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Phonons and thermal neutron scattering in [gamma]-U and U-Mo alloys
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Elimination of high-enrichment uranium fuels in research and test reactors around the world is one of the many efforts that supports the goal of minimizing proliferation risks. These efforts have pushed for the development ...
The role of apoptosis during inflammation resolution in Lyme arthritis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Experimental Lyme arthritis is induced by the infection of C3H mice with the spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, and is a valuable model to study the regulation of inflammation during bacterial infection. While the lab has ...
The ogre as lycomorph
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This dissertation introduces, defines and applies to French literary analysis a term of my own invention: lycomorphism. This is a literary phenomenon by which an essentially human figure is characterized as wolfish via the ...
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 ...
Mizzou, volume 111, number 3 (2023 Spring)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2023)
Three Essays In Mobilization Theory
(2023)
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of society-wide mobilization, the response to a major national emergency in which the stakes feel existential and the policy choices often push the bounds of what was previously ...
Using Friedman to understand the relationship between market competition and corporate social performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The Corporate Social Performance (CSP) literature focuses on the relationship between financial performance and social performance of firms. Although the literature recognizes a positive relationship between these two ...
Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
During the Second World War, the American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht had been one of the lone voices to break the silence about the Nazi Holocaust. Then, in 1947, Hecht shocked and outraged people across the ...
Illustrated editions : depicting the eighteenth-century British novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This dissertation on illustrated British fiction from the 1740s to 1830s argues that a vital part of novelistic interpretation is omitted when illustrations are overlooked. Rather than viewing the novels of the eighteenth ...
Corridos en la guerra contra el narco : estéticas necropolíticas en México
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
philosophy based on fashion, on a film sub-genre, on ostentatious hyper-consumption practices, and most significantly, on a popular musical genre known as narcocorrido –heritage of the age-old narrative tradition of epic ballads and Mexican banditry...
Centromere function and evolution in maize (Zea mays)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
A dispensable supernumerary chromosome present in maize, the B chromosome, was the focus of many centromere studies. First, I examine the variation in copy number of centromeric elements and other repeats among different ...
Trust and Inequality: Are Perceptions of Inequality Influencing Trust?
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Previous research has demonstrated a significant relationship between trust and
inequality at both the individual and national levels (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2010), but it is
unclear whether the absence of trust produces ...
TRAUMATIC BODIES AND DIASPORIC DISAFFECTION: A STUDY OF IRANIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
(2023)
This study is an effort to name a condition that has been generally overlooked by most scholars in trauma theory. Trauma has been mainly defined as a specific bodily condition resulting from the infliction of intense and ...
The roles of differentiation of self, emotional self awareness and anxiety on destructive countertransference reactions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011)
The present study investigated the mediating role of emotional self awareness and
state anxiety in predicting overinvolved and underinvolved countertransference feelings and
behaviors from level of differentiation of ...
The dissolution rate of unirratiated UO₂ under repository conditions: the influence of fuel and water chemistry, dissolved oxygen, and temperature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
As part of the performance assessments of proposed geologic repositories the effects of temperature, dissolved O₂, and water and fuel chemistry on the dissolution rates of spent fuel are necessary to provide a quantitative ...
Spectropolarimetric constraints on interstellar grain models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] It is now well recognized that the interstellar medium acts as an efficient polarizer of electromagnetic radiation, resulting in the partial plane ...
The role of tumor-associated macrophages in pancreatic cancer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] Due to the lack of early diagnosis and efficient therapy, it is projected that pancreatic cancer (PaC) will become the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S. by 2030. Conventional ...
Effects of continous administration of low-dose of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide in chicks and poults fed non toxic doses of aflatoxin B1 and T-2 toxin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Six studies (three with broilers and three with turkeys) were conducted to determine if E. coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) would enhance the effects of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) and the T-2 toxin (T-2) in chicks and poults fed ...
Ex situ variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry studies on chemical vapor deposited boron-doped diamond films : layered structure and modeling aspects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Diamond possesses several outstanding physical properties (mechanical hardness, thermal conductivity, chemical inertness and high index of refraction) ...