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Publications, University of Missouri Extension, 1998-10
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1998)
Social inequalities and mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic on the island of Newfoundland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
journal articles. The first article (Chapter 2) is a broad assessment of how anthropology, specifically the integration of biocultural anthropology and epidemiological transition theory, can encourage a more holistic understanding of human infectious...
Henri Rivière, Japonsime, and Les Trente-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel
(2020)
Les Trente-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel is a bound book that contains 36 lithographs by Henri Rivière printed in 1902. These lithographs reflect the social, political, and artistic changes that had occurred in Paris by the end of the nineteenth...
Academic advising in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources : an investigation of undergraduate students' needs and faculty performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
). A total of 726 students (44.84%) completed the instrument. Overall, students reported a high level of satisfaction with faculty advisors' performance. Results indicated that students' academic advising needs and their evaluation of faculty...
The Spes salutis masses of 's-Hertogenbosch MS 75 and Clemens non Papa : a comparative study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
confidence. His visit to the Marian confraternity known as the Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap [Illustrious Blessed Lady Confraternity] in the Dutch town of s'-Hertogenbosch in late 1550 -- where he presented a Mass on 1 October of that year -- is well...
Investigations of Mississippi valley-type mineralizing fluids via analytical geochemistry, numerical modeling, and experimental geochemistry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
of these elements in the mineralizing fluids and how the fluids interact with host rocks. This dissertation consists of three studies that address this knowledge gap. The first was a case study of the Hansonburg, New Mexico MVT district, in which barite and fluorite...
Adjusting organizational structure for cooperative longevity : Missouri farmers association, 1920 - 1950
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
in 1940 from a quasi-hybrid federation of local farm clubs, county exchanges, regional processing cooperatives, multipurpose ownership set of entities to a centralized cooperative organizational form. The study selects secondary data from archives...
The Otaku Lifestyle: Examining Soundtracks in the Anime Canon
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Japanese animation, or anime, has been popular around the globe for the last sixty years.
Anime has its own fan culture in the United States known as otaku, or the obsessive lifestyle
surrounding manga and anime, which ...
In the hands of noble men: a history of Thessaly from the Archaic period to the end of the Third Sacred War
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
control. What prompted the Thessalians to expend the political, social, and military resources to embark upon a hegemonic project in central Greece? What caused the subsequent upheaval and stasis of the fifth and fourth centuries? This work attempts...
Theoretical analysis of heat and mass transfer processes in an evaporative cooling system with zeolite desiccant powered by solar energy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Concerns about energy sources depletion and environmental pollution issues have been raised and is a top priority of the global community. Refrigeration machines have been...
Compression for Machine Vision and Beyond
(2020)
. This thesis tackles the problem of visual content compression: how to reduce the transmitted data volume under specific application scenarios. One of the core steps is how to remove the redundancy to achieve a compact latent representation. We approach...
A Quantitative Analysis of the Role of Antihypertensive Drug Dose on Hypertension in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease
(2019)
Hypertension (HTN) is a highly prevalent and major risk factor for poor cardiovascular and kidney outcomes in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Prior research suggests that HTN is underdiagnosed and undertreated in children with CKD. Risk factors...
Development and Testing of a Steerable Cruciform Parachute System
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This thesis focuses on the development of a parachute payload system which is
capable of precision aerial delivery yet only represents a modest cost increase over ballistic unguided systems. In order to develop such a ...
Missouri alumnus, volume 079, number 04 (1991 Summer)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1991)
An analysis of the 1875-1877 scarlet fever epidemic of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
An epidemic of scarlet fever on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada between 1875 and 1877 is analyzed in the context of a larger, world-wide pandemic of scarlet fever that occurred between 1825 and 1885. Data derived from public records...
A study on the trade-off between supervision and wages: an empirical test of efficiency wage theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
. Efficiency wage theory predicts a negative relationship between supervision and wages: employers may choose either to pay a wage premium or to increase the level of supervisory intensity to force workers to exert more effort. The relation between supervisory...
Global DNA methylation analysis in relapsed Pre-B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Reliable biomarkers for relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia are scarce. Currently, minimal residual disease (MRD) is the best method in predicting a relapse event, but is invasive to the patient. In addition, high quantity amount of cells...
Three Essays In Mobilization Theory
(2023)
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of society-wide mobilization, the response to a major national emergency in which the stakes feel existential and the policy choices often push the bounds of what was previously conceivable within...
Acrylate synthesis from carbon dioxide - ethylene coupling catalyzed by first-row transition metal complexes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
family of low valent Fe complexes were found to facilitate CO2-ethylene coupling. However, the insertion of two CO2 units was observed, resulting in the formation of the dicarboxylate product methylmalonic acid (MMA). A one electron oxidation was found...