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Families are for thriving, not just surviving : aged out foster youths' experiences of family, home, and estrangement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
-improvement implications (i.e., demonstrating empowerment, encouraging self-care, and promoting mental health). Findings contribute to family communication and family estrangement research by illuminating how aged out foster youth accounts spoke to family estrangement as a...
The effects of Roman expansion in the Middle Tiber Valley : Ameria and its environs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] This dissertation constitutes a micro-history of the town of Ameria (modern Amelia) located in the Central Italian region of Umbria from 700 BCE to 300 CE. By reducing the scale of analysis to ...
The virtual social capital of online communities : media use and motivations as predictors of online and offline engagement via six measures of community strength
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This research introduces a new measure of social capital for users of online communities. Whereas "local community" forms of social capital consist of ties created in local community for the benefit of local community, and "Web-local" social capital...
Science frictions : science, folklore, and "the future"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
that lives on in the present. (And one that might even prevail into the time to come). This work is not entirely that story. But it is a part of it, presented here as it is in the interest of opening new channels of discourse between two areas of research...
Nursing Faculty Perspectives Regarding the Effectiveness of Prelicensure Nursing Education
(2020)
New graduate registered nurse unreadiness for professional practice is a growing, critical global issue that threatens public safety. While research has associated this academic under-preparation to preventable medical errors, poor quality care...
2011 proceedings
(2011)
Toxic schools? Teacher perceptions of indoor air quality and negative place attachment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
continuing teacher shortages and the adverse impact on students. This sequential mixed-methods study confronts the gap between place theory, specifically the negative emotional person-place bond, and perceived IAQ in public school buildings. Little research...
Mizzou, volume 105, number 2 (2017 winter)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2017)
How NBA teams use twitter as a brand management tool
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Social media has changed the way that organizations communicate with consumers and potential consumers. In the professional sports industry, teams use social media as a way to engage with their fans, posting a range of ...
Resource extraction, resistance, and religion in Nicaragua
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
My dissertation examines the causes of protest over resource extraction in Nicaragua, and underlines the role of religion as a catalyst for sustained and successful challenges against resource extraction. With few exceptions, existing research has...
MU Student recital programs, 2021-2022
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 2021)
Collection of programs from student recitals given during the 2021-2022 academic year given by students of the Department of Music at the University of Missouri--Columbia.
Let it breathe : social media musicking practices among Black women coping with mental health struggles during transboundary crisis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Black women, aged 35-45, utilized online musicking practices to cope with symptoms of anxiety and depression during the transboundary crisis of 2020. The findings from this research utilizes the respondents own narratives to describe the state...
Narrating disturbance : risk, power, and Mountain Pine Beetles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Beginning in the mid 1990's, an outbreak of Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) in northern Colorado affected over 3.4 million acres of primarily lodgepole pine forest. Mountain Pine Beetle are native to these ...
University of Missouri--Columbia commencement, 2015 December
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 2015)
"December 18, 19 and 20, 2015"
A case study of teen leadership development within a 4-H camp counselor experience
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Utilizing teens as camp counselors for overnight camping is common within Missouri 4-H. It is also an experience that is often described as providing teens an opportunity to develop leadership skills. The purpose of this ...
Mizzou, volume 102, number 3 (2014 Spring)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2014)
Unelected oversight : the politics of government investigations and problem monitoring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
How do elected officials and top decisionmakers receive information about the problems encountered in government agencies? Policymaking and agenda setting research primarily examines how elected officials directly gather information through...
Incidental exposure to online news in everyday life information seeking context : mixed method study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
newspaper. Respondents who demonstrated an awareness of their incidental exposure to online news were selected for the second phase. In the second phase, the researcher interviewed 20 respondents using critical incident, explication interview, and think...
Feeding the beast : macroeconomic drivers of leadership responses to foreign policy action and the gendered consequences for human trafficking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
How do the gendered macroeconomic and macropolitical structures of the international system exacerbate the rise in human trafficking? In this dissertation project, I use a mixed method approach to examine the relationship ...
MUtation, 2008
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Yearbook for the University of Missouri--Columbia School of Medicine.