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2010-2011 Graduate school catalog
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
A numerical simulation of a single shock-accelerated particle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Particle drag models, which capture macro viscous and pressure effects, have been developed over the years for various flow regimes to enable cost ...
Three Paths To Religious Integration In Ernest Hemingway’s War Fiction
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
My dissertation studies religiosity in Ernest Hemingway’s war fiction in terms of
how his soldier characters connect to the divine. The means to understanding this
connection is in refining how the characters express ...
Beyond the Abyss: American Gaslight and Popular Literature
(2023)
The mainstream feminist movement in the United States has struggled to include women of color and marginalized women. However, two constants emerge from the work of both white feminists and feminists of color: first, writing ...
Like dancers following each other's steps : an analysis of lexical cues in student writing for differing audiences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This empirical study examines the role of lexical priming in first-year college student writers' abilities to consider multiple audiences. The writing topic assigned to all 165 first-year students is identical except for ...
Redundant adder architectures for cell-based technology
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-06)
The amenity of our daily lives has come to rely on an enormous number of
embedded systems, such as mobile phones, anti-spin systems for cars, high de nition
streaming video and portable devices. The utmost important ...
Preparation Of Oligonucleotide Delivery Agents And Insulin Depot Materials Using Solid Phase Synthesis
(2014)
Short interfering RNA (siRNA) induced RNA interference (RNAi) is capable of preventing gene translation. In a laboratory setting, various transfection methods have enabled this mechanism to be used for routine gene silencing ...
Hormonal regulation of bone health: novel understandings of xenoestrogens and estrogen receptor-[alpha]
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Estrogen is one of the most influential hormones on bone growth and maintenance throughout the life cycle in both men and women, but there are still unknown roles of estrogen and the estrogen receptors in males. In addition, ...
Chemical and biochemical applications of vibrational spectroscopy
(2022)
Vibrational spectroscopy is a technique that probes a molecule’s vibrational modes via infrared absorption and Raman scattering, and is often used as a tool for characterization and/or functional group determination. Because ...
Merchants and the medieval mirror
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation examines the representation of merchants in late medieval poems inspired by mirrors for princes. The mirror was a genre that had an ...
Role of Toll-Like Receptor 4 in Oxidant-induced Inflammatory Phenotypes in Macrophages
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
A common mechanism by which redox stress may activate inflammatory
responses to potentially initiate, propagate and maintain many diseases states has not
been characterized. Accumulating evidence suggests that pattern ...
IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT OF PEPTIDES AND SINGLE DOMAIN ANTIBODIES FOR CANCER THERAPY
(2023)
The discovery of immune checkpoint inhibitors has revolutionized cancer therapy. These immune checkpoint inhibitors suppress tumor growth by immune checkpoint blockade. This approach involves blocking inhibitory immune ...
Jesus Paid It All: Combining Rock and Hymns in Contemporary Worship Music
(2022)
Much of Contemporary Worship Music (CWM) synthesizes elements of rock music and hymns. This thesis provides an analysis of four CWM songs, “Come Thou Fount,” “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us,” “Your Glory/Nothing but the ...
Thinking locally : provincialism and cosmopolitanism in American literature since the Great Depression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Thinking Locally produces an account of twentieth-century literary history that counters the literary-historical over-reliance on wars as framing events. Eschewing the standard break between pre-World War II and post-World ...
Evaluation of the Degradation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Using UV-activated Silica-based Granular Media (UV/SGM)
(2023)
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have become ubiquitous in the environment through production, industrial use, and consumer use. PFAS are recalcitrant, persistent, and bioaccumulative contaminants of concern which ...
Epidemiology of non-aureus staphylococcal mastitis in dairy goats
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The hypothesis of this work was that molecular-based speciation and strain-typing methods would help differentiate staphylococcal species with greater ...
Synthesis, Characterization and In-vivo Testing of Photoactivatable Insulin Depots for Continuously Variable and Minimally Invasive Insulin Delivery
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Proteins are macromolecules involved in a diverse array of functions. Mutations or
abnormal levels of proteins are indicated in several diseases. Despite showing early
promise, the translation of protein therapeutics ...
A case study on the use of focus groups as participatory research
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Participatory approaches to research involve the commitment of a researcher, as well as those supporting the researcher (i.e., academic institutions, funding organizations), to the other people who are also involved in the ...
Missouri log, 1968
(1968)
Writing on the wall : late-third century urban defenses in south Languedoc
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The movement from the Roman to the medieval world is one of the most significant transitional moments of Western history. One of the most visible aspects of that transition is the installation of circuit walls that transform ...