in the everyday practices of lifestyle. This dissertation profiles one such group, Dancing Rabbit ecovillage, as a social movement "node," containing hallmarks of cultural, lifestyle, and social movements. Members of a node, like the one portrayed in this work...

This dissertation explores the physiognomy of Albertus Magnus, which is contained within his commentary on De animalibus, the three works on animals by Aristotle. This physiognomy provides an opportunity to demonstrate the ...

with an important issue on equivalent discrete-time channel modeling, as the basis for other topics. Based on the proper channel modeling, a practical Doppler spread estimation method is proposed for mobile orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems...

My father, a Vietnam veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, took his life in November 1976, when I was only a year old. The nature of his death kept the details of his life, his illness, and his ...

Securing energy resources has become a key aspect of foreign policy-making since the 1970s. States have used military and economic foreign policy tools to secure the supply of energy to their domestic markets. With the ...

: active alcoholism, acceptance of a problem, and recovery. Sliding into Home is a family tragedy told with a non-linear structure. The Disappointments is a semi-autobiographical inspired work about my journey through treatment. The final play, The Recovery...

Diego Rivera was a master of creating visual languages to express his ideas and beliefs. Throughout his life, he actively sought to define Mexican culture and his life through his art and his writing. Much of how he is ...

The first five years of an educator's career are the most important time in determining if they will stay in the education profession. With the stress of starting a new career, novice teachers are often asked to do the ...

Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711-1780) dedicated her life to writing and teaching young women. In all, she wrote 70 volumes of prose including several articles in magazines she founded and edited, novels, fairy ...

Controlling the interactions between incident electromagnetic energy and matter is of critical importance for many civil and military applications, such as photocatalysis, solar cells, optics, radar detection, communications, ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Derived formally from Aristotle's Minor Work of the same title, my variation of "On Marvellous Things [Seen and] Heard" explores a range of literary ...

In this study different in vitro models were developed to study the long term and short term drug- drug interactions occurring upon oral administration. MDCK cells were stably transfected for the simultaneous expression ...

“Staging The Merchant of Venice in the 21ˢᵗ Century: A Dramaturgical Case Study” aims to document the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s 2015 production of The Merchant of Venice by framing it within the historical ...

This research on the Brazilian composer Walter Burle Marx (b São Paulo, 1902; d Akron, Ohio, 1990) is part of an ambitious project, which aims at publishing a performing edition of all four of Burle Marx's symphonies. ...

 Francis Poulenc's (1899-1963) music, along with that of his early twentieth-century French contemporaries, occupies a unique place in the classical music canon. Its accessibility, and often its humor, led many scholars ...

Morse examines the symbolism of the vessel as a representation of man in both the French prose romance La Queste del Sant Graal and English poem Cleanness.

Economic development policy is an important topic for legislatures across the country. The contemporary trend of economic development policy has spread throughout the country in response to the political and economic changes ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Current scholars of cinematic embodiment recognize limitations in psychoanalytic theories of spectatorship, but their works are still too dependent on ...

The [lambda]-calculus provides a simple, well-established framework for research in functional programming languages that readily lends itself to the use offormal methods--that is, the use of mathematically sound techniques ...