it is ...
The use of surgical safety checklists during time-outs in rural and urban operating rooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Operating rooms continue to be one of the most common locations for errors despite interventions aimed at reducing errors. Surgical safety checklists were introduced by the World Health Organization as a tool to improve ...
Numerical modeling of porosity waves as a mechanism for rapid fluid transport in elastic porous media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The rapid ascent of fluids through kilometer-scale thicknesses of low permeability sediments at rates much faster than predicted Darcy fluxes has been observed in numerous locations around the world. A consistently observed ...
The effect of uncertainty in "field of the day" treatment regimes in proton therapy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Purpose: A common practice in proton therapy is to plan a treatment using multiple fields, but only deliver a subset of those fields for each fraction. This practice could lead to increased uncertainty in the treatment. ...
The spatial dimensions of Savanna fire ecology in Kruger National Park, South Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Savannas are thought to be bistable with forests potentially occurring above [about]650 mm / yr of Mean Annual Precipitation (MAP) due to the limiting effects of fire on tree cover. This is predicated on two assumptions: ...