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Persistence of plague : determining which environmental factors contribute to maintenance of Yersinia pestis within sylvatic cycles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Plague is a prioritized zoonotic disease caused by Yersinia pestis, a gram-negative bacterium. Sylvatic cycles of rodent host and flea vectors have established endemic foci responsible for the ...
Involvement of mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM) in porcine gametogenesis and preimplantation embryo development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Mitochondrial Transcription Factor A (TFAM) is responsible for maintenance and transcriptional control of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). TFAM knockout is embryolethal. We have studied the expression and distribution of TFAM ...
Human behavior understanding and intention prediction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Human motion, behaviors, and intention are governed by human perception, reasoning, common-sense rules, social conventions, and interactions with others and the surrounding environment. Humans can effectively predict ...
Validity of the hangover symptoms scale : evidence from two diary studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Individual differences in hangover deserve study because they could be markers of important traits or processes such as loss of control, impulsivity, tolerance, or acute inflammatory responses. The Hangover Symptoms Scale ...
A diffusion model analysis of transitivity and lexicographic semiorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
information than those classified to lexicographic semiorders to make a decision. More details about the results and implications are discussed in Chapters 4 and 5....
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 impacts of partner abundance on benefits from facultative pollination mutualism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Partner abundance affects costs and benefits in obligate mutualisms, but its role in facultative partnerships is less clear. I investigated this topic in a small alpine pollination web in the Colorado Rocky Mountains ...
Temporal decision making using unsupervised learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
With the explosion of ubiquitous continuous sensing, on-line streaming clustering continues to attract attention. The requirements are that the streaming clustering algorithm recognize and adapt clusters as the data evolves, ...
Intraguild interactions between native and domestic carnivores in central India
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
I determined various factors affecting the resource selection and spatial ecology of the Indian fox Vulpes bengalensis, a small canid endemic to the Indian subcontinent. I collected radiotelemetry data from 32 Indian foxes ...
Students and politics in India : Parochialization and policization in a national university
(University of Missouri -- Columbia., 1975)
Evaluating sampling methods and investigating distribution and richness of fish and amphibians in Missouri wetlands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Freshwater wetlands are some of the most imperiled ecosystems on the planet, meaning species that depend on them are at great risk. In Missouri, wetland ...
Interplay of Bacillus anthracis spore proteins in the assembly process of the exosporium
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Spores are the infectious form of the zoonotic pathogen, Bacillus anthracis. The outermost layer of these spores is the exosporium. It consists of a basal layer (major structural proteins are ExsY, CotY, BxpB, and ExsFB) ...
Comparative study of type 2 median crossovers and median u-turns
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Many states use rural expressway median crossovers which provide for separation between the two opposing traffic lanes to manage the direct left turn movements between the expressways and cross roads. As the volume increases ...
Tales of an 'invisible' life stage : survival and physiology among terrestrial juvenile ambystomatid salamanders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The vital rates (e.g., survival, growth, and reproduction) of distinct life stages within a species are known to influence the growth and persistence of populations. As such, studies describing stage-specific vital rates, ...
An essay on the idea and logic of agricultural economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1977)
and principles consist of (1) the aim of science; (2) the criterion of scientific knowledge in terms of the principle of falsifiability; (3) the criteria of selecting better scientific theories; (4) the method of trial and error elimination based upon critical...
Experimental investigation of nanofluid oscillating heat pipes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
An experimental investigation was conducted of oscillating heat pipes (OHP) charged with diamond nanofluid. By combining the high thermal conductivity of nanofluids with the high heat transport rate of OHPs, a new type of ...
The control of San Jose scale and the profitable rejuvenation of neglected orchards by spraying
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 1: The San Jose scale is the most serious insect pest of the Missouri orchards. It is capable of killing young fruit trees in two or three years and old trees become unprofitable and succumb to the attack ...
'High places' in the Aegean: the case for non-Cretan peak sanctuaries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
My dissertation, centers on the overseas religious and cultural influences of the so-called Minoan culture of Bronze Age Crete through a critical, comparative analysis of alleged peak sanctuaries in the Aegean islands, and ...
Ars coquinaria: a study of early Roman cooking wares and their uses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Cooking ware is important for studying how people around the Early Roman Empire cooked and ate. As utilitarian ware, it did not change drastically for ...
Jacksonianism in Missouri : from predilection to party, 1820-1836
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1968)