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What is the impact of livelihood strategies on farmers' climate risk perceptions in the Bolivian highlands?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The Andean Highland region in Bolivia possesses a harsh climate environment that is highly variable. This study combines risk perception literature and livelihood strategy literature to examine climate risk perceptions. ...
A GIS protocol for enhancing the selection of agricultural runoff sampling locations and predicting the locations of potential pollutant transport in the upland environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
employed by the protocol allow for its use in various geographic regions. The methodology has been performed on sites in Linn County and Boone County, Missouri, and produces results consistent with those expected from other widely accepted methods...
Value addition to acid whey from Greek yogurt processing with millets (kodo and proso) for development of nutritious food products
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The disconnect between massive demand and abundant supply of food has resulted in millions of people suffering from hunger and billion metric tons of food being wasted. Circular food economy could be a solution to the problem, whereby...
Development and validation of standardized sampling protocols for assessing freshwater mussel populations in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
step in assessing populations. We surveyed 14 sites in the Meramec River Basin in East-central Missouri to determine the effectiveness of visual sampling methods and to determine the effects of habitat variability on the effectiveness of these methods...
The influence of climate and population structure on East Asian skeletal morphological variation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Objectives: Recent studies have shown that global variation in body proportions is more complex than previously thought as some traits formerly associated with climate adaptation are better explained by geographic proximity ...
Pigmentation and practice : understanding perceptions of white female teachers within a colorblind racial ideology framework
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Thoreau said, "The question is not what you look at, but what you see." In the world of education, what we don't see--or at least claim not to notice--matters just as much. For non-White children in American schools ...
Assessing costs and environmental impacts of municipal food waste treatment options in Columbia, Missouri : a decision support tool integrating life cycle analysis and robust optimization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
and targets, decisionmakers need data-driven analysis to understand both the costs and environmental impacts of their plans. This study develops a decision support tool applied in Columbia, Missouri, USA, with aims to model the economic and environmental...
Utilization and limitations of soil health metrics in Missouri corn production decisions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
derive from a dataset collected over three seasons (2018-2020) including 446 sample locations collected from 101 Mid-Missouri commercial row crop systems. Current P and K fertilizer recommendations accurately identified where fertilizer improved yield...
Analyzing the effects of Cis-elements and trans-factors on the stability of the Gal1 mRNP
(2014)
The highly dynamic and nonrandom spatial organization of the eukaryotic nucleus plays an important role in the regulation of gene expression. For example, in S. cerevisiae, several conditionally expressed genes relocate ...
Characteristic Mode Analysis of Crumpled Graphene Flakes and A New Green’s Functions Evaluation Method for Layered Media
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Graphene flakes (GFs) in real composites are rarely perfectly flat, and often exhibit complicated crumpled shapes. Therefore, the goal of this work was to quantify the electromagnetic scattering characteristics of individual ...
The effects of Roman expansion in the Middle Tiber Valley : Ameria and its environs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] This dissertation constitutes a micro-history of the town of Ameria (modern Amelia) located in the Central Italian region of Umbria from 700 BCE to 300 CE. By reducing the scale of analysis to ...
Taxonomy, taphonomy, and ecology of Silurian (late Telychian) conulariids from the Waukesha Lagerstatte, Wisconsin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
) borrowed from the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum, Madison, USA were examined using a combination of light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), to assist in the classification of these taxa...
CFD Modeling and Optimization Analysis of Thermal Energy Storage Based Solar Collectors
(2022)
Among various types of solar collectors, evacuated tube solar collector (ETC) has attracted much attention, especially for their application in solar water heating systems (SWHs). However, due to the intermittency in solar ...
Development of novel bionanocomposite scaffolds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The development of three novel bionanocomposite scaffolds is presented in this dissertation. These scaffold materials are comprised of amine-functionalized nanomaterials...
Epigenetic Regulation Of The HIF Pathway And Novel Therapeutic Opportunities
(2014-08-28)
The research presented in this dissertation is aimed at understanding the epigenetic
regulation of the HIF pathway and the efficacy of treatment for retinal diseases and
hemangioblastomas using HIF pathway inhibitors. ...
Numerical study of shock driven multiphase systems with reactions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This work details the analysis of the shock-driven multiphase instability (SDMI) of a gas-particle system and implementation of reaction model for multiphase detonation simulation. 3D numerical simulations were carried out ...
System modeling and control design of a two-stage metering poppet-valve system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The goal of this work is to develop mathematical models, stability criteria, and control designs for a two-stage poppet valve system with a simple back-side pipeline condition that may be used in a valve stack to create ...
The Reproduction of Empire of Capital through Incursions of Capitalist Processes into Non-capitalist Processes Since 1989
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This dissertation lays out a theoretical framework for a non-capitalocentric theory of the
empire of capital since 1989. Following a complementary holistic approach, it sees the
economy as reflecting the society that ...