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The Objectification and Blame of Revenge Porn Victims
(2020)
The current study sought to explore the relationship between objectification and victim blame in cases of revenge porn across cases in which the victim was sexually diverse (i.e., bisexual, lesbian, straight). Participants ...
Utilizing unoccupied aerial systems and artificial intelligence for monitoring nonbreeding waterfowl abundance in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
biologists currently use a variety of population and habitat monitoring methods ranging from informal ground observations to low-level occupied aircraft surveys. Unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) may provide safer and more precise alternatives to traditional...
Understanding the impact of MSHSAA by-law 3.15.3 on participation in Missouri high school athletics from 2008-2016
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This quantitative policy analysis seeks to understand the potential impact of MSHSAA By-Law, 3.15.3, the contact day policy, on sport participation in Missouri high school athletics. This policy increased the number of practices Missouri coaches...
Paternal effects on pre-implantation embryo development in cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Currently, sire fertility is measured using sire conception rate (SCR), which is not always indicative of embryo development. Since the majority of pregnancy loss in dairy cattle occurs during the early embryonic period, ...
Modern money theory and ecological tax reform: a functional finance approach to energy conservation
(2013)
purpose of paying for government spending, but rather drive the value of the currency and may be designed to perform other functions as well, such as penalizing socially undesirable behavior. The focus in this dissertation is on the amelioration...
Anthropogenic effects on soil physical, chemical, and biological properties in the Missouri Ozarks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
were collected after rainfall events from pre-harvest until 2015. The samples were analyzed for AlT; Br-; Ca2+; CL-; DOC (dissolved organic carbon); EC (electrical conductivity); F-; K+; Mg2+; Na+; NH4+; NO2-; NO3-; pH; PO43- SO42-; and TN (total...
Taste biases : confounding sensory and label evaluations for yogurt
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] When you taste something bitter, something with a thicker consistency, or something with less sweetness does it make you think it is healthier? Does ...
Modeling the hippocampus : finely controlled memory storage using spiking neurons
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
functionally-based categorization of seizures in animals and humans, and may inspire specific treatments for these types of seizures. The second study examined the underpinnings of the rhythmic activity of the hippocampus. These oscillations in the theta range...
The relationship between police and citizen collaboration regarding crime in multifamily rental complexes
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 5/6/2011)
found that residents were the important stakeholders. While contact and investment by the police and various stakeholders may be symbolically important and may be beneficial for establishing police legitimacy, it appears that if the goal is to facilitate...
Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
(2022)
The quest for African Americans to gain emancipation and equal civil rights occupied the efforts of abolitionists and antislavery advocates for much of the nineteenth century. For both men and women who valued the democratic ...
The Radical Frances Wright and Antebellum Evangelical Reviewers: Self-Silencing in the Works of Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Maria Child, and Eliza Cabot Follen
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015)
The early antebellum, a nation-building period of industrial progress, financial crisis, and
social upheaval, associated the values of evangelical Protestantism with American middle-class
respectability. Individuals who ...
Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discriminations by nanopore sensing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are a common type of nucleotide alterations across the genome. A rapid but accurate detection of individual or SNP panels can lead to the right and in-time treatments which possibly ...
Battles for branding : political marketing and U.S. Senate debates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Televised political debates, as two-sided information flows, are dynamic political communication events that inform, persuade, and entertain voters. Political debates provide candidates the opportunity to brand themselves ...
An investigation of urban bat ecology in Baltimore, Maryland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
In North America, bats are a taxon of concern that play an important role in insect control, and their response to urbanization varies. I wanted to discover if evaluating environmental and socioeconomic variables present ...
The mission of high school athletics : a qualitative study of high school athletic mission statements
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Mission statements have become an important tool used across all sectors of business and education (Alegre et al., 2018), and research on this particular tool has been thoroughly conducted as well. This qualitative study ...
Elementary principals as developers vs. deliverers of district instructional decisions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-13)
The purpose of this heuristic case study, also informed through the tradition of critical systems theory was to explore elementary principals‟ “voices” in instructional decisions made by central office administrators at a ...
School climate and culture : a case study on the impact of student perception
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study takes a deeper look into the factors that create school climate and culture and how those factors are perceived by students. A quantitative ...
Castor oil and orange juice: how John H. Johnson fed news to black America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
In the mid-1940s, publisher John H. Johnson did not like the image of African Americans that was projected by mainstream, white-owned media. He felt the image constructed was too limited and stereotypical. He also felt ...
The construction of the Lesbian and Gay Affirming Social Justice Competency Scale
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-12)
Heterosexism is evident in the psychology and social policies of society. Despite
numerous efforts to end discrimination based on many different cultural factors,
heterosexism is frequently condoned and encouraged. In ...
CVM news, 2020 January-June
(University of Missouri--Columbia. College of Veterinary Medicine, 2020)
Six-month compilation of news and events articles published by the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine.