• The effect of various levels of yellow grease in pre-starter rations on performance of turkey poults 

  Johnson, Corey Alan (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  Nutritional intervention in the early growing poult can be a valuable strategy to decrease the stress experienced during the transition from endogenous yolk sac lipid reserves to an exogenous feed source. The objective of ...

• A case of documents in the cloud : what changes DocumentCloud brings to the practices of daily reporting 

  Kolgushev, Roman (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  This study explored the roles that journalists play in newsrooms in correlation with their use of the DocumentCloud platform. The results of this study indicate that DocumentCloud influences journalists’ routines and their ...

• Etiological teleosemantics and theories of nonconceptual content 

  Swerling, David (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Within the philosophy of mind, discourse regarding the relation between human thought and its objects refers to ‘intentional content’, the information ...

• A temporal analysis system for early detection of health changes 

  Shao, Jingyi (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  To make it possible for elders to live independently at home and yet get help from health care providers when small changes in health conditions take place, smart home technologies are developed to enhance safety and monitor ...

• The applied usage and modeling of activated carbon storage systems 

  Bick, Paul (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Storage of natural gas by adsorption or Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) has the potential to emerge as a viable option to relieve a major share of the ...

• Moving objects detection and labeling in surveillance videos 

  Zhu, Yizhe (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  Moving objects detection and labeling are an important component of intelligent surveillance systems. Accurate classification of moving objects allows the monitoring system to react to certain events of interest. In this ...

• Challenges and successes of African American males in the health professions 

  Stavropoulos, Kathy R. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  The present literature review examines the factors that contribute to the underrepresentation of African American men in the field of medicine in an attempt to underscore the need to increase their numbers in the health ...

• Transcriptome profiling of rattus norvegicus embryonic stem cells by RNA-sequencing 

  Johnson, Nathan Tyler (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs) are a critical tool for producing targeted knockout animals and understanding development. ESCs were successfully isolated from rats in 2008 and have been used in producing several targeted ...

• Investigation of portable nuclear power systems 

  O'Donnell, Eugene F. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Energy needs for modern society are an ever-changing and complex problem. One of the most diverse areas of energy needs is portable energy generation. ...

• Influence of residue management on soil chemical properties and nutrient flux in forests harvested for woody biomass 

  Schroeder, Ashley (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  Altered soil solution chemistry and nutrient flux within forests harvested for woody biomass may result from disturbance, slash removals, slash decomposition, and mineralization. Because of the potential adverse effects ...

• A Bayesian classification framework with label corrections 

  Yao, Qiuming (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  The use of unlabeled data is very important for regression and classification analysis in many cases. However, the data may have an extra layer of complexity with some wrongly labelled data points. The traditional ...

• To infinity and beyond: An exploration of the impacts of technological and economic changes on journalism 

  Siegelbaum, Sasu (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  The explosion of digital technologies, coupled with unfavorable economic conditions, has changed newspaper journalism in myriad ways. Converged online publications featuring photos, videos and graphics, which are assembled ...

• The influence of statistical and narrative evidence on consumer search for additional product information 

  Dellaquila, Mike (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  The purpose of this 2 X 2, between-subjects experiment is to use the model of Information Search Process (ISP) to test the effects of two common message features used in electronic word-of-mouth: statistical valence ...

• Exploring the effect of news message complexity on cognitive complexity and attitude extremity 

  Perryman, Mallory (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  This thesis explores how the number of perspectives presented in a news story influences cognitive complexity and attitude extremity. I hypothesized that a news message featuring more than two perspectives – a complex story ...

• El boxeador afrodescendiente entendido como "El Otro" en Los Golpes de la Esperanza de Alberto Salcedo Ramos 

  Cortés Martínez, Carlos A. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  En esta tesis de maestría analizo la manera en la que el periodista Alberto Salcedo Ramos representa a los boxeadores de ascendencia afro a través de su libro Los Golpes de la Esperanza. En este texto, exploro la posibilidad ...

• Microrna regulation of bursicon in drosophila melanogaster 

  Chen, Xi (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  Bursicon is a heterodimeric neuropeptide hormone composed of two cystine knot subunits, bursicon α (burs α) and its partner, bursicon β (burs β). In Drosophila melanogaster, the heterodimer regulates wing expansion and the ...

• Sn attenuation in the Northeast China 

  Yan, Qiyum (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

• Analysis and design of a hydraulic compaction machine to produce activated carbon pellets 

  Wankhede, Akshay (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

• Effective source separation algorithm using NMF and sparse NMF for acoustic fall detection 

  Wang, Yanlin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

• Exploring modifiers in spinal muscular atrophy : the power of AAV9 

  Ross, Jolill Erin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

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