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Uneven turns oscillating heat pipes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
An experimental investigation on oscillating heat pipes with uneven turns was conducted in order to determine the effect of short turns on the heat transport capability. The shorter turns do not go through both the evaporating ...
Determination of trace elements levels in plasma from larvae in the course of baculoviral and bacterial infections by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
While a number of studies have examined the effect of infections on the trace elements status of mammals, not any similar study in insects are found. In this study, we used inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry ...
Agroforestry buffer, biomass crop, and grain crop effects on soil quality and soil water use
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Soil degradation, impaired water quality, and reduced soil organic carbon have become major concerns in the management of degraded claypan soils with ...
Cover crop effects on soil moisture dynamics & thermal properties
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
different growing periods, which were significant during some weeks. For the soil thermal study, a fourth treatment, grass (G) was used other than NC, CN, and NN, which was under side oats gramma (Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr.). Soil core samples (7...
Permanent Solution: Contraceptive sterilization policies and practices in the U.S. from 1960-1979
(2015)
This study examines the social and political anxieties regarding poverty and reproduction
during the 1960s and 1970s that led to the sterilization of young, African-American women from
low-income families. It begins ...
Performance evaluation of text augmentation methods with BERT on imbalanced datasets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
, limiting the performance of deep learning classifiers. Therefore, this study examines the effectiveness of Word2Vec and WordNet augmentation methods with BERT fine-tuning on datasets of various sizes (e.g., 500, 1,000, and 5,000 training documents...
Essays on early childhood education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Early childhood educations plays a fundamental role in human capital development. This dissertation studies skills development during early childhood. Chapter 1 focuses on early childhood intervention from birth to age 3. ...
Merging technology development of trapped ion mobility spectrometry quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry with biological investigation of Medicago truncatularoot exudates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "New commercial ion mobility instrumentation has the potential to improve current analytical techniques, but developments need to be applicable to ...
Data combining using mixtures of g-priors with application on county-level female breast cancer prevalence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
scenarios in terms of the theoretical properties including biases, frequentist variances, and mean squared errors. In the first project, data combining of linear models with the classical mixtures of g-priors is investigated. We calculate and compare...
Gene expression profiling of bovine ovarian follicular selection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Lack of, or abnormal, ovarian follicular development is a major factor associated with impaired fertility in mammals. However, development of new treatments is limited by our poor understanding of ovarian follicular ...
Felix convivum : platters and transformations of dining behavior in the Roman world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Most people in the Roman world used ceramic tableware, despite its absence in iconographical and in literary sources. This observation leads to many ...
Do stock prices influence corporate tax behavior?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This study examines how the firm-specific information in stock prices influences corporate tax behavior. Research demonstrates that managers learn from and respond to information contained in stock prices. However, the ...
Three essays on the competitiveness of the US corn seed industry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation provides an analysis of various aspects of the competitivity of the US corn seed industry. In the first essay I develop a price ...
A genetic linkage map of the fungus phycomyces blakesleeanus for gene identification by map-based cloning
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)
The Mucoromycotina is one of the basal lineages in the fungi, all of which are poorly understood. Mucormycosis is a life threatening infection caused by fungi of the order Mucorales, the most common species of which is ...
Understanding genome composition of eusocial hymenopteran insects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Genome sequencing of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera), a model for the biology and evolution of eusocial behavior, has revealed unusual genome compositional characteristics, including a low but heterogeneous GC ...
Transgenerational effects of in utero heat stress on reproduction in pigs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
found between litters born to GHS or GTN females at the University of Missouri Swine Teaching Farm. Female progeny (generation 1; G1) from both GTN and GHS mothers remained on farm and were artificially inseminated at second estrus. During the 8th week...
Effects of low crude protein diets with amino acid supplementation on broiler performance in the starter period
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
A series of experiments were conducted to examine the effects of feeding low crude protein (CP) corn and soybean meal diets with crystalline amino acid supplementation to broilers from 0-3 weeks of age. It was hypothesized ...
Dust formation and evolution around carbon stars
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Evolved intermediate-mass stars with carbon-to-oxygen ratios (C/O) above unity are known as carbon stars. Carbon stars are surrounded by dust shells dominated by carbon (C) and silicon carbide (SiC) grains. These SiC grains ...
Design and construction of helmholtz coil for biomagnetic studies on soybean
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
A Helmholtz coil with a large usable area of uniform field was designed, constructed and characterized, specifically for bioelectric studies. The design and analysis of the coil were carried out through experiments and the ...
Detection of gust fronts using the doppler velocity derived divergence product
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Identifying gust fronts can be essential for situational awareness when developing nowcasts during convective events. In addition to bearing potentially damaging winds, gust fronts also act as forcing mechanisms; influencing ...