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Mizzou, volume 104, number 1 (2015 Fall)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2015)
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, ...
2010-2011 Graduate school catalog
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Vitamin D status as a predictor of outcomes of experimentally-induced muscle pain and weakness in young, healthy volunteers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Vitamin D receptor's presence in skeletal muscle indicates a role in muscle function and clinical symptoms of vitamin D deficiency include muscle ...
Mizzou, volume 104, number 2 (2016 Winter)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2016)
CVM news, 2011
(University of Missouri--Columbia. College of Veterinary Medicine, 2011)
2011 compilation of news and events articles published by the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine.
Three Paths To Religious Integration In Ernest Hemingway’s War Fiction
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
My dissertation studies religiosity in Ernest Hemingway’s war fiction in terms of
how his soldier characters connect to the divine. The means to understanding this
connection is in refining how the characters express ...
Bridging the gap in French romantic representations of blackness 1750-1880 : the male mulatto in French literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
fascinated with human diversity and committed to the concept of the "universal." As France established a thriving slave trade, the interest in human diversity naturally became connected with the ethics of slavery: if the concept of universal man was indeed...
Remembering Ali : a study of print media's framing of Muhammad Ali's death
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
in American attitudes toward issues of race and religion....
Medieval romance, fanfiction, and the erotics of shame
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
My dissertation uses fan studies theories of fanfiction to reframe later medieval romances as works that were not only reread and rewritten, but transformed through affective reading and rewriting strategies, especially ...
Mizzou, volume 108, number 1 (2019 Fall)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2019)
A Synthesis and Optimization of Patented Direct Air Capture Technology
(2023)
. The author believes that this engineering tool should be one of many tools utilized in the fight against climate change. This dissertation seeks to gather and analyze critical information on fifteen recently issued United States patents and then synthesize...
Three Essays In Mobilization Theory
(2023)
worldview held by these administrators. The third essay considers a specific theoretical issue of how saving policies (policies intended to channel household income into saving rather than consumption, to prevent inflation) interact with the management...
Webs of intimacy and influence : unraveling writing culture at Harper's magazine during the Willie Morris years (1967-1971)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
by anthropologist Clifford Geertz's assertion that man is suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, this study defines writing culture as a web of intimacy and influence. This work proceeds from a reading of the Harper's issues edited by Willie Morris...
The historical transformation of indigenous and colonial institutions of Central Mexico: monetary and production systems
(2013)
Based on a critical analysis of the mainstream development discourse, the subaltern's
history, and hybrid theoretical models, this dissertation is focused on studying the
transformation of the Pre-Hispanic state and the ...
"Art is religion:" Adolf Hoelzel's modernism
(2012)
This study considers the work of Austrian-born Adolf Hoelzel (1853-1934), an innovative artist and educator whose contributions to German modernism deserve to be reassessed. His intense lifelong search to understand the ...
Correlates of pet-keeping in residence halls on college student adjustment at a small, private, midwestern college
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
A limited number of colleges and universities permit pets other than small aquariums in residence halls. No studies have been published documenting the effect of pets in residence halls. A matched two-group comparison of ...
2012-2013 Graduate school catalog
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Recreation of Chernobyl trauma in Svetlana Aleksiyevich's Chernobylʹskaya molitva
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Little has been written about the literary methodology of the contemporary Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksiyevich. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the aesthetic manipulation of factographic content ...