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Maplewood Barn Theatre book
(1974-04)
The concept of Arts in the Parks is not new in the United States. The provision of natural and manmade theatres and amphitheatres in major American
cities has been actively in process from the late Nineteenth Century. ...
An Energy Efficient Addressing Scheme For a Static Wireless Sensor Network
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)
In this thesis, we propose architecture for a static wireless sensor network where sensors are arranged into a zones with the nodes at each zone interconnected with nodes in sub zones. We also provide an energy efficient ...
Coparental strategies for managing childhood chronic illness in post-divorce families
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (2010) estimates that 15% of children in United States require special health care for a chronic condition. Because...
Self-authorship developing within the Sinclair School of Nursing students /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
(Sandars & Jackson, 2015). Faculty and administrators have sought ways to improve their educational programs to better prepare health care professionals (Blue, Mitcham, Smith, Raymond, & Greenberg, 2010; Gillett, 2010; Johnson, 2013). The theoretical...
Christian media framing of gay marriage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This mixed methods study explores Christian media's framing of gay marriage from 2010 to 2015, looking at a sample of articles on Christianity Today's website before and after gay marriage became legal. Using mixed methods, the researcher looked...
Development and validation of men's sexualizing behaviors of women scale
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Sexualization has been posited to be a part of a larger process of socialization with negative implications (APA, 2010; Ward, 2016). Recent reviews of gender-based violence...
Frame interpolation in H.264
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In video transmission over low-bandwidth networks, videos are often encoded at low frame rates. At the decoder side, frame interpolation is often ...
Temporary public eating places : food safety knowledge and practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Food borne illness outbreaks are still a serious health problem in the US, even though the knowledge and training materials needed to prevent the outbreaks are readily available. It is important for those whose activities ...
Perspective : cultural contexts, little magazines, and networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "This essay has surveyed a broad swath of criticism of little magazines, established both critical and cultural contexts for Perspective, assessed questions of archival evidence...
The National Endowment for Democracy: a quantitative analysis on the effectiveness of grants promoting democracy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This paper seeks to analyze how effective the National Endowment for Democracy's (NED) grants are at promoting democracy. The expressed purpose of the ...
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 of poultry litter...
Development and application of variable rate irrigation techniques on non-uniform soils using center-pivot irrigation systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
was calculated from the deep reading of the system because the EC from the deep reading had the better correlation with the calibration soil samples from the Marsh Pivot. Six irrigation treatments were used for corn irrigation in 2009 and 2010. In 2009, 15 mm...
Damaged
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
I have always been fascinated by the psychology [i.e. of] human and what motivates behaviors and choices made in life. This interest is more profound than merely my own inactive and proactive conduct, it also involves ...
Social sacrifice : creativity stifled by control
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
My thesis centers on the idea of "societal control that results in stifled creativity within an individual". We begin life able to playfully express imaginative ideas until our ideas are judged and we start to question ...
Industry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Artists throughout the centuries have infused their art with their ideological outlook in order to persuade, educate or shock target audiences. Typically, these ideologies, revolve around religious and political systems. ...
Development of a two-dimensional human thermal model for EVA applications
(University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002)
The human thermoregulatory system, with its active and passive components, is difficult to model due to nonlinearities, complex interactions, and a lack of understanding of many of the active thermoregulatory mechanisms. ...
The relationship between customers' personalities and their evaluations of service quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study examined the relationship between customers' personalities and their evaluations of the quality of service in a restaurant. The researcher, ...
A closer look at the rhetoric of rape
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Based on the research of Lakoff and Turner, combined with studies in Burkean theory, and the representation of rape, this work presents the problematic use of metaphoric language in US Court rape trials. These are the cause ...
Bounded rationality for BitTorrent networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] As peer-to-peer networking has becoming a focus in the global networking realm, peer-to-peer distributed systems have been through rapid developments ...
Explorations of geometric combinatorics in vector spaces over finite fields
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
We study how large a set of points needs to be in a vector space over a finite field in order for the points to determine all of a certain type of geometric structure. In addition we show that there are key differences ...