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A study of individual internet dependency as an extension of social support
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This current study aims to define and describe the relationship between individuals' Internet dependency and social support as they function in one specific information environment. How the immigrants' acculturation attitude ...
Campaign Missouri 1992
(University of Missouri Press, 1994)
Missouri's campaigns in 1992 were the most exciting in years. Missouri citizens contributed the most money ever to their candidates, and the candidates spent almost all of it. Voter interest was high, reflected in voter ...
Architecture as a device of control : themes of prison life with focus on solitary confinement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
as the device of control and is based on extensive prior research into the historical theories that underlie it, while answering the question of what qualities of correctional environments shape the behavior and experience of its inhabitants. The research...
The centennial of engineering education, 1856-1956, University of Missouri, College of Engineering, Columbia
(University of Missouri, 1957)
Physiologic and metabolic interactions in the soybean/bradyrhizobium japonicum symbiosis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The agronomically vital, nitrogen-fixing symbioses between soybean and the soil bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum is a model system for the study of ...
When they see us: racial criminalization, racial stigma, and identity in a Midwest college town
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Racial stigma and racial criminalization have been centralizing pillars of the construction of Blackness in the United States. Taking such systemic injustice and racism as a given, then question then becomes how these ...
Spectropolarimetric constraints on interstellar grain models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] It is now well recognized that the interstellar medium acts as an efficient polarizer of electromagnetic radiation, resulting in the partial plane ...
An examination of personalization in digital advertising
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
motivates them to click on them. A hybrid qualitative design, involving data collection through the use of a think-aloud observation method, was paired with semi-structured interviews from 12 study participants. Findings showed that millennials do not seek...
"You say diversity, we say adversity" : white nationalism, student protest, and administrative diversity discourses in the neoliberal university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] This dissertation explores the contemporary landscape of the neoliberal PWI university through multiple discourses surrounding issues of inclusion, diversity, and equity. Using the University of ...
Richard Crashaw : an annotated bibliography of criticism, 1632-1980
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
Roberts provides a "fully annotated, comprehensive enumerative bibliography of the criticism on Richard Crashaw that contains, in addition to editions of his poetry, all books; parts of book-length studies; monographs; and ...
LIFE, liberty & the pursuit of visual happiness : the development of documentary journalism, from magazine picture stories to Netflix serials
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This Master's thesis examined what makes photo-journalists fulfilled professionally in the digital video space. Internet video journalism is the latest ...
Black students at predominatly white institutions: a motivational and self-systems approach to understanding retention
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] As the number of Black students attending college has increased (Baker & Valez, 1996), the need for programs to socially and academically support, and ...
Transport of invasive carp eggs and the effect of river turbulence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
reflect the inherent physics of eggs transport associated with river turbulence. First, we developed a fully three-dimensional (3-D) stochastic egg drift model, namely SDrift. Based on egg characteristics as a function of post-fertilization time...
Barriers to Social Change: Neoliberalism and the Justification of the Status-Quo among Low-Income African Americans
(2016)
Neoliberalism has been the dominant political-economic model in the United States
since Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 (Harvey, 2005). Few studies have shown how the
political-economic model of neoliberalism influences ...
Out of sight out of mind : factors in low levels of international news knowledge
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
. It is imperative for the continued growth of the United States of America to have a strong knowledge base regarding international news. The study begins by examining the impoverished state of Americans international news knowledge. It integrates different...
Biomechanical characterization of slipping on pervious and traditional concrete walking surfaces
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-22)
Pervious concrete is a porous material that may provide superior slip resistance due to its ability to exfiltrate melted ice and other slippery surface contaminants. The purpose of this study was to analyze slip-related ...
Incompleteness of the Landauer formula for electronic transport
(American Physical Society, 2009)
that the physical origin of these effects is related to the viscous nature of the electron liquid and we develop a perturbative formalism, based on the time-dependent current-density-functional theory, for calculating the corrections to the resistance in terms...
Novel Folic Acid Targeted Nanomicelles For Delivery Of Hydrophobic Drugs To The Back Of The Eye
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Overall aim of this research project is to develop folic acid targeted nanomicelles
loaded with insoluble hydrophobic drugs for delivery to posterior segment of the eye.
Retinoblastoma and uveitis are diseases that ...
Collateral damage: anti-communism & U.S. cultural policy
(2014-07-28)
The United States of America has never formally declared a cultural policy nor
established a Cabinet-level department of cultural affairs, as many other nations have in the post-World War II era--depriving the American ...
My story : William John Krause, II
(William John Krause II, 2019)
"The following are my answers to a series of 52 questions prompted by StoryWorth, Inc. The questions and answers were organized into a digital format in the order that they were received and are presented here. StoryWorth, ...