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Parenting: Success Requires A Team Effort (2011)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2011)
Every day, parents are faced with decisions about how to raise their children. Some decisions are minor, such as whether children can have snacks before dinner, and some are major, such as which school a child attends. ...
Fire pond and new poems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
poems, written in the last two years. The poems are prefaced by a critical introduction entitled, "On the Inside of Language: Dickinson's Conditional." This essay focuses on how Dickinson's use of the conditional allows us to enter her poems' strange...
Environmental discourse and cultural identity on American waterways : regional folklore, folk practice, and natural responsibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
is used to create an ethnographic description of a river trip with the focus centered on the development of a vernacular religion based around the experience of whitewater rafting. Ethnographic description is combined with a performance script...
Food for the Future
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The University of Missouri is home to world-class faculty and state-of-the-art facilities, including more than 14,500 acres of university-owned research centers, farms and forests across the state. Faculty work each day ...
Mapping Tiger country : Mizzou football preview, 2011
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2011)
Lacan and the posthuman : prosthetic body in the works of Andy Warhol and David Cronenberg
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines the connection between the discourses of psychoanalysis and posthumanism. It focuses on the themes of humans' interaction with technology in the works...
Classification of interruptions in a hospital central pharmacy
(2011-09)
. An interruption is considered to be anything that makes the pharmacist stop their work to focus on a different task. This observational research project recorded the interruptions in central pharmacy of a large hospital. Analyzing interruptions can lead...
Sustainable energy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Sustainable Energy addresses energy issues broadly, building on the work at MU's Research Reactor; MU's biomass power plant; research in biofuels, biomass and energy efficiency; the College of Engineering; and education ...
One health, one medicine
(2011)
MU offers unmatched opportunities for collaboration in animal and human health. It is Missouri's major public research university with the state's only College of Veterinary Medicine; Colleges of Agriculture, Food and ...
Databases critical to making wise decisions in response to a crisis
(2011)
This presentation was made during the Observables and Indicators & Warning Panel which provided an expert-centered overview of phenomenology and information necessary to support assessment of CBRNE threats. These assessments ...
Chemical mechanisms of DNA damaging natural products
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Natural products provide both novel molecular structures and new mechanisms that have significant therapeutical implications. The work described here focuses on elucidating...
A case study of international students' goals for academic writing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
States to pursue academic studies in college. With a focus on the goals for academic writing improvement among a sample of students from diverse countries, this study explores these students' authentic writing experience, emerging writing goals...
Extracurricular activity programming for grades 6th-8th in a mid-western school district : a program evaluation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
from professional literature, surveys, and focus groups. The program evaluation addresses the following emergent themes: student interest, positive student character development, school connectedness, the reduction of barriers between diverse...
Mathematics reform in a midwestern district : a case study of mathematics curriculum change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
) contextual learning opportunities, and (d) learning focused on curriculum content and pedagogy. Recommendations for district and building administration were made as well as implications for additional research. Finally, a new proposed teacher support...
Reunion recalls history, yet embraces progress
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2011)
Since 2003, Black Family Reunion has provided opportunities for black alumni to reconnect during Homecoming weekend.
Immigrant integration in Missouri (methods and models)
(Cambio Center, 2011)
The Interactive Acculturation Model (IAM) describes the relational outcomes(consensual, problematic, conflictual) between the host and immigrant communities based on acculturation strategies used by each group. It assesses ...
MEMS Coulter counter for dynamic impedance measurement of time sensitive cells
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
to enable the measurements of time sensitive cells with significantly enhanced sensitivity as well as the integration of passive mixing, focusing of cells in line and impedance detection using the vertical electrodes on a single chip that is made mainly...
Effective library promotion: empowering patrons to discover and create
(2011)
The message chosen to promote the library will
inevitably influence the tools selected for marketing and outreach. The tools presented here were chosen to represent a broad
spectrum of library types, and would be easily
adaptable to a more focused...