2015 MU dissertations - Access restricted to UM: Recent submissions
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The role of myostatin deficiency in the development and biomechanical integrity of offspring bone
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a genetic bone disorder primarily caused by mutations to the genes for type I collagen, a major structural protein found in bone. There have been over 1,500 different mutations described ... -
Behavioral consequences of polyploidy in hyla chrysoscelis treefrogs : implications for speciation and underlying mechanisms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Polyploidy occurs when organisms have more than the typical two copies chromosome sets. Polyploidy has occurred many times throughout plant and vertebrate evolution, and recently in diverse families of frogs. Male treefrogs ... -
Stages of change, coparenting patterns, and post-divorce parent education programming : a pre-program assessment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Given concerns about the effect of divorce and interparental conflict on children, many judges now require divorcing/legally separating parents with ... -
Does the benchmark assessment tool show a significant directional correlation between professional development and student achievement : what effect does the level of implementation of PLCs in schools have on student achievement?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Educational researchers agree on a few aspects of educational reform. First, in order for reform to happen in schools, professional development (PD) ... -
Quantitative analysis of the relationship between factors of servant leadership, school culture and academic achievement in ten Missouri middle-level schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of the study was to explore and analyze the relationships among the factors of servant leadership, school culture, and student achievement ... -
Nuclear forensic applications of uranium oxide chemistry and morphology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The entire nuclear fuel cycle is a chemistry-intensive process, from accessing the raw materials from ore, to enriching and forming the fuels, to the ... -
An action research study of program implementation in a rural reservation school district
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This participant action research study was conducted to understand the implementation of digitized curriculum within the Red Lake School District. The ... -
Validation of radiation treatment planning with a pseudo-CT derived from MR images
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Historically CT has been the necessary for radiation therapy dose calculation due to its inherent density information. However there is increased ... -
Amorphous silicon germanium oxide (Si[sub]xGe[sub]yO[sub]1-x-y) thin films for uncooled infrared microbolometer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation presents a detailed characterization of amorphous Silicon Germanium Oxide (Si-Ge-O) thin films for uncooled infrared (IR) microbolometers. ... -
Inflammatory and cardiac response to end-stage pneumonic plague
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Yersinia pestis is the etiologic agent of pneumonic plague, a devastating disease in humans characterized by acute bronchopneumonia that is frequently ... -
The effects of stereotype threat on the associative memory deficit of older adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] One of the suggestions made in the literature regarding older adults' episodic memory decline is that it is caused by their reduced ability to bind ... -
The [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement of propargylic sulfonates to allenic sulfones and further applications to oxacycles and dihydrofuranones
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The scope of [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement of propargylic sulfinates to allenic sulfones by silver catalysis was expanded. A series of new propargylic ... -
Climate change in the Missouri central hardwood region : consequences for forest landscapes, and management strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Climate change may result in a change in the tree species present within forests. The Missouri Central Hardwood Region represents one area where these ... -
Changes in properties of lamprey reticulospinal neurons following spinal cord injury
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The lamprey is one of the most ancient vertebrates, sharing many of basic characteristics of the brain and spinal cord with higher, more evolved ... -
Partially informative normal and partial spline models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] There is a well-known Bayesian interpretation of function estimation by spline smoothing using a limit of proper normal priors. This limiting prior ... -
Influences of subjective social status, control and perfectionism on international students' cross-cultural transition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examined the influences of subjective social status, sense of control, and perfectionistic discrepancy on career development outcomes and ... -
Hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes : impact on neural cardiovascular control
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is often characterized by chronic hypertension and exaggerated increases in arterial blood pressure (BP) during exercise. However, ... -
Strategies for tailored messages : interaction of personal value orientation and freedom threat for chronic diseases management and behavior changes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of the overall study was to explore more effective ways of creating tailored health messages for technology-based interventions in order ... -
Device-level composition in ReWire
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] ReWire provides engineers with a tool to specify, verify and implement hardware devices for FPGAs from a high-level Haskell-like language. Previous ... -
Simulation aided analysis of polyurethane reaction systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Numerous reactions take place within a polyurethane polymerization process. Homogeneous and catalytic reactions occur at the same time and intermediate ...