Browsing 2013 MU dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Semester "2013 Summer"
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Factors affecting abundance, physiology, and fine-scale genetic differentiation of the western slimy salamander (Plethodon albagula)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Inferring process from pattern can be a challenging undertaking when dealing with ecological complexity. The distribution and abundance of organisms on the landscape is often interpreted through the lens of competition, ... -
Frames and projections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)In this dissertation we explore several ways in which the concept of projections arise infinite frame theory. In the first chapter we show that the Paulsen problem from frame theory is equivalent to a long standing open ... -
Genetic and environmental influences on impulsivity and coping motives for alcohol across emerging and young adulthood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Variation in the gene encoding the dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) may moderate the influence of environments (i.e., a gene-environment interaction, GXE) on personality traits and motives associated with alcohol use disorders. ... -
Hierarchical nonlinear, multivariate, and spatially-dependent time-frequency functional methods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Notions of time and frequency are important constituents of most scientific inquiries, providing complimentary information. In an era of "big data," methodology for analyzing functional and/or image data is increasingly ... -
High school physical education and sport participation: impact on young adult physical activity behaviors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The link between High School Physical Education and High School Sport participation and subsequent young adult physical activity habits was explored in this study. There is evidence that activity behaviors track from ... -
Informatic approaches to evolutionary systems biology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The sheer complexity of evolutionary systems biology requires us to develop more sophisticated tools for analysis, as well as more probing and biologically relevant representations of the data. My research has focused on ... -
Internalizing symptoms and friendships in adolescence: considering the role of interpersonal behavior in rejection and contagion effects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The present research considered associations among internalizing symptoms, interpersonal behaviors, and friendship adjustment in a sample of 642 seventh and tenth graders. Effects of youths’ internalizing symptoms on ... -
Investigating an adaptive radiation in temperate Neoconocephalus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Evolution of communication system is seemingly complex requiring coevolution between sender and receiver mechanisms. Studying acoustic communication in the katydid genus Neoconocephalus (coneheaded katydids), I compare ... -
Investigation of plasmaion vapor deposition (IVD) hybrid coatings for corrosion protection and plasma destruction of oral bacteria
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This dissertation reports the research results obtained in investigating low pressure plasma coatings for corrosion protection of aluminum ion vapor deposition (IVD) coated high-strength steels and in studying atmospheric ... -
It's not easy being green: veto players, climate policy adoption, and outcomes in OECD states
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)How do political institutions shape the adoption of climate policy? Related to the policies themselves, does their cost structure and degree to which they depart from the status quo affect adoption? Finally, how effective ... -
Learning trajectories related to bivariate data in contemporary high school mathematics textbook series in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Bivariate relationships play a critical role in school statistics, and textbooks are significant in determining student learning. In recent years, researchers have emphasized the importance of learning trajectories (LTs) ... -
Limit of many molecules dynamics with rigorous macroscopic results
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The thesis builds on recent ideas that combine work by C.B. Morrey (1955) and D.W. Jepsen & D. ter Haar (1962) with more recent analytic techniques: measure disintegration, PDEs for measures, etc. (M.I. Vishik & A.V. ... -
Load and resistance factor design of drilled shafts at the service limit state
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)A practical and efficient procedure for evaluation of drilled shafts at the service limit state is proposed. The procedure uses Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) concepts to achieve target probabilities of failure ... -
Making space for critical race theory within therapeutic settings :
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The U.S. is transforming into a multi-racial and multi-ethnic society in which factors such as race and ethnicity are important variables to consider in professional practice and service provision to racial and ethnic ... -
Measuring perceived self-efficacy of teachers' comprehensive response to youth suicide
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This study aimed to develop a high quality measure to gauge secondary teachers' self-efficacy to comprehensively respond to youth suicide and evaluate its psychometric properties and determine its relationship to teachers' ... -
Motor neuron output in the crustacean cardiac ganglion is organized and maintained by homeostatic conductance relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Generating appropriate and functional neuronal output is a matter of fundamental importance to nervous systems across species and phyla. Potential perturbations to a neurons intrinsic excitability alone include Hebbian ... -
Neutron scattering studies of yttrium doped rare-earth hexagonal multiferroics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Multiferroics are set of materials that exhibit both magnetic (ferro or antiferromagnetic) and ferroelectric order. Our studies focused on hexagonal RMnO3 (R = Ho, Y, Dy and Er), where strong coupling has been observed in ... -
Order in the marketplace : commercial organizations in antebellum St Louis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This dissertation is a study of how merchants in St. Louis worked to bring order to their commercial lives in the years between the Panic of 1819, the nation's first major economic depression, and the Panic of 1857, another ... -
Plasticity in lateral amygdala after Pavlovian fear conditioning-a computational study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)One of the main contributions of the dissertation is an explanation of how and why certain neurons are recruited into a memory trace. For this, we developed a biophysical model of the rodent lateral amygdala (LA) and then ... -
Poor media, rich democracy : how economics and technology affect construction of news processes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The journalism industry currently resides in a state of perpetual change, with technology and economics affecting both how journalists produce news and what news looks like when consumed. This ethnography examines the news ...