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Between cultural diversity and fantasy : hybridity, pop cosmopolitanism and transnational media fandom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study examines the complex, multidirectional process of media transnationalization and online media fandom within the new media environment, ...
Development of a novel immunoassay for simultaneous quantification of endocrine parameters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Since the advent of the radioimmunoassay in the 1950s, numerous immunologically-based methods have evolved for sample analysis. Although each immunological method possesses unique assets and liabilities, all share limited ...
Statistical analysis of bivariate interval-censored failure time data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Interval-censored failure time data arise when the failure time of interest in a survival study is not exactly observed but known only to fall within ...
Developing an integrated screening and progress monitoring tool for internalizing problems in middle school students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Screening adolescents for internalizing problems is an important public health endeavor. Often, individuals who have tested positive in a screening ...
Dialogue at the Threshold: The Artist Between Museum and Community
(2015)
Artists Suzanne Lacy and Ann Hamilton use forms of language to produce
experiences that challenge the individual’s perception. While differing in methods and
outcomes, Lacy and Hamilton construct environments that allow ...
Family Structure as an Effect on Student Achievement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Students not only learn at different speeds and methods but also live in many different households and face many challenges to their personal academic journeys. These households have both positive and negative effects on ...
Diversity of macroinvertebrates in tributaries of the jacks fork and current rivers, Ozark national scenic riverways, Missouri and efficacy of springfed tributaries as refugia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Disturbance is a dominant force shaping stream communities and recovery from disturbance requires the presence of refugia or environments where disturbance effects are lessened. In the Missouri Ozark region, groundwater-dominant ...
Rethinking French identity through literature : the case of four 21st century novels.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Reading French newspapers or watching TV broadcasts in the mid-teens of the twenty-first century, it is hard to deny or to ignore that France is currently (or still) undergoing an identity crisis. This crisis is of course ...
The motivational primacy of environmental coherence : self-derogation and the experience of meaning in life
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Although the human tendency to make self-serving attributions is well-documented, not all behaviors and cognitions are primarily self-serving. Victims blame themselves for uncontrollable circumstances and individuals ...
Working hard or working class? : neoliberalism and working-class representation in contemporary television
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Neoliberalism, an economic philosophy that promotes principles of the free market and private, individual responsibility, has become a pervasive way to organize cultural and political life. This study used neoliberalism ...
The relationship between the high school principal's use of power and the teachers' self-perception of professionalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the high shool principal's use of power and teachers' self-perception of professionalism. Seven bases of power were explored during this study: (a)Reward ...
Changing the landscape of professional learning : a practitioner inquiry study of technology integration within literacy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Practitioner inquiry provided the framework for teachers (participants) and the teacher researcher to work collaboratively to discover how teachers learn about literacy technology integration, how they apply this in their ...
Judicial impact on bureaucratic decision-making : the case of public procurement and contracting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This study examines whether and how much the bureaucracy responds to the judiciary. Specifically, I utilize cross-sectional, time-series data to analyze the extent to which variation in bureaucratic decision-making regarding ...
Age-dependent branching processes and applications to the Luria-Delbrck experiment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Microbial populations adapt to their environment by acquiring advantageous mutations, but in the early twentieth century, questions about how these organisms acquire mutations arose. The experiment of Salvador Luria and ...
Exploring tensions, identities, and equitable science assessment practices in undergraduate agroecology education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
National reform documents suggest that changing pedagogical and assessment practices in college science courses are necessary but challenging steps to help support the formation of science identities. This dissertation is ...
Development of advanced chemometric methods for analysis of deep-ultraviolet resonance Raman and circular dichroism spectroscopic data for protein secondary structure determination
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Determination of protein secondary structure has become an area of great importance in biochemistry and biophysics as protein secondary structure is directly related to protein function and protein related diseases. While ...
Late woodland cultural adaptations in the lower Missouri River valley : archery, warfare, and the rise of complexity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The introduction of the bow and arrow into prehistoric Missouri during the Late Woodland Period was a major event that possibly changed the entire Middle Woodland social dynamic and settlement pattern arrangement such that ...
A case study of the cognitive apprenticeship model in leadership education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The cognitive apprenticeship model (CAM) has been examined for more than a quarter century as an instructional model from the perspectives of instructors. However, CAM is also a learning model. Remarkably little has been ...
It's a jungle out there : myoblasts, matrix, and MMPs.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Extracellular Matrix: Mammalian skeletal muscle is notable for both its highly ordered biophysical structure and its regenerative capacity following trauma. Critical to both of these features is the specialized muscle ...
Consultation as a vehicle for increasing novice teachers' use of evidence-based classroom management strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Teachers' classroom management skills have a significant impact on students' short and long-term outcomes. Unfortunately, research has demonstrated that teachers, particularly novice teachers, often struggle to effectively ...