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A series of in vitro studies investigating the role of lactoferrin in calf innate immunity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Neonatal calf mortality rates continue to impact the economic sustainability of the United States cattle industry. Based on data generated from the National Animal Health Monitoring System survey in 2001, 8.9 % of dairy ...
Systematic review and meta-analyses of trendelenburg and prone position on intraocular pressure in adult patients undergoing surgery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Background. Patients undergoing surgery in the Trendelenburg and prone positions may be at risk for postoperative vision loss associated with increased intraocular pressure. The purpose of this dissertation research is to ...
Applied paleozoology and biogeography : four case studies from Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
and the Missouri State Historic Office, a method is developed that allows paleozoological data to be used to assist modern conservation biology through biogeographic range reconstruction and historic landcover associations. This project reconstructs the precontact...
The etiologic, theory-based, ontogenetic hierarchical framework of alcohol use disorder: a translational systematic review of reviews
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Modern nosologies (e.g., ICD-11, DSM-5) for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and dependence prioritize reliability and clinical presentation over etiology, resulting in a diagnosis that is not always strongly grounded in basic ...
Contracting for Consistency: Hog Quality and the Use of Marketing Contracts
(Social Science Research Network, 2009-03)
Despite the dramatic change in the organization of the US hog industry over the
past two decades, the existing literature offers little insight into the decision by pork
packers to use long-term marketing contracts, which ...
Investigating the long-term effects of non-inertial low-intensity blast-induced mild traumatic brain injury in mice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] In military contexts, mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is reported more than moderate or severe TBI and is frequently caused by low-intensity blast (LIB) exposure. Affected service members and ...
Dynamic links between short-term deformation and long-term tectonics: a finite element study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Geodetic and geological data for crustal deformation are significantly different in many places. This discrepancy may indicate different strain rates in the geological past...
The political economy of corruption in Africa: urbanization, trust, and motivations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The modernization paradigm has shaped development policies in African countries for decades since the 1960s. In this tradition, urbanization is presented by conventional wisdom as a strong correlate of development with ...
Righting tibial retroversion : a functional and ontogenetic analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Tibial retroversion, or the posterior angulation of the tibial plateau relative to the diaphysis, has been tentatively linked to several behaviors in anthropological literature. While a large body of work, dating as far ...
Cytogenetic analysis of a knobbed chromosome 9 in maize
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
* knob did not influence the zig-zag effect on recombination induced by the odd-even number of B-chromosomes. Previous preferential segregation studies have indicated that it is the genes linked to the larger of the twoknobs of chromosome 9 bivalents...
Introducing a personal-originality approach for scoring children's divergent thinking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Divergent thinking (DT), which can be described as the ability to conceive of and express a variety of novel solutions to open-ended problems (Gibson et al., 2009), is one of the most commonly studied constructs related ...
Three essays on racial discrimination
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The first chapter shows that small business owners in credit markets, in particular minority owners, have difficulty in securing sources of capital for their business operation in spite of their economic importance. The ...
Molecular characterization of soybean squalene synthases (GmSQSs) and genetic engineering for enhanced phytosterols in Arabidopsis seeds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Squalene synthase (SQS), which converts fanesyl diphosphate (FPP) to squalene, represents a crucial branch point of the isoprenoid pathway and is considered a key enzyme...
Three essays on the public participation and government performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Public participation in governance has been perceived as a way to address growing dissatisfaction with how democracy works in practice and the demands for more dynamic participation in policymaking, to have greater inclusion ...
Middle and late woodland period cultural transmission, residential mobility, and aggregation in the deep South
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This research attempts to reconstruct the extent of prehistoric human interaction within the lower Chattahoochee-Apalachicola River valley and neighboring Gulf Coast for the period spanning 200 B.C. to A.D. 1000. Using ...
Framework for Automatic Identification of Paper Watermarks with Chain Codes
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
In this dissertation, I present a new framework for automated description, archiving, and
identification of paper watermarks found in historical documents and manuscripts. The early
manufacturers of paper have introduced ...
Evaluating the Ergonomics of Healthcare Providers using Kinematic Motion Analysis, Electromyography, and Musculoskeletal Modeling
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in healthcare providers have been heavily reported, and are a major cause of occupational discomfort, disability, and occupational absence. Current evaluation methodology of ...
Pertechnetate immobilization with sulfide in aqueous media under anaerobic and aerobic environments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Technetium-99 (Tc-99) is a high yield radionuclide produced from thermal neutron fission. As a consequence of the development of nuclear weapons over the past 50 years...
Disseminating research findings about substance use: effects of inoculation messages, message sources, and visual representations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The dissemination of scientific knowledge to the public is important, because the public's increased awareness and knowledge of science and scientific findings can contribute to creating healthy discourses about relevant ...
Multimedia Big Data Analytics and Fusion for Data Science
(2023)
revolution. However, as data grows in volume, traditional data analytic methods face various challenges—especially when raw data comes in multiple forms and formats. This dissertation proposes a multimodal big data analytics and fusion framework...