Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Semester "2015 Spring"
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Age-dependent branching processes and applications to the Luria-Delbrck experiment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Microbial populations adapt to their environment by acquiring advantageous mutations, but in the early twentieth century, questions about how these organisms acquire mutations arose. The experiment of Salvador Luria and ... -
Agriculture during the Reagan years
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The Farm Crisis of the 1980s occurred during the Reagan Presidency. To date virtually nothing has been written concerning the approach taken by the Reagan administration to combat the crisis. To fill that gap, this study ... -
And the wood doll arose and told, I'm a real
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "Sphinx Eyes Antiphon," one of the poems in my collection, And the Wood Doll Arose and Told, I'm a Real, refers to a blank or unreciprocal social gaze. ... -
Arsenic for potential diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Targeted agents hold promise for non-invasive in vivo imaging, therapy, and monitoring of diseases. Foundational work focused on imaging and therapy of cancer has centered primarily on the use of 18F, 90Y, 99mTc, and 131I ... -
Association of force plate and body-mounted inertial sensor measures for determination of hind limb lameness in horses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between inertial sensor and stationary force plate measures of hind limb lameness. 21 ... -
Atypical MVT, Zn-Cu-rich mineralization in the lower portion of the Bonneterre Dolomite, Viburnum Trend, southeast Missouri, U.S.A.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits of the Viburnum Trend are typically lead-dominant (Pb:Zn > 5) and occur mainly in the reef-grainstone facies of the upper Bonneterre Dolomite (Cambrian). Recent drilling has encountered ... -
A ballooned beta-logistic model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The beta distribution is a simple and flexible model in which responses are naturally confined to the finite interval (0,1). Its parameters can be related to covariates such as dose and gender through a regression model. ... -
Beneath and above the worlds of the spirit are alive : religion, place, and Ohlone cultural revival
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis explores the meaning of landscapes in the revival of traditional religious traditions by the Indigenous peoples of the San Francisco and ... -
Bike Share: A Study In Suitability Analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Bike share systems are a rising trend in multi-modal transportation, involving automated kiosks where bikes can be checked out at one location and ... -
Bodily difference, interdependence, and toxic half-lives : representations of disability in D.W. Gregorys Dirty Pictures, The Good Daughter, and Radium Girls
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)People with disabilities have been a part of theatre for thousands of years. But typically they are represented as metaphors, where blindness or a limp symbolizes something about their character and has nothing to do with ... -
Border crossings, identities, and creative nonfiction : Haitian travel guides and writing about Haiti
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)In my thesis, I explore the practice of travel writing by examining four separate travel guides. I ask how writing about travel, including my own creative writing about Haiti, interacts with issues of identity, the \"other,\" ... -
Characterization of acyclic rhodium tetrathioether ligans systems for 105Rh(III)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Rhodium-105 is a 36 hr half-life beta emitter potentially useful for radiotherapy. Previously, the reaction of 105 Rh-cholride with a linear tetrathioether ligand resulted in several species. Evaluation of this reaction ... -
Climate and regeneration at upper treeline east and west of the continental divide in the northern and southern Rocky Mountains : do landscape- and localscale moisture gradients impact the biogeographic expression of climate change?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)In the 21st century, global-scale controls of treeline are thought to be well understood. While this may be true, the treeline ecotone is modulated by fine-scale microclimates and feedbacks. This creates a need for ... -
A climatological and contextual analysis of Roman water technologies in Cyprus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This thesis explores the trends of water usage in Cyprus during the Roman period. It seeks to challenge traditional ideas of water usage as a constant off-take system and apply the methods of Andrew Wilson and Zena Kamash ... -
Communication frames of hotel managers and their effects on job satisfaction, intent to leave, and job regret
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The hotel industry is plagued with turnover. This study uses Framing Theory to examine hotel turnover. This study consisted of two phases. Phase I used qualitative research methods to answer RQ1: What communication frames ... -
Compensation as the moral foundation of Jus Post Bellum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Given how much harm can be done after the fighting part of wars end, and given recent failures to secure lasting peace after conflicts (e.g. in Afghanistan and Iraq), developing an account of the conditions of a just peace, ... -
Conjunciones y disyunciones entre raza y gnero: Representaciones flmicas y literarias de inmigrantes Latinoamericanos y Africanos Subsaharianos en la espana contempornea.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This dissertation is a study of literary and cinematographic works of the contemporary period that depict the complex experiences that the recent immigration phenomenon in Spain has brought along not only for the new ... -
Cover (a play about trafficking) the power of creating performative auto/ethnographies in a theatre community
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. This idea that the devil (or depravity) is sly enough to make us believe it doesn't exist comes rushing forward up to this moment. I connect ... -
Culturally speaking : media, intimacy, and the vocal dimension of race and gender
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This project examines the racial and gendered meanings of vocal sound, focusing specifically on the ways voices and their cultural associations are ... -
The debt of heroism : an initial test of the legacy attained by social transaction (last) model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Rhetoric surrounding heroes suggests their contributions create a sense of indebtedness and that they deserve to be awarded a legacy for such contributions. Utilizing a novel theoretical framework, coined the legacy ...