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A projection from the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus to the nucleus tractus solitarii is critical for cardiorespiratory responses to hypoxia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
heart failure, hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea (170, 199, 232). Determining the mechanisms involved in the central chemoreflex neurocircuitry and its plasticity in health and disease may lead to the development of targeted therapies...
Engineering novel biomolecular materials for therapeutic peptide payload delivery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
) are produced. PAs can self-assemble into micelles (PAMs), producing a modular nanoparticle. PAMs have been shown to address the issues of peptide stability and clearance in the blood stream. I have designed a modular PAM that is easily produced and displays a...
Skywalk
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This project, a full-length play, intends to illuminate the facts surrounding the
architectural collapse at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in July 1981, when two bridges in
the hotel lobby called skywalks collapsed, ...
Ontology-based methods for disease similarity estimation and drug repositioning
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-10-02)
as variable combinations of genes may be associated with similar diseases, especially for complex diseases. This deficiency can be potentially overcome by looking for common or similar biological processes rather than only explicit gene matches between...
Propaganda, masculinity, and the French interwar novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
My dissertation centers on literary representations of non-normative gender performances, the struggle around new gender norms, and the lived realities of gender in pre- and post-World War I- (WWI) era France. The novels ...
The eight leaves
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The creative dissertation The Eight Leaves is a deconstructed memoir, composed in a series of inter-connected lyric essays structured in a ring composition. The manuscript...
Three essays on corporate-political relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This study examines the effect of corporate-political relationships on corporate decision making, performance, and value. In the first essay, presented in Chapter 3, I examine whether defendant firms use their political ...
Targeted cancer radioimaging and radiotherapy and the development of tumor-avid molecules using phage display
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second leading cause of cancer death in men and new biomarkers are needed to improve diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in aggressive forms of this disease. CD44v6, a splice variant of the ...
For the love of God and country : nation-building and the (re)gendering of emotions in Francoist Spain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Studies on the history of emotion have shown that the standards of a given society towards basic emotions and the appropriate means of expressing them ...
Family traditions
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)
Family Traditions tells the story of young adults who have grown up as Wiccans. Because Wicca remains a new and small religion, the vast majority of its followers converted from Christianity or other faiths, and the number ...
The freedoms of B. Kumasi
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
I have long been concerned with what the United States of America owes its citizens. My mind is preoccupied with identifying gaps between the violent disparities endured by Black and marginalized communities and the rhetoric ...
Art Monster: Stories and a Novella
(2014-08-27)
Monsters external and internal stalk the margins of the stories and novella that make up this collection. Though each selection engages in its own distinct exploration of the monstrous, the pieces hint at a shared question: ...
A Walk Through the Valley of Shadows
(2016)
Magical Realism, religion, illness and death are twisted through this collection of short stories to explore how people deal with the fantasy of belief in a very real world. The non-fiction essay "How an Illness I Don't ...
Songs from behind the curtain, an opera in three acts
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-25)
Songs from Behind the Curtain is the story of Pascal Baur, a damaged composer
in 1980's Hartford, who, as the musical director of the Hartford Opera Company, is
encoding Soviet messages into his operas. Within the operas ...