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Blackouts made visible : a visual-textual analysis of Sarah Glidden's comics journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This thesis studies Sarah Glidden's largely unexamined book Rolling Blackouts as a significant contribution to the genre known as comics journalism. It argues that Glidden's work engages in a material struggle over the ...
Development Theory and the Cold War: A Historical Analysis of Latin American Structuralism from 1930 to 1970
(2013)
Latin America has experimented with two different development strategies over the
last two centuries. First, and currently, an “outward-oriented” program based on
exports of primary commodities. Alternatively, for a few ...
Director ties, board experience, and firm strategic outcomes : board experience effects on post-acquisition performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This study examines the effects of board experience on firm outcomes. Using the resource-based view of the firm in complement with agency theory and the resource dependence perspective, theory development links the past ...
Exploration of fecal microbial transfer and the competitive exclusion concept in broilers as a possible alternative to antibiotic growth promoters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Four studies were conducted to explore the effects of early life Fecal Microbiota Transfer (FMT) from healthy feed efficient finished broilers into day-old broiler chicks on growth performance indices, changes and or ...
Interaction at the solid-water interface of 0d and 2d carbon nanoparticles : environmental impacts and applications for contaminant removal
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Carbon dots (CDs) and graphene oxide (GO) are rapidly emerging carbon-based nanomaterials that, due to their growing applications, will inevitably find their way to natural waters; however, their environmental fate is ...
"Learning the ropes : coaching and performing race, style, and identity in professional boxing"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation is an urban ethnography that utilizes a critical race theory (CRT) approach into analyzing the culture and identity, race and/or ethnicity, and performances...
B2 or not B2 : loss of ephrin-B2 in endothelial cells during development, homeostasis, and regeneration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The microvasculature is a robust and highly adaptive system, responsive to minute physiological and molecular cues. Endothelial cells (ECs) assemble the microvasculature during development through vasculogenesis and ...
Explainable cohort discoveries driven by exploratory data mining and efficient risk pattern detection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Finding small homogeneous subgroup cohorts in a large heterogeneous population is a critical process for hypothesis development within a broad range of applications, such as fraud detection, ad targeting, and geospatial ...
Technetium and rhenium schiff base complexes for nuclear medicine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This dissertation investigates the synthesis of rhenium and technetium Schiff base complexes for potential applications in nuclear medicine. In Chapter 2, a series of mixed ligand Re(III) complexes of the form trans-[Re( ...
Ritonavir - A Novel Multidrug Resistance Modulator in Cancer Chemotherapy and Ocular Neovascular Diseases
(2014-08-28)
Multidrug resistance (MDR), a clinical outcome characterized by subtherapeutic
intracellular drug concentration, is one of the predominant factors limiting effective cancer
chemotherapy. Several possible mechanisms and ...
Genetic and nutritional effects on reproduction in lactating dairy cows
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Good reproductive performance is a prerequisite for profitable pasture-based seasonal calving systems of milk production. The objective of this dissertation was to elucidate the physiological mechanisms contributing to ...
Methods of partitioning, biogenesis, and selecting for natural and engineered CoA-RNA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
More than a decade ago, RNAs with NAD+, CoA, and acylated CoA caps were identified. Since then, studies have described NAD+'s protective, cap-like function in bacteria and its role in promoting mRNA degradation in eukaryotic ...
Quality and quantity : gender representation in teacher discourse and kindergarten math curriculum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
We know that women are underrepresented in math-intensive fields despite marginal gender differences in mathematical performance. Some researchers believe that societal factors contribute to this problem and have called ...
Establishing a foundation for large DNA transfer to artificial minichromosomes and B insert platforms in maize
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
In plants, conventional genetic engineering methods limit the number of available traits that could potentially improve the quality of agriculture. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and biolistic bombardment are tools ...
Beef cattle report, 1989
(1989)
Deep learning architectures for 2D and 3D scene perception
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Scene understanding is a fundamental problem in computer vision tasks, that is being more intensively explored in recent years with the development of deep learning. In this dissertation, we proposed deep learning structures ...
First-principles investigation of transport and magnetism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Study of the quantum mechanical nature of a material provides invaluable understanding of its underlying mechanisms governing their fascinating novel properties. Density functional based first-principles methods provide ...
Missouri football media guide, 1982
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1982)
Office.Photos were provided by Keith McMillin of the Columbia Daily Tribune, Bob Holt III, J. B. Forbes and Jim Rackovitz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dave Klutho, Bill Oremus, Wendell Lenhart, Julie’s Studio, Toni Somers Photography, the Missouri...
Examining elementary mathematics teachers' justification practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examined the relationship between elementary teachers' attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, Elementary Mathematics Specialist (EMS) status, and students' opportunities...
Taxonomy, taphonomy, and ecology of Silurian (late Telychian) conulariids from the Waukesha Lagerstatte, Wisconsin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
) borrowed from the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum, Madison, USA were examined using a combination of light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), to assist in the classification of these taxa...