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Bathing on the edge of empire : local variation and regional adaptation in the late Roman military bathhouses of Arabia/Palaestina
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines the evidence for Roman military baths in the provinces of Arabia and Syria Palaestina dating from the late 2nd-5th ...
Investigation of CO2 capture systems, Lewis acid-base pairs, and oscillating reactions with electronic structure theory and kinetics-based approaches
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Equilibrium is a key theme in chemistry education. Starting in high school and continuing in freshman general chemistry courses, STEM students have to learn the foundations of equilibria. What is the key concept of an ...
Entropy minimization, convergence, and Gibbs ensembles (local and global)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
We approach the subject of Statistical Mechanics from two different perspectives. In Part I we adopt the approach of Lanford and Martin-Lof. We examine the minimization of information entropy for measures on the phase space ...
Applications of model systems to explore exchange-correlation effects in density-functional theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
be accurate and correct. While on the surface such a stipulation seems benign, in practice the density functionals can be overwhelmingly complex and error can be introduced that comes from either the density functional that is chosen or the approximations used...
CHEMICAL STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING ANTI-DIABETIC GLUCAGON THERAPY
(2023)
The pancreas functions to carry out one of the most critical functions in the human metabolism, viz. glucose homeostasis. It achieves homeostasis by producing hormones including insulin and glucagon which act on different ...
The wise avenue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
My dissertation's creative portion is a short story cycle constructed around two organizing principles: a place and a protagonist group. The cycle's setting is Dundalk, Maryland, a predominately white, working-class suburb. ...
RUPEE: A Big Data Approach to Indexing and Searching Protein Structures
(2021)
Given the close relationship between protein structure and function, protein structure searches have long played an established role in bioinformatics. Despite their maturity, existing protein structure searches either ...
Defeat data poisoning attacks on facial recognition applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In the modern era, facial photos are used for a wide array of applications, from logging into a smartphone to bragging about a weekend getaway. With the vast amount of use cases for facial images, adversaries will attack ...
Eighteenth-century sensibility and the subversive female body
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Subversive Female Body argues that bodily actions of sensibility (i.e. feminized actions, such as trembling and fainting) were employed to subversive effect by women writers of the ...
Global bifurcation and stability of solitary waves in two-layer water
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The present work concerns two mathematical problems on wave in a stratified body of water governed by the incompressible Euler equations. In the first part, we present a large-amplitude existence theory for two-dimensional ...
Experimental and theoretical studies of CO2 capture from air and of crystalline, ferroelectric, non-linear optical materials
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The combination of experimental and computational chemistry gives us a chance to explore organic materials with more breadth and depth. In this dissertation, we studied different organic materials with both experimental ...
FedSmarteum: Secure Federated Matrix Factorization Using Smart Contracts for Multi-Cloud Supply Chain
(2021)
With increased awareness comes unprecedented expectations. We live in a digital,
cloud era wherein the underlying information architectures are expected to be elastic, secure,
resilient, and handle petabyte scaling. The ...
Jesus Paid It All: Combining Rock and Hymns in Contemporary Worship Music
(2022)
Much of Contemporary Worship Music (CWM) synthesizes elements of rock music and hymns. This thesis provides an analysis of four CWM songs, “Come Thou Fount,” “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us,” “Your Glory/Nothing but the ...
Spontaneous cluster formation in stoichiometric quantum critical systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Metallic systems with magnetic ions embedded which have been prepared to undergo a second-order phase transition at zero Kelvin (called the quantum critical systems) historically appear to fall into two distinct categories: ...
Confounding Changes: Collected Poems
(2023)
ABSTRACT
This is a collection of poems addressing how to live as a problem solver in a dangerous world. I am aware of two planet-sized existential crises—climate and nuclear war. I trained as an environmental educator in ...
The freedoms of B. Kumasi
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
and social disparities in the United States, especially after the Civil Rights movement. Likewise, I apply these frameworks through storytelling. In invented narratives, I aim to engage in the practice of counterstorytelling as defined by critical race...
Corridos en la guerra contra el narco : estéticas necropolíticas en México
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
philosophy based on fashion, on a film sub-genre, on ostentatious hyper-consumption practices, and most significantly, on a popular musical genre known as narcocorrido –heritage of the age-old narrative tradition of epic ballads and Mexican banditry...
When trying to return home : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation includes the critical introduction "My Mother is My Homeland: Subversive Representations of the Black Puerto Rican Matriarch" ...
The first inch of a saguaro
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The First Inch of a Saguaro follows three Mexican American teenagers after their father, Luis, is arrested for a drug-related murder in an Arizona border town. During Luis' trial, fourteenyear-old Javier takes to leaving ...
El proyecto de recontrucción moral espiritista de Luisa Capetillo: de la edificación del individuo a la comunidad global
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
la construcción de la hegemonía de Javier Balsa. Además, se utilizan como apoyo las ideas de Doris Sommer desarrolladas en Ficciones fundacionales (2004) y las de Aníbal González estipuladas en Journalism and the Development of Spanish American...