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Child death, grief, and the community in high and late Medieval England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"William of Canterbury, one of the authors of the Thomas Becket miracle collection, reports in a twelfth-century miracle that an eight-year-old boy named Phillip was looking at rocks by a lake located in the county of ...
Explaining variation in adoption and implementation of anti-corruption policies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Since the negative effects of corruption on the quality of government are becoming more apparent, the anti-corruption industry is expanding. Yet while scholars have developed several anti-corruption policies, political ...
Biology of uterine glands : impact on reproductive function
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Pregnancy loss is the most common complication of human gestation, and roughly one-half of conceptions result in pregnancy loss, most frequently in the ...
PopZ and FtsZ coordinate polar growth termination and cell division in Agrobacterium tumefaciens
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Understanding how bacterial cells expand their cell walls is an important question with relevance to development of antibiotics. While many studies have focused on the regulation of bacterial elongation utilizing lateral ...
Mixed emotions and adjustment across development and cultures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Emerging literature on mixed emotions has reported inconsistent relationships between mixed emotions and psychological adjustment, and little is known ...
Let's agree to agree : effects of self-awareness and social identity on online deliberation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This experiment assesses the effects of ingroup versus outgroup communication in an online, one-on-one, anonymous setting on perceptions of deliberation quality in a conversation task pertaining to abortion policy. ...
Detecting subtle variation in two cryptic primate families (tarsiidae & lorisidae) through morphology and genetics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Cryptic species look morphologically similar but in fact are several different species lumped together. This is problematic as it hinders conservation efforts and makes it challenging to infer the evolutionary history of ...
Regeneration of insulin-producing [beta]-cells during recovery from disease: a cure for Type 1 Diabetes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic disease condition characterized by destruction of the insulin-producing [beta]-cells by self-reactive lymphocytes ...
Essays on climate econometrics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This paper proposes a nonlinear cointegrating regression model based on the well-known energy balance climate model. Specifcally, I investigate the nonlinear cointegrating regression of mean of temperature anomaly distributions ...
Spill-over of memory effect in younger and older adults : can emotional information become associated with neutral episodic details
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] An extensive literature on the influence of emotion on memory asserts that memory for emotional information is remembered better than information lacking ...
Habitat selection and movements of diploid and triploid grass carp in a large reservoir
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Grass Carp, an herbivorous fish introduced in North America to control aquatic vegetation, has become an increasing ecological threat to aquatic ecosystems they invade. Grass Carp have the potential to cause declines and ...
BTrCP is required for HIV-1 Vpu modulation of CD4, GaLV Env, and BST-2/Tetherin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The HIV-1 accessory protein Vpu modulates numerous proteins, including the host proteins CD4 and BST-2/tetherin. Vpu interacts with the Skp, ...
Evaluations of driftable fractions of dicamba and 2,4-D to selected herbaceous and woody plant species
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Commercialization of 2,4-D and dicamba-resistant cotton and soybean has given producers another mechanism of action to control herbicide resistant weeds. As a result of the adoption of this technology, off-target movement ...
Transmission of teen pregnancy attitutdes between mothers and adolscent daughters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Mothers have a significant influence in transmitting sexuality-related attitudes to their daughters. Although, mothers may influence her older and younger daughters differently. Including more than one child from the family ...
Exploring the process of an obstacles to hiring foreign-born journalists in American newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
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Covering the court : a study of U.S. Supreme Court journalists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
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Filmmakers' conception of authorship and corresponding effect on the ethics of representation in documentary film
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Documentary has long held a relationship with journalism as both rely on the indexical quality of the image. However, where does documentary and ...
Avoiding misleading maps : encoding and decoding 2018 midterm election results in graphics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Reporting live "On hair"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] When observing the on-air hairstyles for Black women television anchors in the United States, it's commonly the same look: straight or ...
Our own land
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)