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1st Place Winner: Of men and martians : a close reading of a Cow Pea
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
I was really looking forward to going to the "Food: Fact or Fiction" exhibit at the Perlow-Stevens Art Gallery, and I was disappointed when the weather interfered with our class trip. This exhibit seemed like it might be ...
Charlotte and Elizabeth : guardians of the female mind in Pride and Prejudice
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's depiction of womanhood is both varied and expansive. A woman can be gentle in spirit, incapable of finding ill in others. Daughters can be impossibly “silly” in their romantic endeavors. ...
Thoughts on the Provenance of Some Merovingian-Era Buckles at the University of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2010)
"Among the thousands of objects in the collection of the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri is a little-known group of early medieval artifacts from France. Given by the artist Evelyn Borchard Metzger in 1962, the European...
Failing to make the grade : how the school lunch system is falling short of its purpose
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
With over 1/3 of the nation's children overweight or obese according to the Center for Disease Control, concerns over what children are consuming have become ever more prevalent among parents across the United States. ...
Artifacts and fantasy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
developed to cope with it. The paintings in "Artifacts and Fantasy", encourage the viewer to excavate layers and sift through materials, thereby activating memory. Familiar artifacts and textures draw the viewer into the surface of the painting. The scale...
Medicine of the Ancient Near East and Egypt Through Artifacts
(2013)
The exhibit “Myth, Magic, and Medicine: A Journey to the Ancient World” was publicly displayed at the Clendening History of Medicine Museum at the University of Kansas Medical Center from June to September of 2012. The exhibit included artifacts...
HVAC optimization study
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) can be a very costly effort when applied in industry. So was thought to be the case at the DRS Technologies facility in West Plains, Missouri. Therefore, the Pollution ...
Framing protest in Missouri : framing protest on Missouri newspaper coverage of Concerned Student 1950 protest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
sources, issue-action depiction, and syntax. Using quantitative framing analysis, this research examined six Missouri newspapers' coverage of the Concerned Student 1950 protest that occurred at the University of Missouri to find whether newspapers followed...
Modern Tools for Noninvasive Analysis of Brainwaves: Applications in Assistive Technologies and Medical Diagnostics
(2010-03)
Digital signal processing is arguably one of the most important segments of any modern medical equipment. Recent advances in intelligence signal processing have married machine learning methods to traditional signal analysis ...
Paleodemographic modeling in the lower Mississippi River Valley
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The three studies presented below address the relationships that exist between prehistoric population dynamics, settlement organization, climate, and subsistence in the central and lower Mississippi River valley and adjacent ...
Microcosmic Forests: An Investigation of Protein Crystallization Using ESEM, Contact AFM and Optical Microscopy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2008)
Eat, think, and be wary : the Food and Society Series
(2010)
This flyer explains the concept behind the Food and Society Series and provides a schedule of events for the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters....
Fantasy theme divergence during covid-19 a fantasy theme analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In an era of selective attention, media fragmentation, political polarization, and social media trolls, the communication landscape has never been more fraught with the potential for carefully crafted messages to take on ...
Deep learning-based artifacts removal in video compression
(2021)
The block-based coding structure in the hybrid video coding framework inevitably introduces compression artifacts such as blocking, ringing, etc. To compensate for those artifacts, extensive filtering techniques were proposed in the loop of video...
Antenna designs and imaging algorithm for radar-based microwave breast cancer detection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this work, the design of ultra-wideband antennas and an algorithm for artifact removal and image reconstruction beamforming for microwave breast cancer detection were...
Obsidian procurement in the Gallinas Mountains of west central New Mexico
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The Gallinas Mountains of west central New Mexico are a relatively understudied area within the greater American Southwest. The area effectively lies within a transitionary zone between three classically defined culture ...
The north smelter at Titelberg: post-imperial bronze recycling in Belgic Gaul
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
three hundred years, a new smelting furnace was built into the remains of the Gallo-Roman Minting Foundry; excavation shows this smelter was used to melt down bronze coins and artifacts for reuse or as bullion. The questions arise from this, then: who...
The application of phytolith and starch grain analysis to understanding formative period subsistence, ritual, and trade on the Taraco Pennisula, Highland Bolivia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
). Comparative plant, and archaeological soil and artifact residue samples were analyzed in order to address the role of local subsistence plants, hallucinogenic and exotic species, and maize at four sites (Chiripa, Kala Uyni, Sonaje, and Kumi Kipa) located...
Inconsiderate consideration: claims making and the high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Adding to the literature regarding environmental racism and environmental decision-making procedures, I perform textual analysis on documented claims made by American Indians during the siting process for the high-level ...