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Sickle-cell disease contributes to cognitive impairment in children
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
An examination of how sickle-cell disease contributes to cognitive impairment in children. The definition, classification, and pathophysiology of sickle-cell disease is discussed to support the cognitive impairment seen ...
Care for life? : The failing system of nursing home care in the United States
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2014)
The phrase "respect your elders" is ingrained in most minds at a young age. This phrase, however, has been lost somewhere. A lack of respect for the elderly is especially present in the quality of health care they receive. ...
Breaking machismo
(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2017)
For a long time, and some would argue still today, women in Costa Rica were considered second-class citizens, mostly due to machismo, or masculine culture, where men believe they hold dominant roles over women. Even today, ...
The Hidden Treasures of Rome : Tracing the Context of Isolated Artifacts
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2015)
Hannibal, MO: "America's Hometown" amidst fictional landscape
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2014)
In order to fully appreciate the scope of our surroundings, we must look to and describe different views of the same scene throughout history, detailing what composes this view and why these stages are necessary in foreseeing ...
Framing protest in Missouri : framing protest on Missouri newspaper coverage of Concerned Student 1950 protest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
sources, issue-action depiction, and syntax. Using quantitative framing analysis, this research examined six Missouri newspapers' coverage of the Concerned Student 1950 protest that occurred at the University of Missouri to find whether newspapers followed...
Old habits out and new habits in : the new way to waste food
(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2017)
We as humans don't realize how wasteful we are at times. We have the expectation that food will always be readily available to us and, when we are done with it all, a trash truck will come and haul away our unwanted scraps. ...
Christmas holiday : queering family in 20th century southern Missouri
(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2017)
An obituary in The Southeast Missourian lists Elaine "Tommie" Davis as the business partner of Mary Jane "Miss Jane" Barnett for over forty years (Elaine Davis Obituary). However, the family albums of the two tell a richer ...
Integration Features in the Development of Software Product Line Architecture
(2015-08-12)
Software product line architecture (PLA) is one of the most promising applications of software architecture. This paper presents a pragmatic PLA development approach with tool support. It addresses two existing issues of PLA development...
Mizzou weekly (online version), volume 36, number 27
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Division of Marketing and Publications., 2015)
Paleodemographic modeling in the lower Mississippi River Valley
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The three studies presented below address the relationships that exist between prehistoric population dynamics, settlement organization, climate, and subsistence in the central and lower Mississippi River valley and adjacent ...
Antenna designs and imaging algorithm for radar-based microwave breast cancer detection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this work, the design of ultra-wideband antennas and an algorithm for artifact removal and image reconstruction beamforming for microwave breast cancer detection were...
Deep learning-based artifacts removal in video compression
(2021)
The block-based coding structure in the hybrid video coding framework inevitably introduces compression artifacts such as blocking, ringing, etc. To compensate for those artifacts, extensive filtering techniques were proposed in the loop of video...
An investigation of aesthetic appreciation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation comprises three papers in investigating the essential topics around aesthetic appreciation. The first paper examines George Dickie's Institutional theory on defining artworks and challenges his theory by ...
Muse, number 49 (2015)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2015)
Deep Learning Based Point Cloud Processing and Compression
(2022)
A point cloud is a 3D data representation that is becoming increasingly popular. Recent significant advances in 3D sensors and capturing techniques have led to a surge in the usage of 3D point clouds in virtual reality/augmented ...
Obsidian procurement in the Gallinas Mountains of west central New Mexico
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The Gallinas Mountains of west central New Mexico are a relatively understudied area within the greater American Southwest. The area effectively lies within a transitionary zone between three classically defined culture ...
Fantasy theme divergence during covid-19 a fantasy theme analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In an era of selective attention, media fragmentation, political polarization, and social media trolls, the communication landscape has never been more fraught with the potential for carefully crafted messages to take on ...
"Racism lives here" : racial ideologies in local news media coverage of student university protests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
During fall of 2015, a group of students at the University of Missouri called Concerned Student 1950 protested racial inequity on campus. Their collective action led to structural shakeups in the university's leadership. News about the protests were...
2015-2016 University of Missouri Libraries Annual Report
(University Libraries Communications, 2017)
The University Libraries have had another year of growth and change! This was also a year of transition as Jim Cogswell, director of libraries, retired in July after fourteen years of service, and I assumed the duties as ...