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The radical self : metamorphosis to animal form in modern Latin American narrative
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
This essay approaches modern Latin American narrative from a predominantly phenomenological and existential perspective and therefore marks a departure from the main currents of contemporary Latin American criticism, which ...
Lines in the sand : navigating native advertising through magazine professionals' policies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Informed by the persuasion knowledge model and advertising ethics theory, this research uses a representative case study to qualitatively analyze both ...
Intercultural adapturgy : twenty-first century women adapting Spanish golden age plays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Transferring work from one culture to another through translation or adaptation is a delicate process which requires careful consideration of both the positionality of the adapter and the intertextual reaction of the adapted ...
Coupling, membrane conductance, and ion channel mRNA profiles in the establishment and maintenance of network activity in the crustacean cardiac ganglion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Neural networks produce critical rhythmic behaviors throughout an animal's lifespan, despite growth, differing environments, and changes in physiological state. This requires networks which balance stability in their ...
The changing conditions of rural life : a youth publication
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1951)
Seriously funny : a look at humor in televised presidential debates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of this study is to understand how humor was used in U.S. Presidential Debates and what kind of coverage it garnered in the press. A content analysis was done on the general election presidential debates from ...
Topological mechanics and acoustics : theoretical and experimental demonstration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Topological insulators are new phases of matter whose properties are derived from a number of qualitative yet robust topological invariants rather ...
Heuristic Descriptive Case Study of Math and Language Arts Teachers' Past and Current Experiences in the Implementation of the Missouri Learning Standards
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
Teacher retention and attrition continues to be relevant areas of concern for school
districts as many reports are surfacing correlating the performance of students with the
attrition rate of teachers. The focus of ...
Kangaroo, 1950
(University of Kansas City School of Dentistry Kansas City-Western Dental College, 1950)
An examination of personalization in digital advertising
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Paid advertisements on social media have become a powerful way for marketers to reach their target audiences. This study addresses how millennials experience, interact with, and react to personalized advertisements on ...
Parent/child distal relationships: a look at communication used before, during, and after a parental absence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This project examined communication in distal parent-child relationships. Distal relationships are relations in which people are physically separated for a period of time. Little research has focused on distal relationships, ...
The SAGE-Spec Spitzer Legacy program: The life-cycle of dust and gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Point source classification I.
(arXiv, 2010)
We present the classification of 197 point sources observed with the Infrared Spectrograph in the SAGE-Spec Legacy program on the Spitzer Space Telescope. We introduce a decision-tree method of object classification based ...
The First and second Dalhousie manuscripts : poems and prose
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
Discovered in 1977 amoung the papers of the Dalhousie family at the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh and purchased by Texas Tech University in 1983, the First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts contain, respectively, ...
Application of Ab Initio Calculations and Molecular Dynamics to Collagen and Brome Mosaic Virus
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are no more accurate than the underlying
force field which represents the molecular interactions. In this thesis, we have
calculated ab initio atomic partial charges for proteins of ...
The Mid-Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: A Study of Performance Practices in Two Exemplary Works for the Flute
(1973)
It is the intention of this study to provide some information concerning performance practices encountered intwo compositions which include the transverse flute in their instrumentation. These works are the Sonata 1 op. ...
Data Driven Decision-Making in Midwest Charter Schools: Teachers’ Experiences in the Classroom
(2014)
Education has evolved into a system that emphasizes data use. Data are used to discriminate between successful and failing districts, schools, teachers and students. Data are used to gain insights to student demographics. ...
Child death, grief, and the community in high and late Medieval England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"William of Canterbury, one of the authors of the Thomas Becket miracle collection, reports in a twelfth-century miracle that an eight-year-old boy named Phillip was looking at rocks by a lake located in the county of ...
Invictus Minds: A Critical Heuristic Case Study of Giftedness in the African-American Male
(2014)
The purpose of this critical heuristic case study was to explore the phenomenon of
“giftedness” as experienced by African American males in K-12 public schools through the
analysis of their schooling experiences. A ...
An Instrumental Approach to Full Employment: with Policy Implication
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2010)
The study proposes that in order to assure full employment, policy measures must address both Keynesian unemployment, and unemployment caused by structural and technological change. It is possible to attain full employment ...