Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Semester "2018 Spring"
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Advocacy INGOs in multi-ethnic societies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Advocacy INGOs are optimistically seen as campaigners for democracy and human rights. They create a narrative around democratic ideals and support local ... -
Antecedents and motives for smoking in borderline personality disorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Though borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with higher rates of substance use, including cigarette smoking (Carpenter, Wood, & Trull, 2016; Rohde, Lewinsohn, Brown, Gau, & Kahler, 2003; Trull, Jahng, Tomko, ... -
Applied paleozoology and biogeography : four case studies from Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Numerous zooarchaeological studies have attempted to connect modern conservation issues to evidence of human - animal interactions in the past. By utilizing a geodatabase based on archaeological and paleontological site ... -
An arc of death : suicide, alcoholism, murder, accidents, and other early deaths in St. Louis, Missouri, 1875 to 1885
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)In this study of 120 coroner's inquests conducted in St. Louis between 1875 and 1885, the author examines how six different kinds of deaths were investigated and interpreted. Each chapter focuses on a different cause of ... -
Arsenic-72, 77 as a matched pair radiopharmaceutical for imaging and radiotherapy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Radiopharmaceuticals deliver radionuclides to specific target sites via the bifunctional chelate approach, where the radionuclides are chelated with a ligand and linked to a targeting biomolecule. They can be categorized ... -
Asymptotic properties of deep water solitary waves with compactly supported vorticity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this thesis, we consider two-and three-dimensional gravity and capillary-gravity solitary waves propagating along the surface of a body of water ... -
Bayesian hierarchical modeling of colorectal and breast cancer data in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Data on cancer in the United States is collected through cancer registries. The Missouri Cancer Registry and Research Center (MCR-ARC) maintains a statewide cancer surveillance system and participate in research in support ... -
A bayesian investigation into inhibition mechanisms of contrast and assimilation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The ability to inhibit distractors within an environment while focusing on specific information is crucial to proper functioning. In most inhibition ... -
Beyond sight
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Beyond Sight highlights the research, personal experiences, and conceptual underpinnings that inform Caleb McMurry's artwork in his homonymous Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition. Personally informative and subjective ... -
Big gorgeous jazz machine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This manuscript considers the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde literature and painting in contemporary art comics, particularly the growing ... -
Boxing and mixed martial arts: sociocultural cues, ego enhancement, and aggression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This work explores two sports in the world of fight media, boxing and mixed martial arts. Employing the use of social cognitive theory, cultivation theory, and critical race theory as the frameworks from which the following ... -
Capital requirement and financial stability
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation consists of two chapters. In the first chapter, I examine the tradeoff between bank competition and financial stability resulting ... -
Childhood epidemics and the demographic landscape of the Aland Archipelago
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Historically, the introduction of childhood diseases such as measles or smallpox resulted in the infection of nearly every susceptible individual in a community. While smallpox has long been considered the deadlier of the ... -
Contentious politics and social media : a study of the networked publics in the Ayotzinapa twitter protests #PaseDeLista1al43
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This study analyzed the networked public that was emergent on Twitter based on analysis of the use of the hashtag #PaseDelista1al43 to protest the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014. As social media have expanded, ... -
Crossed-beam chemical reaction dynamics probed with universal and state resolved ion imaging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)The main goal of chemical reaction dynamics is to unravel the intimate motions of individual atoms during a chemical transformation. This information must generally be inferred from indirect macroscopic measurement. Very ... -
Dee-jay drop that deadbeat : hip-hop's remix of fatherhood narratives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This dissertation examines hip-hop fatherhood narratives from 2010-2015 influenced by drug addiction, mass incarceration, underground economies, trauma, and dysfunctional co-parenting. Explicitly, the paper explores how ... -
Democracy and the failure of liberalism? : globalization and the reemergence of Orientalist essentialism in Hindutva's construction of fundamentalist Hindu identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This dissertation demonstrates the emergent character of nationalism in conjunction with economic liberalism and global capitalism. It demonstrates how globalization and right wing fundamentalist nationalisms are mutually ... -
Disruptive soldiers : literary responses to the standing army controversy (1688-1846)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "The aim of this thesis is to provide a sustained consideration of literary engagements with the Standing Army Controversy in Britain and America from ... -
Do infants selectively imitate a transitive and an intransitive agent?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Previous research showed that in imitative learning, infants seemed to care about the reliability of the model marked by group membership or conventionality ... -
Don't show any sign of a chip in your armor : the communicative co-construction of mental health in correctional work
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This study examined the communicative construction of mental health in correctional work. Using narrative interviews with 25 current and former correctional officers, I explore how macro, meso, and micro D/discourses both ...