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Do you believe in Cabeza de Vaca?
(University of Missouri Press, 1991)
Collection of ten of Swan's short stories, many of which are set in the American Southwest and most examine characters as they experience varieties of loss.
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 ...
Roles of post-Golgi vesicular trafficking components in plant growth and immunity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] Delineating the molecular mechanisms of plant immunity can help inspire novel ways to engineer more resistant plants which could contribute to reducing crop loss due to pathogenic infection. The ...
Finding and Mitigating Geographic Vulnerabilities in Mission Critical Multi-Layer Networks
(2016)
In Air Traffic Control (ATC), communications outages may lead to immediate loss
of communications or radar contact with aircraft. In the short term, there may be safety
related issues as important services including power ...
Beyond the Abyss: American Gaslight and Popular Literature
(2023)
The mainstream feminist movement in the United States has struggled to include women of color and marginalized women. However, two constants emerge from the work of both white feminists and feminists of color: first, writing ...
Schedule of courses : fall semester 1970-71
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1970)
Identification and Development of a Reliable Framework to Predict Passive Scalar Transport for Turbulent Bounded Shear Flows
(2020)
Heat transfer modeling plays an integral role in optimization and development of highly efficient modern thermal-fluid systems. However, currently available heat flux models suffer from fundamental shortcomings. For example, ...
Exploring Multivalency and Chemical Modifications in the Development of Anti-PD-L1 Peptide Inhibitors for Cancer Immunotherapy
(2023)
The PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint axis is one of the most common pathways exploited by cancers to evade immune surveillance. Many cancers overexpress PD-L1 (programmed cell death ligand 1) on their surface through which ...
An alternative futures analysis of Flathead County, Montana : evaluating tradeoffs among economic growth, land use policy and land use change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Nine alternative futures were developed for Flathead County, MT for two study periods. The alternative futures involve different combinations of assumptions regarding future economic growth and land use polices. The ...
The pagan's progress, or, the invention of pilgrimage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
: how Pagans create sacred spaces, interact with ancient sites, and invent their own pilgrimage practices. The book is anchored in the author's account of his experiences as a second-generation Wiccan and practitioner of the Norse revivalist religion...
Shaping identity : an analysis of Hellenistic southern Italian ceramics and its implications for cultural and societal change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
"The years between the fourth and first centuries B.C.E. were years of tremendous change for the Greek and Italic cities of south Italy. The growth of Rome endangered and eventually ended the sovereignty of the southern ...
Fluctuating asymmetry as a measure of developmental instability in Arikara bioarchaeological assemblages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) has been advanced as a tool for investigating the developmental instability of human populations and has more recently found its way into bioarchaeological investigations. The research presented ...
Physiologic and metabolic interactions in the soybean/bradyrhizobium japonicum symbiosis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The agronomically vital, nitrogen-fixing symbioses between soybean and the soil bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum is a model system for the study of ...
Three Paths To Religious Integration In Ernest Hemingway’s War Fiction
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
My dissertation studies religiosity in Ernest Hemingway’s war fiction in terms of
how his soldier characters connect to the divine. The means to understanding this
connection is in refining how the characters express ...
Seeing through satire : how contemporary American fiction critiques the world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this dissertation, I argue some contemporary authors intermingle modes of satire and transparency to encourage a twenty-first century reading ...
Out-of-core image techniques with extensions for WAMI
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Out-of-core image techniques provide for interactive visualization, analysis, and processing of extremely large images exceeding primary memory. This ...
Symphony No. 2 (“Brasiliana”) by Walter Burle Marx: an edition and commentary
(2013)
This research on the Brazilian composer Walter Burle Marx (b São Paulo, 1902; d
Akron, Ohio, 1990) is part of an ambitious project, which aims at publishing a
performing edition of all four of Burle Marx's symphonies. ...
Role of Toll-Like Receptor 4 in Oxidant-induced Inflammatory Phenotypes in Macrophages
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
A common mechanism by which redox stress may activate inflammatory
responses to potentially initiate, propagate and maintain many diseases states has not
been characterized. Accumulating evidence suggests that pattern ...
Design and synthesis of group 8 transition metal complexes for C-C bond forming valorization of carbon dioxide
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The abundancy of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere combined with its inexpensive cost and low toxicity has made CO2 upconversion to value added products an area of intense interest in catalysis research. While a ...