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School leaders' perceptions of Missouri's outdoor leadership experience
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Training school administrators to be more effective leaders through Missouri's Outdoor Leadership Experience is a unique concept that has been in place since 1987. Many other fields have used outdoor experiences for ...
Exploring the impact of digital textile prints on identity expression in women breast cancer survivors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The aim of this study was to explore how a designer's use of digital printing technology and the employment of individualized imagery in textile print design evoke emotional responses to textile print design. Roughly about ...
Contentious politics and social media : a study of the networked publics in the Ayotzinapa twitter protests #PaseDeLista1al43
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This study analyzed the networked public that was emergent on Twitter based on analysis of the use of the hashtag #PaseDelista1al43 to protest the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014. As social media have expanded, ...
The role of resistance exercise training & IGF-1 signaling in the amelioration of mild cognitive impairment in female Wistar rats
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Mild cognitive impairment increases risk for dementia. One therapeutic intervention that is reported to ameliorate cognition in patients with mild cognitive impairment is resistance exercise. However, the underlying ...
The material politics of ivory in early modern Europe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation sets out to challenge the material history and biography of ivory in early modern Europe (ca. 1600-1800) and explores the mutable materialities of ivory as both a sculptural material and a vehicle of ...
Certified staff and teacher perceptions of systematic regular classroom noncognitive factors interventions and their perceived impact on student noncognitive factors growth in one Midwestern elementary school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Noncognitive factors, such as persevering, having grit and self-control, using metacognition and setting goals, and exhibiting a growth mindset, are considered intrapersonal characteristics necessary for lifelong success ...
The instituionalization of the public school system in Missouri: 1865-1882
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
By the early 1870s, the public school system in Missouri became an embedded institution in the state's cultural and political fabric. This thesis provides an explanation of how and why Missouri powerholders solidified a ...
Evaluating the performance of performance-based budgeting: how do states intend to use performance measures in the budget process, and do they do it?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Most states and many local governmetns use some form of performance-based budgeting (PBB). PBB is a method of public budgeting that provides policymakers with information about the performance of an agency or program when ...
Trithiol ligand development for radioarsenic and radioantimony toward potential theranostic radiopharmaceutical agents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
and evaluate treatment with follow-up imaging tools (e.g., 177Lu/68Ga). However, the truly matched pair radionuclides with identical chemistry yet different nuclear properties are rare (e.g., 64,67Cu, 44,47Sc, 135,131I). As one of the potential theranostic...
A case study on the use of focus groups as participatory research
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Participatory approaches to research involve the commitment of a researcher, as well as those supporting the researcher (i.e., academic institutions, funding organizations), to the other people who are also involved in the ...
Corrected above measure : indentured servants and domestic abuse in Maryland, 1650-1700
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This study utilizes seventeenth-century Maryland court records to address the questions of what options were available to indentured servants who were physically abused and how they made use of them, how local and provincial ...
Community eclipse and Shanghai's lilong
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
With the rapid growth in the Shanghai (PRC) economy in recent years, many traditional residences, known as lilong, have been torn down in favor of modern buildings. The structure, long-term residency patterns, and alley-based ...
Investigation of the thermostability and activity of biomolecules in bio-friendly deep eutectic solvents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The solvent environment of a biomolecule is critical to its optimal performance in various scenarios, including biocatalysis, drug delivery, therapeutics, and biosensing. This dissertation mainly discusses the implementation ...
Latinos in Missouri : Conference Abstracts 2006-2008
(Cambio Center, 2009)
happening in our communities. As you look through these pages, you might think about how your work could contribute to our broader understanding of how demographic changes are affecting the changes happening in our communities. As you look through...
Migrations of love and circumstance: a history of intimacy and policy in the migration of Italian war brides, 1943-1954
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In the spring of 1946, the foreign brides and children of American soldiers from the Second World War migrated to the United States through mass migrations coordinated by the War Department. This project contextualizes the lives of Italian war...
Regression analysis of interval-censored failure time data with non proportional hazards models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Interval-censored failure time data arises when the failure time of interest is known only to lie within an interval or window instead of being observed ...
"An island of nymphs" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Victorian women's classical education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation seeks to frame Elizabeth Barrett Browning as one of the catalysts in favor of tertiary education for women in Victorian England. By examining her poems and activism relating to classical studies, as well ...
MU Student recital programs, 2020-2021
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 2020)
Collection of programs from student recitals given during the 2020-2021 academic year by students in the Department of Music at the University of Missouri--Columbia.
Motivating Mathematicians: A Theoretical Framework of Professional Development to Support Efficacious Behaviors for Teachers of Elementary Mathematics
(2021)
The K-12 mathematics experiences of today’s elementary teachers often were one dimensional, or traditional, in nature. Many elementary teachers recall negative, isolating mathematics experiences from their earliest memories ...