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Factors that influence ease of wayfinding in a hospital setting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[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 ...
Plant protein lysine acetylation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Amongst the hundreds of known protein posttranslational modifications, lysine acetylation is noteworthy for its widespread distribution, and for having ...
Taiwan old age allowance policy : effects on saving and consumption
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
of growing importance throughout Asia. The main purpose of this dissertation is to provide a better understanding of how and to what extent the introduction of an important social assistance program in Taiwan - the Old Age Allowance (OAA) - in the mid-1990s...
The nature of time-based forgetting in immediate memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
-based forgetting does not exist or is only a mediating factor in determining forgetting from other sources. This dissertation investigates these claims. In Chapters 1 and 2 I investigate whether time per se causes forgetting or whether time is a mediating factor...
This hour is mine : a novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This creative dissertation is in the form of a novel that explores the contemporary form of the Gothic novel. The classic Gothic novel used haunted settings and supernatural...
NIR fluorescent sensors for blood pH and fructose
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Blood serum parameters are tightly associated with human beings' physiological activities, therefore the real-time monitoring of blood serum parameters ...
Counterexamples to Strichartz Type Inequalities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The study of Strichartz s inequality is very important in the theory of nonlinear Shrodinger equations. The inequalities do not hold for all choice of ...
Chemistry dissertation (not yet available)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The relationship between satisfaction with life as a whole and three other factors (domain satisfaction, social network ties, and perceptions of service delivery): Rural Russian village panel study 1995-2003
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] It is found in the literature that satisfaction with life as a whole (LS) is very multi-dimensional subjective indicator. This dissertation wanted to see this multi...
A world the printers made : print culture in New York, 1783-1830
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[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...
Private devotion, common prayer, and the British novel, 1700-1815
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
focuses on its secular contexts. This dissertation returns that literary history to its religious contexts, using debates about private devotion and the Anglican common prayer tradition as lens through which to approach the eighteenth-century novel. Those...
Poetry of the American suburbs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
, they do so ironically. This dissertation argues that poets seek to expose the problems that underlie suburbia, even while they associate themselves forthrightly with this environment. In particular, Poetry of the American Suburbs uses historical research...
Studies on the development of a bacillus endospore-based microparticle vaccine platform
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
adjuvants are required. The antigen display on Bacillus endospore system provides a unique antigen delivery system with inherent adjuvant properties that is suitable for both parenteral and noninvasive delivery routes of immunization. This dissertation...
Essays on the economics of education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The first chapter in this dissertation follows a cohort of initially high performing Missouri students from grade-3 through grade-9 and examines which school factors influence...
Performance, playwriting and pedagogy : teaching devised theatre in the digital age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
performance to students saturated by visual, auditory, and moving media. My dissertation explores how to create a pedagogy using devised theatre that not only recognizes the influence of the digital world on our students, but incorporates an interdisciplinary...
A comprehensive study of marine sediments of NanTroSEIZE Project, offshore Japan : clay mineralogy, consolidation, and microfabric
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation investigates the clay mineral assemblages, consolidation state, and microfabric of sedimentary strata along the Kumano transect of Nankai Trough, offshore...
Grade 4-6 student conceptions and utilization of informal and formal variable representations across mathematically equivalent tasks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This study reports how 24 grade 4-6 students in one elementary and middle school interpreted formal (e.g., x + y = 12) and informal representations of variables (e.g., □ + ∆ = 12). While interpretations for variables ...
Microenvironmental regulation of ovarian cancer dissemination via activation of the Wnt signaling pathway
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Disseminating single cells and multicellular aggregates (MCAs) and experience compressive forces exerted upon them by ascites fluid and are exposed to lysophosphatidic acid, aberrantly adhesive mesothelium and a collagen-rich ...
Gene replacement restores the contractile and passive properties of skeletal muscle in murine models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal disease caused by the loss of the dystrophin protein. Loss of mobility is a key clinical presentation in ...
Phylogenomics of ancient whole genome duplications in the Brassicales
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Ancient whole genome duplications (WGDs), which multiply copies of the entire genome within an organism, are ubiquitous throughout the evolutionary ...