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Designing a holistic prototype and evaluating the requirements of long-term care electronic health record
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Our research is aimed at exploring the design requirements of long-term care information system or electronic health record based on the needs of the care providers. It helped in evaluating the current status of long-term ...
Uncovering morphoproteomic relationships using probabilistic graphical models and resource description framework knowledgebases
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The heterogeneity of individual patient responses to conventional drug therapies is one of the central problems in personalized medicine and has great impact on clinical outcomes. To address this problem a new field of ...
Sythesis, characterization and reactivity of platinum (II) peroxo, alkoxide and triflate compunds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The chemistry of a collection of platinum(II) compounds, including peroxo, alkoxide and triflate compounds, were synthesized and studied. This involved ...
Somatic subjects : the pathological path to Victorian womanhood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This project explores the role of disease in narratives of female development throughout the nineteenth century, primarily British women's novels. Specifically, I analyze the ways in which female subjectivities are formed ...
Composite-semiconductor-based micro power source
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This work covers the development of a radioisotope loaded micropower source from the initial stages of design, simulation and fabrication through the characterization and performance optimization of the device. Various ...
Journeying a/cross the divide : an auto/ethnographic performance of coming out
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Over the past two years, I conducted ethnographic interviews of respondents who identify as gay, lesbian, and bisexual to collect their coming-out ...
Insights into the first three diverging diamond interchanges in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This thesis aims to further the knowledge about diverging diamond interchanges (DDIs) by exploring several aspects of existing DDIs including performance measures, business surveys, bicycle and pedestrian issues found ...
A study of reproductive toxicology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is a ubiquitous environmental contaminant. Epidemiological studies suggest that DEHP decreases masculinization of ...
Increasing soybean yields through management and the role for nitrogen fixation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
A high yield soybean experiment was conducted to compare the management intensive practices of recent soybean record holder, Kip Cullers, to conventional production practices in 2008 to 2010. Preplant fertilizer applications ...
The exploration of the "Flutie factor" and philanthropic contributions to NCAA Divsion II football championship institutions from 1997-2010
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the phenomenon, the “Flutie Factor,” and philanthropic contributions to NCAA Division II football championship institutions. This research expanded on a ...
Effects of a patient's name and image on medical knowledge acquisition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The two-fold aim of this study was to determine if there are differences in medical students' (MS) knowledge acquisition after being provided with (1) ...
Yersinia pestis YopK contributes to immune evasion and cell death to promote plague
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] YopK is a 21-kilodalton protein that is secreted and translocated by the type three secretion system of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of pneumonic, ...
The filth and the fury : a rhetoric of punk
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] On December 1st, 1976, punk exploded onto the British cultural scene when the Sex Pistols appeared on Thames Television's Today show. Sporting a ...
The nation of Islam's struggle for civil rights and liberties, 1930-1971
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Beginning in the fall of 1939, Charles Hamilton Houston, professor of law at the Howard University School of Law and the legal pioneer generally credited ...
Nanogap embedded silver gratings for surface plasmon enhanced fluorescence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Plasmonic nanostructures have been extensively used in the past few decades for applications in sub-wavelength optics, data storage, optoelectronic circuits, microscopy and bio-photonics. The enhanced electric field produced ...
Identification of an interaction network of Arabidopsis transcription factors and MAP kinases involved in chitin signaling and pathogen defense
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Chitin, found in the fungal cell walls, is an established elicitor of plant defense responses. Our previous study, using the ATH1 Affymetrix microarrays ...
The effects of hydrocolloids and squash on the texture and color of scones with reduced fat
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Obesity has become a major issue in the United States due to poor food choices of individuals and limited low fat items on the market that consumers are willing to eat. By making products that are lower in fat, consumers ...
The labor of action for the operation of truth : the phenomenology and dramatic Platonism of Meisner technique as refined and extended by William Esper
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This dissertation deals with the application of philosophical thought and methods to school of actor training known as Meisner technique. The initial goal is to illuminate and improve the theory, practice, and pedagogy of ...
Faking it : the seduction of surface
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This creative research conflates three of my personal obsessions -- the French Rococo, television, and craft materials -- and culminates with a collection of wearable sculptures that satirize the often-ostentatious masquerade ...
The effects of high dose vitamin D supplementation on glucose metabolism and inflammation in obese adolescents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Purpose: The primary aim of this study was to determine the effects of improving vitamin D status through daily supplementation of 4000 IU would improve markers of glucose metabolism and inflammation in obese adolescents. ...