Browsing 2006 MU dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Semester "2006 Spring"
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Mechanisms of call recognition in three sympatric species of Neoconocephalus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) : asymmetrical interactions and evolutionary implications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Scientists have debated the hypothesis of reinforcement. Nevertheless, recent empirical and theoretical work have dispelled doubts about its existence. Reinforcement is most often studied by establishing one of its predicted ... -
The miniature room
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)This collection of original poems is entitled The Miniature Room, at least in part to reflect its attempt at mining even the smallest detail for a larger truth. The poems themselves, brief and lyric in nature, function as ... -
Missouri's hidden Civil War : financial conspiracy and the decline of the planter elite, 1861-1865
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)This dissertation explores a previously unknown Civil War financial conspiracy that backfired and caused a great deal of collateral damage among Missouri's pro-southern population. In 1861, a small group of pro-secession ... -
Mixed up in the making : Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, and the images of their movements
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Although his movement was a labor movement that targeted only a small portion of Mexican Americans, Cesar Chavez has often been compared to Martin Luther King, Jr., and has been portrayed as a civil rights leader on the ... -
Molecular and genetic studies of iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Iron is an essential element for plant survival. However, in excess, it is deleterious to the organism. In the present thesis we describe a functional genomic approach and a mutant screen directed towards increasing our ... -
The nature of talk in a kindergarten classroom : examining read aloud, guided reading, and literature discussion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)The purpose of this study was to determine the nature of talk that surrounds the literacy events of read aloud, guided reading, and literature discussion in an early childhood literacy program. This research describes how ... -
Parabolic layer potentials and initial boundary value problems in Lipschitz cylinders with data in Besov spaces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)We adapt the method of boundary layer potentials to the Poisson problem for the heat operator [partial differential]t [delta] in a bounded Lipschitz cylinder, with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. When the lateral ... -
Participation in tax deferred retirement programs in a defined benefit environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)The purpose of this study is to examine the major factors that influence employees' decisions regarding their levels of participation in employer sponsored tax-deferred retirement savings accounts (TDAs). At the broadest ... -
Penetration of innovation : taming the unexplored interactions between information, knowledge and persuasion in the innovation-decision model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Building upon Everett Roger's theory of Diffusion of Innovations, foraging into knowledge acquisition theories, and leaning heavily onto the new communication perspectives opened by New Media, the present study aims to ... -
Physical mechanisms of cell rearrangements: from tissue liquidity to artificial organ structures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)This research presents a study of biological self-assembly in which we create 3D living functional tissue structures by exploiting the self organizing capacity of cells and tissues. Tissues composed of adhesive and motile ... -
Potential theory and harmonic analysis methods for quasilinear and Hessian equations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)The existence problem is solved, and global pointwise estimates of solutions are obtained for quasilinear and Hessian equations of Lane-Emden type, including the following two model problems:-[delta]pu = uq + [mu], Fk[-u] ... -
Pricing to market when exchange rate changes and output level matters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)This dissertation clarifies the definition of Pricing to Market (PTM) and formalizes the definition. PTM in this paper focuses on the relative movements of prices in different markets, conditional on exchange rate movements. ... -
Privacy and senior adoption of assistive technology in residential care
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Within the next twenty years, there is a large increase anticipated in the segment of the population ages sixty five and older and a subsequent increase in demand on residential care facilities. With this expectation, ... -
Reference frames and equations of motion in the first PPN approximation of scaler-tensor and vector-tensor theories of gravity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Post-Newtonian relativistic theory of astronomical reference frames based on Einstein's general theory of relativity was adopted by the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in 2000. This theory is ... -
Rhizobacteria associated with glyphosate-resistant soybean (Glycine Max)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)The research was conducted to examine the impact of GR soybean treated with glyphosate on rhizobacterial activities involved in IAA production and soil C and N mineralization in different soil management systems; to determine ... -
The role of macrophages and anti-viral antibodies in West Nile virus pathogenesis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Since the introduction of West Nile virus into the United States in 1999, the virus has spread throughout the continental territory of the United States and it is suspected that the virus has moved present into Mexico and ... -
Role of Proa(2)I collagen chains and collagen crosslinking in thoracic aortic biochemical integrity during aging using the OIM mouse model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)The extracellular matrix (ECM) is an important constituent for a variety of tissues including vascular tissue in which the ECM maintains aortic wall integrity. An important component of vascular tissue ECM is type I collagen. ... -
Sellars and Socrates : an investigation of the Sellars problem for a Socratic epistemology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)The Sellars problem threatens the viability of epistemic foundationalism. Foundationalism claims that there are some beliefs whose justification does not depend upon other beliefs. Foundationalism is a popular, non-skeptical ... -
A series of in vitro studies investigating the role of lactoferrin in calf innate immunity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Neonatal calf mortality rates continue to impact the economic sustainability of the United States cattle industry. Based on data generated from the National Animal Health Monitoring System survey in 2001, 8.9 % of dairy ... -
Statistical thermodynamics for RNA structures with simple tertiary contacts and pseudoknots
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)In this thesis, we develop statistical mechanical models for the folding of simple RNA tertiary structures. The focus is on the calculation of the tertiary structure conformational entropy. The key idea of the method is ...