Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Semester "2013 Fall"
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Applications of radiotracer in plant biology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)A radioactive tracer (radiotracer) is generally defined as a radioactive isotope that is used as a tracer, which can be followed or tracked within a system of interest. The use of radiotracers involves the substitution of ... -
Becoming a feminist director in the academy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)In this dissertation, I investigate the creation of my performance of a feminist director. I examine how I became a feminist, what led me to directing, and what choices I made when I intentionally attempted to embody ... -
Churches addressing domestic violence : the spaces between discourse & identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Religious communities have historically treated domestic violence as a non-issue, or as a private matter best kept within families. However, research shows that rates of domestic violence within religious groups are reported ... -
Closomers at a click : a treatise on the design, synthesis and in vivo MRI of novel click closomers as high performance and efficacious contrast agents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The advent of Magnetic Resonance Imaging or MRI has truly revolutionized the field of medical diagnostic and imaging. The signal intensity and the ... -
The Cold War, the New World Order, and the War on Terror : U.S. presidents' use of Orwell's big brother myth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation argues a dystopian myth exists in the United States' political consciousness that warns citizens about the fear totalitarianism. Born ... -
Corruption and economic growth in transition economies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The general understanding of corruption is that the corruption harms economic growth because it increases transaction costs and information uncertainty (Rose-Ackerman, 1997). However, there are studies showing that corruption ... -
Counterexamples to Strichartz Type Inequalities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The study of Strichartz s inequality is very important in the theory of nonlinear Shrodinger equations. The inequalities do not hold for all choice of ... -
Crustal stress across the northern Arabian plate and the relationship with the plate boundary forces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The region encompassing the collision of northern Arabia with Eurasia is a tectonically heterogeneous region of distributed deformation. The northern Arabia plate is bounded to the west by the subducting Sinai plate and ... -
Culture, capital and community : gentrification and redevelopment in a St Louis neighborhood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Gentrification is described loosely as the return of the middle class to poor and working-class urban neighborhoods, resulting in social and cultural changes to the surrounding community. The process of gentrification is ... -
Domain-general and domain-specific brain activations and networks in visual and auditory working memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Working memory (WM) is a latent cognitive structure that involves active maintenance and manipulation of information for a short time. How items are stored in WM is an important issue that remains controversial. Whereas ... -
EGCG and voluntary exercise : an examination of treatment effects using the TgCRND8 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Previous work with the TgCRND8 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease has shown that voluntary exercise implemented for long time periods (5-months) and starting at very young ages (1-month), prior to the development of disease ... -
Genome-wide exploration of direct GBX2 target genes and their contributions to mouse development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The cells that comprise the vertebrate nervous system require molecular cues to determine their cellular position, identity and their ability to make ... -
The Gutzwiller variational method for strongly correlated systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this dissertation, we have presented our research on new developments in the Gutzwiller variational method as well as the applications of the method ... -
Individual differences in intuitive processing and moral judgment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) is a broad theory of personality proposing a dual-process approach to information processing, involving an ... -
Light scattering studies of organic field effect transistors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Organic semiconductors hold a great promise of enabling new technology based on low cost and flexible electronic devices. While much work has been done in the field of organic semiconductors, the field is still quite ... -
The lived experiences of individuals who have been technologically stalked by a past intimate : a hermeneutic phenomenological study through a Communication Privacy Management Theory lens
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)According to the 2006 Supplemental Victimization Survey, over half of the estimated 1.7 million technological stalking victims in the United States have had a previous intimate relationship with the aggressor (Baum et al., ... -
Magnetic-ferroelectric interactions in RMnO₃
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Hexagonal RMnO₃ is multiferroic material as a combination of frustrated antiferromagnet (TN =72K) and ferroelectric (TC=875K) which consists of multiple temperature and field-dependent phases. Strong coupling between the ... -
Many-body contributions to spin relaxation in semiconductors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Spintronics has the potential to play a significant role in future electronic devices. The success of the field hinges on our ability to maintain and propagate spin signals over various length scales and periods of time. ... -
Mature forest-breeding bird use of early-successional habitat
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Some late-successional birds shift habitat-use from mature forestbreeding habitat to early-successional habitat. Management efforts have primarily focused on breeding habitat for migratory songbirds, but the post-breeding ... -
Motor unit characterization in canine degenerative myelopathy :
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Dogs homozygous for missense mutations in superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) develop a late-onset neuromuscular disorder called degenerative myelopathy (DM) that has many similarities to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). ...