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If they don't win it's a shame
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2015)
Mizzou alumni have been covering the Show-Me State's beloved baseball franchises for more than a century. As the 2015 Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals return to the diamond after deep playoff runs in 2014, Tiger ...
The Funerary Stele of Heliodora, Astrologer
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2019)
, and a considerable number of further examples known but not yet published, the stele in the University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology belongs to a tiny group of such gravestones with unusual interest and, indeed, a unique description...
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 ...
Essays on behavioral finance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation consists of three essays on behavioral finance. In the first essay, we proposes a new daily market-level investor sentiment index (Photo Pessimism) constructed...
Creating an imperial city: Kansas City in the 1920s
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-04)
This thesis is a community study of Kansas City in the
1920s as a city working to assume a prominent place within the
emerging American market empire. It begins by exploring the
role that men and women played in altering ...
Developing a predictive model to identify job satisfaction among Missouri secondary assistant principals using the Minnesota satisfaction questionnaire
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"The purpose of this quantitative study is to determine if a predictive model can be created to identify job satisfaction among Missouri secondary assistant principals using the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ). A one-shot, non...
Painting the Mundane: An Examination of the Life and Career of René Magritte
(2013)
This thesis explores the important role René Magritte's biography plays in relation
to his work as a painter. His works were primarily inspired by his middle class lifestyle
and upbringing, something that was uncommon ...
Bed degradation of the lower Missouri River
(2013-06-04)
The phenomenon of bed degradation can be due to a multiplicity of causes, but ultimately reflects a change in either the sediment input or sediment transport capacity of a system. Causes for the accelerated rate of degradation of the lower Missouri...
MU Large ensemble recital programs, 2018-2019
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 2018)
Collection of programs from ensembles given during the 2018-2019 academic year given by students and faculty of the Department of Music at the University of Missouri--Columbia....
Cleared to land in the desert: commercial air travel's role in the growth and development of Las Vegas as a world-class travel destination
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-04)
This study provides a history of commercial aviation in Las Vegas, focusing on the
powerful influence commercial air travel had with the financial help of the federal
government on Las Vegas‟s growth and development as ...
Mizzou, volume 103, number 4 (2015 Summer)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2015)
Seizing the elephant : Kansas City and the great western migration, 1840-1865
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
for the ride as he published a series of essays on his journey. Traveling by rail, steamboat, and wagon, his dispatches were laced with excitement and knowledge of a man who had only read about the American West in the hundreds of books, travel guides...
Use of financial planners and portfolio performance
(2016)
Using modern information economics as the conceptual framework and data from the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, this study adopts a decomposition technique to explore the relationship between the primary information ...
Point processes on the complex plane with applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] A point process is a random collection of points from a certain space, and point process models are widely used in areas dealing with spatial data. However, studies of point...
Omkāra Māndhātā: a paradise for pilgrims, Bibliography
(2011-07)
This bibliography is intended to accompany "Omkāra-Māndhātā-Mukti-Dhāma: a paradise for pilgrims" by Murari Lal Nagar, Sarla Devi Nagar, and Linda Canestraight.
O, Beastly Jew!: Allegorical Anti-Judaism in Thirteenth Century English Bestiaries
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
This thesis outlines the traditional anti-Judaic allegories found in the medieval
bestiary genre, demonstrates the transformations of these allegories within the English
scriptoria, and examines how these allegories ...
The Effect of Performance Condition on Second-Grade Student’s Rhythmic Accuracy While Sight-Reading
(2015-07-28)
The purpose of this study was to examine rhythmic performance accuracy while sightreading
rhythms using either rhythmic speaking, body percussion, or instruments. A
secondary purpose of this study was to study possible ...
Diego Rivera: constructing a myth
(2011)
Diego Rivera was a master of creating visual languages to express his ideas and beliefs. Throughout his life, he actively sought to define Mexican culture and his life through his art and his writing. Much of how he is ...
Adjusting organizational structure for cooperative longevity : Missouri farmers association, 1920 - 1950
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The objective of this qualitative exploratory study is to analyze the process which led Missouri Farmer Association (MFA) to dramatically change its organizational structure...
Muse, number 44-45 (2010-2011)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2011)