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Toward a new critical materialist rhetorical methodology : ideographic tracking of family values from eugenics to neoliberalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Tracing <family values> as a central ideograph, this study offers a methodological innovation that engages both material/nonhuman and symbolic/human ...
Innovative design of metamaterial structures for elastic wave absorption and structural vibration suppression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation presents the design procedures, the modeling techniques and the working mechanism of metamaterial structures for wide-band elastic ...
Mentoring expectation congruency, interaction, and psychosocial support in Missouri's agriculture teacher mentor program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this study was to describe the relationship between mentoring Expectation Congruency, Scope of Interaction, and Psychosocial support ...
Experimentally exploring how the awareness of existential freedom influences support for autocratic leadership styles among individuals high and low in neuroticismExperimentally exploring how the awareness of existential freedom influences support for autocratic leadership styles among individuals high and low in neuroticism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The present dissertation builds on classic existential philosophy and psychological theory to suggest that personal freedom can be burdensome to the self and may, ironically, motivate people to displace their freedom to ...
Return to sender : epistolarity in Chaucer's Legend of good women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, the narrator adapts several tales from Ovid's Heroides and at the end of these tales points to letters that the ...
Federal employee satisfaction : factors influencing the perception of the public servant experience
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Previous scholarship has identified employee job satisfaction as an important driver in executing organizational objectives and satisfied employees are ...
Object detection and classification using shape feature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] We develop a set of methods to represent and detect shapes in images. We first develop new shape descriptors that are robust to deformation while being ...
A detection based sport player trackerA detection based sport player tracker
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Currently, the sliding windows framework dominates the object detection task for its good performance. But the computational cost of this approach is ...
Along a Mobius strip : a journey into postcolonial theory, decolonization, and social studies within Indigenous context
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Utilizing scholarship related to postcolonial theory, decolonization, and critical pedagogy, this dissertation sought to deconstruct the traditions of qualitative academic research to open spaces for critical dialogue about ...
Family matters : casework, manhood, and the Bureau for Homeless Men, St. Louis, 1925-1940
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This thesis examines the transformation of the system for relief for homeless men in St. Louis between 1925 and 1940 by a private welfare organization, the Bureau for Homeless Men. The transformations wrought by the Bureau ...
The Daevas in Zoroastrian scripture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
News framing of accountability systems after No Child Left Behind
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The evidence and impact of role conflict on copy editors who work at companies that produce newspapers and websitesThe evidence and impact of role conflict on copy editors who work at companies that produce newspapers and websites
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The newspaper industry has faced colossal shifts over the past several decades because of the Information Age and changing needs of readership. Copy editors have been among the most affected as the newsroom seeks to adapt. ...
Evaluation of the coat protein of the Tombusviridae as HR elicitor in Nicotiana sectionEvaluation of the coat protein of the Tombusviridae as HR elicitor in Nicotiana section
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Plants are able to recognize and respond to virus infection with a hypersensitive response, a plant defense response that triggers a cell death pathway and limits the viral infection to the infected leaf. We have previously ...
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 ...
Damage inspection of isotropic/multi-layer plates by time-frequency analysis of Lamb waves
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Tongue image difference detection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Microfabrication of variable range and multi-directionally sensitive thermal flow sensor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This investigation reports the design, computational simulation, fabrication and characterization of a variable range and multi-directionally sensitive ...
Un cajón vacío es inimaginable. efectos del poder y la censura en la cultura cubana del período de la revolución
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] En las páginas que siguen exploramos los efectos del poder en la cultura cubana del periodo de la Revolución y lo hacemos a través de las metáforas de ...
Toward the Celtic Tiger : integration and policymaking in Ireland's recent economic development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)