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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 ...
Administrator view on technology directorship in southeast Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The purpose of this inquiry study is to discover how district school administrators perceive the directorship skills needed for a successful technology director in Missouri. At this stage in the research, the skill needs ...
Robust and efficient process for acceptance testing of radiation therapy machines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The current (legacy) paradigm for acceptance testing (AT), commissioning, and ongoing quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) of linac and treatment planning systems (TPS) is extremely inefficient requiring substantial ...
No people like #showpeople : Broadway performers' ethnographic social media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The occupational folk group of Broadway musical theater performers uses folklore in public spaces as a kind of representational strategy for the group as a whole. This strategy is significant in representing the group’s ...
This great prayerful tradition : American presidents preaching public theology at the National Prayer Breakfast
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the speeches delivered by American presidents at the National Prayer Breakfast (NPB) from its inception in 1953 until 2016, as well as the rhetorical context of the NPB. ...
Examining relationships between first-grade achievement, student socioeconomic status, and student-teacher relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
As recent literature has demonstrated, student-teacher relationships (STRs) and socioeconomic (SES) have been strongly associated with student academic achievement. This study was specifically interested in investigating ...
The influence of Bands of America on one high school marching band : a single case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
The purpose of this research study was to examine the influence of participation in Bands of America competitions (hereafter referred to as BOA) on one central Missouri high school marching band program. I chose to study ...
Spatial modeling of aboveground carbon dynamics of the U. S. central hardwood forest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Central Hardwood Forest (CHF) is one of the largest forested biomes in the United States and its aboveground carbon dynamics have both regional and global significances. Thus, the aboveground carbon dynamics of CHF are of ...
Family support and prosocial behaviors in U. S. Mexican and European American young adults : the intervening roles of respect and sociocognitive/emotive traits
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The primary aim of this study is to consider mothers, fathers, and siblings as socialization agents of young adult's prosocial behaviors and to consider ...
Utilizing multi-commodity flow formulations to solve network protection problems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The identification of critical network components is of interest to both interdictors wishing to degrade the network's performance, and to defenders ...
Al-Tahtawi's translations of French works : a precursor to Nahda's and literary modernity in the Arab world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "This thesis showed that the Nahda project, despite its partial failure because it did end with the end of the century due to the new circumstances and ...