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Bursicon homodimers induce prophylactic innate immunity in two model insects: Drosophila melanogaster and Aedes aegypti
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
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The role of the P2X7 nucleotide receptor in salivary gland inflammation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Salivary gland inflammation is a hallmark of Sjogren's syndrome (SS), a common autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration and the consequent impairment of the salivary gland and loss of saliva secretion, ...
High density mapping and quantitative trait loci analysis for fungal diseases in vitis aestivalis-derived 'Norton' and breeding for low palmitic acid in glycine max
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Vitis aestivalis-derived 'Norton', the official grape of the State of Missouri, is grown in many U.S. regions where V. vinifera production requires extensive pesticide use for fungal disease management. To identify genetic ...
Rural Missouri high school principals' perceptions of highly effective teachers : does it align with national research?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The purpose of this case study was to discover what rural Missouri high school principals perceive as the characteristics of highly effective teachers to compare to the national research on highly effective teachers. High ...
Comparison of dual-polarization radar-derived and disdrometer drop-size distributions with S- and X- band radars
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
There have been many studies on the evaluations of drop-size distributions and the parameters that affect these distributions, however, few, if any, have directly compared the relationship between the radar-derived parameters ...
From Gastarbeiter to Muslims : representations of Turkish migrants in West Germany from 1961-1989
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis explores how (West) Germans viewed both male and female Turkish Gastarbeiter (guest workers), as well as their second and third generations, ...
Safety evaluation of roundabouts at freeway ramp terminals and HSM calibration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Although the conventional understanding is that roundabouts have the potential to improve safety at intersections, particularly by reducing more severe crash types, there is limited knowledge on their safety impacts when ...
Craft Christianity : Christianity and craft beer America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The recent advent of American Christian communities incorporating craft beer into their lives stands in curious defiance to the ways in which religion and drinking have often interacted in American culture. In this thesis, ...
How journalists shift toward engaging historically marginalized communities in the digital age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The purpose of this study is to discover how and why journalists within nonprofit or startup newsrooms are changing routines to engage people who would not be typical or traditional readers. This qualitative research study ...
Seeing constructed realities : images and law in the contemporary American novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
In the new digital era, novelists have developed new tools to aid them levy political criticism against targets that have traditionally fallen outside the reach of the novel. By examining four contemporary American novels, ...
Understanding the subject : Woolf's use of the bildungsroman in The Voyage Out and Jacob's Room
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This project explores the way in which Virginia Woolf uses and subverts the classic nineteenthcentury genre, the Bildungsroman in her first novel (The Voyage Out) and her third novel (Jacob's Room) in order to posit questions ...
The design, instrumentation, and validation of a multiphase shock tube facility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This paper investigates the experimental work in Shock Driven Multiphase Instabilities (SDMI). SDMIs occur when an interface consisting of a particle seeded gas is instantaneously accelerated and begins mixing. SDMIs have ...
The histogram of partitioned localized image textures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
In the field of machine learning and pattern recognition, texture has been a prominent area of research. Humans are uniquely equipped to distinguish texture; however, computers are more equipped to automate the process. ...
Evaluation of post punching capacity of flat plates under progressive collapse
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This research investigates the post-punching resistance of flat-plate buildings without continuous bottom reinforcement. An overview on both the historical development of the analytical theories of punching mechanisms and ...
Mississippi Mau Mau : Medgar Evers and the black freedom struggle, 1952-1963
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Mississippi Mau Mau expands upon existing historical analysis of the ideological connections between African liberation struggles and the Black Freedom Movement in the United States by concentrating on the ways in which ...
Femoral angles and their correlates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This research addresses a central theme in anthropological research focused on the reconstruction of activity patterns from skeletal remains in past populations. In general, my research focuses on the ontogeny and development ...
Shaping the conversation of women's health and reproductive rights : a textual analysis of Planned Parenthood's external communications and news coverage of women's health during the 2016 presidential election
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Planned Parenthood provides more than 2.5 million men and women every year with access to affordable health care. However, Planned Parenthood has ...
Elevated
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Celebrated, mundane; appealing, discarded; real, fake; structured, messy; quick, slow; assumptions, well- observed; found object, representational ...
Hierarchical task analysis for intensive care nursing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The object of this study is to understand the workflow of nurses in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The nurses in an ICU experience a high workload ...
Weinergate, Twitter, and marginalized voices : political sex scandals in a new media environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Discourse strongly influences the ways in which ideologies are formed, maintained, and contested, thus the dialogue surrounding political sex scandals may shape the ways in which individuals negotiate their own beliefs and ...