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Comprehensive approach to dietary inclusion of high oleic soybean oil in monogastrics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The banning of partially hydrogenated oils in food processing by the FDA has led to a search for alternative oil sources with a decreased potential for oxidation. While marketed and founded for use in the food industry, ...
Modern Music a Quarterly Review Index Volumes XIII to XXIII November 1935 to Fall 1946
(1966)
This index is a continuation of an index compiled by Joel Lifflander for Volumes I to XII, November, 1924 to June, 1935, and published by the League of Composers in November, 1935. There are three sections to this index: ...
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...
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 ...
"Written So You Can Understand It" : the process and people behind creating an issue of Popular Mechanics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
At 112 years old, Popular Mechanics has one of the longest legacies in magazines. Looking at the editorial process, editor-in-chief Jim Meigs talks about what makes great science journalism at Popular Mechanics. He talks on topics of style, content...
Principals and proxies: how foreign interventions promote intercommunal violence through sponsorship of nonstate militias
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
In this dissertation I explore the link between government sponsorship of nonstate militias in proxy conflicts and increases in intercommunal violence. I develop a theory explaining how nonstate militias experience resource ...
The role of faculty in the implementation of an unfunded statewide curricular mandate
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This case study used qualitative research methods to examine the role faculty play in the application of a general education policy mandate in the state of Missouri. Senate bill 997 required that general education be ...
Improving Robustness of Gait Recognition Based on Deep Learning
(2024)
Gait recognition is a technology that identifies human ID according to the human unique biometric gait feature. It has two popular categories. One category of gait recognition methods is appearance-based algorithms, which ...
Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
During the Second World War, the American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht had been one of the lone voices to break the silence about the Nazi Holocaust. Then, in 1947, Hecht shocked and outraged people across the ...
Re-imaging the Spaces of Femininity: Vanessa Bell and the Domestic Interior
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This study charts British artist Vanessa Bell’s (1879-1961) manipulation of the
feminine interior during the most experimental years in her practice, 1910 through 1915.
Bell’s forays into decorative design and her ...
A Synthesis and Optimization of Patented Direct Air Capture Technology
(2023)
An engineering method termed direct air capture is used to take CO₂, the predominant global warming greenhouse gas, out of the atmosphere directly. Given that CO₂ levels in the air are only 0.04%, it presents a technical ...
Coupling, membrane conductance, and ion channel mRNA profiles in the establishment and maintenance of network activity in the crustacean cardiac ganglion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Neural networks produce critical rhythmic behaviors throughout an animal's lifespan, despite growth, differing environments, and changes in physiological state. This requires networks which balance stability in their ...
The nonprofit incorporation of America, 1860-1932
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This project is an examination of the formation of corporatized charitable organizations from 1860-1932. Focusing on six organizations--the United States Sanitary Commission, the Freedmen's Bureau, the Peabody Foundation, ...
Retention of undergraduate white male students at Missouri University of Science and Technology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
At STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) focused higher education institutions, academics and retaining students are challenging. To uncover obstacles that prevent white male students, in STEM-focused ...
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 ...
Going off the rails: exploring the impact of the railroad on the development of musical culture in Kansas City, Missouri (1869-1905)
(2021)
Kansas City, Missouri, is a musical oasis in the United States. In addition to being considered one of the four original jazz centers, local audiences also enthusiastically welcome art music and experimental music of all ...
Politics and Pandemic in 1918 Kansas City
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2010)
The 1918-1919 Spanish influenza was the deadliest pandemic in history and citizens of Kansas City died in larger numbers due to politics. Kansas City government was under the control of two powerful political bosses, ...
The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Low-wage Worker Advancement
(Department of Economics, 2007)
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, whose participants are seriously disadvantaged; a job training program with a highly heterogeneous population of participants; and employment exchange services, whose participants consist of Unemployment Insurance...
Campus columns, 1976 September - 1977 June
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1976)
Volume 8 includes issues: Wed., Sept. 15, 1976 -- Fri., Oct. 22, 1976 -- Fri., Nov. 19, 1976 -- Fri. Dec. 17,1976 -- Fri., Jan. 22, 1977 -- Fri., Feb.18, 1977 -- Fri., March 18,1977 -- Fri., April 22, 1977 -- Fri., May 27, ...