Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Semester "2007 Summer"
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Against the terrible death
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Against the Terrible Death is a collection of poems about the intersections of history, ancient and comtemporary, personal and public. The collection ... -
Ammonia elimination from protonated nucleobases
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The dediazoniations of the diazonium ion 1 of 4-aminopyrimidine and of the tautomeric cytosinediazonium ions 2 and 3 are facile and result in the formations of cations 4, 5, and 6. The pyrimidine ring-opening of 4, 5 and ... -
Analysis of affective instability on ecological momentary assessments data: successive difference, variance decomposition, and mean comparison via multilevel modeling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Temporal instability of affect is a defining characteristic of some psychological disorders such as Borderline Personality Disorder and mood cycling disorders. Use of Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) enables researchers ... -
"The art of printing shall endure": journalism, community, and identity in New York City, 1800-1810
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)This thesis reconstructs the community of printers, booksellers, and bookbinders that existed in New York City in the first decade of the nineteenth-century. A close analysis of city directories published between 1800 and ... -
Beyond the edge : riparian habitat use and forest management effects on stream salamanders in the southern Appalachian mountains
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)While there are many types of habitat loss and degradation (e.g., agriculture, land development), many studies have focused on the impacts of logging on wildlife populations and on ecosystem processes. Little information, ... -
A class of Gorenstein Artin algebras of embedding dimension four
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Let R be a polynomial ring in n variables and I be a homogeneous ideal in R. Such an ideal I is called Gorenstein if the quotient R/I has a free ... -
Crooked coverage: a study of (de)racialized texts in print media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)On top of the intense history of racism in America, recent research has shown the increasing importance of color-blind racism and its impact on our society. While many studies have shown that racism exists in the media, ... -
Decomposing individual and group differences of categorical variables with genetic factor model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The method of decomposing individual and group differences on ordered categorical variables into genetic and environmental factors is introduced. Although the genetic factor model is used to identify the relative contributions ... -
Development and validation of a rating scale for wind jazz improvisation performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The purpose of this study was to construct and validate a rating scale for collegiate wind jazz improvisation performance. The 14-item Wind Jazz Improvisation Evaluation Scale (WJIES) was constructed and refined through a ... -
Distance and disparity: social disadvantage and the distribution of hazardous waste in America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Since the original studies of environmental discrimination were completed in the early 1980s, many scholars have measured disproportionate proximity ... -
Does ego threat increase paranoia?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The goal of the current research was to test whether an ego threat increases paranoia, whether the increase in paranoia was mediated by state self-esteem, and whether the increase in paranoia was moderated by the personality ... -
Dynamic models of credit ratings and default probabilities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The upheaval in the capital markets since 1997 has highlighted the need for orderly stress testing of banks' portfolios, including both their trading ... -
The effect of modafinil on psychostimulant-evoked [³H]dopamine release from rat striatal slices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Modafinil is a novel wake-promoting compound currently marketed as a stimulant that lacks the side effects and addictive potential of typical ... -
The effects of histone acetylation on the maize allele PL1-blotched
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Covalent modifications of DNA and nucleosomal histone proteins associated with eukaryotic chromatin have the potential to alter expression of a gene without change in its DNA sequence. One gene regulated through this ... -
The effects of structural modifications on sigma receptor binding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The sigma receptor is a unique receptor family that has two subtypes: sigma1 and sigma2. Sigma1 receptors are involved in several physiological functions such as psychosis and depression. Sigma2 receptors are expressed in ... -
Estimates of school productivity and implications for policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)School productivity was not perfectly estimated because of the sampling error and the measurement error. The traditional Ordinary Least Square (OLS) leaves the estimation of school productivity questionable. Moreover, ... -
Exchange and settlement patterns as evidence for social stratification and developing complexity in prehistoric and early Christian Ireland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)There exists no economic study of prehistoric Ireland, nor a history focused on the island's early international relations, nor one that studies how its early elites came to power. This study seeks to bridge that gap by ... -
Games leaders play : renegade regimes and international crises
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation is a game-theoretic analysis of international crises between the US and renegade regimes after the Cold War. The main puzzle that leads ... -
General relativistic theory of light propagation in the field of gravitational multipoles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)We consider propagation of electromagnetic signals through the time-dependent gravitational field of an isolated astronomical system emitting gravitational waves. The system is assumed to possess multipole moments of ... -
Give me that old time religion: reclaiming slave religion in the future
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents tell the story of a young visionary, Lauren Olamina, in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Lauren, the fifteen year old daughter of a black Baptist minister, ...