Browsing 2007 MU dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Semester "2007 Summer"
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The (in)visibility of race, class, and gender : workers' standpoints on the transformation of Missouri's child welfare policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)This dissertation is an institutional ethnography of changes in Missouri's child welfare system after House Bill 1453. I demonstrate how child welfare policy is gendered, raced, and classed by examining practices, texts, ... -
Informing the theory of collective entrepreneurship: investment choice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Olson's seminal work on the logic of collective action predicts that individuals will not act collectively to further common economic goals except under certain conditions. This work utilizes transaction cost economics, ... -
Institutional effects on grain producer price-risk management behavior : a comparative study across the United States and South Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)This dissertation analyzes the impact of the surrounding agricultural marketing environment on grain producers' hedging decisions. This dissertation hypothesize that supports such as producer income supports and grain price ... -
The interplay of physical and molecular determinants in limb and cardiac cushion morphogenesis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)In an effort to investigate the interplay between molecular determinants and biomechanical properties during early embryonic development we have investigated two separate but similar morphogenetic processes: limb morphogenesis ... -
A justified system of intellectual property rights
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)I argue that weak type-protection is the form our legal intellectual property rights should take. Other intellectual property regimes - specifically, strong type-protection (like that of our current American patent system) ... -
Keeping your eyes on the prize versus your nose to the grindstone : the effects of level of goal evaluation on mood and motivation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Though higher level, primary goals provide meaning and direction for a person, evaluating progress on that primary goal versus a sub-goal is risky. Study 1 was a 2 x 2 experiment in which framing level (sub-goal or primary ... -
Like dancers following each other's steps : an analysis of lexical cues in student writing for differing audiences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)This empirical study examines the role of lexical priming in first-year college student writers' abilities to consider multiple audiences. The writing topic assigned to all 165 first-year students is identical except for ... -
Links between language, gesture, and motor skill : a longitudinal study of communication recovery in adults with Broca's aphasia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)In this study, a group of six adult men with post-stroke Broca's aphasia and a matched group of men with no neurological illness (NNI) completed an object description task in speech plus gesture, speech only, and gesture ... -
Maladaptation of cardiac and skeletal muscle in chronic disease : effects of exercise
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The human genome is adapted for daily physical activity (85). Thus, a sedentary lifestyle is capable of promoting detrimental consequences to human health. The linkage between lack of sufficient physical activity and the ... -
Mechanisms of adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase-induced preconditioning in ischemia/reperfusion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)We have previously demonstrated that consuming ethanol (ethanol preconditioning or EPC) at low levels 24 hrs prior to ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) prevents postischemic leukocyte-endothelial cell adhesive interactions (LEI) ... -
Modeling of molecular and particulate transport in dry spent nuclear fuel canisters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)There are two important phenomena associated with the depressurization of a dry spent nuclear fuel canister after the formation of a through-wall pinhole breach. The first phenomenon is the release from the canister of any ... -
Molecular dynamics simulations of pressure shocks in liquid phase nitromethane
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The dynamic energy transfer processes present in liquid nitromethane (NM) under pressure shock loading conditions have been investigated by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics methods using a previously developed, fully ... -
Nanoporous carbon from corn cobs and its application
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Chemical activation of corn cobs using phosphoric acid or potassium hydroxide can lead to nanoporous carbon having surface area in excess of 3800 m²/g and pore volume of 2.5cc/g. Dried, crushed, corn cobs were carbonized ... -
Non-cognitivism, internalism, and the Frege-Geach problem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)This dissertation is about the prospects for non-cognitivism. Chapter One provides some background and introduces the remaining chapters. Chapter Two focuses on the distinction between non-cognitivism about moral thought ... -
Nonlinear intersubband dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The intersubband (ISB) dynamics of conduction electrons in semiconductor quantum wells exhibits a variety of interesting and potentially useful nonlinear phenomena. In this work we present three different formalisms which ... -
Peer difficulties in children with epilepsy : association with medical, neuropsychological, academic, and behavioral factors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Children with epilepsy have more peer difficulties than do healthy children or children with other health conditions (i.e., asthma and diabetes). Few studies have investigated which variables relate to peer problems in ... -
Power in the garden : exploring the lives of Missouri farm women and their vegetable gardens during the Great Depression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Today, when fresh, canned, and frozen vegetables are plentiful and taken for granted, the home vegetable garden is regarded as something between a hobby and a luxury. But in the Great Depression of the 1930s, the household ... -
Predictive validity of the five-factor model profiles for antisocial and borderline personality disorders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The predictive validity of D. R. Lynam and T. A. Widiger's (2001) Five-Factor Model prototypes for antisocial and borderline personality disorders was examined over a period of 6 years in large community sample. Generally, ... -
Preschool piano methods and developmentally appropriate practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The purpose of this study was to analyze preschool piano method books and identify ways in which they were or were not consistent with guidelines of Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Childhood Programs (Bredekamp ... -
Principal and teacher beliefs and knowledge regarding grade retention : a case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)This study examined the beliefs and knowledge of principals and teachers in a selected Missouri public school district. One hundred and thirty-two teachers and nineteen principals participated in the study. The use of ...