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Hayv Kahraman’s Bodyscreens: Skin, Depth, and Surface
(2015)
Hayv Kahraman is most widely known for her large-scale paintings of pale women
with skin like silk and soft clouds of dark black hair. She often draws on her experiences as
an émigré from Iraq to represent the challenges ...
From ‘Remedy Highly Esteemed’ to ‘Barbarous Practice’: The Rise and Fall of Acupuncture in Nineteenth-Century America
(2015-05-27)
physicians – specifically, from French and British practitioners in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They used acupuncture to conduct experiments on patients suffering from various ailments. Research also indicates that the practice enjoyed...
MIGUEL MATEO DALLO Y LANA, MEXICAN BAROQUE COMPOSER: A FORGOTTEN TREASURE OF PUEBLA
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015-03-09)
As research into the Mexican Baroque continues to expand, forgotten composers and their works are garnering deserved attention. Miguel Mateo Dallo y Lana (c. 1650-1705), who served as maestro de capilla [chapel master] at ...
Dance as a Community of Practice: Exploring Dance Groups in the Kansas City Area through the Lifespan
(2015-08-04)
This dissertation examines the embodied cultural practice of dance among several
groups in the Kansas City area. The dance groups were studied as Communities of Practice
(CoP), as outlined in the Lave-Wenger model of ...
The Production of Space, Place, and Food: The Ecology of Money and the Emergence of Transformative Circuits of Money Capital
(2015-08-04)
This dissertation argues that Henri Lefebvre’s (1991) The Production of Space
expresses a theoretical blueprint for the construction of an interdisciplinary approach to
social science that integrates political economy, ...
Writing Instruction in Practice: An Investigation into the Experiences of Beginning Teachers
(2015-08-11)
Teacher education programs and PK-12 schools are contending with a shifting field
as federal and local initiatives call for different approaches in curriculum, instruction, and
assessment. Some of these changes include ...
Staging The Merchant of Venice in the 21ˢᵗ Century: A Dramaturgical Case Study
(2015-08-12)
“Staging The Merchant of Venice in the 21ˢᵗ Century: A Dramaturgical Case Study”
aims to document the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s 2015 production of The
Merchant of Venice by framing it within the historical ...
Uncovering the art of persuasion : understanding design decisions for award-nominated or winning city and regional magazine art directors between 2012 and 2014
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Magazine covers serve as the first impression for readers and determine whether the reader will pick up and read the magazine. Therefore, it is important ...
Psychometric Evaluation of a Motivation Assessment in Smokers
(2014)
The aim of this dissertation was to describe the psychometric properties of the Brief
Motivation Scale used during an intervention for participants who have declared low interest
in discontinuing their use of cigarettes. ...
Performance-Based Pay: Perceptions of Elementary Teachers of the Pandora School District
(2014)
In the last decade, there has been a resurgence in the support of using teacher pay
to influence the outcome of student achievement on state tests. Current research about the
effectiveness of these performance-based pay ...
Sandoz Writing (Righting) History
(2015-06-19)
Mari Sandoz’s dedication to her research topics, personality, candor, and work ethic allowed her an intimate place alongside those she chose to write about. This yielded a moving written product. In the same way that Sandoz ...
Detrimental Determinants: The Impacts of Neoliberalism on Pro-Environmental Behaviors
(2015-07-28)
The mounting evidence of anthropogenic climate change in the past 30 years has
beckoned the social sciences to illuminate and address the complex phenomena
underlying actions that impact the environment. While many studies ...
The Ghost in the Machine: Frances Perkins’ Refusal to Accept Marginalization
(2014)
Frances Perkins was the United States Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945, yet she has received little attention from historians. There are countless works that study President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s years in office, but ...
Provider Perceptions of a Mature School-Based Health Center's Effect on Adolescent Health and Wellness: A Case Study
(2015-06-02)
School-based health centers (SBHCs) have emerged as a model of care that enhances
utilization of health care services for U.S. adolescents. Staffed by interdisciplinary teams,
physicians play a largely supervisory role ...
Musical Contour Regulation Facilitation (MCRF) to Support Emotion Regulation Development in Preschoolers: A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study
(2015-06-19)
Emotion regulation (ER) is the ability for a person to maintain a comfortable state of
arousal by controlling and shifting his or her emotional experiences and expressions. The
emergence of maladaptive ER occurs in ...
The evolution of a beat: a case study of changes in environmental reporting from the 1970's to today as evident in coverage of three disastrous oil spills
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
reporting. Quality reporting persisted through 2002, including additional efforts to improve, suggesting that papers can improve dramatically if attentive to reporting practices....
The Political Economy of the Pacific Northwest: A Surplus Approach
(2015)
The dissertation is comprised of three independent essays. Each essay examines the process of qualitative change in the provisioning process from a different
vantage, while remaining fixed in relation to the Columbia ...
Theatre for Young America: A History
(2015-05-19)
In the spring of 1974, a family of actors has recently landed in Kansas City,
Missouri. Father, Gene Mackey, is working for one of the areas four professional dinner
theatres and has been authorized by his employer to ...
Investigating science teacher knowledge of learners and learning and sequence of instruction in an alternative certification program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
of instruction to transmit knowledge to students. For the teachers, the integration of knowledge of instructional sequences and learners meant that they purposefully added "practice" types of activities to help students learn terms and concepts. Prospective...
Multifunctional Banking and Financial Fragility: What Should Banks Do?
(2015-05-22)
This dissertation traces the evolution of the U.S. banking system since the 1980s
with a specific focus on the role of the relaxation and eventual repeal of Glass-Steagall Act
(GSA) on the stability of the financial ...