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A Quantitative Analysis of the Role of Antihypertensive Drug Dose on Hypertension in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease
(2019)
Hypertension (HTN) is a highly prevalent and major risk factor for poor cardiovascular and kidney outcomes in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Prior research suggests that HTN is underdiagnosed and undertreated in children ...
Neural modeling case studies at biophysical, machine learning, and automation levels
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] This dissertation reports three case studies using machine learning, biophysical, and automation frameworks to study neural engineering challenges. The first study utilized machine learning with a clinical dataset...
Human vs. machine as message source in advertising: examining the persuasiveness of brand influencer type and the mediating role of source credibility for advertising effectiveness in social media advertising
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
of this transformation of message source (from human to machine) is urgently needed but rarely conducted to date. The most apparent machine sources, SMIs, are already being put to use in practice without fully understanding their effectiveness and risk, to replace human...
Fording the Severn : the influence of intermarriage and judicial participation on Welsh identity and self-identification in Shropshire and the Central March of Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
A study of how intermarriage and the creation of multicultural communities helped to determine the way in which people used their identity along the often-fractious border zone of the Welsh March in the twelfth and thirteenth ...
The culture wars & political polarization in perspective : why polarization and its perturbations are a persistant [i.e., persistent] puzzle in political science
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Political polarization in the American electorate has received a great deal of attention in recent years with most of the research focusing on social issues and their impact on electoral outcomes. However, scant attention ...
Comparing Multiple Measure Placement Models in Mathematics
(2020)
Accurate placement into an initial college mathematics course is a key step toward the successful completion of college mathematics and, eventually, a college degree. Conversely, misplacement in mathematics may lead to a ...
New methods for interpret the ultimate axial load capacity of driven square concrete piles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Piles are usually designed using analytical methods, empirical models, or dynamic formulas. Because of the uncertainties involved in the analysis and design of pile foundations, it has become customary, and in many cases ...
Comparing theories of the policy process and state tuition policy : critical theory, institutional rational choice, and advocacy coalitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This dissertation triangulates four theories of the policy process to explain state-level tuition policy change. Very little policy research examines theories of the policy process in concert. Moreover, the field of higher ...
Studies on radiometal chelator-bombesin peptide-based radiopharmaceuticals for tumor GRP-receptor subtype mediated radioimaging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Bombesin-like peptides bind to gastrin-releasing peptide receptor subtype 2 (BB2) with significantly high binding affinity and specificity. In an ...
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 ...
The last line of defense: Journalism photo editors and mental health during times of trauma
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Countless studies have been completed on the mental health of journalistic reporters and photographers after they cover traumatic events. However, no research has been done on the mental health of photo editors who must ...
Mid-Missouri regional profile
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division., 1973)
"This is the fifth regional profile prepared by the Department of Regional and Community Affairs. It is hoped that the statistical data and brief analysis will assist communities in assessing their strengths, weaknesses, ...
Product differentiation and the role of contracts : the US pork industry case
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
literature on organizational form choice and processors' or retailers' practices on contract choice recently observed in the agro-food sector by offering theoretical arguments and empirical analysis. On the theoretical side, it develops the concept of product...
Chemical compositional analysis of polychrome pottery in the northern Casas Grandes area (a.d. 1200-1450)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The northern area of the Casas Grandes Medio Period (A.D. 1200-1450) was not well known archaeologically. 76 Draw is on the border of the Casas Grandes and Salado (A.D. 1275-1450) regions and the nature of interaction and ...
Job turnover among displaced agricultural workers within the Mississippi Delta area of Eastern Arkansas : extent, costs, and criteria of cause
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
employees, (2) a period of three years - January 1970 through December 1972, (3) a six county section of the East Planning, and Development District of eastern Arkansas, and (4) investigation of the extent, costs, and causes of labor turnover in the panel...
Virtus et disciplina : an interdisciplinary study of the roman martial values of courage and discipline
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
that Greek and Roman authors depict nuanced but relatively consistent representations of Roman martial values, which both derive from actual Roman military practice and project an important component of Roman cultural identity. Virtus was a virtue...
The effects of Roman expansion in the Middle Tiber Valley : Ameria and its environs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] This dissertation constitutes a micro-history of the town of Ameria (modern Amelia) located in the Central Italian region of Umbria from 700 BCE to 300 CE. By reducing the scale of analysis to the local situation, we can...
Firm strategy and knowledge management in strategic supply chain relationships : a knowledge-based view
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Using the knowledge-based view, this study seeks to understand the relationship between firm strategic orientation and interorganizational knowledge management in strategic supply chain alliances of high technology firms. ...
Macroinvertebrate assemblage composition along a longitudinal multiple-land-use gradient in a midwestern stream
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Land use changes often alter hydrogeomorphology and hydrologic flow regimes, which can adversely impact stream aquatic biota. Hinkson Creek Watershed (HCW, 231km2) located in Boone County, central Missouri, is comprised ...
Raman, Infrared and Microwave Spectra, Conformational Stability, R₀ Structural Parameters and Vibrational Assignments of Some Organoamines, Organophosphines, Alcohols And Substituted Four And Five Membered Rings
(2014)
The infrared and Raman spectra of compounds with amino, phosphours, silane and hydroxyl functional groups, as well as some with cyclic skeletal structures have been recorded of the gas and in condensed phases. Temperature ...