Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Semester "2016 Summer"
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Exploring ion channel mechanisms : from toxin-based tools to computational methods /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Ion channels are the building blocks of cellular excitability, controlling the most basic functions necessary for life to the most complex behaviors. The research presented here addresses questions about the mechanisms by ... -
Exploring the communicative and attitudinal covariates of violent and non-violent political engagement /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This project is primarily concerned with the relationships between communication behaviors, including pro-attitudinal media use and political social media use, political attitudes, including in-group bias and political ... -
Family-based treatments for serious juvenile offenders : a multilevel meta-analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Violent criminal acts and other serious crimes committed by youths result in considerable emotional, physical, and economic effects on these youths, their families, crime victims, and the larger community. Researchers have ... -
Feeding others' children : a comparative ethnography of school food service employees and how they make meaning /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Utilizing 18 months of participant observation, 25 in-depth interviews and numerous textual sources, this research is an ethnography at an elementary, ... -
Free trade agreements in Japan and East Asia regionalism : Sino-Japanese rivalry and beyond /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] At the beginning of the 21st century, a number of multilateral free trade agreements (FTAs), known as regional FTAs, have emerged throughout the world. ... -
Gold in the Northern Yellowknife Greenstone Belt, Canada and Pb-Zn-Cu in the MVT deposits of S.E. Missouri : geochemical studies and numerical models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Numerical and geochemical studies were performed in this thesis to investigate the formation of ores in (1) the gold-bearing northern Yellowknife Greenstone Belt (YGB), Canada and (2) the southeastern Missouri Mississippi ... -
Gold-coated lanthanide phosphate nanoparticles for targeted radiotherapy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)The success of a targeted radiotherapy system depends on its ability to carry and deliver its radioactive payload to a specific site. Lanthanide phosphate nanoparticles are highly stable in a variety of solvents. By ... -
"Guarding Innocence" : age of consent, gender, and progressivism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This paper details the reform activities of suffragists, social hygienists, and Women's Christian Temperance Union members during the Progressive Era, especially those pertaining to age of sexual consent laws. Along with ... -
An in-vitro study of the effects of microwave-induced hyperthermia on the cytotoxicity and cellular uptake of resveratrol gold nanoparticles in prostate and pancreatic cancer cells
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Cancer has become the second leading cause of death in the United States over the past decade. While conventional methods of treatment such as ... -
International sporting events and human rights : does the host nation play fair?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] International sporting events like the Olympics and FIFA World Cup generate a great deal of attention for the athletes, the games, and for the nations ... -
Investigating how bottom-up and top-down systems relate to alcohol use and alcohol use disorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Throughout the field of psychology, there has been increasing interest in dual-systems models of explaining behavior. Specifically, these models propose that behaviors is due to a bottom-up, emotional system (e.g., reactions ... -
Maximal Fourier integrals and multilinear multiplier operators
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)The first topic of this dissertation is concerned with the L^2 boundedness of a maximal Fourier integral operator which arises by transferring the spherical maximal operator on the sphere S^n to a Euclidean space of the ... -
A mechanistic exploration of signaling crosstalk regulating light responses, growth and immunity in Arabidopsis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, our research focuses on the intersection between pathogen defense and photobiology. PIXL is a putative resistance protein found to be an interactor of phototropin1. Mutants lacking ... -
Metaphor as a communication strategy for reducing health disparities for Latina women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Racial and ethnic health disparities exist in a multitude of health domains, including higher incidence rates of cancer within minority populations and premature deaths associated with cancer. To address this problem, it ... -
Midnight's grandchildren : adolescence in contemporary global literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)"Midnight's grandchildren : adolescence in contemporary global literature" assesses the trope of adolescence in contemporary global literature, as it is employed to describe and act as a metaphor for emerging nations. My ... -
Mining the state : the subnational consequences of natural resource extraction on citizen engagement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Scholars link natural resource wealth to a host of anti-democratic consequences. The bulk of this literature focuses on the consequences of oil revenues, ... -
A multi-method analysis of the acquired preparedness model of risk for alcohol problems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)The acquired preparedness model (APM) integrates both general risk factors and alcohol-related cognitive factors to understand the development of alcohol use and its associated problems. The present project utilized an ... -
Organizing alternatives : examining normative and alternative nonprofit organizing practices /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Homelessness presents a massive organizational problem in the United States, with over 400,000 men, women, and children making use of shelter services each night. In this study, I take a comparative ethnographic approach ... -
Realizing the unknown through ritual objects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)The realization that we must interact with the unknown on a daily basis can be confounding. We constantly encounter evidence that mystery pervades our existence. Through the experience of births, deaths, and our own personal ... -
Rhetoric as repression : the roles and effects of government framing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)During modern protest movements, the regimes targeted by dissidents have issued largely similar kinds of statements about the events. Participants tend to be depicted as national traitors, criminals, or otherwise illegitimate. ...