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An analysis of undergraduate heavy-video-gaming students : developing technology–enhanced learning-support areas based on gaming and study practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Video-gaming has become a popular extracurricular option for students in higher education. More than 70 percent of undergraduate students reported they played video-games at some level, with heavy-video-gaming students ... -
Teacher collaboration and instructional program coherence across the transition to high school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This study explores to what extent principals perceive instructional program coherence (IPC) and vertical collaboration occur in high schools and their mid-level feeder schools. It also measures IPC and its five components' ... -
Interactions between neuroanatomy, cognition, and ecology in Anolis lizards
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The interactions between an organism and its environment are mediated by cognition, the substrates of which are in the brain. Cognition is ubiquitous across vertebrates, yet we still know very little about the factors ... -
Solidarity infrastructure : gender and race solidarity and cross-class coalitions in the Kansas City general strike of 1918
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This dissertation investigates alliances across gender, race, and class in the dynamics of working class solidarity. The analysis examines the geographically bounded organizational networks, community spatial organization, ... -
Weight stigma at a university : a study of policy, media, and student experiences with implications for improving weight-inclusivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Media images of and text concerning people who are overweight or obese frequently perpetuate weight stigma. Additionally, limited literature exists on policy and weight stigma. This qualitative study explored college student ... -
Teacher preparation impacts in regard to physiological stress of preservice educators within agricultural mechanics project construction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The purpose of this study was to identify how the differences in teacher preparation impact the physiological stress teachers and teaching quality students experience within the agricultural mechanics laboratory setting, ... -
Stochastic forms of functional isoperimetric inequalities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The Brunn-Minkowski and Prekopa-Leindler inequalities admit a variety of proofs that are inspired by convexity. Nevertheless, the former holds for compact sets and the latter for integrable functions, so it seems that ... -
First-principles investigation of transport and magnetism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Study of the quantum mechanical nature of a material provides invaluable understanding of its underlying mechanisms governing their fascinating novel properties. Density functional based first-principles methods provide ... -
Exploring rural administrator perspectives of the decline in science and math secondary education graduates from a regional public university in a Midwestern state over the last ten years : a case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)There has been a marked decline in the number of graduates from the secondary education science and math program at a regional public university in a Midwestern state over the last ten years. Using qualitative and quantitative ... -
Unpaved road detection using optimized log Gabor filter banks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The revised unpaved road detection system (RURD) is a novel method for detecting unpaved roads in an arid environment from color imagery collected by a forward-looking camera mounted on a moving platform. The objective is ... -
Does professional development for teachers impact student behavior utilizing class-wide function-related intervention teams?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Students who disrupt the classroom due to externalizing behaviors can impact all of these, but more importantly, these behaviors interrupt student learning. Due to these stressors, the purpose of this study was to explore ... -
Extracellular vesicles, lipids, and lipoproteins in early pregnant sheep
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)In sheep, pregnancy establishment encompasses conceptus elongation, implantation, and placentation. These events are regulated by factors present within the uterine luminal fluid (ULF) from the endometrial epithelium and ... -
Development and applications of novel nanostructured materials in water treatment : adsorption, filtration, and reaction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Nanomaterial-based adsorbents and photocatalysts have gained increasing attention in the applications of water and wastewaters treatment due to their attractive properties and strong adsorption capabilities for a wide range ... -
Internal crisis communication : the effects of negative employee-organization relationships and negative emotions on reputation and employees' unsupportive behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This study examines the role that negative employee-organization relationships (NEORs) play in determining crisis outcomes (organization's internal reputation and employees' unsupportive behavior). Moreover, the study aims ... -
Explainable data fusion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The recent resurgence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically in the context of applications like healthcare, security and defense, IoT, and other areas that have a big impact on human life, has led to a demand for ... -
Corridos en la guerra contra el narco : estéticas necropolíticas en México
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Narcoculture has been considered a phenomenon of socialization that exists in territories where drug trafficking has become politically, socially, economically and culturally influential. In Mexico, the phenomenon has an ... -
The relationship between athletic team fiscal expenditures on athletic and academic success for NCAA Division II football and basketball programs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Athletics at National Collegiate Athletic Association schools have played a major role in the educational experience of students, alumni, and surrounding communities since they were first introduced to college campuses. ... -
Spatiotemporal variation in Lake Sturgeon movement and habitat selection in Missouri river tributaries : implications for the management and recovery of populations at range margins
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Lake Sturgeon were nearly extirpated from Missouri by the 1970s leading the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) to list the species as endangered within the state. Recovery efforts commenced with the publication of ... -
The demise of guys : the flight of the American male from STEM
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This mixed methods research investigates the differences between high school males who pursue the PLTW Biomedical Science program and those males who do not. The study examines males in a rural Midwestern high school, ... -
Social innovation skills development in project-based capstone classes in civil engineering : a case study of the civil engineering program at the University of Missouri Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Engineering schools play a key role in developing students' skills to appeal to an increasingly socially responsible job market. To do so, engineering educators must teach future professionals "social innovation skills": ...