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"This land is my land" : authority and landscape in American women's nonfiction, 1843-1903
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "Thus, the arc of my dissertation—from a landscape that is local and familiar to one that is vast and often incomprehensible—suggests that women confront ...
Living buildings as communication tools and informal learning environments for sustainable building education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The idea that sustainable buildings can be used as teaching tools for both formal and informal environmental education and sustainable building education (SBE) has gained attention in both research and practice. Evidence bases from existing studies...
Effective numerical methods to model dynamic behavior of springs with torsion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The purpose of this thesis is to find effective algorithms to numerically solve certain systems of differential equations that arise from standard Newtonian mechanics. Numerical models of elastica has already been well ...
Multi-source ontology-based maize phenotype search engine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
In the midst of this genomics era, major plant genome databases are collecting massive amounts of heterogeneous information, including sequence data, gene product information, as well as images and descriptions of mutant ...
The Deputy
(2021)
The Deputy is a play written by Rolf Hochhuth. Hochhuth was a German editor-turned-playwright who grew up as a Nazi youth. Something that we must understand is that to the Nazi youth of the 1930s and ‘40s, their own ...
The Role of Catholic Social Theory in Economic Policy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)
This dissertation examines Catholic Social Theory (CST) in the context of its relationship to and impact on economic policy. CST emerged formally in the latter part of the nineteenth century in response to social changes ...
Temporal and harmonic concerns in the music of Robert Carl
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Robert Carl is a composer-critic based in Hartford, Connecticut. His hyphenated
career has involved creating, teaching, and commenting on music for the latter half of the
twentieth century up to the present. Initially ...
A semantic framework for event-driven service composition
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-14)
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a popular paradigm for designing
distributed systems where loosely coupled services (i.e. computational entities) can be
integrated seamlessly to provide complex composite ...
Competency-based professional development : a case study of how recruiters perceive undergraduate business students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
D. McClelland claimed that employment recruiters should hire professionals based upon characteristics and skills and that these competencies could predict how employees would perform on the job. This approach to assessing ...
Perceptions of program effectiveness: an evaluation of a domestic violence treatment program
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-04-25)
Domestic violence intervention was created to essentially to stop intimate partner
violence through cognitive behavioral therapy. One of the programs that has been at the
forefront of domestic violence prevention is the ...
Sandoz Writing (Righting) History
(2015-06-19)
Mari Sandoz’s dedication to her research topics, personality, candor, and work ethic allowed her an intimate place alongside those she chose to write about. This yielded a moving written product. In the same way that Sandoz ...
The impact of technology on organizational change in public libraries : a qualitative study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation investigated the impact of technology on organization change in public libraries. Over the past 12 to 15 years, public access computers have been introduced into public libraries of all sizes. Once these ...
Assessing the independence of state parties : issue ownership and morality politics in US state party platforms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study uses party platforms to assess the degree of independence between state and national political parties in the United States in light of issue ownership theory and morality politics. Utilizing a coding scheme ...
Distributed Perimeter Firewall Policy Management Framework
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
A perimeter firewall is the first line of defense that stops unwanted packets (based on
defined firewall policies) entering the organization that deploys it. In the real world, every
organization maintains a perimeter ...
Combat and the possibility of posttraumatic growth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The psychological impact of war has been observed across time and culture. In the aftermath of wars throughout history, societies have experienced devastating post-war mental health and readjustment problems (Wells et al., ...
Determination of the scale of fluctuation of cone penetration test data obtained from an alluvial site in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
To account for uncertainty in geotechnical projects, knowledge of the uncertainties should be understood. Many sources of uncertainties can be reduced with increased sampling and good practices, but due to the nature of geomaterials, inherent...
Thermal characterization and scaling of a nanodielectric composite for use in compact ultra-high voltage capacitors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The University of Missouri has been developing compact capacitors for use in high voltage, pulsed power and directed energy applications. The capacitors are made from a proprietary nanodielectric, MU100, which is a ...
The creation of The four million : O. Henry's influences and working methods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Though O. Henry's The Four Million was intended as an attack on Ward McAllister's idea of the Four Hundred, each man is mentioned only in passing in studies of the other. One chapter therefore contrasts the two men by ...
Finding the cost of freedom : academic freedom discourse as it pertains to the part-time instructor in higher education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Academic freedom has been an important facet of college teaching. However, the meaning of academic freedom is often nebulous and varied for many members of the college faculty. An estimated 48 percent of teaching faculty ...
A case study of the retirement portability for Missouri educators identifying and assessing the driving and restraining forces for policy change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The study was conducted to identify the policy factors that are driving selected public employment retirement systems to increase portability options ...