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Killing "woman" : gender and violence in selected plays by Sheila Callaghan and Marisa Wegrzyn
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
One of the most popular manifestations of spectacle in the theatre is violence. Frequently, violence on the stage manifests in the form of violence towards women at the hands of men. As a woman violence and intimacy designer, ...
Plasma treatment effects on resin-based tooth restoration improvements
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The dental restoration is the recovery of the function, integrity and morphology of missing tooth structure using dental restorative materials. Recent ...
Muse, number 48 (2014)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2014)
The lower senses in early Netherlandish epiphany altarpieces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were a time of growing affective piety and engagement with the material culture of Christian devotion in Northern Europe. The three so-called lower senses of smell, touch, ...
When Walmart leaves small towns : vulnerability, food insecurity and community resilience
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
confirmed that many residents in these areas rely on government assistance programs, especially SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program), the most extensive federal nutrition program in the U.S. About 43.7 percent of households in Caruthersville...
Spirals of silence : examining Afrocentric and Eurocentric hairstyling for black women in broadcast newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Optimization of Handover, Survivability, Multi-Connectivity and Secure Slicing in 5G Cellular Networks using Matrix Exponential Models and Machine Learning
(2022)
This works proposes optimization of cellular handovers, cellular network survivability modeling, multi-connectivity and secure network slicing using matrix exponentials and machine learning techniques. We propose matrix ...
The Victorian Preacher’s Malady: The Metaphorical Usage of Gout in the Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This dissertation examines the use of the gout metaphor in the life and writings of
one of Victorian England’s most eminent preachers and gout sufferers, the Baptist Charles
Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892). Careful scrutiny ...
So doth, so is religion : John Donne and diplomatic contexts in the Reformed Netherlands
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
Sellin examines the view of the Protestant Reformation as held by John Donne by recounting the poet's actions and words as a diplomat at the Hague, as well as throughout the Netherlands.
Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned: The Dramatic Potency of Confession on the Early Modern English Shakespearean Stage
(2023)
Though forcefully absent in its traditional practice by political and religious reformation, evidence of confession in early modern English drama remained and became representative of an exchange of power between dramatic ...
Exploring college food insecurity : a qualitative case study of the perspectives of the University of Central Missouri food pantry clientele
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
campus food pantry, the researcher conducted a series of interviews with a cross section of volunteers, staffed leaders, and food pantry clients. The study produced 5 significant themes. 1) UCM students are balancing multiple responsibilities with a...
A thousand TV shows : applying a rhizomatic lens to television genres
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
One frequent technique for studying television is through genre. However, with the complex television environment of the 21st century, many genre studies do not adequately account for how generic television programs intersect ...
If it feeds, it leads : eating, media, identity, and ecofeminist food journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This project explored contemporary food journalism and placed it in the larger context of American history, asking how such media made eating a matter of public concern. In other words, it asked: how does food journalism invite us to our eating...
Pan-American Musical Exchange: The Relationship between Camargo Guarnieri And Carleton Sprague Smith
(2023)
This dissertation focuses on the relationship between Brazilian composer Camargo Guarnieri and American flutist Carleton Sprague Smith, exploring their intersecting lives and the compositions that emerged from their ...
The lost cause of Southern Country Club : an ethnographic study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This ethnographic study features a non-profit member owned country club in the Southern United States, Southern Country Club (SCC). SCC is an old guard ...
Comprehensive profiling of micro RNA in human papillomavirus-associated squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Temporal decision making using unsupervised learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
With the explosion of ubiquitous continuous sensing, on-line streaming clustering continues to attract attention. The requirements are that the streaming clustering algorithm recognize and adapt clusters as the data evolves, ...
Big ideas in little boxes : nation building in three nineteenth-century American parlor games by Milton Bradley and Company
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Milton Bradley and Company manufactured its first game, The Checkered Game of Life, in 1860, only months before the American Civil War broke out. Soon after, it produced the Myriopticon A Historical Panorama of the Rebellion, ...