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Rivers running through : an urban environmental history of the Kansas Cities and the Missouri River
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] An environmental history of Kansas City and an urban history of the Missouri River, this dissertation shows how interconnected the city and the river were through the twentieth...
The young Thomas Jefferson's geographic thought, 1743 - 1784
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-13)
Thomas Jefferson has long been admired for his influence in many arenas in the colonial era of American history; however, his collection of writings has not been closely scrutinized for his geographic thought. This thesis ...
A shellabration of early life : exploring the taphonomy, diversity, and distribution of small shelly fossils surrounding archaeocyathid reef systems in the Harkless System, Death Valley, NV
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
framework builders and their small shelly fossil (SSF) inhabitants. This study focuses on lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) SSF assemblages from the Harkless Formation in southern Esmeralda County, Nevada, as a comprehensive systematic and quantitative...
Illustrated editions : depicting the eighteenth-century British novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This dissertation on illustrated British fiction from the 1740s to 1830s argues that a vital part of novelistic interpretation is omitted when illustrations are overlooked. Rather than viewing the novels of the eighteenth ...
Making the Frontier’s Anatomical Engineers: Osteopathy, A. T. Still (1828–1917), his Acolytes and Patients
(2020)
in Kirksville, Missouri, the school saw massive growth during the period from 1892 to 1898. Using student ledger books, I analyze the first students to determine who became osteopaths. Many of these students came to osteopathy as a second career, after having...
Muse, number 36-38 (2002-2004)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2008)
Undergraduate catalog, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2001-03
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2001)
Muse, number 44-45 (2010-2011)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2011)
Climate and land use effects on hydrologic processes and water allocation in a primarily rain-fed, agricultural watershed
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] There is a need to raise our understanding of the impact of climate variability and change on hydrologic processes at the watershed scale. This is important, particularly...
The spirit of exhibition and visual pedagogy in the work of Charles and Ray Eames
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This project examines the ways in which Charles and Ray Eames promoted visual pedagogy in their exhibitions and new media experiments. Through cooperative efforts with various artists, designers, educators, scholars, ...
Preschool piano methods and developmentally appropriate practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of this study was to analyze preschool piano method books and identify ways in which they were or were not consistent with guidelines of Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Childhood Programs (Bredekamp ...
Novel methods for quantifying lung and cardiac diseases with magnetic resonance imaging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an advanced imaging technique that has transformed the field of medical diagnosis and treatment. In the field of lung and cardiac imaging, MRI boasts the ...
The military versus the press : Japanese military controls over one U.S. journalist, John B. Powell, in Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese war, 1937-1941
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
one independent U.S. journalist John B. Powell and his journal The China Weekly Review in Shanghai during the second Sino-Japanese War, August 1937 through December 1941. Powell's case exemplified the dilemma facing independent journalists of neutral...
Beyond the border war : student civil rights activism at the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri, 1946-1954
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines post-World War II student civil rights activism at two Midwestern college campuses, the University of Missouri (MU) and the University...
An evaluation of a precollege program on college success
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a precollege summer program at Missouri University of Science and Technology known as Hit the Ground Running (HGR). It used a convergent mixed-methods research design, combining data from...
First Principles Method for Complex Cement Structure and High Entropy Alloys
(2021)
The ultimate objective of this dissertation contains two different areas of materials – secondary of Portland cement structure and high entropy alloys (HEAs). Similar concept of the computational method was applied to ...
Mathematical problems from cryobiology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Cryobiology is the study of life anddeath at low temperatures and provides a fascinating setting for applied mathematics. The interdisciplinary nature of cryobiology mirrors the diversity of applications ranging from animal ...
The cult of Rodin : words, photographs, and colonial history in the spread of Auguste Rodin's reputation in northeast Asia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This dissertation explores the growth of Auguste Rodin's phenomenal acclaim in Northeast Asia, where he was introduced in the early 20th century, when China, Japan, and Korea were undergoing social, political, and cultural ...
Chapel Hill, Missouri: Lost Visions of America's Vanguard on the Western Frontier 1820 to 1865
(2014-09-30)
Despite its present circumstance as an extinct Missouri town in the geographic
heart of the Midwest, Chapel Hill College was once the vanguard of the burgeoning
American empire. In 1852, Chapel Hill College stood as a ...