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We go back: antimodernism in the early Catholic Worker Movement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is generally thought of as peace and social justice movement. While this has been the case since the founding of movement in 1933, the early ...
Place advocacy at Snowshoe Mountain Resort : a case study of a destination ski resort
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The purpose of the research was to gain a greater understanding of what is so special about Snowshoe Mountain Resort. Snowshoe Mountain has a unique sense of place that is established through the built, natural, and social ...
The socially filtered media agenda : a study of agenda setting among news outlets on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examines whether and how Twitter users set the agenda for legacy media outlets by sharing news URLs. It also investigates which news story topics are the most salient...
Team communication and collaboration in hospice pain management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This dissertation explores communication and collaboration of two hospice teams regarding pain management with a framework of The Model of Interdisciplinary Collaboration (Bronstein, 2003). Professionals (n=15) doctors, ...
A study of the educational facilities planning process within the context of a social and political environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The extensive need to renovate, replace, and plan educational facilities may sound like an overwhelming task, but it also presents a great opportunity for educational leaders to plan and design schools that will meet the needs of students being...
The military vici of Noricum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This dissertation examines the civilian settlements that developed next to the auxiliary forts on the Danube frontier of the Roman province of Noricum. Chapter one of this study provides a brief consideration of the history ...
Narrative sweat and flow : the challenge and fulfillment of covering sensitive social issues
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Long-form narrative writers who immerse themselves in other lives and situations to cover social issues have one of the hardest jobs in journalism. They take on difficult, often heart-wrenching subjects, and tell stories ...
The impact of economic development incentives on public education in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-04-25)
Economic development incentives are formally intended for use in attracting new
businesses to a community or a particular part of a community. Studies of their effectiveness
in achieving this purpose show little direction ...
A phenomenological study of new adult readers' participation in a community reading program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This research presents a phenomenological study of readers who participated in a community reading program. It examines participatory education in the context of a community reading project hosted by a public library. Narrative interviews...
Mechanisms of inhibition and resistance to antiviral drugs targeting human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Although human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) are very different viruses, the replication of their genome involves a reverse transcription...
The Bavarian model? : modernization, environment, and landscape planning in the Bavarian nuclear power industry, 1950-1980
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Perhaps no state in the Federal Republic of Germany witnessed a more pronounced state sponsored modernization effort than Bavaria, 1950-1980. This vast transformation, particularly in the field of nuclear energy, required ...
Assessing the role of pair familiarity in the associative deficit of older adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
unit. In Experiments 3 and 4, participants were repeatedly presented with pairings prior to a study list so that the pairs were already familiar during the study phase. Remember/know judgments were collected in order to determine if any advantages...
Data driven decisions in K-12 education : a comparative case study about data driven decisions in two rural K-12 school districts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of this study is to examine how the use of data drives academic planning in rural Missouri schools by exploring and comparing the processes in two Missouri school districts. Previous research has identified the importance of this process...
Spiritual labor and spiritual dissonance in the total institution of the parochial boarding school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
. Regulation of the spirituality of teachers/staff was enacted formally via confrontation, termination, and transfer. Informal regulation of spirituality occurred via concertive control of other organizational members. Spiritual dissonance was also present when...
The greatest improvement of any country: economic development in Ullapool and the Highlands, 1786-1835
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
in the Highlands of Scotland. Several different measures, including, but not limited to, development of social overhead capital, promotion of the fishing industry, and the construction of villages, were adopted in an attempt to encourage growth in a lagging region...
What were we thinking? : an analysis of Department of Defense advanced studies group theses from Operation Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Freedom I, 1992-2002
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq left little doubt that many military and civilian leaders downplayed or entirely missed the possibility of an Iraqi insurgency. Volumes have been or will be written about the major ...
Clustering in relational data and ontologies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
are not designed. Relational data are encountered in many fields including biology, management, industrial engineering, and social sciences. Unlike numerical object data, which are represented by a set of feature values (e.g. height, weight, shoe size) of an object...
Being there : a study of American foreign correspondents in Brussels and an intership with Thomson Reuters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] I examined why there are not more American reporters in Brussels, the European capital, and why it is important for correspondents to be there instead of reporting on Brussels...
Legal empire: international law and culture in U.S.-Latin American relations
(2013)
During the first decade of the twentieth century, U.S. Secretary of State, Elihu Root, used international law as mode of contact and communication in which he could persuasively present U.S. cultural values in terms of social, political...
Targeting the bombesin subtype 2 receptor for the diagnosis and treatment of metastatic prostate cancer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
to control cancer progression, and regional lymph node and distant osseous metastasis are common. With metastatic spread, prostate cancer remains incurable. Aberrant expression of the bombesin subtype 2 receptor (BB2r) is present on over 80% of human prostate...