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On marvellous things seen and heard
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[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 appropriations of art...
Shaping identity : an analysis of Hellenistic southern Italian ceramics and its implications for cultural and societal change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
"The years between the fourth and first centuries B.C.E. were years of tremendous change for the Greek and Italic cities of south Italy. The growth of Rome endangered and eventually ended the sovereignty of the southern ...
Mechanisms of polar growth in the alphaproteobacterial order rhizobiales
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
All bacteria elongate and divide to faithfully reproduce their cell shape. Understanding the mechanisms that drive bacterial morphology requires an intimate knowledge of how the cell wall is synthesized. During cell ...
The effects of structural modifications on sigma receptor binding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The sigma receptor is a unique receptor family that has two subtypes: sigma1 and sigma2. Sigma1 receptors are involved in several physiological functions such as psychosis and depression. Sigma2 receptors are expressed in ...
Topics in spectral and inverse spectral theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This dissertation is concerned with two major classes of operators and provides various spectral and inverse spectral results for them. In the first part of this work a special class of one-dimensional discrete unitary ...
Topical Nanoparticulate Formulation of Drugs for Ocular Keratitis
(2015-08-11)
The primary objective of this project is to develop drug-loaded polymeric nanoparticles
suspended in a biocompatible gel for topical delivery of therapeutic agents commonly
employed in the treatment of ocular viral/bacterial ...
"Send only your serious cases" : delivering flu to Toronto: an anthropological analysis of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This project looks at the 1918-19 pandemic influenza experience in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Based on historical records (most notably death registries and archival material) this work strives to understand the social, ...
Applications of the fourier transform to convex geometry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The thesis is devoted to the study of various problems arising from Convex Geometry and Geometric Functional Analysis using tools of Fourier Analysis. In chapters two through four we consider the Busemann-Petty problem and ...
Forging a national diet : beef and the political economy of plenty in postwar America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Few foods items are more associated with the United States than beef yet it was not until the 1950s that Americans ate more beef than any other meat. The triumph of mass beef consumption was not accidental or a preordained ...
Ambulatory assessment of physical pain, emotional distress, and alcohol use
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The available research suggests that many individuals with chronic pain drink alcohol to manage their pain. However, few studies have examined the association of alcohol and pain...
Performance-Based Pay: Perceptions of Elementary Teachers of the Pandora School District
(2014)
In the last decade, there has been a resurgence in the support of using teacher pay
to influence the outcome of student achievement on state tests. Current research about the
effectiveness of these performance-based pay ...
Development of active food packaging materials incorporated with nanocellulose and investigation of their toxicity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Nanocellulose is a renewable, lightweight, and biodegradable biomaterial that has potential applications in the food packaging industry. Nanocellulose can be used as a promising...
Investigating the bifunctional chelate approach for radiopharmaceutical development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Radiopharmaceuticals are drugs that contain a radioactive atom for the purpose of imaging or therapy of disease. The type of emission determines the applicability for each drug...
Single molecule imaging of DNA on nanogap embedded plasmonic gratings with enhanced fluorescence and improved level of detection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
One of the most commonly used detection tools in clinical diagnostics, life science research, chemical, and biological sensors is fluorescence. Because of its cost effective, sensitive, and specific nature fluorescence has ...
New perspective on the role of conceptus estrogens in conceptus development, maternal recognition, and the establishment of pregnancy in pigs.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The proposed signal for maternal recognition of pregnancy in pigs is estrogen, produced by the elongating conceptus. To understand the role of estrogen in porcine conceptus elongation and pregnancy establishment, a loss ...
Lignin dissolution in deep eutectic solvents : a molecular dynamics study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have shown great potential on lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment. Many DESs are capable of extracting lignin from biomass and dissolving hemicellulose while preserving most of cellulose in ...
Exploring the symbiotic relationship of plants and microbes by mass spectrometry imaging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
to extensive chemical runoff into waterways, increases in use of fossil fuel-derived energy with concomitant increases in greenhouse gas emissions, and accumulating costs correlated with fertilizer distribution. In contrast, biological nitrogen fixation (BNF...
A series of in vitro studies investigating the role of lactoferrin in calf innate immunity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Neonatal calf mortality rates continue to impact the economic sustainability of the United States cattle industry. Based on data generated from the National Animal Health Monitoring System survey in 2001, 8.9 % of dairy ...
Radionuclide production and separation techniques for radiopharmaceutical development and nuclear waste processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] With increasing cancer incident rates and advancements in nuclear medicine, the demand for optimizing pathways to produce radionuclides or investigating new radionuclides...