Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Semester "2012 Spring"
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11-amino-1 undecene-covered SI (100) and GE (100) surfaces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)Due to the similar properties and structures of silicon and germanium surfaces, they have similar methods of passivation and organic functionalizaiton reactions. The formation of organic monolayers on semiconductor surfaces ... -
Abiding in the fields : pastoral care and society in late antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)The adoption of Christianity among the Anglo-Saxon peoples of England in the seventh century began with evangelization by Irish and Roman missionaries and continued through the instruction and correction provided by English ... -
Access to food in Columbia, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)Access to basic food resources is an issue of global significance. This is especially true in urban environments where dependence on stores for food is high. Given this, do inequities in access to basic food resources exist ... -
Alcohol cues, approach bias, and inhibitory control : applying a dual process model to alcohol sensitivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Low sensitivity to the acute effects of alcohol, or needing a relatively large amount to feel alcohol's effects, is a risk factor for developing AUDs ... -
The American alien: immigrants, expatriates and extraterrestrials in twentieth-century U.S. fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This project argues that such widely differing figures in twentieth-century American literature as the immigrant and the expatriate, the colonizer and the colonized, whether human or extraterrestrial, can all be described ... -
The American musical stage as a site of utopian possibilities : subversive representations of race and gender in Violet and Caroline, or change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)When considering American musicals as social barometers that both reflect and shape the national zeitgeist, two major traditions have been identified: the mid-twentieth-century Golden Age model, which champions the mainstream ... -
Amy Beach : the Victorian woman, the autism spectrum, and compositional style
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)Celebrated American composer and pianist Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) became the subject of the dedicated interest of a number of scholars during the last decades of the twentieth century, but her idiosyncratic ... -
Becoming good girls and useful citizens: growing up poor, black, and female in Jim Crow era Missouri, 1909-1944
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In 1909, black citizens used their power as voters to successfully pressure legislators in Missouri to establish a state industrial home for the ... -
Border crossings : contemporary transnational literature across media and genre and Remind me again what happened : a novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Remind Me Again What Happened is a novel told through three characters' perspectives, one of whom suffers from memory loss. By exploring the individual ... -
Can trust substitute for quality institutions to promote economic growth?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This study looks at the relationship between generalized social trust, state institutions and economic growth. Social capital literature and economic growth literature have consistently shown that interpersonal trust has ... -
Choice, ownership and responsibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)My dissertation is to answer these two questions: "Does moral responsibility require choice?" and "If not, what does it require?" Classic accounts of moral responsibility, such as libertarian accounts, assume a volition ... -
Classification problems in growth mixture modeling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Growth mixture modeling can be used for two purposes: 1) to identify mixtures of normal sub-groups, and 2) to approximate oddly shaped distributions ... -
A comprehensive study of marine sediments of NanTroSEIZE Project, offshore Japan : clay mineralogy, consolidation, and microfabric
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation investigates the clay mineral assemblages, consolidation state, and microfabric of sedimentary strata along the Kumano transect of ... -
Constant proportion portfolio insurance and related topics with empirical study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)The concept of Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance (CPPI) in terms of jump-diffusion, as well as the associated mean-variance hedging problem, has been studied. Three types of risk related to: the probability of loss, ... -
Corruption loves company : the interactive effect of corruption and resources on economic growth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)The resource curse has become one of the more studied comparative political economic phenomena over the last twenty years. Here, the role of corruption as a conditioning effect on the resource curse is explored. I argue ... -
A Cypriot hodegetria : the creation, interpretation, and significance of a plaster relief from Kopetra
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Excavations at a church in the village of Kalavasos-Kopetra in southern Cyprus revealed a small plaster relief of the Virgin Mary holding the infant ... -
Decentralization in parliamentary systems : new perspectives on its causes and consequences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation investigates one of the most conspicuous developments of recent decades in Western and Eastern European parliamentary systems: the ... -
Determination of trace elements levels in human plasma and radiated mice tongue by inductively coupled plasma-mass-spectrometry (ICP-MS)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)An analytical method that uses a minimum150 μL of human plasma samples for the trace elements Fe, Cu, Zn, Mg and ultratrace elements Mn, Co, Cd, Pb was developed. The method was evaluated using both high resolution sector ... -
The differential effects of presentation rate and retention interval on memory for items and associations in younger adults : a simulation of an age-related associative deficit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)Older adults show an associative deficit in episodic memory compared to younger adults. Previous research suggests two underlying brain areas, the frontal lobe (FL) and the medial temporal--hippocampal area (MTL/H), as ... -
The dissolution of character in late romantic British literature, 1816-1837
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This dissertation studies how late romantic British authors, writing primarily in the 1820s and 1830s, renegotiate inherited models of “character” from their high romantic predecessors. The authors in this dissertation all ...