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Mizzou, volume 108, number 1 (2019 Fall)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2019)
Building the best : a quantitative evaluation of a state-level teacher retention strategy designed to increase self-efficacy, reflective capacity, and job satisfaction through effective professional development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
"There are not enough teachers (Ingersoll, 2001; Ingersoll and Smith, 2003; Sutcher, et al., 2016). Focusing on retention is crucial to combatting shortages (Darling-Hammond, 2003); it is critical to specifically target ...
Gendered racism : the lived experiences of black undergraduate women at an HPWI : microaggressions, space and culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This current study examined how Black undergraduate women experience gendered racism at a historically, predominately white university in the South. ...
"If he loves me, why doesn't he post me more?" : an examination of the perceptions men and women have of Instagram's influence on romantic relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Instagram has become a leader among social media platforms, garnering about 500 million users daily (Gotter, 2019; Pokrop, 2020). With this application being used frequently among users aged 18 to 29 (Pew Research Center, ...
Library news notes, 1984-1985
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries, 1984)
Newsletter for the personnel of the University of Missouri--Columbia Libraries.
Fathoming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Fathoming is a mixed-genre collection that uses personal essays, poems, and photographs to interrogate and meditate upon the concepts of home, responsibility to place, climate change and climate ...
Evident yet opaque: a defense of the evaluative normativity of logic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The research in this dissertation concerns the philosophy of logic. More specifically, it concerns the normative status of deductive logic. Many philosophers and logicians have thought that logic tells us how we ought to ...
Theoretical and computational modeling of peptide-lipid bilayer interaction studied by dynamic force spectroscopy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This thesis consists of three interrelated theoretical and computational modeling projects that investigate different aspects of peptide-lipid membrane interactions. (1) A general theoretical approach is formulated for the ...
Chronic vagotomy induces nTS glial activation, reduced glutamatergic signaling, and blunted cardiorespiratory responses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The brainstem nucleus tractus solitarii (nTS) is the first site of integration of viscerosensory information provided by afferents of the vagus nerves. The nTS critically contributes to cardiorespiratory function and ...
Turbulent partnership : Missouri and the Union, 1861-1865
(University of Missouri Press, 1963)
Allan Nevins pointed out that Missouri was "of critical importance to the salvation of the Union" in the Civil War. The richest and most heavily populated state of the trans-Mississippi West, Missouri was the key to ...
The influence of gender on the careers of women theatre faculty in higher education : a qualitative investigation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Researchers have long documented issues with gender equity in higher education, especially in STEM fields, but less attention has been directed to ...
Bilhaṇa's Vikramāṅkadevacarita and its neo-expounders (1991)
(University of Missouri, International Library Center, 1991)
The Vikramāṅkadevacarita mahākāvya of the great Kashmirian poet Bilhaṇa is one of the best (if not the best) historical poem in Sanskrit literature. It follows a new path in poetic composition and blazes a new trail ...
Examining the time course under which specific and gist episodic memory representation are established at encoding among young and older adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] One of the most pervasive adult age-related declines in episodic memory is in the ability to remember associations between components of an episode, such as between a person and a location where ...
Broadband rotational spectroscopy in Laval flows: applications in astrochemistry and dynamics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation presents the successful implementation of a Chirped pulse Uniform Flow (CPUF) apparatus capable of conducting experiments at low temperatures to examine photodissociation/reaction dynamics and kinetics ...
Discourse structure as the scaffolding of stance structure : developments of a central concept in a central site of discursive interaction in bioethics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This study explored how a major concept and principle in the interdisciplinary area of bioethics, respect for autonomy, changed across the first and the seventh editions of the textbook Principles of Biomedical Ethics by ...
Old Southwest humor from the St. Louis reveille, 1844-1850
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
This book collects selected humorous essays from the Daily Reveille, a St. Louis daily journal, from the years 1844-1850.
Feminist self-labeling and feminist identity development: exploring the experiences of college sorority women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
In this study, I used feminist identity development as a theoretical framework to explore the experiences of 12 college sorority women. Participants shared stories from their college and early life, including the experiences ...
Knowledge of copyright issues and strategies used in solving copyright queries among academic librarians in Kenya
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Intellectual property and copyright in particular has become highly regulated through laws and treaties. In spite of stronger copyright mechanisms being put in place in Kenya over the years, copyright infringement has ...
Three Essays In Mobilization Theory
(2023)
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of society-wide mobilization, the response to a major national emergency in which the stakes feel existential and the policy choices often push the bounds of what was previously ...
Animals in ancient Greek warfare : a study of the elephant, camel, and dog
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
My dissertation asserts that the study of animals is integral to the thorough understanding of the ancient military landscape, and three animals in particular warrant particular attention: the elephant, camel, and dog. I ...