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Evaluation of Cement-Based Reactive Media for Contaminant Remediation
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Water contaminated with heavy metals, arsenic, and other industrial pollutants
poses a severe risk to human health. Reactive media present an opportunity to intercept
contaminants but have high material or environmental ...
A case study of building leaders' experiences with strengths-based coaching and feedback
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
experience for the participants of this case study, the results have implications for future research on the application of instructional leadership in practice. Additionally, the findings imply that further research needs to be done on the impact...
Mesh Adaptation in Fractured Reservoir Simulation
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Natural fractures exist in many oil and gas reservoirs. On the other hand, hydraulic
fracturing (fracking) is needed to create fractures in some reservoirs to improve the production
rate. For example, shale gas reservoirs ...
Esquire magazine, presidential politics and hegemonic masculinity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
's feature writing between 1996 and 2016, seeking to determine to what extent, if any, the magazine uses characteristics of the hegemonic masculinity paradigm to frame articles about U.S. presidents and presidential candidates and to what extent, if any...
Mechanisms of Action in Motivational Interviewing
(2020)
Despite the demonstrated efficacy of disease modifying therapies (DMT), many MS patients (~ 40%) stop using DMT within 3 years of starting. A cross-over randomized controlled trial demonstrated that a theoretically based ...
"Immortal Harps": Milton and musical morality in Handel's Samson
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraphs: "If Handel's contemporary James Harris is correct in observing that music and poetry "can never be so powerful singly, as when they are properly united," (152) and that Handel's "Genius ... being ...
How Spirituality and Fatigue Interact to Affect Quality of Life in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer
(2023)
The cognitive theory of stress and coping by Lazarus and Folkman can explain how individuals cope with a stressful chronic illness, specifically metastatic breast cancer (MBC). If an individual appraises their MBC as ...
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 ...
Academic satisfaction among East Asian international students in the U.S. : an examination of SCCT
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
With the Asian Hate outbreak during the COVID-19 pandemic, East Asian international students experience more overt racial discrimination and attack while seeking education afar from home. Despite the increased emphasis on ...
A universal approach to stabilize water-oil interface via surfactant self-assembly
(2023)
-of-the-art research on liquid-in-liquid 3D printing techniques is provided, explaining their fundamental principles, underlying mechanisms, and various material systems. Moreover, the practical features in these 3D printing platforms such as structural, mechanical...
Who you are, where you go, and who you know: a study of civic participation of youth in Chicago neighborhoods
(2021)
Community violence is a pervasive and damaging social phenomenon, occurring with alarming frequency in economically disadvantaged communities of color. The detrimental consequences of violence exposure in adolescents is ...
Three essays on higher education outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation consists of three chapters examining issues relevant to higher education outcomes. The first essay examines the impact of state merit-aid program adoption on the stock of human capital across rural and ...
World of trade-offs : what journalists think of rating scales in fact-checking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
A new filtering index for fast processing of SPARQL queries
(2013)
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) has become a popular data model for
representing data on the Web. Using RDF, any assertion can be represented as a (subject,
predicate, object) triple. Essentially, RDF datasets ...
Musical multiplicities: The lives and reception of four post-Romantic women
(2021)
Many musical women were active during the Romantic and Post-Romantic eras. They hailed from a variety of backgrounds, and worked in a variety of musical vocations. This thesis focuses on four of these multi-talented ...
Muse, number 49 (2015)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2015)
Transition to Kindergarten: exploring concepts of worry, transition activities, and parent efficacy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Kindergarten entry is a significant -- and fairly common -- transition experienced by young children and their families. Put simply, it is often a drastic new experience for young children including new behavioral, social, and emotional demands...
The Relationship Between Trauma, Acculturation, and Mental Health Symptoms in a Somali Refugee Community
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The conflict in Somali has resulted in millions of refugees and internally displaced
persons for more than three decades. More than 100,000 Somali refugees have been resettled
in the United States, striking a need for ...
Growing Chinese Chestnuts in Missouri (2012)
(University of Missouri Extension, 2012)
programs for developing the Chinese chestnut into a profitable orchard crop. There are multiple field studies, including a repository with 65 cultivars at the Center's research farm in New Franklin, Mo. Ongoing market evaluation and consumer research...
Explaining variation in adoption and implementation of anti-corruption policies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Since the negative effects of corruption on the quality of government are becoming more apparent, the anti-corruption industry is expanding. Yet while scholars have developed several anti-corruption policies, political ...