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Preservation and bias in the Cambrian fossil record
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Paleontology views deep time ecosystems through a taphonomic lens, biased and restricted by the controls enacted on each fossil deposit by various environmental factors, and including chemical and biological variables. ...
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)
Military controls over journalism and journalists during wartime have long existed in various forms. As multinational relations become more complex during a war, the military controls can extend beyond the journalists of warring countries...
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...
Seven Ancient Egyptian Figured Ostraca and a Decorated Sherd : The Wilber Collection in the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2015)
The role of newsletters in the future of independent journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
News organizations have innovated new methods of reaching the audience directly as the industry shifts to consumer supported revenue models. One strategy that has created buzz and is circulated widely, is the Email Newsletter. ...
A Nonlinear IV Likelihood-Based Rank Test for Multivariate Time Series and Long Panels
(Berkeley Electronic Press, 2010)
suggests that IV tests may be used to replace limits of other standard tests with integrated time series that are given by nonstandard stochastic integrals, even without a panel with which to pool test statistics....
Exploring "connectivity" at the college newspaper : can it help explain the success of the collegiate press?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The purpose of this study is to explore whether "connectivity" - the level of intimacy journalists have with their communities and how it influences their jobs - is at work in collegiate journalism. This qualitative study used interviews...
Research Files on Fragmenta Manuscripta
(2024)
Scope and Content Note: The Research Files on the Fragmenta Manuscripta Collection consist of research material describing fragments of manuscripts that make up the collection, dating from the eighth through the seventeenth ...
Decadal mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from satellite radar altimetry and its contribution to global sea level change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this research, we estimated the decadal mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet using the European Space Agency's ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellite radar altimeter data over the time...
Thoughts on the Provenance of Some Merovingian-Era Buckles at the University of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2010)
"Among the thousands of objects in the collection of the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri is a little-known group of early medieval artifacts from France. Given by the artist Evelyn Borchard Metzger in 1962, the European...
The battle within : a mixed methods exploration into political journalism and role strain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Research into journalistic roles has received world-wide attention. What tends to be underrepresented in these studies are the challenges that journalists must overcome in fulfilling their idealized roles. Therefore, this ...
Development and evaluation of a terrestrial animal-borne video system for ecological research
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Ashland, Missouri. My research shows that our AVEDs are powerful new tools for ecological research that do not elevate stress levels of captive white-tailed deer and enable ecological research opportunities that traditional methods (e.g., radio telemetry...
The aura of reproduction : plaster cast collections at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
. Louis, Missouri. These include the collection at the University of Missouri-Columbia that was compiled by John Pickard, that of the German artist Auguste Gerber that was then acquired by Southeast Missouri State University, and lastly...
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...
Entrained Air-Void System For Durable Highway Concrete
(2020)
, degree of saturation, and sample conditioning method. Based on an analysis of significant factors reported in the literature, in this study, a series of procedural and functional changes were proposed to better describe F-T durability as a function...
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 Effects of Institutional Merit-Based Aid On the Enrollment Decisions of Needy Students
(Enrollment Management Journal, 2008)
-based aid in needy-student financial aid packages. Using a unique empirical approach in which the decisions of University of Oregon applicants to apply for federal financial aid and/or enroll at the University of Oregon are modeled jointly, results indicate...
Practical and ethical dilemmas in presenting investigative reporting through individual anecdotes and investigative reporting fellowship at the Oregonian
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Anecdotes are an often-used tool for adding a human face to a complex investigation. But what are the effects of using anecdotal leads in written pieces...
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...
Marital conflict and spousal wellbeing : the moderating role of emotion regulation strategies among couples in first married families and stepfamilies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
strategies on marital conflict on marital satisfaction and mental health would be greatest for stepfamily couples. Findings from a series of Actor-Partner Interdependence Moderation Models (APIMoM) revealed that for wives' in first-marriages and remarriages...