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The Manhattan-Rochester Coalition, research on the health effects of radioactive materials, and tests on vulnerable populations without consent in St. Louis, 1945-1970
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This piece analyzes a covert Manhattan Project spin-off organization referred to here as the Manhattan-Rochester Coalition, and an obscure aerosol study in St. Louis, Missouri, conducted under contract by the U.S. military ...
Whitewashing Southern Living : the sociocultural significance of the 1966 magazine launch in Birmingham, Alabama
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The purpose of this study was to examine Progressive Farmer Company's 1966 launch of Southern Living magazine in Birmingham, Alabama, in its sociocultural context. The publisher of Progressive Farmer, the largest magazine ...
Structural basis of substrate recognition and inactivation in phosphatases
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Phosphatases are ubiquitous enzymes that catalyze the transfer of phosphoryl group to water. In addition to being one of the most important and fundamental reactions in biological systems, phosphatases are critical to ...
Percolative effects in quantum critical systems : how magnetic clusters shape the response at low temperatures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
We have investigated the link between cluster morphology and non-Fermi liquid behavior in the bulk properties of Ce(Ru1-xFex)2Ge2, a prototypical quantum critical system that has been driven to criticality through chemical ...
Integrate template matching and statistical modeling for continuous speech recognition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
In this dissertation, a novel approach of integrating template matching with statistical modeling is proposed to improve continuous speech recognition. Commonly used Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are ineffective in modeling ...
Masculinity, hardiness, and psychological well-being in male student veterans
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
American colleges are experiencing a surge of veterans and active-duty students who attend school at least part time. Little research exists on positive characteristics which facilitate their academic attainment. This study ...
Phylogenetic and behavioral differentiation in the canyon treefrog, Hyla arenicolor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
My research interests lie in understanding the process of speciation. In my dissertation I set out to do this by examining the first step in potential speciation, population differentiation. In my dissertation research I ...
Investigating the headwater : an examination of the PK-12 student experiences of Mexican-American PK-12 educators to promote authentic educator recruitment strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Solorzano, Villalpando, and Oseguera (2005) posited that "the underachievement and underrepresentation of Latinas and Latinos at each point in the educational pipeline might be better explained by investigating the educational ...
Relationship between cooperative education and early employment outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This study examined the relationship between cooperative education (co-op) and the early career outcomes of graduates at Missouri University of Science and Technology, a science and technological research university in the ...
Cause specific mortality and anti-predator behavior in midwestern songbirds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Predation is a ubiquitous selective pressure that profoundly influences animals on evolutionary and ecological time-scales, but we lack estimates of predator-specific mortality rates for many taxa. We investigated ...
Flipping the switch : regulation of proliferation and differentiation in adult muscle stem cells
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Adult muscle stem cells or satellite cells are the committed somatic stem cells responsible for maintenance and regeneration of adult skeletal muscle tissue. Skeletal muscle is capable of multiple rounds of complete ...
The experiences of Black American living kidney donors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
End stage renal disease (ESRD) is a chronic illness of significant concern in the United States and throughout the world. In many cases, the optimal treatment for ESRD is living kidney donation. A qualitative investigation ...
Religiosity, coping, and psychological well-being among LDS Polynesians in the U.S.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This study examined religiosity, collectivistic coping, and psychological well-being among 94 LDS Polynesians residing in the Midwest. As hypothesized, highly religious LDS Polynesians were more likely to have a healthy ...
Genotypic and phenotypic predictors of low aflatoxin accumulation in Zea mays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Zea mays L. is one of the world's most important and widely grown crops and is susceptible to a wide range of plant pathogens. One fungal pathogen of particular concern is Aspergillus flavus Link, which is capable of ...
Neutron exposure from electrom linear accelerators and a proton accelerator : measurements and simulations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The risk of developing radiation induced secondary cancers in patients undergoing external beam radiotherapy is a concern; particularly from secondary neutrons generated during delivery of high energy photon and proton ...
Understanding intensive care unit clinical communication using knowledge representation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Medical errors are a major cause of death among Americans, and clinical miscommunication is considered the leading cause of medical errors. The aim of this study was to analyze clinical communication behaviors and interruptions ...
Resource-efficient portable video communication system design for wildlife monitoring and interaction tracking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
In this research, we focus on algorithm development and system design for resource-efficient portable video communication system design and their application in wildlife monitoring and interaction tracking. The capability ...
Investigations from the ribcage : the (dis)embodied order of safety, children, and the problematics of public school policy practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This dissertation endeavors to explore the ways in which policies of safety in the public school order the everyday lives of student-children. Using varying feminist methodologies, I explore the experiences that children ...
Functions in contemporary secondary mathematics textbook series in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Textbooks play a central role in US mathematics classrooms (Stein, Remillard, & Smith, 2007) and functions are a key topic in secondary mathematics (Carlson, Jacobs, Coe, Larsen, & Hsu, 2002). This study presents results ...
Bayesian variable selection in parametric and semiparametric high dimensional survival analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
In this dissertation, we propose several Bayesian variable selection schemes for Bayesian parametric and semiparametric survival models for right-censored survival data. In the rst chapter we introduce a special shrinkage ...