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Reluctant emancipator : James Sidney Rollins and the politics of slavery and freedom in the border south, 1838-1882
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines the career of James Sidney Rollins, a free-soil slave owning politician and lawyer in Missouri, to garner a better understanding ...
Historia spintriae : the pleasures of collecting ancient erotica
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Ancient erotic art has an unusual place in the history of art, affected variously by changing archaeological practices and the tastes of collectors over many centuries. In the early modern period erotic artifacts were both sought after and avoided...
Write my way out : the power of words against erasure in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Julia Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
Since the days of the conquistadors, erasure has been an inherent facet of Dominican identities. Similarly, the pressures of immigrants to blend into United States culture and stifle their "otherness" only added to the ...
A study of Monteverdi's three genera from the preface to Book VIII of Madrigals in relation to operatic characters in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and L'incoronazione di Poppea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The construction of character on the early operatic stage by means of musical gestures is an indisputable achievement of Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643). Such an accomplishment was the result of a continuing development of ...
Point processes on the complex plane with applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] A point process is a random collection of points from a certain space, and point process models are widely used in areas dealing with spatial data. ...
Virtus et disciplina : an interdisciplinary study of the roman martial values of courage and discipline
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
that Greek and Roman authors depict nuanced but relatively consistent representations of Roman martial values, which both derive from actual Roman military practice and project an important component of Roman cultural identity. Virtus was a virtue...
The transition experience of faculty members into academic leadership
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
and discussed the resources that are provided to support them along the way. This increased understanding of the transition process and its associated challenges will improve the policy and practice in the appointment of department chairs, and it will inform...
Advocacy INGOs in multi-ethnic societies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Advocacy INGOs are optimistically seen as campaigners for democracy and human rights. They create a narrative around democratic ideals and support local ...
The effect of visual inspection reliability on risk-based inspection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Bridge inspection has come a long way from its inception as a component level practice following the Silver Bridge collapse in 1967 to the most recent advancement enacted by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) legislation...
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 ...
Development of an amenable system for site-specific addition to a maize chromosome
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Currently, transgenic maize is produced by random integration of a transgenes into the plant. This works for single genes, but not as well for multiple traits. Identifying plants that contain several transgenes becomes a ...
Frames and subspaces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This thesis will consist of three parts. In the first part we find the closest probabilistic Parseval frame to a given probabilistic frame in the 2 Wasserstein Distance. It is known that in the traditional [symbol]2 distance ...
A thousand TV shows : applying a rhizomatic lens to television genres
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
One frequent technique for studying television is through genre. However, with the complex television environment of the 21st century, many genre studies do not adequately account for how generic television programs intersect ...
Parameter establishment for the design of interference fit tibial component of total knee replacement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Over 4.7 million Americans are living with total knee replacements with an additional one million receiving the surgery each year. With these numbers ...
Border threads : ethnographic tales of escape, agency, and violence in a shelter in Pakistan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study highlights the theoretical usefulness of viewing domestic violence shelters through the conceptual framework of border-crossing ...
The brown adipose tissue phenoype : metabolic implications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The prevailing dogma is that thermogenic brown adipose tissue (BAT) contributes to improvements in glucose homeostasis in obesogenic animal models; ...
Goal setting in Missouri's model evaluation system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Goal setting in Missouri's Model Evaluation is the central focus of this research. Years of legislation increased the federal presence in public ...
Who is the ideal worker? How gendered organizations adversely impact women's promotability and development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Women tend to earn fewer promotions (Roth et al., 2012) and receive fewer developmental opportunities (King et al., 2012) than men, but little research explains why. I explore the stereotype of the ideal worker, someone ...
Three essays on the commercialization of university discoveries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
studies that have researched the factors that affect licensing and their relative importance. In the third essay, I examine the characteristics of university inventions that are licensed using almost 10 years of data on several hundred of inventions...
Cooperative control of multi-agent systems with time-delays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this dissertation, we designed two cooperative control algorithms for multi-agent systems with time-delays. The first one is Robust Sliding-Mode ...