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It gets better? : gay teen bullying and suicide
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation explores the social construction of gay bullying and suicide as a social problem. Specifically, I analyze the It Gets Better Project and its conceptions...
Night and day
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Night and Day relays the coming-of-age narrative of a minority female character fluctuating between the melting pot American culture of her mother, which she is entrenched in...
The political economy of human well-being
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Politics permeates various aspects of our lives, including the quality of life people lead. However, existing political science scholarship on human well-being is relatively...
Harrison Bergeron : a multimedia extravaganza
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The thesis and exhibition "HARRISON BERGERON: A Multimedia Extravaganza" presented by David Spear in fulfillment of his Masters of Fine Art academic requirement is an intense...
Second person ethereal
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation consists of a critical introduction and a full-length book of poetry. The critical introduction deals with the literary manifestations of exile in contemporary...
Exploring place attachment in rural Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research project utilizes Scannell and Gifford's (2010) person-process-place framework to develop a tool of measurement that will: 1) Determine an individual's level...
Convergence in the production of news infographics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Previous researchers developed the Convergence Continuum model to measure the level at which affiliated newspapers, television stations and Websites had converged...
Topics in non-locally convex functional analysis and geometrical analysis with applications to boundary value problems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is comprised of two parts. The first part, consisting of chapters 2-13, deals with issues pertaining to non-locally functional analysis. Specifically, we...
Defining professionalism in the health sciences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This qualitative single case study explores how faculty members within a Midwestern four-year university's school of health professions define the concept of professionalism...
Rethinking the evolution of human intelligence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Humans have very large, complex brains for their size. Why are humans so intelligent and why did we become intelligent so quickly? My dissertation addresses the question of how...
A Cypriot hodegetria : the creation, interpretation, and significance of a plaster relief from Kopetra
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[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 Jesus while gesturing...
A comprehensive study of marine sediments of NanTroSEIZE Project, offshore Japan : clay mineralogy, consolidation, and microfabric
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation investigates the clay mineral assemblages, consolidation state, and microfabric of sedimentary strata along the Kumano transect of Nankai Trough, offshore...
Gene replacement restores the contractile and passive properties of skeletal muscle in murine models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal disease caused by the loss of the dystrophin protein. Loss of mobility is a key clinical presentation in DMD. It is believed...
Mother, father, husband, wife, soldier : identity-negotiation of veterans during re-entry into family life post-deployment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purposes of this study were to (a) understand how recent military veterans negotiate their identities post-deployment, and more specifically, (b) understand how military...
Dental composites reinforced with zinc oxide nanofillers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Dental composites suffer from inadequate mechanical properties and formation of secondary caries, which could lead to the increased failure rate of these applied dental...
PIN photodiode controlled class E microwave power amplifier
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project is to design, build and test a switched-mode class E amplifier operating at 1GHz, using a PIN photodiode as switch. In order to explore the optically controlled...
Effects of polysulfone support layer on the performance of thin film composite (TFC) membranes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The performance of thin film composite (TFC) membranes was correlated with the support layers. Polysulfone (PSF) Support layers with additive polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) were...
The effects of perceived visible characteristics of customers on servers' tipping expectations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Assuming that tipping size varies according to customers' characteristics and that servers judge tipping size by looking at customers' visible characteristics, this study...