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Does early androgen exposure moderate developmental plasticity?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Little is known about what mechanisms allow some individuals more than others to flexibly develop cognitive competencies and behavioral biases while growing up to better meet the demands of their ecology, a phenomenon known ...
TITAN : an interactive, web-based platform for transportation, data integration, and analytics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
State transportation agencies regularly collect and store various types of data for different uses such as planning, traffic operations, design, and construction. These large datasets contain treasure troves of information ...
Household labor and marital quality : perceived partner responsiveness as a buffer for unfair divisions of labor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Perceptions of household labor divisions as unfair are associated with lower marital quality, particularly for women. However, perceived partner responsiveness -- individuals' beliefs about their partner as caring, validating, ...
Iterative approximation of Markov process parameters in a model of large scale business purchases
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Large scale business to business purchases often involve a series of vetting stages which must be satisfied prior to their resolution. This paper models the progression of sales projects through a company's sales pipeline ...
Administrator view on technology directorship in southeast Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The purpose of this inquiry study is to discover how district school administrators perceive the directorship skills needed for a successful technology director in Missouri. At this stage in the research, the skill needs ...
Robust and efficient process for acceptance testing of radiation therapy machines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The current (legacy) paradigm for acceptance testing (AT), commissioning, and ongoing quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) of linac and treatment planning systems (TPS) is extremely inefficient requiring substantial ...
More than beer : the complex career of Adolphus Busch
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Adolphus Busch was cofounder of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association. During Busch's lifetime, Anheuser-Busch became the largest brewing company in ...
Unelected oversight : the politics of government investigations and problem monitoring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
How do elected officials and top decisionmakers receive information about the problems encountered in government agencies? Policymaking and agenda setting research primarily examines how elected officials directly gather ...
Multi-scale self-assembly of nanoenergetic materials utilizing functionalized graphene
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The work described here-in focuses on the synthesis and characterization of novel nanoenergetic materials and is driven by overcoming the disadvantages of traditional nanoenergetic composites, improving the energetic ...
GIS-based, python modeling of the spatial and temporal distribution of water on the landscape for wetlands decision making
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Wetlands provide many benefits for humans and the natural environment, but land use changes have reduced their number and areal extent. Interest has grown in examining surface water distribution both spatially and temporally, ...
'To chant my last refrain:' a contextualization of H. Lawrence Freeman's biography and his operas 'The Martyr' and 'Voodoo'
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The grand operas by Harlem Renaissance composer H. Lawrence Freeman (1869-1954)--large productions in the theater and broadcast on the radio--represent ...
We have a duty to eradicate HIV in the community, in the world' : successful PrEP use among black men who have sex with men
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) have a 50% lifetime risk of HIV infection. The HIV epidemic continues to be a perplexing health issue, despite ...
Media framing of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Changes to the U.S. tax system can have significant impacts on individuals, and the media is often where the public turns to for information and ...
The role of estrogen receptor beta DNA binding domain in mediating adipose tissue and systemic metabolic effects of exercise in ovariectomized mice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Estradiol protects women from various cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, a protection which is lost with menopause when estradiol levels drop. ...
Improving viability of immunodeficient RAG2-/- pigs by non-specific porcine antibody administration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Immunodeficient swine models such as the RAG2-/- model, are valuable to the field of regenerative medicine; however, their utility would greatly benefit ...
Feminist theory as it relates to business leaderhip content : a case of patriarchal dominant society structure
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study is an exploration of the business leadership content that exists to serve as a resource for the development of the leadership role, the ...
A study of reading in 'Little Women'
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is often thought of as a book that focuses on the development of girls into women, but also on the development ...
Selecting data for multilingual multi-domain neural machine translation on low resource languages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] While machine translation has achieved impressive results on the world's most widely spoken languages, thousands of languages do not have the quantity ...
Capturing and managing daily symptoms data in the treatment of autism spectrum disorder using mobile technology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Autism Symptom Disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by difficulties with social interaction and ...
A comparison of continuous versus intermittent presentation of instructive feedback on secondary target acquisition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Previous research has shown that instructive feedback allows for effective and efficient teaching because it allows individuals to acquire two targets ...