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Modeling the financial impact of management decisions on loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) production
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Located primarily in the southeastern United States, Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is a variety of Southern yellow pine that is often planted by non-industrial private landowners seeking a beneficial long-term investment ...
Power from the people : tenant activism in the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex, 1950-1980
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Built in the mid-1950s in St. Louis, Missouri, the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex was constructed as the future of high-rise public housing design but was quickly labeled as a problem for local housing officials. Counter...
Sisterhood as strategy : the collaborations of American women artists in the gilded age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This dissertation employs four case studies--illustrator Alice Barber Stephens in Philadelphia; Louisville-born sculptor Enid Yandell; photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston in Washington, D.C.; and the Newcomb College ...
Development of UAV-based high-throughput phenotyping technologies towards improving soybean breeding efficiency
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Development of new crop varieties with improved traits through crop breeding programs is one of the promising solutions for the estimated food crisis in 2050 when agricultural production needs to double its current growth rate to feed 10 billion...
Dance as a Community of Practice: Exploring Dance Groups in the Kansas City Area through the Lifespan
(2015-08-04)
This dissertation examines the embodied cultural practice of dance among several
groups in the Kansas City area. The dance groups were studied as Communities of Practice
(CoP), as outlined in the Lave-Wenger model of ...
Improving Mission Performance Using A Field Reconfigurable, Multi-Role Aircraft
(2022)
The unmanned aircraft sector has been rapidly growing and has been expanding into many industries. With the rapid growth of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) comes a wide variety of different aircraft. Today’s aircraft incorporate ...
Missouri Shamrock, 1956-1957, volume 23, number 1-8
(University of Missouri. College of Engineering, 1956)
Evaluation of a solid-liquid manure separation operation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
, and barn construction and operating costs. A full-scale barn in Missouri was closely monitored to perform these objectives. Laboratory scale pretreatments and filtrations were conducted to evaluate the practicality of nutrient/water recycling from...
To whom much is given: a study of Black female leadership within the context of spouses of historically Black college and university presidents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
First Ladies who are married to presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) and use platforms that they did not actively seek to engage in the uplift of others. Additionally, the purpose of this study was to understand...
Enhancing Development in the Saudi Renewable Energy Sector: A Promising Strategy for Job Creation and Economic Diversification
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Unemployment, a critical modern problem, has economic as well as social costs.
While its economic cost can be illustrated through the loss of the value of labor, its social
costs include divorce, addiction to illegal ...
Rendering assistance to best advantage: the development of women's activism in Kansas City, 1870 to World War I
(2013)
This study examines the rise of women's activism in Kansas City between the
opening of the Hannibal railroad bridge in 1869 and World War I. Women's efforts over
the course of nearly 50 years to emerge from the domestic ...
Evaluation and development of first order fire effects mortality model predictions for eastern hardwood forests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) is a useful tool for predicting fire-induced mortality in western coniferous forests. However, it lacks robust models for eastern hardwood species. Managers in the eastern United ...
Big ideas in little boxes : nation building in three nineteenth-century American parlor games by Milton Bradley and Company
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Milton Bradley and Company manufactured its first game, The Checkered Game of Life, in 1860, only months before the American Civil War broke out. Soon after, it produced the Myriopticon A Historical Panorama of the Rebellion, ...
From research to relationship : towards affinity-based scholarship and indigenous community empowerment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
. To examine this possibility, I have looked at the world of universities and the researchers who work for them. My focus has also been narrowed to Indigenous communities and professors who are associated with these marginalized groups. Specifically, I discuss...
Knickerbockers west : how three playwrights shaped the image of the American west
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The American West has remained a compelling force in films, literature and the modern stage, but little research has been directed towards the emergence of the West on the early American stage. The three earliest plays to ...
Roles of post-Golgi vesicular trafficking components in plant growth and immunity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
sorting station for CCV trafficking by ensuring that proteins are directed to the correct functional location. However, the roles of TGN/EE-localized vesicular trafficking components in coordinating cellular and biological processes remain largely...
Impact of woody biomass production and biopower generation on US forests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation presents a study of environmental impact of woody biomass production and consumption on the eastern US forests. The first part is concerned with the impact of the exponential growth in trading of US ...
Structures of domination and peasant movements in Latin America
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
Although the results of Latin American peasant movements appeared particularly impressive in the 1960s and the 1970S, the end of the decade witnessed the progressive repression of the major movements on the continent. Latin ...
Impacts of suspended and deposited sediment on benthic invertebrates and fishes in a Missouri Ozark stream
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Sediment is suspected in the decline of sensitive-aquatic organisms in the Osage River basin of Missouri. In this study, I monitored sediment dynamics and evaluated corresponding linkages with benthic invertebrate and fish assemblages as it related...
The new citizenship : origins of progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885-1900
(University of Missouri Press, 1972)
This is a book about people with different ideas about democracy from those that prevail today. Wisconsin's early progressives would have been astonished by the focus historians have placed on producer identifications. ...