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The effect of Parkinson's disease on learning-related slow potentials and emotion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The dopaminergic reward system is the focus of intensive research because of its relevance to disorders such as addiction, obesity, Parkinson's disease ...
The Experiences of Students Who Do Not Graduate with their Cohort
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
The purpose of this descriptive collective case study was to understand the stories of
students who did not graduate with their cohort. The participants represented two
comprehensive high schools in a large suburban ...
Imaging-based customization of lattice structures for biomedical applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Synovial joints can provide movement and articulation, however, with overuse, aging, and trauma, joint replacement surgeries may be needed. Commercially ...
An Educational History of Immigrant and Refugee Children in Kansas City
(2023)
This is an educational historiography of immigrant and refugee children who resettled
with their families in Kansas City, Missouri, after the Immigration and Naturalization Act of
1965. The dissertation concludes with a ...
The Effects of the Classroom Schedule and Teacher Beliefs on Head Start Teacher-Child Interactions
(2013)
Time can be examined from several viewpoints in the early childhood classroom: wasted wait time; instruction which is undifferentiated or not on the child’s cognitivelevel, missing the child’s target learning needs; the ...
A Method for Identification of Pancreatic Cancer through Methylation Signatures in Cell-Free DNA
(2022)
Pancreatic cancer has high mortality rates in comparison to other cancers due to limited treatment options and challenges in detecting the disease. Early diagnosis is difficult; successful outcomes are directly tied to ...
Application of deep reinforcement learning for battery design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The conventional material research and development are mainly driven by human intuition, labor, and manual decision. It is ineffective and inefficient. ...
El Centro, Inc.: An Historical Research Study
(2022)
This historical research study examined the history of El Centro, Inc. in Wyandotte
County, Kansas, from its origins in 1972 until 2019. The social, political, legal, and
economic contexts surrounding the organization’s ...
Politics of coalition at Standing Rock
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
My research examines the politics of coalition surrounding the 2016-17 Standing Rock movement, led by Oceti Sakowin Tribal members, on the borders of the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to stop the construction ...
Impact of prosocial education professional development on teachers' self-efficacy, stress, and burnout
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This study examines a professional development program designed to improve prosocial behavior, any voluntary behavior intended to help others and promote harmonious relationships in students, by providing teachers with ...
Coulomb explosions dynamics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Chemical reaction dynamics studies emerged with the advent of quantum mechanical theories in 1920s which have the capability of predicting the atomic motions by calculating potential energy surfaces. Experimental studies ...
Multi-modal and multi-dimensional biomedical image data analysis using deep learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
There is a growing need for the development of computational methods and tools for automated, objective, and quantitative analysis of biomedical signal and image data to facilitate disease and treatment monitoring, early ...
School Counseling for the Achievement Gap: Attitudes and Beliefs of School Counseling Graduate Students About Culturally Responsive School Counseling
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
School counselors are uniquely positioned to mitigate gaps in opportunity,
achievement, and attainment for culturally and linguistically diverse students. However,
culturally responsive school counseling is a relatively ...
On the ability of rocks to conduct heat in the Lithosphere
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This work focuses on creating a model for the conductive thermal transport properties of rocks using measured thermal diffusivity (D) with the Laser Flash Analysis (LFA) method, which eliminates common errors associated ...
Exploring the quality of multimodal student dialogue using social virtual reality technology in an online course
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Online courses include the design for student interaction to support effective learning. Studies have shown that online discussion boards are a useful option to engage students. However, with new emerging digital technologies ...
Assessment of the variability of spatial interpolation methods using elevation and drill hole data over the Magmont mine area, south-east Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Spatial interpolation methods are widely used in fields of geoscience such as mineral exploration. Interpolation methods translate the distribution of discrete data into continuous field over a given study area. Many methods ...
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 ...
Examining psychological recovery in persons with serious mental illness : the role of experienced stigma and the insight paradox
(2013)
The purpose of this study was to investigate how insight (awareness of mental illness and its associated consequences) into having serious mental illness (SMI) and the experienced stigma associated with SMI may affect ...
The precision of retrieving temporal information : behavioral and electrophysiological studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The knowledge of when an event took place provides benefits to episodic memory, such as distinguishing among multiple traces and learning event sequences. As a tool for understanding memory, time is appealing given its ...