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Optimization of bitterness in chocolate through roasting with analysis of related changes in important bitter compounds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Chocolate is made from the fermented, dried, and roasted seeds of the Theobroma cacao tree, an important agricultural food crop which contains bioactive flavonoid polyphenols with beneficial health effects. Such effects ...
Perspectives on inclusion in the general education classroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The focus of this case study involves inclusion of students with disabilities in the general education classroom. The emphasis is on 7th-12th grade general education teachers and administrators' perspectives regarding ...
Viability and Validation of Near-Passive Descent Control for Quadrotor Systems
(2020)
A quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle capable of lifting small payloads can be used to deliver small payloads from high altitudes rapidly and with high accuracy. This thesis explores the viability of three methods for ...
Displaced voices and accentscapes in French and Francophone Sub-Saharan cinema : recasting, reshaping, and restoring identity (-ies) in transnational films
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
in linguistic landscapes challenging Eurocentric perceptions of the exilic or diasporic communities in France in Nous, sans papiers de France (Nicolas Philibert et al., 1997), Paris Mon Paradis (Elenore Yameogo, 2011) and Le Point de Vue du Lion (Didier Awadi...
University catalog, 2019-2020
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
A New Approach for Fast Processing of SPARQL Queries on RDF Quadruples
(2015-06-19)
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a standard model for representing
data on the Web. It enables the interchange and machine processing of
data by considering its semantics. While RDF was first proposed with the ...
Lotte Reiniger’s career in animation and her first full-‐length animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed
(2015)
Lotte Reiniger was the woman responsible for making the world’s first full-‐length animated film, Die Geschichte des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926). Along with her collaborators, she worked on the ...
Using cognitive work analysis to design a continuous quality improvement monitoring system for medical school accreditation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this study is to apply phases of Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) to identify human and information constraints in how a medical school ...
Mizzou, volume 111, number 2 (2023 Winter)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2023)
Subjectivities of risk and environmental uncertainty : residents, regulatory agencies, and corporate interests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The West Lake Landfill Superfund site in Bridgeton, Missouri made for a compelling place to explore how risk was framed and contested by social groups and expert institutions in the context of environmental uncertainty. ...
Science frictions : science, folklore, and "the future"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Folklore and science, along with the subject of the future which has slowly over time worked its way into the discourses of both, have a long, complicated ...
Gaze on belonging : investigating rural preservice teachers' experiences at a flagship university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This qualitative study examined rural undergraduate students' process of developing a sense of belonging in a teacher preparation program at a large Midwestern public university. Eleven undergraduates, each having completed ...
The Victorian Preacher’s Malady: The Metaphorical Usage of Gout in the Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This dissertation examines the use of the gout metaphor in the life and writings of
one of Victorian England’s most eminent preachers and gout sufferers, the Baptist Charles
Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892). Careful scrutiny ...
Mobile hyperspectral imaging for structural damage detection
(2020)
endorsed by civil engineers towards deploying these techniques in practice, partially due to their poor performance in object detection when structural cracks coexist with other complex scenes. A mobile hyperspectral imaging system is developed in this work...
A comparison of Nebo Hill and Sedalia points
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Classification of Nebo Hill and Sedalia points as separate types has been the subject of debate among archaeologists. Some argue that identification of two point types is erroneous and there is only one type with a wide ...
Transnational spaces, transitional places : Muslimness in contemporary literary imaginations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
to the ways in which they create complex characters that represent the variety of Muslim discourses and practices. Rather than focusing on such over-asked questions as "Is the text Islamic or secular?" and "Western or Muslim?," Muslim diaspora space as a mode...
Nanofibrillation of lignocellulosic biomass into lignin-containing nanocellulose for 3D printing and antimicrobial applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Lignin-containing nanocellulose (LNC) has become an emerging subcategory of nanocellulose. Compared toedtraditional pure nanocellulose, LNC contains lignin and hemicellulose that are not fully removed from original ...
The effect of different nutritive planes upon the economy of gain and the rate of growth of young cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
This investigation was undertaken in order that something might be learned concerning: (a) the cost of maintenance of live weight in ungrown cattle; (b) the effect of a maintenance ration upon the condition of ungrown ...
A case study of the Global Food Security Act of 2016 : interorganizational policymaking and food security d/discourses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
For this dissertation case study, I examined how individuals, especially those who worked on interorganizational food security programming and policymaking, discussed organizational policy messaging and the discursively ...
Adi Shankara at Mandhata and Mahishmati
(Columbia, MO: Om Shanti Mandiram, 2012)
This piece is a collection of select email messages exchanged among some OM devotees on the subject for more than a decade. These have been presented here in their natural order and sequence as they occurred just to show ...