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Beyond the border war : student civil rights activism at the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri, 1946-1954
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines post-World War II student civil rights activism at two Midwestern college campuses, the University of Missouri (MU) and the University...
The precision of retrieving temporal information : behavioral and electrophysiological studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
. Through four experiments, we adapted a paradigm for assessing the fine-grained precision of retrieval to understand the nature of judging the time at which a memory was encoded. Subjects studied a series of pictures and were subsequently tested on when...
Cleared to land in the desert: commercial air travel's role in the growth and development of Las Vegas as a world-class travel destination
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-04)
This study provides a history of commercial aviation in Las Vegas, focusing on the
powerful influence commercial air travel had with the financial help of the federal
government on Las Vegas‟s growth and development as ...
North Korea's emulation Chinese politics : an examination of Mao Tse-Tung's ideological influence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1979)
North Korean leader, Kim Il-song has been known among western observers as a "faithful disciple of Stalin." Furthermore, Communist North Korea has been known to the western world as faithfully following the Soviet model. ...
Structure and organization comparisons of U.S. large volume swine producers : a national survey
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1986)
A national sample of hog operations marketing 1,000 head or more a year was taken in 1981. A mail questionnaire gathered the necessary information. A second survey grouped operations into three groups: feeder pig producers, ...
Seizing the elephant : Kansas City and the great western migration, 1840-1865
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
for the ride as he published a series of essays on his journey. Traveling by rail, steamboat, and wagon, his dispatches were laced with excitement and knowledge of a man who had only read about the American West in the hundreds of books, travel guides...
A study of types of farming in the U.S. by the farm management survey method
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
The following study was made to get an insight into the conditions and farm practices of six different types of farming in the United States from the standpoint of farm management. Previous work along this line indicates ...
St. Louis's German brewing industry : its rise and fall
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The rapid rise of St. Louis from eighteenth-century frontier outpost to turn of the century metropolis was due in no small part to its German community. During the middle of the nineteenth century tens of thousands of ...
Agent-based modeling of seasonal population movement and the spread of the 1918-1919 flu: the effect on a small community
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
Agent-based modeling provides a new approach to the study of virgin soil epidemics like the 1918-1919 flu. By using this bottom-up simulation approach, a landscape can be created and populated with a heterogeneous group ...
The most favorable temperatures for the cooking of some typical foods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
A search through available published material on the subject of the cooking of foods reveals for the most part only recommendations of fairly wide ranges rather than definite limits of temperature for the cooking of specified ...
Point processes on the complex plane with applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] A point process is a random collection of points from a certain space, and point process models are widely used in areas dealing with spatial data. However, studies of point...
O, Beastly Jew!: Allegorical Anti-Judaism in Thirteenth Century English Bestiaries
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
This thesis outlines the traditional anti-Judaic allegories found in the medieval
bestiary genre, demonstrates the transformations of these allegories within the English
scriptoria, and examines how these allegories ...
On Foucault and the genealogy of governmentality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
In this dissertation I perform what I take to be a genealogy of governmentality by tracing the history of governmentality through various political philosophers and culminating in the work of Michel Foucault. I begin with ...
Diego Rivera: constructing a myth
(2011)
Diego Rivera was a master of creating visual languages to express his ideas and beliefs. Throughout his life, he actively sought to define Mexican culture and his life through his art and his writing. Much of how he is ...
Diversity and evolution of the sauropsid trigeminal sensory system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
included a cranium capable of respiration, feeding, and information acquisition via numerous sensory organs and a segmental series of pharyngeal arches. The first pharyngeal arch includes the fifth cranial nerve, the trigeminal nerve (CN V), and its...
The Effect of Performance Condition on Second-Grade Student’s Rhythmic Accuracy While Sight-Reading
(2015-07-28)
The purpose of this study was to examine rhythmic performance accuracy while sightreading
rhythms using either rhythmic speaking, body percussion, or instruments. A
secondary purpose of this study was to study possible ...
The spirit of exhibition and visual pedagogy in the work of Charles and Ray Eames
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This project examines the ways in which Charles and Ray Eames promoted visual pedagogy in their exhibitions and new media experiments. Through cooperative efforts with various artists, designers, educators, scholars, ...
Varietal resistance of oats to Puccinia Coronifera
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Oats grow best in a cool, rather moist climate, and are most largely produced in the North Temperate Zone. Among the leading countries in the production of this crop are the United States, European Russia, Germany, France, ...
The biosystematics of the Lupinus sparsiflorus complex and allies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
"The genus Lupinus officially dates back to Linnaeus (1753) and Tourenfourt is credited with originating the name in prelinnean work; however, a species had been illustrated in an Old World herbal back to the time of the ...
The Soils of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
Text from page 2: It is the purpose of this thesis to describe briefly the origin, distribution, and character of the soils in the different parts of the State, as determined by extensive field and laboratory studies and ...