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Effects of McDonalds on younger Chinese generation's lives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, Rhetoric and Composition Program, 2014)
In 1990, when McDonalds was first introduced to China, fast food restaurants from western countries were not widely accepted in China. In fact, many Chinese had never heard about the typical menu such as French fries and ...
Social and environmental impacts of big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) logging on Peruvian indigenous communities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Big-leaf Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) is the neo-tropic's most valuable hardwood but it continues to experience rapid and in many cases irreversible depletion throughout its range. In Latin America, unsustainable ...
Care for life? : The failing system of nursing home care in the United States
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2014)
The phrase "respect your elders" is ingrained in most minds at a young age. This phrase, however, has been lost somewhere. A lack of respect for the elderly is especially present in the quality of health care they receive. ...
Utilizing and experimental and computational approach to ligand design for chelating oxorhenium(V) and oxotechnetium(V)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Drugs that contain radioactive atoms for either imaging or therapy are considered radiopharmaceuticals. Targeted radiotherapy, delivering the radiopharmaceutical via intra venous injection to localize in a specific (cancerous) ...
Traditional kinship structures and European-derived diseases at Mission San Diego, California : a study of the 1805-1806 measles epidemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
European diseases were a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in Native American communities after contact with any European colonizers. Studies of Native Californian communities have documented the effects of ...
Scriptorium: Poems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Scriptorium is a book-length collection of poetry that wrestles with religious subjects, with its core questions being about religious authority. The ...
Room temperature methane and hydrogen adsorption studies on high-surface-area nanoporous carbon monoliths
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
County road 23 /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is composed of a critical introduction and a creative manuscript. The critical introduction "Deindustrial Half-life: Decayed Whiteness ...
The Women's Cultural and Social Society (WCSS) : Its role in shaping women's political participation in Kuwait (1963-2010)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Feminism and women's rights movements are often seen as concepts and activities that originated within the West. As it is important to examine sociological concepts where they occur, this study reviews these concepts within ...
The index of craft : an essay in conjunction with the MFA Thesis Exhibition Contrast : Containing Clarity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This thesis paper supports the Master of Fine Arts exhibition at the George Caleb Bingham Gallery, The University of Missouri-Columbia, from April 28th through May 2nd, 2014. The exhibition, Contrast: Containing Clarity, ...
Partitioning detectability components in populations subject to within-season temporary emigration using binomial mixture models
(2014)
Detectability of individual animals is highly variable and nearly always < 1; imperfect detection must be accounted for to reliably estimate population sizes and trends. Hierarchical models can simultaneously estimate ...
Katrina's other disaster : examining second disaster literature and placing post-Katrina New Orleans
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This thesis examines the literary treatment of the time period following major natural and manmade disasters known as the "second disaster," which this ...
The social complexity of woman and child valuation in rural Bangladesh
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is about the lives of women and girls during a period of economic and demographic change in rural Bangladesh. This bulk of this change, ...
Loss of afferent input alters voltage gated ion channel and neuromodulator receptor expression in crustacean and mammalian neurons
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Neural networks need to generate appropriate output regardless of external stimuli, to ensure survival of the organism. We utilize the crustacean ...
Putting the pulp in pulp fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, Rhetoric and Composition Program, 2014)
Between interlocking story lines and black humor, few films have gained such universal critical acclaim (without winning Best Picture) as Quentin Tarantino's 1994 mob masterpiece Pulp Fiction. Dominated by brilliant dialogue, ...
Intersections of genre and mode : authenticity, fragility, and identification in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1800)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The Daevas in Zoroastrian scripture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Role of Li and B bearing fluids in crystallization and alteration of granitic pegmatites, San Diego, California
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The San Diego County pegmatites occur in the Mesozoic Peninsular Ranges Batholith that stretches from southwestern California to Baja California, Mexico. These zoned, lithium-cesium-tantalum type pegmatite dikes intruded ...
Variation and fractionation of lithium isotopes within single tourmaline crystals in the pegmatites of the Black Hills, SD
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Extremely large elongated crystals, attributed to low nucleation rates and rapid growth during fast cooling (Nabelek et al., 2010), are just one example of the intriguing and unusual disequilibrium features found in granitic ...
Masquerade : self-presentation and self-awareness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Using portrait images of me from online, acrylic paints, clear Plexiglas and animated graphic interchange format, this creative project focuses on the vigilant awareness of self-presentation. My work is a critical view of ...