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Porous silicates for applications in smart water treatment systems and antimicrobial biomedical coatings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Porous silicates, particularly ordered ones, may find novel and wide-ranging applications in the bioengineering arena in the near future. For instance, zeolites, a family...
A multisite case study of early alert implementation to adoption at the University of Missouri System
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This multisite case study of academic early alert warning system implementation explored the relationship between leadership, users (faculty and staff), technology, and the organization when implementing a campus wide early ...
Multisensory working memory in adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Working memory impairments are commonly-reported in individuals with ASD, although these reports have been limited to unisensory memory within ...
Child death, grief, and the community in high and late Medieval England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"William of Canterbury, one of the authors of the Thomas Becket miracle collection, reports in a twelfth-century miracle that an eight-year-old boy named Phillip was looking at rocks by a lake located in the county of ...
Exploring the influence of a psychoeducational intervention on the psycho-emotional responses to injury in collegiate athletes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
constructs including cognitive appraisals and Self-Determination Theory was more indicative of a potential relationship between the intervention and the participant's psycho-emotional states. Implications, future research, and practical applications are also...
Scaffolding the continua of biliterate development in the Spanish language immersion classroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
of the Community of Practice created by the teacher in this classroom that include a focus upon encouragement, knowledge, organization, and literate habitus. Additionally, two visual models were created to present the data including: "Scaffolding Episodes...
Anatomical refitting using metric comparison on white tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus) and mule deer (odocoileus hemionus)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Anatomical refitting of zooarchaeological animal skeletons has been used by archaeologists to monitor the spatial distribution of skeletal elements ...
Working memory availability and quality control in children's production of passive sentences as novices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Working memory (WM) is widely accepted as a necessary cognitive resource for a vast amount of cognitive abilities. Developmental work has shown that ...
Rapid growth in central city : a case study of a growing downtown district
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This qualitative case study examined a period of rapid growth in housing in a midsize city downtown. The research question asked what the process of ...
Behavioral responses of drosophila suzukii (diptera: drosophilidae) to olfactory and visual cues
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Selected fruit and leaf volatiles were assessed to determine their attractiveness to Drosophila suzukii Matsumura (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Two- and ...
User experience and robustness in social virtual reality applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Cloud-based applications that rely on emerging technologies such as social virtual reality are increasingly being deployed at high-scale in e.g., remote-learning, public safety, and healthcare. These applications increasingly ...
The postmaster's porcelain : collecting European decorative art in middle America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"This dissertation provides a case study of a type of art collecting that has not received significant scholarly attention, one based on the collecting activity of middleclass Americans living in the Midwestern United ...
On the ability of rocks to conduct heat in the Lithosphere
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This work focuses on creating a model for the conductive thermal transport properties of rocks using measured thermal diffusivity (D) with the Laser Flash Analysis (LFA) method, which eliminates common errors associated ...
Investigation of the effects of body type on accelerometer based fall detection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Precision or personalized medicine follows the idea that analyzing a patient's genome can help stratify patients into treatment groups [1] ...
Development of translational models for intervertebral disc degeneration using a comparative approach for canine and human patients
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Intervertebral discs (IVDs) are unique musculoskeletal tissues within functional spinal unit organs comprising the spinal column that distribute loads and allow complex movements for vertebrates. IVD degeneration has been ...
Investigation of the effects of body type on accelerometer based fall detection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Precision or personalized medicine follows the idea that analyzing a patient's genome can help stratify patients into treatment groups. Patients with cancer, for example, are split into groups based on the genetic make-up, ...
Pauca tamen memorans : A selection of late antique epitaphs commemorating young women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
revised sense of the afterlife drawn from Scriptural images. Close scrutiny of these cultural negotiations reveals the forces reshaping the social identities of non-elite women within their social and religious communities as well as in their own families...
Finding the path: a mixed method multisite case study of undecided student experiences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
that are relevant to many more students. This research study identifies institutional resources, policies, and practices (collectively referred to as institutional factors) can significantly and positively impact students’ major selection and decision-making process...
The nature of evidence utilized in healthcare architectural design decisions at five Midwestern critical access hospitals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
) practice is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence from research and practice in making critical decisions, together with an informed client, about the design of each individual and unique project. Utilizing a multi-site case...
The non-sequential path between indigenous social movements and collective rights in Latin America : the role of organizations and institutional conditions to tell the story
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Why do some countries in Latin America have a strong inclusion of collective rights for indigenous people while others do not? What are the ...