Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Semester "2015 Fall"
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Labor union communication : effect of labor media on local union vote choice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Framing theory posits the idea that media frames a particular issue, and provides a focus or precedence of that frame to the exclusion of other information. Framing of a candidate or issue may lead voters to have a particular ... -
Land inheritance and gender : social factors affecting land inherited in rural Bangladesh
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This thesis examines what affects whether men and women in rural Bangladesh inherit land and, if they do inherit land, what affects the amount of land inherited. The data is collected from Matlab, Bangladesh, a small-scale ... -
Magic for unlucky girls : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Magic for Unlucky Girls: Stories is a collection of short stories that weave Western oral and literary folklore influences around women-centered ... -
Migrations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "If I had to tell the story in one line or two, I would tell it this way: I loved her and she did not choose me, though I believed she would." At 28, ... -
Narrative as archive : ethno-historical paratexts in British literature, 1760-1830
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Narrative as Archive contributes to the small-but-growing body of scholarship on paratexts -- specifically footnotes -- in imaginative literatures of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. I argue that these ... -
A new measure of economic voting : priority heuristic theory and combining sociotropic and egocentric evaluations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)It is well-known that a voter's retrospective economic evaluations influence vote choice. A classic debate within the literature on retrospective economic voting concerns whether voters are sociotropic or egocentric when ... -
Niche construction and the role of environment : towards a new logic of natural selection explanations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Biological systems may move in, feed on, socialize with, and change the world around it. How should we explain how these systems develop, act, think, ... -
Niche construction and the role of environment : towards a new logic of natural selection explanations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] I argue that natural selection explanations are not necessarily externalist, i.e. they don't always cite features of the environment as explanans. In ... -
Nuclear forensic applications of uranium oxide chemistry and morphology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The entire nuclear fuel cycle is a chemistry-intensive process, from accessing the raw materials from ore, to enriching and forming the fuels, to the ... -
Numerical modeling of porosity waves as a mechanism for rapid fluid transport in elastic porous media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The rapid ascent of fluids through kilometer-scale thicknesses of low permeability sediments at rates much faster than predicted Darcy fluxes has been observed in numerous locations around the world. A consistently observed ... -
The outlaw
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This opera was written as a thesis for the completion of a Master of Music degree in Composition. The text is adapted from the one act play of the ... -
Paul and how many others : a discourse on alterity in 2 Corinthians
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Paul's use of the term super apostles has generated much debate about who Paul references. Scholars provide several specific historic groups for possible identification; Jewish Christians at the church at Jerusalem or ... -
Philographica : that which is written or described of love
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Intimate relationships pose a paradox: they are inherently dangerous on multiple levels and yet essential for our social well-being. A collection of artist's books was constructed with the purpose of illustrating this ... -
Radiolabeled bivalent peptide ligands for prostate cancer imaging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The diagnosis of prostate cancer in men in US continues to be a burden due to painfulness, non-specificity, and false positives of current methods. The usage of radiolabeled peptides as targeting vectors that selectively ... -
The relationship among insight, action, and treatment outcomes for youths in usual care
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Although insight and action have been featured prominently in theories of therapeutic change with adults, the relationship between the two constructs and their relationship with treatment outcomes has been largely understudied, ... -
Rheological evolution of planetary basalts during cooling and crystallization
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The role of myostatin deficiency in the development and biomechanical integrity of offspring bone
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a genetic bone disorder primarily caused by mutations to the genes for type I collagen, a major structural protein found in bone. There have been over 1,500 different mutations described ... -
Russian old believers in Alaska : linguistic and cultural continuity of traditionalist refugees
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)For two centuries, Russian Old Believers existed as religious refugees in search of a permanent and tolerant home; one group of Old Believers made their way to the United States. However, while these Old Believers found ... -
The spatial dimensions of Savanna fire ecology in Kruger National Park, South Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Savannas are thought to be bistable with forests potentially occurring above [about]650 mm / yr of Mean Annual Precipitation (MAP) due to the limiting effects of fire on tree cover. This is predicated on two assumptions: ... -
Spatio-temporal models of county-level economic growth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)In one chapter of this dissertation we study how earnings of workers in a county are related to earnings of workers in the neighboring counties in time and space. Conventional spatio-temporal models study these relationships ...