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Undergraduate catalog 2004-06, revised
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
at the back of the catalog are invaluable for locating a person or topic quickly. An electronic version is also on the MU web site. Graduate and professional programs (Law, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine) have separate catalogs. -- Page 11....
Positron interactions with oriented polymers and with chiral quartz crystals
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Positron annihilation in various materials has been applied to characterize
microstructure for decades. In this work, PALS was used to study material nanostructure,
with a focus on the size and density of free volume ...
Mobile truck entrepreneurship: motivations and strategies of non-food mobile retail truck entrepreneurs in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation set out to explore the emerging phenomenon of modern mobile retail trucks opening for business across the United States starting in the early 2010s. Thirty-one participants were interviewed, and the data ...
It's bigger that hip hop: popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
A number of authors and supporters of hip hop culture have suggested that rap music has the potential to serve as a vehicle for the next stage of the Civil Rights Movement. However, the extent to which rap music has addressed ...
South African perspectives on western news coverage of South Africa and Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Emoke Bebiak spent three months in Johannesburg, South Africa, working with The Associated Press. The professional component included working ...
Polyurethenae foams and engineering education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Thermal conductivity [subscript] of a rigid polyurethane (PU) foam was successfully simulated, during which the impact of index of isocyanate, mixing ...
Modeling HIV-1 Infection and Immune Responses Under Drugs of Abuse
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
The frequent use of drugs of abuse among HIV infected individuals is a major
concern. Drugs of abuse, such as opiates, have been widely associated with enhanc
ing HIV replication, accelerating disease progression, and ...
Dust formation and evolution around carbon stars
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
spectral feature at [about]11 [mu]m. We have selected a sample of 9 carbon stars with low mass-loss rates such that their dust shells are sufficiently optically thin to allow abundance analysis of the stars' photospheres. This allows the study of how atomic...
Undergraduate catalog 2004-06, original
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
at the back of the catalog are invaluable for locating a person or topic quickly. An electronic version is also on the MU web site. Graduate and professional programs (Law, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine) have separate catalogs. -- Page 11....
The strength of weak ties in online social networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The use of online social networks such as Facebook.com are hypothesized to be affecting Robert Putnam's (1995) theory of social capital. The research method is modeled after Dhavan Shah's (2005) Information Communication ...
An Efficient Heat Engine For Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
(2022)
Carbon-dioxide-absorptive ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) holds the promise to provide 2-3 orders of magnitude more energy than current world consumption from fossil fuels, nuclear, hydroelectric, and all other ...
Establishing the posh scaffold as a novel therapeutic target for treatment of B cell leukemia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
termed Tat-POSH-inhibitor. In addition to these findings, we also report experimental insights into POSH mechanistic functions, generation of POSH knockout mice, and the generation and characterization of novel cell-targeting aptamer- and micelle-based...
A friend that sticks closer than a brother: a hermeneutic phenomenological analysis of resilience in Black bereaved mothers that have lost a child to gun violence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Despite literature considering the impact of child loss on parents, communication scholars have yet to examine the resilience of bereaved Black mothers. Specifically, this present study examined the role of Black sisterhood ...
PROTEIN AND PEPTIDE-BASED BIOMATERIALS FOR TREATMENT OF COVID-19, CROSSING THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER AND LOCAL DELIVERY OF ANTIBIOTICS
(2023)
This dissertation has three major objectives. The first one is to discover novel peptide shuttles that can effectively transport different molecules across the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) and into the brain. Despite all the ...
The influence of menstrual cycle and oral contraceptive pill phases on the vascular response to hypoxia and sympathetic activation in healthy young women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
INTRODUCTION: Hypoxia elicits peripheral vasodilation to preserve blood flow to metabolically active tissue and is accompanied by an increase in muscle sympathetic nervous system activity (MSNA). Prior data predominantly ...
Theatre for Young America: A History
(2015-05-19)
In the spring of 1974, a family of actors has recently landed in Kansas City,
Missouri. Father, Gene Mackey, is working for one of the areas four professional dinner
theatres and has been authorized by his employer to ...
Dragon of Skyros : a study on the cultures of the ninth century through creative fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
To investigate the reception of Classical motifs within the early medieval world, as well as show the multicultural connectivity between peoples, this work of creative fiction explores the tradition of Neoptolemus in the ...
Broadband rotational spectroscopy in Laval flows: applications in astrochemistry and dynamics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation presents the successful implementation of a Chirped pulse Uniform Flow (CPUF) apparatus capable of conducting experiments at low temperatures to examine photodissociation/reaction dynamics and kinetics ...
CVM News 2021 July-December
(University of Missouri--Columbia. College of Veterinary Medicine, 2021)
Six-month compilation of news and events articles published by the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine.
Fathoming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Fathoming is a mixed-genre collection that uses personal essays, poems, and photographs to interrogate and meditate upon the concepts of home, responsibility to place, climate change and climate ...