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Thermal characterization and scaling of a nanodielectric composite for use in compact ultra-high voltage capacitors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The University of Missouri has been developing compact capacitors for use in high voltage, pulsed power and directed energy applications. The capacitors are made from a proprietary nanodielectric, MU100, which is a polymer-ceramic composite composed...
Less risky investment? : The impact of federalism on the inflow of foreign direct investment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
and reducing expected costs for multinational corporations. The contribution of this paper is that it empirically assesses the impact of different dimensions of federalism on the inflow of FDI. In order to conduct this investigation, I use the data available...
Multifunctional Banking and Financial Fragility: What Should Banks Do?
(2015-05-22)
This dissertation traces the evolution of the U.S. banking system since the 1980s
with a specific focus on the role of the relaxation and eventual repeal of Glass-Steagall Act
(GSA) on the stability of the financial ...
A mixed method phenomenological case study of how members of a democratic micro school experience leadership and democratic principles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
A democratic micro school is a school with fewer than 150 students that ascribes to a democratic leadership structure where all of the school community members, especially the students, have leadership in their learning. ...
Protein transport : bioinformatics methods for understanding protein subcellular localization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
an efficient and effective way for studying the protein subcellular localization on the whole-proteome level. Here, we present in this dissertation the bioinformatics methods for studying protein subcellular localization. We reviewed the studies of protein...
Perceptions of out-of-field teachers of the sustainability of urban teacher quality support systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Educational reform movements set ambitious goals for student learning. Numerous factors contribute to students achieving these goals. It has been widely understood that "the increasing emphasis on quality of teaching and ...
Perspectives on inclusion in the general education classroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The focus of this case study involves inclusion of students with disabilities in the general education classroom. The emphasis is on 7th-12th grade general education teachers and administrators' perspectives regarding ...
Economic sanctions and human security : overstated backfire
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] A large body of scholarship have shown that economic sanctions cause human suffering in target states. This unintended negative effect of sanctions ...
Design and implementation of a portable prTorrent simulator system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The absence of a system that could perform as both a P2P simulator and a P2P emulator poses a barrier to researchers and developers. The objective of ...
Pregnant in prison the narrative intersection of motherhood and incarceration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This research study explores the ways in which women who were pregnant and incarcerated discuss how their pregnancy experiences unfolded behind bars. ...
"Send only your serious cases" : delivering flu to Toronto: an anthropological analysis of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
conditions that facilitated the spread of this virulent microorganism throughout the city. Grounded in the anthropological frameworks of evolutionary medicine, political economy and syndemics, this dissertation is designed to present a qualitative historical...
Data mining and machine learning methods for chromosome conformation data analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
are the first of their kind in the 3D chromosome and genome research field. All the methods are available as software tools that are freely available to the scientific community....
Identity-motivated elaboration : the role of partisan social identities and elaboration in political persuasion and learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
from and are persuaded by messages in the evolving political media landscape. Partisanship is a social identity that biases the processing of new political information. The current dissertation employs an experimental design (with replication) to test...
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 ...
Investigating the relative salience of race, sex, and facial expressions of emotion among preschoolers : introducing a new facial categorization task
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The present study was used to explore the relative salience of sex, race, and emotion expression among preschoolers using an author-developed facial categorization task. Forty-one children between the ages of 2.76 and 5.45 ...
Sex differences in antisocial behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this research was to gain insight into the etiology of antisocial behavior (AB; delinquency, conduct disorder symptoms and antisocial ...
Large-scale soybean genome-wide variation workflow and association analysis using deep learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] With the advances in next-generation sequencing technology and significant reduction in sequencing costs, it is now possible to sequence large collections ...
Feeding the beast : macroeconomic drivers of leadership responses to foreign policy action and the gendered consequences for human trafficking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
How do the gendered macroeconomic and macropolitical structures of the international system exacerbate the rise in human trafficking? In this dissertation project, I use a mixed method approach to examine the relationship between domestic leadership...
Direct-from-sputum rapid phenotypic drug susceptibility test for mycobacteria
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The spread of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a leading global public-health challenge. Because not all biological-mechanisms of resistance are known, culture-based (phenotypic) drug-susceptibility testing ...
Achieving Optimal Schedule by Network Flow Techniques
(2015-08-11)
Scheduling plays an important role in protocol design and performance optimizations for
wireless or wired networks. This dissertation studies how to achieve optimal performance
for two fundamental scheduling problems ...