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Pollen-pistil interactions in nicotiana
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] To screen for potential mates, angiosperm pistils provide a physical and biochemical barrier that promotes the growth of desirable pollen while preventing growth from...
The expression and correlations of repressors, intermediaries, and end-products of the IGF1 and insulin signaling pathways within the hepatic and reproductive tissues of holstein cattle h [electronic resource]
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Selection for high milk production has created a physiologically different dairy cow with lower fertility. The growth hormone (GH)/insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1)/insulin...
Effects of spin current in ferromagnets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis focuses on the investigation of magnetization dynamics induced by spin transfer torques. The first part of this thesis presents the theoretical and numerical study...
Interpreting the gaze in Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris : a Lacanian approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Gaze and anxiety are the pivotal constructs in Hugo's magisterial Notre Dame de Paris, with Esmeralda as the Ur-object for both Claude Frollo and Quasimodo. Both characters face...
A production theory application to modeling Korean beef import demand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research assesses the import demand for beef in the Korean market by source of origins including domestically produced beef. An indirect translog production function...
Evaluation of innovative materials subjected to near-contact detonations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Some structures composed of brittle cast iron may be particularly vulnerable to terrorist attacks using near-contact detonations because of the lack of ductility and poor...
Gender and racestyle coverage in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this study is to investigate media coverage of the 2008 Democratic presidential candidates U.S. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards. A...
Hao
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My dissertation "Hao" examines the relationship between maternal subjectivity and language. The pictogram in the title, a linguistic sign from the 12th century BCE Oracle Bone...
Classlessness as Doxa: Late Modernity and Changing Perceptions of Class Division in Iceland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation advances class analysis with a historical study of how the cultural and structural changes of late modernity impact class awareness. Using socialdemocratic...
Conservation payments to reduce tropical deforestation and degradation : evidence from the Ecuadorian Andes to the Amazon basin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Payment for Environmental Services (PES) are market-based policy instruments. Which compensate private resource managers financially for the environmental services their forests...
Exploring the strengths development of Taiwanese international students during the cultural transition process : a grounded theory study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] According to the Open Doors report, the number of undergraduate international students increased from 407,529 to 764,495 in the U.S. from 1990-91 to 2011/12 academic years (Open...
Self-authorship developing within the Sinclair School of Nursing students /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] There has been increasing interest in transforming education to ensure that graduates are appropriately trained to meet the complex health care needs of the 21st century...
Molecular control of endothelial lumen formation by Rho GTPases in three dimensional collagen matrices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Rho GTPases regulate a diverse spectrum of cellular functions involved in vascular morphogenesis. Here, we show that Cdc42 and Rac1 play a key role in endothelial cell (EC...
The evolution of strategic communication at United States Forces Korea (USFK) : an analysis of internal organizational strategies, 2008-2011
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Strategic communication is an expanding field in need of proper organization, standardization, and coordination. Its purpose -- to provide vital information to targeted...
A nation-branding perspective on Euro-Atlantic integration and online representation of a nation - the case of the country of Georgia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Using a theoretical framework integrating the theory of Competitive Identity (Anholt 2007), Conceptual Framework of the Formation of a Nation's Image (Dinnie 2008) and Conceptual...
Framing public health disaster : Chinese newspaper coverage of the contaminated milk powder affair
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study explores how the news environment might affect the news framing of public health disasters. Specifically, it examines the coverage of the 2008 Chinese milk disaster...
Mizzou weekly, volume 29, number 19 (February 21, 2008)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2008)
The nonparametric analysis of interval-censored failure time data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
functions is one of the main tasks in failure time studies such as clinical trials. For interval-censored failure time data, a few nonparametric test procedures have been developed. However, due to the strict restrictions of existing nonparametric tests...
Shape reconstruction from volumetric images
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This thesis presents the research algorithms and techniques applied to three volumetric image problems(1) high quality mesh reconstruction from distance field volumetric data, (2) distance field surface approximation from ...
Strengthening protective factors through parent-provider relationships : a study of family, friend, and neighbor child care settings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] According to Susman-Stilman and Banghart (2008), about 33 to 55 percent of children under the age of 5 are in some form of family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) child care...