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Combating nuclear power : discourses of justice, the anti-nuclear power struggle for energy justice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
In the present study, I critically analyze the anti-nuclear power movement (or the movement for a carbon-free and nuclear-free energy future) in the U.S. using an environmental justice framework. I aim to explore how ...
Assessing the impact of the 1918/1919 influenza pandemic in Missouri counties heavily involved in lead-zinc mining
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Occupational concentrations within regions have the capability to influence infectious disease transmission as they shape the way humans interact within a community. The 1918 influenza pandemic is widely discussed as the ...
Making the invisible, visible : photojournalism and the documentation of the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
leading cause of death in America; more than 1.1 million Americans died because of COVID-19 during this period, accounting for about 16 percent of the world's total fatalities. This study is twofold: 1) it explores 500 photographs published...
A study of non-profit social media engagement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
As more nonprofit organizations increase their usage of social media to reach new audiences, audience research is needed to help practitioners formulate strategic communications plans that reach the goals of the organization. ...
Pandemic sensemaking: how Missouri superintendents made sense of the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
COVID-19 has produced mayhem and uncertainty for educational leaders in charge of organizations. This inquiry sought to provide insight into how superintendents and assistant superintendents made sense of their environments ...
Explainable pattern modelling and summarization in sensor equipped smart homes of elderly
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
In the next several decades, the proportion of the elderly population is expected to increase significantly. This has led to various efforts to help live them independently for longer periods of time. Smart homes equipped ...
A culturally appropriate mindfulness intervention to reduce health disparities among African Americans : feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of mantram repetition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
clinical and non-clinical populations, African Americans--who share a disproportionate burden of chronic stress-related diseases--have been underrepresented in mindfulness research. Mindfulness interventions have been successfully adapted for specific...
An examination of the portrayal of homelessness and the opioid crisis in US and Canadian newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This research examines how homelessness and the opioid crisis were portrayed from 2018 to 2023 by one US and one Canadian newspaper. The thesis traces qualitative changes in the occurrence of keywords and topics over six ...
A textual analysis of women's health magazines : how women's health magazines set the agenda for women's beliefs about cardiovascular disease
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
While heart disease kills an average of 399,028 women in the United States every year (Benjamin et al., 2017), women do not seem to be aware of the high risk of heart disease that they face (Mosca, Hammond, Mochari-Greenberger, ...
Reliquaries, tapestry, and still life painting : the mutability of bodies and bodily ideologies from Medieval to early-modern Europe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis considers how human, animal, spatial, and material bodies function within diverse systems of knowledge. In the context of this ...
Recent Jewish immigration to the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The attempt was made to present the results of an investigation of the problem of Jewish immigration to this country. Since an original study of this problem was not possible, it devolved upon the writer to take all that ...
Crisis of democracy : protest and affective polarization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
My dissertation, Crisis of Democracy: Protest and Affective Polarization, systematically examines the political and social consequences of protests in democratic societies, asking: in what conditions, protests negatively ...
It is what you know : changes in the structure and role of entrepreneur networks in an industry over time
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Previous research investigating the relationship between social capital and entrepreneurship has generally focused on the entrepreneur's own capacity to work their way into existing networks. There still remains a gap in ...
Resisting the nudge
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"Behavioral scientists have discovered that people predictably behave in ways unlike perfectly rational agents or utility maximizers. For example, it has been found that when people make choices, the degree to which they ...
Improving perinatal mental health : a pilot study of the Online Mothers and Babies course with couples
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Untreated perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) have short- and long-term consequences for mental, physical, developmental, social, and economic outcomes affecting the mother, infant, family, and community. Online health interventions...
Understanding reservation hunger : food acquisition and food security among the northern Cheyenne
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The Northern Cheyenne represent a group that experiences poverty and hunger at an exceptionally high level. As an extreme case study, this project adds conceptually and methodologically to food provisioning literature by ...
Airing equity : the impact of activism and federal policy on women in broadcast journalism, 1964-1985
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
and relationship, the American public bore witness to the opening of the field to women. The public's involvement increased when citizens gained the ability to actively pressure networks to implement antidiscrimination policy. In this way, broadcast journalism...
When theories of psychology and composition intersect : a case study of Schoenberg, Dutilleux, and Lansky
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Although music had been understood for centuries to affect and even express certain psychological states, the method of observation and study essential to the evolving field of psychology and neuroscience in the twentieth ...
Faculty burnout and its relationship to social and institutional support
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The purpose of this sequential explanatory study was to determine if there was a relationship between faculty burnout, social support, institutional support, or salary, as well as establish if any college at a regional ...
Utilizing blockchain technology for clinical trial optimization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Clinical trials are the cornerstone of treatment discovery because they provide comprehensive scientific evidence on the safety, efficacy, and optimal use of therapeutics. However, current clinical trials are facing multiple ...