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Pull Me Out to Sea
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
Misinterpreted Perception: Defining the True Nature of Chivalry During the First Crusade
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
. Nevertheless, the chivalric nature of the crusaders cannot be analyzed from a modern point of view. If the texts are viewed through the eyes of their authors, then it is clear that based on the evidence presented the knights are shown to be following the ideals...
Scientific Evidence on the Environmental and Health Effects of Land Application of Biosolids
(2015-08-12)
The study is an objective evaluation of the controversy on whether the practice
of land application of biosolids for soil enrichment and restoration poses significant harm
to the environment, human and animal health. ...
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 ...
Association between cardiac rehabilitation participation and health status outcomes after acute myocardial infarction
(2014)
[PL]), as well as SF-12 physical and mental health composite scores (PCS & MCS). We propensity-matched CR participants and non-participants to examine the association between CR participation with health status (6 and 12 months) and all-cause mortality...
Feature-based Analysis for Open Source using Big Data Analytics
(2015)
The open source code base has increased enormously and hence understanding the functionality of the projects has become extremely difficult. The existing approaches of feature discovery that aim to identify functionality are typically semi...
Impact of Nurse Practitioner Practice Regulation on Access to Healthcare Services
(2014-09-26)
Nurse practitioner (NP) practice regulations vary from state to state across the United States. Despite strong evidence supporting the quality of care and satisfaction with care provided by NPs, restrictive regulations continue to limit the practice...
Faculty Beliefs in Early Childhood Teacher Preparation
(2015)
Teacher preparation programs in the United States face increasing pressure to restore America as the preeminent leader in a knowledge-based global economy by graduating a highly skilled workforce. A growing national focus on the importance of early...
Effects of a violence prevention program on the aggressive scripts and prosocial behavior of "high risk" students
(2015-07-28)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a school-based violence prevention program, Project SAFE, which was designed to decrease beliefs supporting the use of aggression in response to conflict, as measured by decreases in a Beliefs...
The Relationship between Change Talk during Motivational Interviewing and HIV Medication Adherence
(2015-08-04)
Although studies have demonstrated that change talk (CT) and sustain talk (ST) are
related to behavior change in multiple addictive behaviors, few have investigated the
relationship between change talk and outcome in ...
The Effectiveness of Afterschool Tutoring Programs on Student Achievement in an Urban School District: A Quantitative Analysis of Selected School Programs
(2015-05-28)
The intent of this study is to investigate the effects of implementing afterschool tutorials and attendance at those tutorials on student achievement in mathematics and reading.
The data was compiled for the 2012-2013 ...
An Exploration of Teachers’ Early Childhood Guidance Beliefs and Practice within Early Learning Classrooms
(2015)
and their actual guidance practices impact teacher-child interactions which may be further hampered by the administrative decisions and policies regarding classroom management and child guidance. This study proposed to look at both the teachers’ self...
Influences on contraceptive use among college women
(2015-05-19)
. Finally, this study aimed to establish the validity and reliability of the survey instrument, Influences on Birth Control Use (IBCU). Methods: Participants were a convenience sample of 270 women ages 18-24 attending a large public university or community...
Dialogue at the Threshold: The Artist Between Museum and Community
(2015)
Artists Suzanne Lacy and Ann Hamilton use forms of language to produce
experiences that challenge the individual’s perception. While differing in methods and
outcomes, Lacy and Hamilton construct environments that allow ...
War, trauma, and literature: World War I veterans and the expression of “shell-shock” in literature
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2015)
The Boundaries of Femininity: A Case for Two Women Artists Working in Eighteenth-century France
(2015)
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard were two of the most prominent
women artists in France during the second half of the eighteenth-century. I argue in this
thesis that in their responses to a range of ...
Community Factors in Differential Responses of Child Protective Services
(2015-06-19)
Child maltreatment results in over 3 million referrals annually to U. S. child
protective services agencies and an estimated 695,000 children who are determined
to be child maltreatment victims. There are ongoing concerns ...
The Relationship Between In-Service Teachers’ Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-efficacy and Outcome Expectancy Beliefs, Instructional Practices (CLASS), and Student Outcomes in the Urban School Setting
(2015-06-19)
Culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy and outcome expectancy beliefs have emerged as constructs to investigate pre-service teacher preparedness for teaching children who represent culturally, ethnically, economically, ...
Assessing the Impact of Changing Climate on Agriculture in Missouri and the use of Crop Insurance as Adaptation Strategy (1980-2010)
(2015)
Climate change and climate variability affect all sectors of the environment, but agriculture is the most impacted because food production is highly sensitive to weather. The impact of changing climate is evident in the increase in extreme events...
Bleeding Risk Following Percutaneous Intervention in Patients with Diabetes Prescribed Dual Anti Platelet Therapy
(2015-07-28)
Patients with diabetes (DM) experience higher rates of in-stent restenosis and
therefore greater benefit from drug eluting stent (DES) implant at the time of percutaneous
coronary intervention (PCI). DES stent implantation ...