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Museum Magazine, Number 71 (2017 Fall)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2017)
This issue's featured article: The lasting world : Simon Dinnerstein and The Fulbright Triptych, July 25-December 22, 2017. The exhibition title "The Lasting World" is from an essay on Simon's work by Rudolf Arnheim, an ...
The Use of Digital Study Models and Perceptions Towards Existing Digital Model Software in Orthodontic Practice
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The purpose of this project was to determine what demographic factors, if any, lead to private
practice orthodontists creating digital models and then taking the additional step of using these
models in treatment ...
Esthetic Smile Preferences of Dental Professionals
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This study examined the preferences of esthetic smile characteristics between general
dentists and specialists in orthodontics, periodontics, and prosthodontics using a six item
pilot survey. Characteristics examined ...
Great Fool: Six Poems of Ryōkan for Tenor and Orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Great Fool: Six Poems of Ryōkan for tenor and orchestra (2017) is a piece of music written for
tenor voice and orchestra in six interconnected songs lasting approximately thirteen minutes. Each song is
an English ...
Tips for managing older adults with Parkinson's Disease or other Parkinsonian disorders during hospitalization
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-08)
Hospitalists manage many geriatric patients and one of the most challenging populations can be older adults with Parkinson's Disease (PD) or other Parkinsonian disorders. These patients are prone to complications such as ...
Missouri hospitalist calendar, 2009-11
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-11)
Calendar of upcoming medical events.
Utilizing social media to inform inclusive apparel design for baby boomer women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Apparel design solutions for an aging population with unique needs are lacking in the retail industry and specifically for baby boomer women. The fashion industry does not acknowledge that older women value fashion and are ...
Academic achievement and persistence in online self-paced courses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This study focused on building achievement and persistence models of students enrolled in online self-paced courses using 11,829 AY 2014-15 records from the University of Missouri. Course satisfaction, delivery mode, and ...
Dimorphism and integration in the pelves of anthropoid primates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
The link between obstetric demand (natural selection for birth) and pelvic morphology in anthropoids has remained ambiguous for the past century. Though it is assumed that the dramatic sexual dimorphism seen in modern human ...
The consequences of maternal vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy on offspring metabolic phenotype and adipose tissue physiology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Vitamin D (VD) deficiency is a significant global public health concern, with particular groups, such as pregnant women, at greater risk of deficiency. ...
Word upon a word : parallelism, meaning, and emergent structure in Kalevala-meter poetry
(2017-10)
This essay treats parallelism as a means for articulating and communicating meaning in performance. Rather than a merely stylistic and structural marker, parallelism is discussed as an expressive and cognitive strategy for ...
A mixed methods study of perceived social support based on the medical outcomes study social support survey in adults with repeated challenges with HIV medication adherence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Numerous research studies in the HIV literature have documented social support as a key factor influencing adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). This is one of only a few studies to examine perceived social support ...
Intragastric gelation of mixed soy protein isolate and alginate as well as its effect on postprandial glucose response and satiety
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The goal of the study is to investigate the effect of alginate on sucrose release and in vitro gastric digestion of soy protein isolate (SPI) in model beverages as well as to determine whether consumption of the model ...
A multiple subsystem approach to predicting speech intelligibility declines in older adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Introduction: Given the significant impact of progressive dysarthrias on individuals’ communication abilities and the increasing prevalence of progressive dysarthrias in the United States, it is becoming imperative to ...
Our Second A.B. Lord Fellow
(2013)
The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition is pleased to announce the second recipient of the A.B. Lord Fellowship in Oral Tradition, Mr. Zhu Gang, who is a Ph.D. candidate at Minzu University of China (Central University ...
Exploring the collective knowledge curation process of online health communities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] More and more people turn to online health communities for social support to satisfy their health-related needs. Previous studies on social support and ...
The influence of mRNA secondary structures on ribosome conformational dynamics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Synthesizing proteins in the cell is a critical aspect of life. Protein synthesis is a complicated process and involve highly functional machines at a ...
Some topics in multi-regional clinical trials and meta-analysis using Bayesian models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The dissertation consists of two distinct research topics. One is about sample size determination in Multi-Regional Clinical Trials (MRCTs), the other ...
Autophagy and ubiquitin-proteasome system during post-fertilization sperm mitophagy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Maternal inheritance of mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a universal principle in developmental biology. Mammalian sperm-borne mitochondria ...