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Bootheel regional profile
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division., 1972)
Bridging the gap in French romantic representations of blackness 1750-1880 : the male mulatto in French literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This dissertation traces the evolution of the male mulatto in literature from his appearance in the early nineteenth century to his sudden disappearance in the late 1880's. In this dissertation I argue that the literary ...
A mixed-methods investigation of teacher classroom experiences and social-emotional learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This mixed-methods study investigated teacher perceptions of classroom experiences and social-emotional learning (SEL) upon the return to in-person learning after COVID-19 related school closures. 1373 K-12 teachers in a ...
Fine mapping and candidate gene identification of a soybean seed protein and oil QTL from a wild soybean accession and linkage analysis for whole plant biomass, carbon, nitrogen, and seed composition using a RIL mapping population
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr] cultivars have low genetic variation due to domestication, founder events, and selection strategies for modern plant breeding. There is a need to introduce genetic diversity into soybean ...
Novel deep cross-domain framework for fault diagnosis or rotary machinery in prognostics and health management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Improving the reliability of engineered systems is a crucial problem in many applications in various engineering fields, such as aerospace, nuclear energy, and water declination industries. This requires efficient and ...
Three essays on the time series of returns
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This dissertation consists of three essays on the time series of asset returns. The first essay in Chapter 1--Time-Varying Drivers of Stock Prices--provides novel evidence of the time-varying roles of subjective expectations ...
Expanding Theatre: Directing Approaches from Contemporary Chilean Women Directors
(2020)
of specific directing methods, thus illuminating the director’s beliefs in action. In each chapter, the author asserts that the director’s innovative thinking and creative practices constitute expansions of the theatrical artform. Finally, the author traces...
Achieving sustainability through re-municipalized energy services : exploring formation, efficacy, and impacts of community choice aggregations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] We urgently need to transform the current global energy landscape into a more sustainable and resilient one as we face increasing pressure to alleviate and mitigate climate change. The energy ...
Structural inferences for reverse transcribing viruses and drug resistance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
residue side chains at a high traffic binding pocket. This novel approach to drug design serves as a practical demonstration for the importance of structure-based approaches in targeted clinical drug discovery with broader applications in crop sciences...
A-B-C-D regional profile
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division., 1973)
"This region teemed with activity a century ago then lost its zest at the turn of the century. Like many other areas that were so completely wedded to the agricultural economy, this area lost population and stature in the ...
Identity through style : the transatlantic dissemination of Anglican and Episcopalian neo-Gothic church architecture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
. By examining specific churches, including those by Frank Wills and Richard Upjohn, in context of Anglican and Episcopalian doctrine, its liturgical practices, and publications by architects and English and American ecclesiological societies, I show how and why...
Machine learning for mixed quantum-classical dynamics and transition metal chlorides oxidation potential via density functional theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] Chemical phenomena in our daily life are understood to be the result of physical interactions between matter. These interactions are governed by physical laws that mostly has been understood and ...
Deantiaromatization as a driving force in an electrocyclization of cyclopentadienone and the total synthesis of 1-epi-esco-pseudopteroxazole
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Deantiaromatization has been successfully demonstrated as a driving force in an electrocyclization of cyclopentadienones. The reaction was found to be general for a number of substrates and provides a unique way to access ...
Imagining Madam President: a critical typology of fictional female presidents and intersectional presidentiality in U.S. politainment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The purpose of this dissertation is to systematically explore and illuminate fictional female presidential portrayals in politainment, or the symbiotic fusion of entertainment media and politics. Grounded in literatures ...
Evaluating the roles spinal plasticity and an accessory inspiratory muscle have in a rodent model of respiratory motor neuron death
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
requires different G-protein-coupled receptors and downstream signaling and that the exhibited plasticity is differentially affected by COX1/2-induced inflammation over the course of CTB-SAP induced neuropathology, which may collectively represent one way...
A neverending stream : human trafficking in Medieval Europe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study focuses on human trafficking patterns from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Era. I argue that while slavery, as a means of compelling ...
Development and Evaluation Of HIV gp120 Responsive Microbicide Formulation for the Prevention of HIV Sexual Transmission
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Sexual transmission of HIV remains the primary route (75 to 85%) of HIV infection among
all new infection cases. Furthermore, women represent the most vulnerable population and are
more susceptible to HIV infections ...
Development of food adulteration detection methods utilizing NMR spectroscopy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Food adulteration is the act of diluting foodstuffs with undeclared fillers or outright substitution with other materials. While this practice has occurred since the dawn of recorded history it has remained difficult to combat. The reason...
Three essays on the Conservation Reserve Program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Over 35 years, the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has provided a variety of envi-ronmental benefits, reducing run-off of sediment, nitrogen, ...
Arsenic-72, 77 as a matched pair radiopharmaceutical for imaging and radiotherapy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
). Radioimmunoimaging and therapy commonly use antibodies (or antibody fragments) as targeting biomolecules, and may take a few days to accumulate in tumor cells. Thus they require radionuclides with longer half-lives. Arsenic-72 ([beta]+, 26 hour half-life) and 77As...