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Examining media coverage of the subprime mouurtgage [sic] phenomenon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] When both outsiders and insiders attempt to describe bias in the American media, the conversation is primarily dominated by accusations of left-right ...
The developing child in three portraits by Anne-Louis Girodet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper examines three portraits by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824) as products of a post-Revolutionary French society, highly ...
Effects of deep brain stimulation on implicit learning in patients with Parkinson's disease
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis extends previous work examining the effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) on cognitive functioning by ...
Guarding the preaching and the faith : kerygma and the rule of the truth from Paul to the Nicene creed
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Rules of Truth found in the works of Irenaeus (c. 180-200 CE) and Tertullian (c. 203-210 CE) and the doctrine contained in the Nicene Creed (325 ...
Determination of allergen sensitization and comparison of subcutaneous and mucosal (intranasal) allergen-specific immunotherapy in an experimental model of feline asthma
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Rush immunotherapy (RIT) is effective in experimental feline allergic asthma. Further studies evaluating reliable allergen identification and improved ...
Banal : sculptural meditations on the unfamiliar
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This creative research is about filtering my own displaced experience, of being part of the Filipino Diaspora. With Judeo-Christian spirituality as ...
Architecting the spatial enablement of a film location database for enhanced geographic analysis and query
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Missouri Film Commission hosts data and resources that producers of film and video need in order to choose locations. This data includes only ...
The isolation of Western society from the revelations of nature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
My people have become disconnected from Nature. I live in Western society, which is a monetary-based, globalizing, technological empire that is occupying many of the world's cultures and quickly absorbing the rest. Western ...
An experimental study of the game of Nim
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study is an analysis of the game of Nim. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part is a theoretical examination of the game in which ...
The home as public space and creative initiative
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Until recently, Beat women writers have been overlooked as artists by scholarship. They have been pigeonholed as prostitutes, chicks, or conventional ...
A strategy to scaffold critical thinking during analysis of leadership cases
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study quantitatively examined the effectiveness of a case-based analysis strategy to promote the critical thinking skills essential to leaders. ...
Simulation algorithms for fractal radiation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis presents a method to analyze a series of structures, referred to as fractals, that radiate electromagnetic waves. The fractal series are ...
To discover or to create : metaphors and the true self
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Two studies were conducted to examine how the metaphors of discovery and creation influence the perceived validity of the true self. It was hypothesized ...
Uniqueness theorems for non-symmetric convex bodies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation involves the determination of convex bodies and the comparison of sections of convex bodies. Uniqueness of convex bodies via derivatives ...
Husbands scorned and fathers ignored : a social analysis of the Acts of Thomas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The wildly popular Acts of Thomas is an invaluable artifact of early Christian literature because it details the struggles that Christian communities ...
Adsorption of isoxaflutole degradates to hydrous aluminum and iron oxides
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Isoxaflutole (IXF) is a pre-emergence herbicide that is rapidly transformed to a more stable and soluble diketonitrile degradate (DKN) after field ...
Estradiol regulates multiple tetrodotoxin-sensitive sodium currents in gonadotropin releasing hormone neurons: implications for cellular regulation of reproduction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neuron is the pivotal control center in a tightly regulated reproductive axis. Estradiol typically has a ...
Bastions of turf : frisians, terpen and the re-adoption of a "working" landscape
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Terpen are dwelling mounds constructed from the sixth century BCE through the present. This thesis examines the landscapes formation and re-adoption ...
Felix convivum : platters and transformations of dining behavior in the Roman world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Most people in the Roman world used ceramic tableware, despite its absence in iconographical and in literary sources. This observation leads to many ...
Pieces of the sun : amber in Mycenaean economy and society
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Amber was a substance highly prized by the Mycenaean Greeks. It appeared in small amounts in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, but in the Late Bronze ...