Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Semester "2018 Fall"
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Pluton source varition over two magmatic pulses in the white-inyo range, central-eastern California : implications for paleozoic and mesozoic tectonic reconstructions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation uses compositions of plutons in the White-Inyo Range (WIR) of central-eastern California, which is an important tectonic boundary as ... -
The pulpits and the damned witchcraft in German postils, 1520-1615
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This thesis explores discussion of witchcraft in German postil sermons circulated between 1520 and 1615. The introduction discusses my methodology, changes to historiography between 1900 and present day, and the history ... -
Relaciones familiares conflictivas y resignificaci�n de la familia en la narrativa de escritoras Mexicanas contempor�neas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Esta disertación se basa en el estudio de tres novelas mexicanas, Amora de Rosamaría Roffiel, Dos mujeres y Vida y peripecias de una buena hija de ... -
School-aged children's awareness of their own working memory contents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Working memory researchers in psychology have long wondered about how the mind organizes the many different pieces of information that must be maintained at any one time in order that the individual may carry out daily ... -
Solvatochromic pyrogallarenes and pyrogallarene crystals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Pyrogallarenes have the ability to self-assemble into a variety of structures. Crystal forms ranging from bilayers to dimers and hexamers have been isolated. One unique cocrystal, PgC[subscript 3]-(CH[subscript 3])[subscript ... -
Spectropolarimetric constraints on interstellar grain models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] It is now well recognized that the interstellar medium acts as an efficient polarizer of electromagnetic radiation, resulting in the partial plane ... -
Statistical analysis of clustered or multivariate interval-censored failure time data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Interval-censored failure time data are a type of the failure time data that often occur in clinical trials with periodic follow-ups among others. In ... -
Structural foundations, triggering events, and facilitative contingency : the social origins of California’s Compassionate Use Act of 1996
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Currently in the United States there is a nationwide legislative movement to legalize marijuana for persons with certain diagnosable diseases. Despite ... -
Study of methane and natural gas films on carbonaceous adsorbents in static and dynamic systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Adsorbent materials, such as activated carbons, zeolites and metal organic frameworks, for natural gas storage have been of interest since the early 1970's as alternatives to compressed and liquified natural gas. These ... -
Unconscious information progressing in working memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Conventionally, the contents of working memory (WM) have been viewed as tightly coupled with conscious awareness. However, recent experimental findings ... -
Understanding the effects of maternal undernutrition in early gestation on placental development in late gestation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes are on the rise among the U.S. population. Heart Disease is the leading cause of death in the US and is responsible 610,000 deaths per year. A suite of risk ... -
Youtube as an early childhood music education resource parental attitudes, beliefs, usages, and experiences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This descriptive study was designed with two main purposes: (a) to provide researchers and educators with baseline information about current YouTube music usages and practices and (b) to examine parental attitudes and ...