[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study examined the ease of wayfinding and place legibility as constructs for improving hospital experiences for patients and visitors in a health care setting. People...

experience as it relates to the physical and/or perceived environment, including the workplace. Through the examination of existing workplace characteristics of Fortune 500, 100 Best Places to Work companies, and survey research this study examines...

[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...

attachment, but also high community involvement, and therefore, positively impact social capital. This research project Examining the Relationship between Place Attachment and Community Involvement: Impact on Social Capital in Communities in Rural Missouri...

The purpose of this project was to develop a secure and HIPAA-compliant EMR system in TigerPlace. Any information that is processed over the network or internet is exposed to various security threats. Malware infections can easily infect the user...

successfully created, used, and negotiated differing senses of place to resist the construction and implementation of a rural-to-urban inter-basin water transfer project. The Groundwater Development Project, first proposed in 1989 and later revived in 2004...

This quantitative study examines how the 2015 European refugee crisis events affected the international place brand of Hungary on Twitter in both short and long terms. The study supports the application of quantitative methods and dictionary...

that took place on the 2000 acres of soil within its bounds. These volunteer guides are active in the formation and reimagining of a narrative economy of the Civil War in Southwest Missouri through their personal research and experience by leading tours...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis explores the meaning of landscapes in the revival of traditional religious traditions by the Indigenous peoples of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My dissertation examines the New York publishing industry from the end of the American Revolution to the Age of Jackson. The dissertation analyzes the set of economic...

The purpose of the study was to learn about State College, Pennsylvania through the lens of immigrant and international women, and explore the range of emotions they experience in difference places. Participants identified and reflected...

in the construction of small bridges. GRS-IBS is a mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) wall acting as the abutment with a bridge deck placed on top. The vertical spacing of the geosynthetic reinforcement in a MSE wall is much larger than in a GRS-IBS abutment. MSE...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Shooting A Mule (and other stories) is a book-length collection of short historical fiction, centering around visual representations, photographs, and ephemera from American...

"These pictures were taken during the Arizona game, with the Tigers ahead throughout, but Coach Broyles could not shake off his look of frantic desperation."--Page 19...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The critical introduction outlines three perspectives on place identified by Robert Root--the insider, the outsider, and the traveler with a lens text. Analyzing how...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] I propose that firms have incentives to respond to their rivals' cross-listings, thereby generating a spillover effect from the cross-listing. The existence of a spillover...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The main purpose of this study was to examine and compare the perspectives of academic administrators, faculty, and students in a research intensive university in the Midwestern...

The purpose of the field work was, primarily, to collect sufficient data from measurements made at numerous points along the northside of the Missouri River to draw acourately, in a structure section, the contacts of the various rock formations...

Counties: Barton, Cedar, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, and Polk...
"This thesis is a record of a careful research into the origin of the place-names in eight of the counties in the southwest part of Missouri. These counties are Barton, Cedar, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, and Polk. These counties lie...

on identifying best practices for extending elders' independence and reducing risk of injury while remaining at home. Within aging-in-place literature, it has been increasingly acknowledged that home modifications--such as the addition of ramps, first...