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School leaders' perceptions of Missouri's outdoor leadership experience
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Training school administrators to be more effective leaders through Missouri's Outdoor Leadership Experience is a unique concept that has been in place since 1987. Many other fields have used outdoor experiences for ...
Helen Torr: navigating the woman's experience in American modernism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In 1971, scholar Linda Nochlin called for a feminist art history that not only sought to recover the work of women artists, but that examines ...
Theoretical and computational modeling of naturally and artificially modified RNA nucleotides
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric nucleic acid that is crucial for cellular function, regulating gene expression and encoding/decoding protein/DNA molecules. Recent discoveries of diverse functionality in non-coding ...
Radiotracers for examining biological functions of plants and microbes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Tracers are used for qualitative and quantitative investigation of a system. Radiotracers have a radionuclide to observe chemical or biological processes by detection of the radionuclide's decay energy. They are non-disruptive ...
Degradation of the veterinary antibiotics in swine manure via anaerobic digestion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Antimicrobial resistance is becoming an imminent danger for human health, in part because of excessive consumption of antibiotics in the animal industry. Laboratory-scale anaerobic digesters (ADs) were utilized to investigate ...
Pre-service teacher professional noticing for teaching mathematics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Students with disabilities and/or those who have difficulty learning mathematical concepts can be found in almost every classroom. Over the last several decades, the responsibilities and roles of general and special education ...
A case study of building leaders' experiences with strengths-based coaching and feedback
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This study examined the experiences of building leaders as they implemented strengths-based coaching and feedback, exploring the overarching research question: how do building leaders implement strengths-based coaching and ...
Entropy minimization, convergence, and Gibbs ensembles (local and global)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
We approach the subject of Statistical Mechanics from two different perspectives. In Part I we adopt the approach of Lanford and Martin-Lof. We examine the minimization of information entropy for measures on the phase space ...
As many roast bones as you need
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] As Many Roast Bones As You Need is a creative dissertation that combines the examination of grief and our connection to animals found in ...
Occupy, blockade, circulate : narrating community in 21st century crisis fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation looks at contemporary social movements and novels through the lenses of sociology and infrastructuralism. I argue that ...
Border threads : ethnographic tales of escape, agency, and violence in a shelter in Pakistan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study highlights the theoretical usefulness of viewing domestic violence shelters through the conceptual framework of border-crossing ...
A multiple case study of female students' academic self-efficacy while participating in a middle school robotics program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
An instructional focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) is a current popular educational due to the widespread need for skilled workers in these growing fields. Compounding this labor shortage is the ...
Three essays on the impact of public policies on the health and educational outcomes of young adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Young adulthood is a critical time in the life course when access to resources and opportunities help determine later in life outcomes. To contribute to the research on young adults, this dissertation uses restricted health ...
Genetic and hormonal regulation of meristem initiation and maintenance pathways during maize vegetative and reproductive development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Plant development is driven by pools of undifferentiated stem cells called meristems. Meristems have two functions, to divide producing cells that will replenish the stem-cell niche, and cells that will differentiate into ...
Understanding the influence of a contextual factor, stigma consciousness: a barrier for underrepresented students in engineering
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The present study used Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994) to examine the influence of racial/ethnic stigma consciousness on persistence intention among 263 underrepresented racial/ethnic ...
Examining the influence of STEM college program participation on engineering persistence among first-generation college students in engineering
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The present study used Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent et al., 1994; Lent et al., 2000) to examine the influence of college STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) program participation on ...
La constuccion de la nacion colombiana a traves de tres novelas sobre la colonizacion de Antioquia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Este estudio comparativo entre Tanta gente: una de las historias de la colonización antioqueña (2013) de Memo Ánjel, La casa de las dos palmas de Manuel Mejía Vallejo (1988) y Terrateniente (1980), analiza la manera como ...
Decision-making involvement, self-efficacy, and the relationship to transition readiness in youth with sickle cell disease
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Transition from pediatric to adult healthcare settings poses significant risks to morbidity and mortality for adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease. Increasing transition readiness, the acquisition of ...
Evidence-based practice self-efficacy of speech-language pathologists across settings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The purpose of this mixed-methods sequential explanatory study was to explore self-efficacy of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) employed in various settings. Self-efficacy of master's level SLPs was compared across ...
Elementary students' understanding of fractions with dynamic technology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This study examines students' mathematical strategies within a novel technological environment designed to support understanding of relationships between quantities and adjustable measuring units. In particular, 30 elementary ...