2011 MU dissertations - Access restricted to MU: Recent submissions
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The mechanics of Roman religion : the functionality and aspectualization of the gods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines the practical functioning of Roman religion and the nature of the Roman gods. Roman religion operated as a thaumaturgical ... -
Second grade students' interpretations of various representations depicting part-part-whole relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Through a cross-case analysis this study characterizes second-grade students' interpretations of mathematical representations (i.e., contextual ... -
Finding 'The answers inside me' : a model of empowerment through breastfeeding and weaning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Breastfeeding confers numerous health benefits upon both nursing infants and their mothers, many of which increase as breastfeeding duration increases. ... -
Process management and scheduing [sic] in radiation therapy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Management of complex, advanced technology, high cost, and high risk operations requires reliance on systems engineering principles. This approach has ... -
Semiparametric transformation models for panel count data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Panel count data arise in event history studies. It may not be feasible to monitor subjects continuously and recurrent events can be observed only at ... -
Essays in health economics and health policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation is a compilation of three essays. The first essay critiques a recent paper by Wilper et al. (2009) for its inappropriate model ... -
Mediating and moderating factors that affect health journalists' perceptions of conflict issues
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Taking an affective and cognitive approach toward effective conflict management communication, this study attempts to analyze the mediating and ... -
The evaluation of a bioactive biomaterial scaffold for the tissue engineering of articular cartilage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Bilayered tissue-engineered osteochondral (OC) grafts require the integration of two components; a superficial layer consisting of articular cartilage ... -
The eco-physiology of PHOT1/phot1[delta]PKD, insights into a phototropically enhanced mutant.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The phototropin class of blue light photoreceptors in Arabidopsis is critical to how plants response to light cues. Here, I study how the photo-perception ... -
A transnational religious institution and its role on the construction of collective agency : a case of Korean military brides in a Korean immigrant religious institution
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Literature on contemporary immigrants suggest that increasing volume of transnational practices foster agency construction across borders, thereby ... -
Exploring the intersection between safety culture and hospital nursing practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Patient safety is a matter of great concern to consumers, healthcare providers, and health services researchers. Within hospital organizations, bedside ... -
Bioinformatics analysis and prediction of protein phosphorylation and other posttranslational modifications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Protein posttranslational modifications (PTM), such as phosphorylation, play essential roles in many aspects of cell life. With the rapid accumulation ... -
Association measures : comparison of performance across binary matrices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Investigation of the performance of Dice (1945) measure of association when applied to three dimensional data. Variance for the measure is developed ... -
Sound event detection and extraction for automatic music transcription
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation addresses the problem of automatic music transcription. Transcription is an open problem in the area of musical analysis and audio ... -
Computational models of neuronal fear and addiction circuits
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Computational Neuroscience provides tools to abstract and generalize principles of neuronal functions using mathematics, with applicability to the ... -
Characterization of the pigmentation locus in Yersinia pestis pathogenesis of pneumonic plague
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The extreme virulence of Yersinia pestis in all three forms of plague disease is attributed to its multiple virulence factors. Y. pestis pathogenesis ... -
Molecular genetic studies of canine inherited diseases
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The domestic dog has advantageous genome information ideal for mapping genes that cause disease. Humans share many diseases with dogs, which makes ... -
Seismic attenuation of regional phases in the northern Middle East and the Tibetan Plateau
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] I study the regional seismic phase attenuation to (1) infer rheology and temperature of the crust and uppermost mantle and to (2) develop reliable and ... -
Models of neuronal subcircuits in the crustacean cardiac ganglion and the mammalian perirhinal cortex
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation deals with four related studies that involve simulations of computational models of neurons and neuronal networks at varying levels ... -
Modification of host and bacterial proteomes during host-pathogen interactions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Plant cells, such as those of Arabidopsis thaliana, detect the presence of bacteria through cell-surface receptors that recognize microbial-associated ...