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Performing resurrection: upholding the spirit and legacy of El Salvador's Saint Oscar A. Romero through Bread and Puppet's and MECATE's radical theatre activism and liberation theology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Amidst death threats by the right-wing military for denouncing human rights violations during the Salvadoran Civil War, Salvadoran priest Archbishop Oscar A. Romero (1917-1980), a proponent of liberation theology, declared ...
Using metabolic and biochemical characteristics of postmortem muscle to investigate the interconnectedness of beef color, flavor, and tenderness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Understanding relationships between beef palatability and quality components are crucial for continued production of high quality and consistent beef products. Myoglobin concentrations at 48 and 336 h resulted in moderate, ...
Glutamine metabolism and interactions with mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 in porcine preimplantation embryos
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The ability to culture embryos has created opportunities for animal agriculture, including the refined selection of superior genetics, and for the medical field, allowing couples experiencing infertility to have biological ...
Reverse knowledge absorptive capacity of MNE-HQ (RKAC): conceptualization, theoretical framework, and empirical testing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Despite the increasing importance of reverse knowledge for innovation and competitive advantage of multinational enterprises (MNEs), the issue of how to make reverse knowledge transfer (RKT) more effective is under-explored. ...
Defeat data poisoning attacks on facial recognition applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In the modern era, facial photos are used for a wide array of applications, from logging into a smartphone to bragging about a weekend getaway. With the vast amount of use cases for facial images, adversaries will attack ...
Sustaining Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives in higher education: practices, successes, and challenges
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
INTRODUCTION: For the past decade, many educational institutions have launched initiatives to provide services and funding for professors to adopt, adapt, and create OER for enhancing student success. The initiatives could ...
Real-time detection of dopamine -- aptamer interactions in a nanopore: a label-free toolkit for study of nucleic-acid-based molecular sensors.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Understanding how small molecules regulate nucleic acid structures is important in both biomechanism elucidation and biotechnological applications. Through the conformational variation, native nucleic acid motifs can be ...
M-adic perturbations in Noetherian local rings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The purpose of this thesis is to develop methods for the study m-adic stability in an arbitrary Noetherian local ring. A key role is played by the Artin-Rees lemma. Using these techniques we establish new results about the ...
Homeless not hopeless: understanding how graduate students who experience homelessness and housing insecurity successfully navigate their education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Obtaining a college degree and, even more so, a graduate degree is a critical component of many people's American dream. For some completing a graduate degree is a milestone of success. However, due to rising tuition and ...
Evaluating the roles spinal plasticity and an accessory inspiratory muscle have in a rodent model of respiratory motor neuron death
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Death by ventilatory failure most frequently occurs in patients with neuromuscular diseases in which there is a loss of respiratory motor neurons. There are currently no significant treatments to prolong or correct for ...
An investigation of the single-molecule biophysics of membrane systems with atomic force microscopy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Cell membranes define the boundary of the fundamental unit of all organisms. They maintain the biochemical gradients of the cell and are carefully regulated by various membrane proteins and factors. Understanding of these ...
Interactions of parvoviruses with the cellular DNA damage response and CTCF
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Nuclear DNA viruses must be able to simultaneously access cellular factors that aid their life cycle while evading inhibitory factors in order to sustain their expression and replication. Establishment of nuclear sites ...
Deep learning architectures for 2D and 3D scene perception
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Scene understanding is a fundamental problem in computer vision tasks, that is being more intensively explored in recent years with the development of deep learning. In this dissertation, we proposed deep learning structures ...
The etiologic, theory-based, ontogenetic hierarchical framework of alcohol use disorder: a translational systematic review of reviews
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Modern nosologies (e.g., ICD-11, DSM-5) for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and dependence prioritize reliability and clinical presentation over etiology, resulting in a diagnosis that is not always strongly grounded in basic ...
Investigating age- and virulence factor- dependent innate immune activation during neonatal meningitis associated E. coli infection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Neonatal meningitis-associated Escherichia coli (NMEC) is a leading cause of early-onset sepsis and meningitis. While current antibiotic protocols have significantly reduced mortality associated with neonatal sepsis and ...
Understanding how the identity development of Division II student-athletes impacts student behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This qualitative study explores how Division II, National Collegiate Athletic Association, athletes who study STEM developed their identities as a collegiate athlete and STEM student. This researcher conducted semi-structured ...
A quantitative analysis of teacher gender, race, and educational attainment on teacher retention in rural northwest Missouri public schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The purpose of the study is to analyze disaggregate rural public teacher retention data to determine significant differences in retention by race, gender, and educational attainment. Missouri public schools in Northwest ...
Industrial hemp for grain and fiber planning budget
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2020)
"This guide presents information useful to farmers considering industrial hemp production for grain and fiber in the 2021 crop year. Table 1 presents income and cost estimates for industrial hemp grain and fiber production ...
Dairy (confinement) planning budget
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2020)
"This budget presents information useful to dairy farmers. Table 1 presents estimates for the 2021 year on a 150-cow confinement dairy (replacements raised on farm) in Missouri. Assumptions were based on price forecasts ...
Southern Missouri beef cow-calf planning budget
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2020)
"This budget presents information useful to beef farmers. Table 1 provides estimates for the 2021 year on a cow-calf operation (50-cow herd size and purchased replacements) in Southern Missouri for a fall and spring calving ...