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Geochronologic and thermochronologic constraints on the Mesozoic to Cenozoic deformation history of southeastern California
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Southeastern California hosts a complex zone of deformation defined by structures related to the San Andreas fault, such as the sinistral Garlock fault and the largely dextral eastern California shear zone, as well as ...
Trusted resource allocation in volunteer edge-cloud computing for scientific applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Data-intensive science applications in fields such as e.g., bioinformatics, health sciences, and material discovery are becoming increasingly dynamic and demanding with resource requirements. Researchers using these ...
Multiscale phase change, heat and mass transfer in direct contact membrane distillation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The global water shortage has become a serious threat for the world and the most promising solution for the water issue is the desalination of seawater or brackish water. In this work, direct contact membrane distillation ...
Essays on economics of higher education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. In Chapter 1, We use rich administrative microdata from Missouri to examine the potential to expand and diversify the production of STEM degrees at universities by tapping into ...
Lifestyle treatment in the regression of NASH: insulin resistance, lipid synthesis, and methodological innovation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation is focused on factors that increase risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NALFD) and the more advanced form nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). These factors include postprandial lipid handling ...
Forage production and diversification for climate-smart tropical and temperate silvopastures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Climate change creates much uncertainty for the future of animal agriculture, particularly due to an increase in summer droughts that result in the loss of range productivity. Silvopasture, the intentional integration of ...
Friends in high places : ecology of mycorrhizal associations in alpine plant communities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Mutualisms are ubiquitous in nature, yet these interactions often vary in strength and persistence. This variation raises the questions of what determines whether mutualisms persist or vanish, and how does variation in the ...
Decision theory and sampling algorithms for spatial and spatio-temporal point processes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
In this work, we first present a flexible hierarchical Bayesian model and develop a comprehensive Bayesian decision theoretic framework for point process theory. Then, we provide a comparative study of the approximate ...
Birth order and gender : differential parental investment in Medieval England and France in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This dissertation addresses the question: will parents invest differently in their children based on gender and birth order? Using parental investment theory and four major sets of outcome variables--child survival, parental ...
Growth and development with special reference to domestic animals. XLII, Methane, hydrogen and carbon dioxide production in the digestive tract of ruminants in relation to the respiratory exchange
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1937)
The culture wars & political polarization in perspective : why polarization and its perturbations are a persistant [i.e., persistent] puzzle in political science
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Political polarization in the American electorate has received a great deal of attention in recent years with most of the research focusing on social issues and their impact on electoral outcomes. However, scant attention ...
The impact analysis of structural change in Korean agriculture with respect to the Korean-United States free trade agreement : dynamic simultaneous equation model approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The main objective of this study is the analysis of the impacts of the Korean-United States Free Trade Agreement. On April 2, 2007, Korea and the ...
On the ability of rocks to conduct heat in the Lithosphere
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This work focuses on creating a model for the conductive thermal transport properties of rocks using measured thermal diffusivity (D) with the Laser Flash Analysis (LFA) method, which eliminates common errors associated ...
The ecology of organizational forms in local and regional food systems: exploring the scaling-up challenge via a species concept
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Over the past 30 years, Western nations have developed alternative systems for exchanging agrofood products which incorporate social values into the transactional environment. These systems are comprised of many different ...
Pluton source varition over two magmatic pulses in the white-inyo range, central-eastern California : implications for paleozoic and mesozoic tectonic reconstructions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation uses compositions of plutons in the White-Inyo Range (WIR) of central-eastern California, which is an important tectonic boundary as ...
Microstructural and environmental effects on fretting fatigue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1977)
One of the primary causes of premature fatigue failures is a phenomenon known as fretting. The research leading to this paper consisted of developing information regarding microstructural and environmental effects on ...
Data combining using mixtures of g-priors with application on county-level female breast cancer prevalence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
As more and more data are available, data synthesis has become an indispensable task for researchers. From a Bayesian perspective, this dissertation includes three related projects and aims at quantifying the benefits of ...
Multi-scale factors influencing detection, site occupancy and resource use by foraging bats in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Conservation of bat populations requires understanding the associations between bats and their use of resources. We used maximum likelihood to estimate probability of site occupancy using acoustic data for ten species of ...
Ecological genomics of divergence, admixture, and fitness in the smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolomieu) is one of the most highly targeted sport fishes in the world. Anglers vie for the opportunity to catch Smallmouth Bass recreationally and competitively, spending billions of dollars ...
Synthesis and structure-activity relationship of a series of sigma receptor ligands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Sigma receptors are involved in several biological processes, and sigma ligands might be promising as cancer treatment agents, cocaine abuse medicines, and valuable psychiatric drugs. In an attempt to elucidate effectual ...