Browsing 2015 Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Semester "2015 Spring"
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Accessibility and inclusion in health professions education : perceptions and experiences of disabled college students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The number of disabled students enrolling in college is steadily increasing in the United States (U.S.). At the same time, there is a trend in this country of efforts to increase diversity and inclusion in postsecondary ... -
Aerosol evolution : explorations in DSMC and sectional techniques
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Understanding and improved modeling of aerosol evolution in nuclear reactor accidents is important in estimations of the nuclear source term as it is greatly affected by the formation and presence of aerosols in the reactor ... -
After sales services for repairable parts with service level agreements
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)In this study, inventory systems for repairable-parts with service level consideration are studied. The first study develops a multi-parts inventory system and transportation decisions. A failed part might be repairable ... -
Age-dependent branching processes and applications to the Luria-Delbrck experiment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Microbial populations adapt to their environment by acquiring advantageous mutations, but in the early twentieth century, questions about how these organisms acquire mutations arose. The experiment of Salvador Luria and ... -
Agriculture during the Reagan years
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The Farm Crisis of the 1980s occurred during the Reagan Presidency. To date virtually nothing has been written concerning the approach taken by the Reagan administration to combat the crisis. To fill that gap, this study ... -
Analysis of host-pathogen interactions via clustering, statistical analysis, and data visualization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Infectious diseases are caused by a variety of agents: viruses, bacteria, parasites, or even proteins. Using existing state-of-the-art methods and tools I developed myself, I studied aspects of infectious agents. To find ... -
And the wood doll arose and told, I'm a real
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "Sphinx Eyes Antiphon," one of the poems in my collection, And the Wood Doll Arose and Told, I'm a Real, refers to a blank or unreciprocal social gaze. ... -
Application of real-time PCR for detection of antibiotic resistant pathogens and Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Salmonella and Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are among the most important food pathogens. Increasing use of antibiotics for treatment and as a therapeutic agent on food animals has been proposed as a reason ... -
Arsenic for potential diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Targeted agents hold promise for non-invasive in vivo imaging, therapy, and monitoring of diseases. Foundational work focused on imaging and therapy of cancer has centered primarily on the use of 18F, 90Y, 99mTc, and 131I ... -
A ballooned beta-logistic model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The beta distribution is a simple and flexible model in which responses are naturally confined to the finite interval (0,1). Its parameters can be related to covariates such as dose and gender through a regression model. ... -
Becoming subjectivities : academic women in art education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This article-style dissertation disrupts the status quo of academic research by exploring the subjectivity of women art educators across time. The researcher investigates subjectivity, as an evolution of tensions, without ... -
Bodily difference, interdependence, and toxic half-lives : representations of disability in D.W. Gregorys Dirty Pictures, The Good Daughter, and Radium Girls
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)People with disabilities have been a part of theatre for thousands of years. But typically they are represented as metaphors, where blindness or a limp symbolizes something about their character and has nothing to do with ... -
A case study of the cognitive apprenticeship model in leadership education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The cognitive apprenticeship model (CAM) has been examined for more than a quarter century as an instructional model from the perspectives of instructors. However, CAM is also a learning model. Remarkably little has been ... -
A case study of transformational leadership characteristics of a principal in a high poverty high achieving school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The purpose of this qualitative case study was to identify and examine the characteristics of effective leaders in high-poverty, high-achieving schools in a single school district. Within the context of this inquiry, ... -
The cellular immune response to murine lyme borreliosis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Lyme disease is caused by the bacterial spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. There are approximately 300,000 new cases of Lyme Disease reported in the United States each year. Individuals with Lyme disease often suffer from ... -
Changing the landscape of professional learning : a practitioner inquiry study of technology integration within literacy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Practitioner inquiry provided the framework for teachers (participants) and the teacher researcher to work collaboratively to discover how teachers learn about literacy technology integration, how they apply this in their ... -
College and career readiness : exploring rigor through relevance and its relationship with adolescent identity development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The purpose for this study was to examine the relationship between adolescent identity development, relevance, and rigor among high school students. The premise under investigation is rooted in the concept of building rigor ... -
College students' choice of informal learning spaces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The wide adoption of mobile technologies in education has made it possible to turn every common space in a higher education campus into a learning place. Libraries, student commons, lounges, or even corridors are all now ... -
Communication frames of hotel managers and their effects on job satisfaction, intent to leave, and job regret
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The hotel industry is plagued with turnover. This study uses Framing Theory to examine hotel turnover. This study consisted of two phases. Phase I used qualitative research methods to answer RQ1: What communication frames ... -
Compensation as the moral foundation of Jus Post Bellum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Given how much harm can be done after the fighting part of wars end, and given recent failures to secure lasting peace after conflicts (e.g. in Afghanistan and Iraq), developing an account of the conditions of a just peace, ...