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The wise avenue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
My dissertation's creative portion is a short story cycle constructed around two organizing principles: a place and a protagonist group. The cycle's setting is Dundalk, Maryland, a predominately white, working-class suburb. ...
Coenzyme Q₁₀ content, composition, texture and physiochemical characteristics of pasta fortified with freeze-dried beef heart
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study evaluated the feasibility of fortifying fresh pasta with beef heart, a beef by-product high in coenzyme Q₁₀. Incorporating freeze-dried beef heart into pasta significantly increased coenzyme Q₁₀ and protein ...
Pan-American Musical Exchange: The Relationship between Camargo Guarnieri And Carleton Sprague Smith
(2023)
This dissertation focuses on the relationship between Brazilian composer Camargo Guarnieri and American flutist Carleton Sprague Smith, exploring their intersecting lives and the compositions that emerged from their ...
You People: A Collection of Stories and Essays
(2015-08-11)
Synthesis and structure-activity relationship of a series of sigma receptor ligands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Sigma receptors are involved in several biological processes, and sigma ligands might be promising as cancer treatment agents, cocaine abuse medicines, and valuable psychiatric drugs. In an attempt to elucidate effectual structure...
The education of a gambler's daughter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Education of a Gambler's Daughter is a creative dissertation that tells the story of a daughter trying to make sense out of the chaos that resulted ...
The microecology of identity in the last plays of Lanford Wilson
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Critical assessments of Lanford Wilson's dramas are incomplete, with most studies ending about the time of Burn This (1987); furthermore, ...
Sensory analysis of low fat strawberry ice creams prepared with different flavor chemicals and fat mimetics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The objective of this study was to understand the release behavior of five strawberry flavor compounds in ice cream with fat mimetics, and to reformulated low-fat ice cream with Simplesse(R) to match the flavor profile of ...
Spirals of silence : examining Afrocentric and Eurocentric hairstyling for black women in broadcast newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Intermolecular (4+3) cycloaddition reaction of oxidopyridinuim ions with silylated dienes, exploring the oxidation chemistry and photochemistry of cycloadducts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
carbon was unsuccessful. Based on the proposed mechanism and the product formation, HFIP acted as the nucleophile. An extension of the aforementioned study investigated the efficacy of the (4+3) cycloadducts as reactants in a [2+2] photocycloaddition...
A lacanian reply to Marx : the necessity of topology in the formation of the social
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study addresses Lacan's comments on Marx. While much has been done towards reading Marx with psychoanalysis generally, little had has been done ...
Big ideas in little boxes : nation building in three nineteenth-century American parlor games by Milton Bradley and Company
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Milton Bradley and Company manufactured its first game, The Checkered Game of Life, in 1860, only months before the American Civil War broke out. Soon after, it produced the Myriopticon A Historical Panorama of the Rebellion, ...
Applied genomics toward targeted improvement of soybean
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The abundance of genomic data produced by the research community in the last decade has offered an unprecedented view into the variation present in the soybean genome and has been exploited to uncover the genetic architecture ...
Exploration of the Application of Machine Learning to the Improvement of Interatomic Potentials
(2022)
Current methods for atomistic simulations of material systems suffer from limitations which restrict the ability of the simulations to correctly characterize certain material behavior and physical phenomena. Small scale ...
Unnamed Lands
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2013)
This collection of short fiction and plays represents an exploration of twenty-first century gay culture, viewed from the vantage point of successive lifestages: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, maturity, and old ...
The effects of eccentric and concentric resistance exercise on metabolic health
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The purpose of this study was to 1) compare the effects of single sessions of eccentric (ECC) and concentric (CON) contractions, and 2) determine the effects of 12 wks of ECC and CON resistance training (RT) on parameters ...
The effects of plyometrics or resistance-training on markers of bone turnover and hormones in men
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Weight-bearing exercise positively affects bone mineral density (BMD) and bone strength, presumably by altering the balance between bone formation and resorption. The purpose of the present study was to determine the acute ...
How heritage storytelling at distilleries creates a competitive advantage on the Bourbon market
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The whiskey distillery industry has been going through a massive growth the past few years. The $8.6 billion industry has a following of novel, loyal and avid consumers that are willing to pay a pretty penny for a bottle. ...
Experimental and theoretical studies of CO2 capture from air and of crystalline, ferroelectric, non-linear optical materials
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The combination of experimental and computational chemistry gives us a chance to explore organic materials with more breadth and depth. In this dissertation, we studied different organic materials with both experimental ...
Wishful Thinking
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
The novel interrogated what it means to live in a midwestern college town while not
being in college. What it means to have stayed in one place long enough that everyone who
left has decided to come back. What it means ...