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Surveilling Women’s Bodies in Pursuit of Fetal Anatomical Normality: Framing Risk and Responsibility in American Print News Coverage of the Zika Virus
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
In 2015, the mosquito-borne Zika virus made international news as it spread rapidly
across northeastern Brazil. These stories were not fundamentally concerned with Zika virus
infection itself. The primary focus of the ...
Undergraduate catalog 2006-08, original
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The Undergraduate Catalog for the University of Missouri Columbia has been organized to enhance readability. The initial sections are related to University-wide programs, policies and procedures. The second section provides the listing of academic...
On the advancement of core/shell titanium dioxide nanomaterials for microwave absorption
(2020)
Controlling the interactions between incident electromagnetic energy and matter is of critical importance for many civil and military applications, such as photocatalysis, solar cells, optics, radar detection, communications, ...
Impact of alternate host phenology amd alternate hose-transgenic corn interactions on the Western corn rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
followed by movement to Bt maize increased beetle emergence from Bt maize, fecundity of those that survived, and the number of viable eggs produced. In greenhouse trials, western corn rootworm larvae had significantly greater survival on younger grassy...
Undergraduate catalog 2006-08, revised
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The Undergraduate Catalog for the University of Missouri Columbia has been organized to enhance readability. The initial sections are related to University-wide programs, policies and procedures. The second section provides the listing of academic...
Competency-based professional development : a case study of how recruiters perceive undergraduate business students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
to the creation of company-specific competency models. My dissertation is a case study of how recruiters perceive undergraduate business students who complete educational requirements at a university college of business that has included a competency model in its...
Evaluating the use of Facebook brand pages by television journalists to promote their professional brand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
definition of their professional brand and create content that cultivates a relationship with the type of user they are targeting. Finally, authenticity rules as the number one attribute that research participants say contributes to their success....
Feminist theory as it relates to business leaderhip content : a case of patriarchal dominant society structure
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study is an exploration of the business leadership content that exists to serve as a resource for the development of the leadership role, the performing of that role...
Painting the wine-dark sea : traveling Aegean fresco artists in the Middle and late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
During the Middle and Late Bronze Age, the "civilized world" was not centered on the Aegean or the Mediterranean as in later centuries, but was instead shifted east. The older, established civilizations in Egypt and the ...
A life of process and progress: the influence of writer Donald M. Murray
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
With his pronouncement to "teach writing as a process, not a product" in 1972, Donald (Don) Murray (1924-2006) enacted an approach to writing shared by like-minded scholars that would become termed the "writing process ...
Using Visual Thinking Strategies to Improve Mathematics Instruction
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
The purpose of the study was to explore the use of Visual Thinking Strategies as it
applied to mathematics instruction for teachers in a small, urban elementary school
containing grades 1-6 in a large Midwestern ...
The experience of men who were managing symptoms of COPD
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of middle-aged men who were managing symptoms of COPD. A longitudinal design with non...
God's words in the language of men : the professionalization of the Southern Baptist Press
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Although religion is and has been an integral aspect of society, its journalism has been overlooked. Media scholars have viewed the religious press as less worthy and less professional than its commercial counterparts, ...
2009 Missouri Pest Management Guide : corn, grain sorghum, soybean, winter wheat (2008)
(University of Missouri. Extension Division, 2008)
This publication provides current recommendations for control of the most problematic weeds, insects and diseases encountered in Missouri corn, grain sorghum, soybean and winter wheat cropping systems. This information is based on research conducted...
Acrylate synthesis from carbon dioxide - ethylene coupling catalyzed by first-row transition metal complexes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an abundant and renewable carbon source than can be used as feedstock for the synthesis of value-added materials. One such material is acrylic acid, and acrylate derivatives, which can be used in ...
An exploration of middle school teachers' essences of participation in service-learning activities
(2013)
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to discover the essence of middle school service-learning teachers' experiences with service-learning. Service-learning is “a teaching and learning strategy that integrates ...
Forging a national diet : beef and the political economy of plenty in postwar America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Few foods items are more associated with the United States than beef yet it was not until the 1950s that Americans ate more beef than any other meat. The triumph of mass beef consumption was not accidental or a preordained ...
Mixed up in the making : Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, and the images of their movements
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Although his movement was a labor movement that targeted only a small portion of Mexican Americans, Cesar Chavez has often been compared to Martin Luther King, Jr., and has been portrayed as a civil rights leader on the ...
Agrarian frontiers ; volume 1, number 1 (2014 August)
(2013)
This issue of Agrarian Frontiers explores issues related to water quality, forest degradation, food security, environmental stresses, and political ecology.