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Cognition, Fatigue, and Health-related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis: Exploring the Role of Polypharmacy and Anticholinergic Medication Burden
(2022)
OBJECTIVE: Recent evidence suggests that polypharmacy, or the daily use of multiple medications, is common among individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). Some medications have anticholinergic properties that increase risk ...
Barriers to media coverage of Myanmar since the military coup began
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
, this hope was crushed by a coup d'etat led by Myanmar's military junta in February 2021. Many international news organizations have kept a close eye on the situation in the country since then and have detailed reports of what's happening. This project aims...
Artificial intelligence driven framework for the structurization of free-text diagnostic reports
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Free-text sections of diagnostic reports contain a wealth of data on patients, diseases, and complex diagnostic processes. However, free-text data are a poor starting point...
Financial leverage and predictability of earnings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This study investigates whether firms' financial leverage affects earnings predictability. I posit and find that earnings predictability is negatively associated with firms' leverage. Further analyses using an instrumental ...
Journalists' role conceptions in covering sexual violence post-Weinstein
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Since the publication of The New York Times article on Harvey Weinstein, journalists across the United States have had to adapt to a new reporting climate as it has evolved under the influence of the #MeToo movement. This thesis explores...
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 ...
Breaking into the boys' club : an analysis of the experiences of women journalists entering the sports journalism arena
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Historically, women sports journalists encounter frequent instances of objectification, harassment, and discrimination from sources, colleagues, and higher ups (Hardin & Shain, 2005), and women in the current sports journalism industry remain...
Impact of woody biomass production and biopower generation on US forests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation presents a study of environmental impact of woody biomass production and consumption on the eastern US forests. The first part is concerned with the impact of the exponential growth in trading of US ...
Examining the association between extreme drinking and prefrontal cortex functioning in young adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
, it remains unclear whether damage can occur in humans after a single heavy drinking event. The current study is a novel natural experiment examining PFC activation during performance of a working memory task in 39 participants before and after their 21st...
Capturing the strategic pivot: Identifying the performance outcomes of new venture pivots
(2020)
); and identifying publicly available performance data for what are in most cases, privately owned firms. To address these issues, I employ a novel research design in which individual pivots are identified using the self-reports of high-growth ventures...
An investigation of the administrator's role in the design, support, and evaluation of induction programs in rural, public K-12 schools in Northwest Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
al., 2014; Strong, 2005). Administrators are challenged in their responsibilities to develop teachers, manage turnover, and retain teachers (Chan et al., 2019). This qualitative study provides awareness of the administrator's role, using...
Essays on inequality and mobility of Korean households' income and consumption
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation analyzes income and consumption inequality empirically and theoretically using Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS). This dissertation consists of three chapters. First two chapters are about ...
Differences Between Licensed Healthcare Professionals with Substance Use-Related Licensure Discipline
(2020)
with substance use disorder. Chi-square tests are used to compare disciplinary action from each profession reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank from 2007-2017 in 24 states. Eight different disciplinary outcomes are compared among the three professions...
The impact of gender and traditional norm adherence on event-level alcohol outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Men consume more alcohol than women, both globally and within the United States specifically, experience different patterns of social problems from drinking, and differ in their risk for developing alcohol use disorder ...
Princes, rock stars and their wives : analyzing tabloid coverage of women married to celebrity men
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
has approached covering Linda and Meghan. It examines how tabloid reporters constructed the life stories of the women for audiences and how the women have reacted to it in interviews. Spanning across decades from late 1960's to early 2020's, the paper...
Sociocultural attitudes as a moderator of the relations between negative eating and weight messages from family members and Latinas' body image shame
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Research shows that family members are important for young women's body image. Using the sociocultural model, I explored associations between negative eating and weight messages from fathers, mothers, and sisters and ...
Investigating dyadic interactions within the family as an interdependent system : associations between mothers and adolescent siblings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
that sibling relationship quality influenced the trajectory of parent-adolescent conflict over time. Specifically, spillover effects and compensation effects were found in both adolescent-reported and mother-reported adolescent conflict. Importantly...
Iterative refinement and testing of a brief school-based intervention for internalizing symptoms via an academic-community partnership
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
of the six Show Me FIRST modules. Youth who received Show Me FIRST reported significantly better internalizing symptoms post-intervention compared to youth who received usual care, covarying for pre-intervention scores. For Show Me FIRST youth, session number...
Non-Religious Discrimination: Perceived Support, Social Connectedness, and Microaggressions against Non-Religious African Americans
(2023)
Current literature has been exploring the lived experiences of non-religious Americans and how they are facing psychological distress due to how they are treated in America by their religious counterparts. The African ...
Social camouflaging and mental health in adolescence: differences by sex and diagnosis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
adolescents and 2) to examine age, sex, autism diagnosis, and camouflaging as predictors of depression, anxiety, and stress levels in autistic and non-autistic adolescents. The first study found that females reported higher levels of camouflaging when...