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Editor's Introduction : Essay contest winners
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Missourians will remember the summer of 2012 as hot and dry, browning grass and brittle leaves all too visible in the landscape. Gardeners report lackluster tomatoes, farmers anticipate disappointing yields. We've watched gray skies, hoping for rain...
Fantastic conflict in "The Raven"
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The raven serves as the representation of the unreal because it is nothing more than an anthropomorphized version of the narrator's subconscious despair. In this way, the poem consists of a pseudo-dialogue between the ...
Vaudeville and the American dream
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Vaudeville was an expressive, innovative, and quirky form of popular entertainment in America that spanned the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, vaudeville was more than mere entertainment for the American mass culture—it ...
Editor's Introduction : The importance of art in our life
(University of Missouri--Columbia, Rhetoric and Composition Program, 2014)
Managing Editor's comment: Art provides us with knowledge about our ancestors' strategies in tackling the challenges they encountered; hence, we improve these strategies to tackle the challenges we encounter in our daily ...
The Taiwan (architectural) miracle
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
In modern times, the ever-growing world population has caused the boom of giant cities with limited space, along with the rise of amazing places that are built to round in tourists. The allure to build and have the tallest ...
1st Place Winner: Of men and martians : a close reading of a Cow Pea
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
I was really looking forward to going to the "Food: Fact or Fiction" exhibit at the Perlow-Stevens Art Gallery, and I was disappointed when the weather interfered with our class trip. This exhibit seemed like it might be ...
A close reading of Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Released in 2003, Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes is a compilation of 11 vignettes that follow the conversations between two to three people as they discuss a variety of mostly insignificant subjects.
Bend it like Beckham and "bending" the rules
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Bend It Like Beckham is primarily a film about soccer. However, because the protagonist is part of a traditional Indian family, food plays an important role in the film.
2nd Place Winner: A better "One Mizzou" : how permaculture can change the campus climate
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Walking into campus dining halls for a fulfilling dinner, college students usually have the following options: a hot dog, highly processed and covered in processed cheese substitute, a cheesy pasta with a side of “grilled” ...
Failing to make the grade : how the school lunch system is falling short of its purpose
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
With over 1/3 of the nation's children overweight or obese according to the Center for Disease Control, concerns over what children are consuming have become ever more prevalent among parents across the United States. ...
The evolution of Russian media
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri, 2013)
In May of 2012, the official newspaper of the Communist Party in Russia celebrated its 100th anniversary of publication. Founded in St. Petersburg in 1912, Pravda prospered throughout most of the twentieth century, with a "print run of millions...
Silence : the reasons why people may not communicate
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This is a dissertation about how and why information does not flow in an industrial organization, and has impacts on owners, managers or employees when such issues as production errors, retention, or corporate survival are the result of missed...
Oy Vey! : the Jewish Golem and The X-Files
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2014)
Riley Simpson was curious about golems, so he asked his friend Peter, an X-Files superfan, to recommend a golem-themed episode of his favorite show. Peter recommended one, but as Riley looked at the episodes on Netflix, ...
Obsidian procurement in the Gallinas Mountains of west central New Mexico
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The Gallinas Mountains of west central New Mexico are a relatively understudied area within the greater American Southwest. The area effectively lies within a transitionary zone between three classically defined culture ...
Deep learning-based artifacts removal in video compression
(2021)
The block-based coding structure in the hybrid video coding framework inevitably introduces compression artifacts such as blocking, ringing, etc. To compensate for those artifacts, extensive filtering techniques were proposed in the loop of video...
Mizzou weekly ; volume 32, number 10
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Division of Marketing and Publications., 2010)
ECG Dilemma
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2019-07)
"Case: A 31-year-old man with an unremarkable past medical history presented with substernal chest pressure without radiation of two-hours duration. The patient's vitals remained stable and an ECG was obtained. What is the ...
Mizzou weekly ; volume 33, number 33
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Division of Marketing and Publications., 2010)
Data-driven methods for analyzing ballistocardiograms in longitudinal cardiovascular monitoring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
to the contamination of noise and motion artifacts caused by floor vibration, unconstrained subject movements, or even the respiratory activities. Aging, diseases, breathing, and sleep disorders can also affect the quality of estimation as they slightly modify...