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Fording the Severn : the influence of intermarriage and judicial participation on Welsh identity and self-identification in Shropshire and the Central March of Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
A study of how intermarriage and the creation of multicultural communities helped to determine the way in which people used their identity along the often-fractious border zone of the Welsh March in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries...
Hydraulic Design of Interlocking Concrete Permeable Pavement
(2015)
Stormwater management and design was developed to reduce the impacts of
runoff due to the increase in urbanization and impervious area in the hydrologic system.
Stormwater management takes many different forms, including ...
Optimization of bitterness in chocolate through roasting with analysis of related changes in important bitter compounds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
of cacao flavonoids of all eating-chocolate, such as high-cacao-percentage dark chocolate, are known to be quite bitter, a taste modality that is not readily appreciated by humans. Though the complex causes of bitterness in cacao are still not completely...
Does politics stop at the water's edge? The state as a unitary actor in international relations and the effect of presidential transitions on selected foreign policy behaviors
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-25)
Structural realists argue the nation-state is a unitary actor that conducts foreign
policy without regard to domestic politics. Anarchy, the lack of any controlling authority, is
the dominant fact of life for states ...
Architectural coin types : reflections of Roman society
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Architectural representations on Roman coins are among the most intensely studied images on ancient coins. Scholars frequently use them as evidence to reconstruct a monument...
A content analysis of word choice in social media news coverage of mass shootings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
of framing and agenda setting, the researcher conducted a content analysis of tweets posted by five different news organizations -- both on the local and national levels. Findings showed that tweets from the five outlets in the wake of the shooting...
Nationalism and redistribution in new democracies : nationalist legacies of authoritarian regimes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
with high levels of ethnic homogeneity, such as South Korea, sustain small welfare states? In East Asian democracies, does Confucianism really hamper the expansion of welfare policies? In this study, I answer those questions through a lens of nationalism...
Characterization of diverse soybean genotypes for phosphorus uptake and use efficiency
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
uptake ability and P use efficiency (PUE) of a crop critically influence its productivity. To improve soybean yields under low-P conditions, a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying P uptake and PUE is needed. The first part of this study...
Evolution, transmission, and clinical impacts of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
for emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and SARS-CoV-2 transmission. 3) We developed a machine learning model to predict COVID-19 outcomes, primarily hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, and long COVID. 4) Co-infections between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza...
Roman Egypt : change amid continuity in the art and architecture of an Eastern Imperial Province
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
examined through a focus on individual elements, usually from a strictly Egyptological or Classical viewpoint. This dissertation fills a gap in the literature on Roman Egypt by creating a comprehensive survey of not only romanized artistic elements...
Investigation of the initial steps of jasmonic acid biosynthesis and a study of differential regulation of the ribosomal association of mRNA transcripts in jasmonate-dependent wound response
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
is converted into a number of derivates, collectively termed jasmonates (JA). Since the late '80s, large strides in the discovery and characterization of the enzymes involved in the biosynthesis and catabolism of JA as well as the signaling components necessary...
Clear, Aqueous Topical Nanomicelle Formulation For Diabetic Macula Edema
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
The objective of this study was to develop a clear aqueous mixed nanomicellar
formulation (NMF) of hydrophobic drugs for diabetic macula edema. The hydrophobic
drugs include triamcinolone acetonide (TA), fluocinolonce ...
Structural inferences for reverse transcribing viruses and drug resistance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
residue side chains at a high traffic binding pocket. This novel approach to drug design serves as a practical demonstration for the importance of structure-based approaches in targeted clinical drug discovery with broader applications in crop sciences...
Cover crop effects on corn plant water uptake and soil health
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
, are used for soil quality improvement. However, the effects of CC on water use of the following corn (Zea mays L.) crop is not yet studied. Also, CC effects on soil water availability is yet inconclusive. Although CC are believed to play a major role...
The early imperial ceramics as evidence for life at Roman Sardis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
, and Artemis Temple excavation sectors at the site have yielded a small number of closely datable deposits as well as fills containing large quantities of well-preserved ceramics datable to the 1st century. Through a detailed typological study of this material...
Deciphering of packing signal hypothesis in bacterophage RNA recognition by the MS2 capsid protein in virus assembly
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
MS2 is a classical example of a single-stranded RNA virus for which the genomic
RNA plays pivotal roles in the virus assembly process. Multiple dispersed RNA se
quence/structure motifs, packaging signals (PSs) varying ...
Mapping copy number variants across the cattle genome
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
copy number variants have on phenotype, copy number variant (CNV) analyses have increased in frequency. In the agricultural industry, understanding where copy number variants occur and the impact they have could lead to a significant improvement...
The effects of metal contamination on larval white sturgeon in the upper Columbia River
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
in the upper Columbia River (UCR) face many of the same factors. White sturgeon in this system have been declining for decades due to a lack of recruitment to the population, despite evidence of spawning and early larval survival in the wild. Early life stage...
Two computational neural models : rodent perirhinal cortex and crab cardiac ganglion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
of reverse engineering includes a study of how both single neurons and networks of neurons integrate diverse signals from both the environment and from within the animal and make complex decisions. Since there are many limitations on the experiments that can...
The Theological Edifice of Modern Experiential Protestantism: Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, and Palmer’s Reconstruction of nineteenth Century Pietism
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The aim of this work is to address the development of experiential Protestantism
in the nineteenth century, commonly called Pietism, through the theological contributions
of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Søren Kierkegaard, ...