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The centrique part : John Donne's Elegies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1987)
"An extended study of the Elegies of John Donne is long overdue. Beyond such notable exceptions as "Going to Bed," "The Perfume," and "The Bracelet," the Elegies, overall, constitute a neglected area of Donne's canon. In ...
Between the old and the new : Friedrich Gentz, 1764-1832
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This dissertation reviews the life and political impact of Friedrich Gentz, who was born in Breslau, Prussia, in 1764, and died in Vienna, Austria, in 1832. Though remembered today as only a second- (or even third)- tier ...
A study of the relation of type and conformation to production in dairy cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The subject of dairy type and conformation is a question of vital importance to all breeders and students of dairy cattle. It is a well-known fact that from the standpoint of milk production there is no method of ascertaining ...
The material politics of ivory in early modern Europe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation sets out to challenge the material history and biography of ivory in early modern Europe (ca. 1600-1800) and explores the mutable materialities of ivory as both a sculptural material and a vehicle of ...
Pottery production at Fort Hill (27CH85) a seventeenth-century refugee community in northern New England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis formulates a model for explaining stylistic, functional, and compositional diversity in ceramic artifacts produced during the contact period (A.D. 1590...
A Bayesian approach to data-driven discovery of nonlinear dynamic equations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Dynamic equations parameterized by differential equations are used to represent a variety of real-world processes. The equations used to describe these processes are generally derived based on physical principles and a ...
An examination of personalization in digital advertising
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Paid advertisements on social media have become a powerful way for marketers to reach their target audiences. This study addresses how millennials experience, interact with, and react to personalized advertisements on Facebook, as well as what...
An ecological systems approach to reduce children's encounters with obscenity on the internet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation explores how to reduce children's encounters with obscenity on the Internet. Congress has been trying to shield children from encountering online obscenity and some of Congress' attempts failed because ...
It's good to tell you : French folktales from Missouri
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
The stories told in this book, like the stories on television, illustrate the triumph of good over evil; the rewards of heroism and virtue; and the endurance of the human spirit when faced with tragedy and catastrophe. In ...
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 ...
List of students and degrees, 1951
(University of Missouri, 1951)
Alleviation of heat stress with Tasco in dairy cows
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The present study determined the impact of Tasco, Ascophyllum nodosum, on heat stress in dairy cows. Thirty-two Holstein cows were utilized in a randomized complete block design, during 63 days in summer 2008. Feed intake, ...
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 ...