Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Semester "2011 Summer"
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Adolescent friendship quality and emotional adjustment: examining the role of mothers' own friendships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)The present study examines associations between youths' friendships and the friendships their mothers have with other adults. It was hypothesized that youth whose mothers have friendships high in positive qualities would ... -
Ambiguity, uncertainty, and othering : a queer phenomenology of the organizational socialization of sexuality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Despite the many frames, metaphors, and lenses in the organizational communication discipline, we have yet to examine the lived experience of sexuality ... -
Bayesian variable selection in parametric and semiparametric high dimensional survival analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)In this dissertation, we propose several Bayesian variable selection schemes for Bayesian parametric and semiparametric survival models for right-censored survival data. In the rst chapter we introduce a special shrinkage ... -
"Behind closed doors" : a feminist analysis of senior citizen sexual communication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Abundant research has been conducted on senior citizen sexuality but research on sexual communication has been limited. The current study was designed ... -
Body satisfaction and couple's daily sexual functioning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Body satisfaction has been shown to have an important effect on the nature and quality of people's sexual experiences. However, past research has focused almost exclusively on women, and indeed no study has examined the ... -
Bounded rationality in games of strategy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Traditional game theory predicts behavior contrary to how real people actually behave. And what traditional game theory prescribes as the rational ... -
Cause specific mortality and anti-predator behavior in midwestern songbirds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Predation is a ubiquitous selective pressure that profoundly influences animals on evolutionary and ecological time-scales, but we lack estimates of predator-specific mortality rates for many taxa. We investigated ... -
Cocrystallization of pyrogallol[4]arenes with target molecules
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Supramolecular chemistry, in its simplest and broadest description, is the chemistry of intermolecular interactions or chemistry of the noncovalent ... -
Coefficient theorems of Birancon-Skoda type
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The original Briancon-Skoda theorem, proved for the ring of convergent power series over the field $mathbb{C}$ of complex numbers, was later generalized ... -
Composition of fluid inclusions from the cave-in-rock bedded-replacement fluorite deposits in the Illinois-Kentucky district
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)The stable mid-continent platform of North America hosts some of the greatest known concentrations of Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) mineralization in the world. Most of the mineralization occurs between two major physiographic ... -
Discovery of small molecules that regulate the activity of protein tyrosine phosphatases
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are cysteine-dependent enzymes responsible for dephosphorylating phosphotyrosine residues through a phosphocysteine ... -
Domesticating the Empire : women writers and colonial discourse in late eighteenth-century British literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)This dissertation examines five late eighteenth-century British women writers to demonstrate the ways that domestic fiction negotiates the racial and sexual tensions of the colonial contact zone. Previous scholarship has ... -
Econometric methods for improved measures of financial risk
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Faced with the current financial crisis, several US and foreign banks and investment firms have failed due to excessive losses. The Value-at-Risk (VaR) was a widely-used risk model that was problematic. We evaluate competing ... -
Effects of instrumentalization and personalization upon targets and agents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] To better understand the effects of instrumentalization (i.e., treating a person as a means[dash]as though their value resides in their utility) and ... -
Empirical inference for online auctions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay adopts the survival analysis to empirically analyze a new auction format, pay-per-bid ... -
Endpoint solvability results for divergence form, complex elliptic equations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)We consider divergence form elliptic equations Lu := ∇ • (A∇u) = 0 in the half space ℝn+1+ := {(x,t)∈ ℝn x (0,∞)}, whose coeffi cient matrix A is complex elliptic, bounded and measurable. In addition, we suppose that A ... -
Environmental discourse and cultural identity on American waterways : regional folklore, folk practice, and natural responsibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)This thesis project provides auto-ethnographic material that is analyzed from the perspective of folklore studies and is centered on the practices involved with whitewater river rafting. The specific context of the author's ... -
Fact to fiction: how the Tuatha de Danaan of history became the fairies of contemporary fantasy
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)Throughout the past twenty years, the fantasy genre has expanded and taken the literary world by storm. This is seen by the emergence of such famous fantasy literature as the Harry Potter series and the Twilight Saga. Yet ... -
Farmers, warriors, and grandfathers : the Shawnee and Delaware Indians and their neighbors in the trans-Mississippi West, 1787-1832
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Shawnee and Delaware Indians settled in Spanish Louisiana in the 1780s and left Missouri and Arkansas for Indian Kansas by 1832. This study probes ... -
Flipping the switch : regulation of proliferation and differentiation in adult muscle stem cells
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Adult muscle stem cells or satellite cells are the committed somatic stem cells responsible for maintenance and regeneration of adult skeletal muscle tissue. Skeletal muscle is capable of multiple rounds of complete ...