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Drinking Water Treatment Waste as an Alternative for Internal Curing and Cement Replacement in Concrete
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
industry have been exploring every opportunity to reduce embodied energy and carbon footprint. Concrete incorporates many recycled industrial byproducts such as fly ash and blast furnace slag which helps reduce the quantity of landfilled materials while...
Rheological and morphological evolution of basaltic lava flows
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Over 500 million people live in proximity of an active volcano globally. Although lava flows rarely endanger human life, they often destroy critical infrastructure. Advancing our understanding of lava flow dynamics is ...
'High places' in the Aegean: the case for non-Cretan peak sanctuaries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
study of the material culture and topographical elements of the sites sheds light on cultural exchange of religious ideas and choice of these non-Cretan Bronze Age communities, ultimately focusing on how new means of creating, expressing, and maintaining...
Development of an experiment for investigating the magnetohydrodynamic richtmyer-meshkov instability
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Collaboration by some of the world's brightest minds of the 21st Century pinpointed fourteen Grand Engineering Challenges that face humankind today. At the top of this list is "Provide Energy from Fusion"; a requirement deemed crucial for humankind...
Late Holocene Paleoclimate reconstruction of the northern Gulf of Aqaba using foraminifera as a proxy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-12-21)
A multiproxy analyses of sediment from a 4.3 m core extracted from 25 m water
depth on the shelf of the northern Gulf of Aqaba suggest shifts in depositional environments
over the past 4000 yrs. Foraminifera assemblages, ...
Synthesis and preclinical evaluation of peptide receptor-targeted diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals for prostate cancer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
human prostate cancer cells. The last portion of the work described in this dissertation focuses on 105Rh as a potential therapeutic radionuclide. Rhodium-105 (t1/2 = 35.4 hours) is a moderate energy beta-emitting radionuclide [ [beta] avg = 152 ke...
Perforated sovereignty : the geopolitical dilemma of Aegean hydrocarbons
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The Aegean Sea, as an integral portion of the Mediterranean Sea, has always been a region endowed with special significance. Either as a familiar route of trade or culture, or as a fault-line between hostile civilizations ...
Utilization and limitations of soil health metrics in Missouri corn production decisions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
derive from a dataset collected over three seasons (2018-2020) including 446 sample locations collected from 101 Mid-Missouri commercial row crop systems. Current P and K fertilizer recommendations accurately identified where fertilizer improved yield...
Academic libraries national conference program evaluation : meeting learner needs in a changing profession
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Academic Libraries National conference is a professional development opportunity for academic librarians. This study analyzed differences in preferred learning style...
The Bavarian model? : modernization, environment, and landscape planning in the Bavarian nuclear power industry, 1950-1980
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Perhaps no state in the Federal Republic of Germany witnessed a more pronounced state sponsored modernization effort than Bavaria, 1950-1980. This vast transformation, particularly in the field of nuclear energy, required a continuous negotiation...
The impacts of partner abundance on benefits from facultative pollination mutualism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Partner abundance affects costs and benefits in obligate mutualisms, but its role in facultative partnerships is less clear. I investigated this topic in a small alpine pollination web in the Colorado Rocky Mountains ...
Deep learning-based solutions for electron microscopy image analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Electron microscopy (EM) enables capturing high resolution images of very small structures in biological and non-biological specimens such as membrane proteins, viruses, subcellular structures, nanoparticles, or material surfaces. Electron...
A comparison of the leadership styles of administrators in charge of scheduling in Missouri's secondary schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
in Missouri's high schools. Comparisons were made regarding various leaders' willingness to change or not change their school's scheduling system to initiate change. Additionally, informative results were found regarding the rationale or reasons given...
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 ...
Climate change in the newsroom : journalists' evolving standards of objectivity when covering global warming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Climate change may well be the most important environmental issue of our time. For journalists covering the environmental beat, there is no bigger story - and none more treacherous. Journalists have been accused of distorting ...
Does politics stop at the water's edge? The state as a unitary actor in international relations and the effect of presidential transitions on selected foreign policy behaviors
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-25)
Structural realists argue the nation-state is a unitary actor that conducts foreign
policy without regard to domestic politics. Anarchy, the lack of any controlling authority, is
the dominant fact of life for states ...
Emplacement styles of obsidian lavas: an integrated field and laboratory study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Previously accepted models of emplacement dynamics of obsidian lavas have recently been called into question by observations made during the effusive eruptions of Chaiten in 2008-2009 and Cordon Caulle in 2011-2012 in Chile. The eruption of Chaiten...
Role of adropin in arterial stiffening associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Adropin is a peptide largely secreted by the liver and known to regulate energy homeostasis; however, it also exerts cardiovascular effects. Herein, I tested the hypothesis that low circulating levels of adropin in obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D...
Agro-pastoral Landuse Transformation: Implications and Perspectives in the Northwest Region of Cameroon
(2015-08-11)
This dissertation centers on the human-environmental problem of agro-pastoral
landuse transformation in Northwest Cameroon, identifying population pressure, climate
change, environmental degradation, land grabbing, change ...
From Pan to Plate: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush, 1849-1865
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
After President Polk’s announcement in December 1848 of the gold discovery in
California, thousands flocked to the region. Lured by the ready market of potential
customers, daguerreotypists also made their way. The ...