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The effects of question prompt-based scaffolding and social presence enhancement on students' argumentation and ill-structured problem solving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Asynchronous online discussions have the potential to facilitate meaningful learning activities, such as ill-structured problem-solving, due to their asynchronicity and connectivity. However, the literature identifies two ...
Emerson's modernity and the example of Goethe
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
Looking at Emerson in his time, as he was attempting to define his relevance to his age by creatively engaging an aggregate of attitudes and ideas that he and his contemporaries recognized as modern. Most of those attitudes ...
Late cretaceous ocean circulation in the south Atlantic and Pacific oceans
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Cooling during the last 15 million years of the Cretaceous is widely believed to have resulted in a reorganization of ocean circulation, with cooler periods being associated...
Completing the circuit : a century of electrical education at MSMUMR
(University of Missouri Printing Services, 1984)
Microstructural and environmental effects on fretting fatigue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1977)
One of the primary causes of premature fatigue failures is a phenomenon known as fretting. The research leading to this paper consisted of developing information regarding microstructural and environmental effects on ...
The railroad and warehouse commission of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
of imitative adaptation. The one form of corporate business with which this paper deals is the methods of railroad regulation in Missouri. The railroad corporation was the first of a class of public utility corporation was the first of a class of public utility...
An ecological systems approach to reduce children's encounters with obscenity on the internet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation explores how to reduce children's encounters with obscenity on the Internet. Congress has been trying to shield children from encountering online obscenity and some of Congress' attempts failed because ...
Cover crop effects on soil moisture dynamics & thermal properties
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
properties of a corn (Zea mays L.) cropping system. The study was conducted at the Elsberry Plant Material Center - USDA, Missouri, USA, with 1) no-till cover crop (NC), 2) conventional till no cover crop (CN), and 3) no-till no cover crop (NN) treatments. A...
A Bayesian approach to data-driven discovery of nonlinear dynamic equations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Dynamic equations parameterized by differential equations are used to represent a variety of real-world processes. The equations used to describe these processes are generally derived based on physical principles and a ...
Using metabolic and biochemical characteristics of postmortem muscle to investigate the interconnectedness of beef color, flavor, and tenderness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Understanding relationships between beef palatability and quality components are crucial for continued production of high quality and consistent beef products. Myoglobin concentrations at 48 and 336 h resulted in moderate, ...
Genealogies of affect among a young veterinarian's public letter : an exploratory study of hidden curricula in a college of veterinary medicine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Contemporary research in veterinary medical education indicates alarming rates of depression and anxiety among veterinary students. Yet, the focus of this scholarship is primarily on mental illness as effects of a social ...
Effects of hip joint orientation and skeletal torsion on human locomotor biomechanics and evolution
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] Bipedal locomotion is a defining feature of the human lineage. However, the form of bipedality in different hominin taxa and the timing of emergence of a human-like striding bipedal gait have ...
Investigation of genes involved in somatic embryogenesis and plant-Agrobacterium interactions through transcriptional profiling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Plant genetic engineering relies on the ability to transmit and express cloned DNA sequences in plant cells (transformation) as well as the capacity for the cells carrying this DNA to undergo division and differentiation ...
Evolution, transmission, and clinical impacts of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
viruses were highly prevalent in Central Missouri during the 2021-2022 flu season with differing rates between Delta and Omicron variants, and a link between influenza vaccination and reduced co-infections was also identified. Overall, these findings...
Deep learning architectures for 2D and 3D scene perception
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Scene understanding is a fundamental problem in computer vision tasks, that is being more intensively explored in recent years with the development of deep learning. In this dissertation, we proposed deep learning structures ...
Political development in the mini-state Caribbean : a focus on Barbados
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
"Seconds after midnight, November 30, 1966, a new trident-bedecked, gold and blue banner caught the prevailing Caribbean breeze signaling the birth of another new nation. The fact that this former British outpost, Barbados, ...
Reciprocity in marketing relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Marketing researchers have often cited reciprocity as an important aspect of relational exchange; however the extant research has not conceptualized or measured reciprocity in marketing relationships. This research is a ...
National crop performance, 1985 : White maize
(University of Missouri--Columbia, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1985)
Acrylate synthesis from carbon dioxide - ethylene coupling catalyzed by first-row transition metal complexes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an abundant and renewable carbon source than can be used as feedstock for the synthesis of value-added materials. One such material is acrylic acid, and acrylate derivatives, which can be used in ...
Technetium and rhenium schiff base complexes for nuclear medicine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This dissertation investigates the synthesis of rhenium and technetium Schiff base complexes for potential applications in nuclear medicine. In Chapter 2, a series of mixed ligand Re(III) complexes of the form trans-[Re( ...