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Factors motivating college football fandom and attendance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
level, and marital status. A series of questions asking about experiences and time spent as a Mizzou Football fan were also included. Surveys were distributed through several Mizzou-centric Facebook groups, and the PowerMizzou online forum...
"Bring-your-own" plug-in management for next-generation science gateway applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
-in management approach featuring web services and software design patterns borrowed from leading science gateways. We motivate the requirements for bring-your-own plug-ins management through a study of two exemplar science gateway use cases viz., "Mizzou Cyber...
Queering CoMo : an exploratory case study of queer geographies in Columbia, Missouri between 1991-2021
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
In an effort to continue bringing light to underrepresented queer histories and experiences, this exploratory project investigates and maps the queer geographies of Columbia, Missouri from 1991 through 2021. I argue that ...
Innovative immersion approach to retention of African-American 1st year chemical engineers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Students that identify as Black1, chemical engineers, and 1st-year undergraduates face unique circumstances along with perspectives that have not been assessed in depth. This pilot study aims to highlight the challenges ...
COVID-19 compliance across societies: testing health messaging models in the U.S. and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The purpose of this study is to test the theories of communication about health crises and theories of persuasive health communication that have been applied to COVID-19 in a different cultural context in order to understand ...
Historical rainfall analysis and climate implications for agriculture in midwest United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
as an empirical formula estimating the soil's ability to store water and the amount of runoff. It was found that not only has rainfall increased but so have the number of rainfall days and the number of consecutive days of rainfall. To appricultural focus, spring...
In rilievo
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Poetic considerations: In rilievo is an Italian word that means "in relief" to show the poetics of movement and loss of energy that shape a non-linear perception of time through a close look of a virtual moving string. I ...
Leveraging rhetorical style to reduce the existential threat of inclusive messaging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Diversity and representation are among the most pressing issues facing the modern world. Communications designed to promote diversity involve numerous dimensions. Here, I focused on two separable dimensions: What is conveyed ...
Factors affecting neonatal beef calf metabolism and vigor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
weight and faster time to stand than spring-born calves. Spring-born calves had greater circulating 0 h glucose, 0 and 6 h NEFA, and 0, 6, 12, and 48 h triglycerides. Fall-born calves had greater sodium and magnesium during the first 48 h postnatal...
"You say diversity, we say adversity" : white nationalism, student protest, and administrative diversity discourses in the neoliberal university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
-- spring 2022. The focus of this study are the narratives of a spectrum of conservative voices, student protesters, and administrative Inclusive, Diversity and Equity initiatives. Building upon Critical University Studies and Critical Diversity Studies...
OPT and the geography of employment : understanding the post-graduation work mobilities of Missouri's international students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis looks at the geographic distribution of employment for Missouri's international students following graduation, as well as their employment ...
Sense of place and the redesignation of the Gateway Arch National Park
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
in the "National Park Service (Fan Page)" group on the social network Facebook and secondary data pulled from published Yelp reviews. Together, these qualitative data were used for a two-part coding analysis with NVivo software that provided statistics for three...
The political economy of corruption in Africa: urbanization, trust, and motivations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The modernization paradigm has shaped development policies in African countries for decades since the 1960s. In this tradition, urbanization is presented by conventional wisdom as a strong correlate of development with ...
Body size and shape in insular environments and applications of the island rule in biological anthropology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The discovery of small-bodied hominin fossils in 2004 on the island of Flores, Indonesia, unearthed a large debate within biological anthropology. This debate has exemplified that there are questions and research areas ...
Examining the impact of a black men's initiative : a mixed methods approach to program evaluation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The attrition of Black males in higher education has garnered much attention within recent years. Subsequently, programming specific to this issue has been developed to intervene; however, there is very little research ...
Exploring factors associated with free and reduced-price lunch participation in Missouri school districts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Participation in school meal programs is critical for meeting the most vulnerable children's daily food requirements while allowing School Food Authorities to get reimbursed for the meal provided and thus continue to run ...
Predicting student performance in an augmented reality learning environment using eye-tracking data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This paper investigates the use of eye-tracking data as a predictor of student performance in an augmented reality (AR) learning environment. 33 undergraduate students enrolled in an ergonomics course at the University of ...
Capturing the complexity: examining the effect of instructional intensity in the context of a response to intervention framework on learning outcomes for students with academic and behavioral needs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
? And how do those interactions differentially affect by the latent profile membership? For the analysis, students enrolled in spring of kindergarten were included as the sample of the study. The sample included a total of 15,344 of students, 5...
Resolving space-time strain paths of the Panamint and Cottonwood Mountains, eastern California, through bedrock thermochronology and detrital geochronology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
ages are similar to AHe ages from the Inyo Mountains (2.8 [plus-minus] 0.7 Ma; Lee et al., 2009) that have been interpreted as reflecting the timing of initiation of the Hunter Mountain fault. Together, the new and the published data show a complex...
The clinical gaze and the perception of disability in photography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The history of photography coincides with the rise of medicine as a respectable profession and the Freakshow as popular entertainment, and ...