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Rubens' vision for the Luxembourg Palace
(2015)
Marie de Medici commissioned a series of twenty-four paintings intended as an allegorical cycle of her life from the artist Peter Paul Rubens in 1622. This thesis proposes that the cycle does not have just one intention ...
Development of a portable total-stress measurement instrument
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research explores the application of ultrasonic stress measurement (USM) technologies to assess stress levels in gusset plates with the development ...
A friend that sticks closer than a brother: a hermeneutic phenomenological analysis of resilience in Black bereaved mothers that have lost a child to gun violence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Despite literature considering the impact of child loss on parents, communication scholars have yet to examine the resilience of bereaved Black mothers. Specifically, this present study examined the role of Black sisterhood ...
Molecular approaches to improve soybean plant architecture and seed composition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
linolenic acid), and meal value traits, the reduced seed content of the raffinose family of oligosaccharides (RFO), can be successfully combined by genotype selection without interference. The modified seed composition traits will contribute to creating...
Almanacs and American popular theology, 1730-1820
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
uncovered a fundamental shift in formal, institutional religious practice, it has overlooked non-institutional religious life. By analyzing the religious content of everyday print, this dissertation demonstrate that a distinct current of American religious...
Missouri excel center program : evaluation of adult high schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
wages and government assistance to report the benefits. This includes reduced or eliminated dependency on government assistance programs, increased tax revenues earned by the state, and generational financial impact on families. Future research should...
Sub-optimal and robust downlink beamforming in wireless networks with imperfect channel state information
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
. Rigid beamforming is assured when the accurate channel state information (CSI) of the wireless system are acquired at the beamforming side. Because of some practical limitations in wireless systems such as feedback error, dynamic characteristics...
The relationship of emotional intelligence and self-efficacy of first and second year principals in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy of first and second year principals. Factors of emotional intelligence and the competencies of self-efficacy were investigated to determine ...
The crisis autobiography : Augustine, Rousseau, and Wordsworth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This project, which on the broadest level can be defined as a comparative study of Augustine's Confessions, Rousseau's Confessions, and Wordsworth's Prelude, is an attempt to bridge a notable gap in the critical literature. ...
Money, Work, and Mass Extinction: Transformational Degrowth and the Job Guarantee
(2020)
This dissertation is composed of three independent essays. Each essay traces social and ecological crises to capitalist institutions and proposes how a job guarantee (JG) can be adapted to resolve them in the context of ...
Tale of two schools : a phenomenological case study of culture in a high school with an international baccalaureate program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
International Baccalaureate (IB), a highly rigorous academic and college preparatory program, has sometimes been implemented to turn around otherwise struggling school systems. Little is known about the impact on school ...
'To chant my last refrain:' a contextualization of H. Lawrence Freeman's biography and his operas 'The Martyr' and 'Voodoo'
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The grand operas by Harlem Renaissance composer H. Lawrence Freeman (1869-1954)--large productions in the theater and broadcast on the radio--represent ...
Secondary music educators' curiosity dimensions and perceptions of curiosity in the classroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This descriptive study used a survey to examine the curiosity dimensions of secondary music educators (SMEs) and their perceptions of curiosity and creativity in student learning. Participants responded to a curiosity ...
The unexplored achievement gap: A phenomenological study of the experiences of teachers of elementary school students with attentiondeficit/hyperacitvity disorder
(2014-07-18)
Diagnosis and treatment of students with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD) is increasing at a rapid rate. There are a number of problems associated with
ADHD that students may face, including academic ...
Market oppotunities for industrial hemp : guide to understanding markets and demand for various industrial hemp plant products
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2019)
"Industrial hemp produces several components - broadly, stalks, seeds, roots, leaves and flowers - that processors may direct toward a variety of commercial applications. In total, these components may have as many as 50,000 potential uses...
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 ...
Sir Philip Sidney: an annotated bibliography of modern criticism, 1941-1970
(University of Missouri Press, 1972)
This bibliography is a guide to Sidney criticism from 1941 to 1970. It consists of sections of general criticism, for biographical materials, for each of Sidney's major works, for the minor works, and final sections for ...
Image compression and energy harvesting for energy constrained sensors
(2013)
The advances in complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology
have led to the integration of all components of electronic system into a single integrated
circuit. Ultra-low power circuit techniques have reduced ...
Accelerating data-driven discover in type 1 diabetes: an informatics-based approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a lifelong chronic disease characterized by the absolute or near-absolute loss of insulin. For affected individuals, management of T1D is an unremitting challenge that involves constant blood glucose ...