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Mizzou, volume 099, number 4 (2011 Summer)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2011)
Mizzou, volume 100, number 1 (2011 Fall)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2011)
A quantitative evaluation of DNA damage from irradiation of feline oral squamous cell carcinoma cells
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Feline oral squamous cell carcinoma is a locally invasive neoplasm that continues to carry a poor prognosis despite advances in multimodality oncologic treatment. Location, completeness of surgical excision or complete ...
Computational methods to identify ionomic candidate genes in plants
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] High throughput phenotyping and quantitative genetics have enabled researchers to identify genetic regions associated with changes in phenotype. However, going from GWAS loci to candidate genes ...
Cognitive processing of news as a function of structure : a comparison between inverted pyramid and chronology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Little has changed in how written news is structured, even as the newspaper industry changes dramatically. One of the most entrenched news routines, the inverted pyramid, continues to persist in both print and online news. ...
Manager and employee behaviors in response to performance signals in public organizations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This dissertation explores the diverse behaviors of managers and employees in response to performance signals in public organizations. Performance outcomes provide crucial information for actors related to public organizations ...
Restoration treatments and regeneration dynamics in East Texas mixed wood forests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Extensive harvesting, fire exclusion, and plantation forestry altered composition and structure, and thus function and habitat values of east Texas Pineywoods uplands. Upland restoration efforts are made difficult by the ...
Mizzou, volume 097, number 2 (2009 winter)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2009)
Multi-hazard resilience assessment of river-crossing bridges
(2021)
Bridge structures are required to possess high reliability and robustness against the concurrent effect of extreme loads and environmental attacks. To achieve such interrelated goals, it is necessary to assess the system performance and resilience...
Studying and developing the thin film membranes for reverse osmosis application
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
, easily available from synthesis in the laboratory with low cost, and environmentally green. Loading this material into TFN membrane improved its properties and performance. The thickness of these particles (~1 nm) helped fitting them tightly inside...
Conservation genetics of conflict in the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is an endangered species whose distribution spans 13 countries in south, southeast, and insular Asia. The primary threats to the survival of this species include direct conflict, primarily ...
Digital agriculture' implications for small farmers : evidence from Colombia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Digital agriculture proposes to revolutionize the processes of production, marketing, and consumption within food systems through the use of tools that collect, store, analyze, and share information digitally. While its ...
Naturalizing epistemology : reconsidering quine and nietzsche
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation argues for ways to construct a more viable normative epistemology--the part of epistemology that focuses on normative notions such ...
Midwest Winegrower Quarterly Volume 1, Issue 4
(University of Missouri--Columbia, Institute for Continental Climate Viticulture and Enology, 2008-02)
Midwest Winegrower Quarterly includes research reports and educational articles on grape and wine production in the Midwest, reports on meetings, workshops, and events as well as announcements of upcoming events and other ...
Development of translational models for intervertebral disc degeneration using a comparative approach for canine and human patients
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
characteristics of key disease phenotypes. Using biomarkers associated with inflammation and degradation, IVD health and disease were characterized for the two species. Taken together, this body of work suggests that CD and NCD dogs demonstrate distinctly...
How a principal's action as an invitational leader with a social justice orientation can serve as a factor in recruiting and reciprocally retaining teachers at high-poverty, high-minority, high needs urban high schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The number of individuals going into the teaching profession was dwindling at a time when the rate of retirement and people leaving the profession was increasing. Sutcher et al. (2016) noted that in 2015-16, the United States was short 64...
The effects of positive behavior intervention supports and Tier II interventions on academic achievement among elementary students
(2014-07-18)
This correlational research study examined the effect of behavioral interventions through school-wide positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) on elementary student reading and math achievement in one Midwestern ...
Constraints affecting adolescent girls' continued participation at resident camp
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Although there are many benefits of being in the outdoors and attending camp, many girls cease participation in camp (ACAb, 2008; Easter Seals, 2008). The purpose of this study was to determine the specific constraints ...
Ultrasonic measurement of stress in steel and concrete
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
of the research is to develop a technology that can assess the safety of steel and concrete structural members by directly measuring the stress (i.e. forces) carried in steel and concrete. Such evaluation technologies will be a critical advance toward safer...
Power in the garden : exploring the lives of Missouri farm women and their vegetable gardens during the Great Depression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Today, when fresh, canned, and frozen vegetables are plentiful and taken for granted, the home vegetable garden is regarded as something between a hobby and a luxury. But in the Great Depression of the 1930s, the household ...