Browsing 2019 MU theses - Freely available online by Thesis Semester "2019 Spring"
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Growth, performance and quality attributes of steers supplemented with high oleic soybean oil
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Growing concerns with saturated fatty acids on human health has led to research being done to reduce saturated fatty acid levels in animal tissues. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of high oleic soybean ... -
Indicators of journalistic role performance on Last Week Tonight
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)The purpose of this study was to analyze how John Oliver, the television host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, adopts journalistic role performance throughout the long-form segments of his program. Last Week Tonight, a satirical ... -
Information and communication technologies : applications and benefits for second language acquisition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)This paper aims to show how the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can help students achieve a higher degree of proficiency in a second language (SL), using these resources autonomously. Furthermore, I ... -
Integrated regional enstrophy and its correlation with regime transitions in the Northern Hemisphere
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Integrated regional enstrophy (IRE) is the enstrophy integrated over a portion of the globe at a specific level in the atmosphere. Previous work has shown this quantity is correlated to the positive Lyapunov Exponent for ... -
Investigations of the forage nutritive value of common weeds encountered in Missouri pastures and their relationships with soil fertility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)During the 2015, 2016, and 2017 growing seasons, a survey of 63 pastures in Missouri was conducted to determine the effects of selected soil and forage parameters on the density of common annual, biennial, and perennial ... -
Is breastfeeding related to maternal warmth and acceptance among Saudi mothers?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)The majority of studies that explored the benefits of breastfeeding for mothers focused on the health benefits. Yet, this study among the first to consider the possible effect of breastfeeding on maternal caregiving behavior, ... -
"Life is harder" : the perceived impact of a newspaper closure on community members
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)This study presents findings from 18 in-depth interviews with residents of a recent news desert and offers a systematic qualitative investigation of the perceived impact of a newspaper's closure on community members' ... -
Magnitude of STING Signaling Determines CD8 T cell Memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Memory CD8+ T cells are critical for long-term protection against intracellular pathogens and tumors. STING signals enable the transcription of pro-inflammatory molecules, such as type I IFNs, in response to nucleic acids ... -
Marginalized memories : Lafayette, American others, and revolution's legacy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)In American history, the Marquis de Lafayette is predominantly remembered for his military service in the Revolution, his lifelong friendship with the Founders, and his triumphal farewell tour of the United States from ... -
Methods of imaging articular cartilage under shear
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Characterizing both the structure of articular cartilage, and its biomechanical properties is key to gaining a full understanding of how the tissue functions. Articular cartilage is an inhomogeneous tissue with a depth ... -
The million dollar question : a quantitative analysis of audience uses and gratifications in digital magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)This study examines the audience engagement of millennial digital magazine readers through a perspective of uses and gratifications theory. A survey was distributed to 175 college students to discover why digital magazine ... -
Musica Universalis : the pursuit of pure abstraction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)The thesis exhibition, Musica Universalis, is a multi-sensory exhibition comprised of experimental weavings on deconstructed found pianos, systematic drawings, and paper scroll music boxes. The music boxes allow the viewer ... -
The perceived role of Twitter in young adults' political participation during the 2018 midterm elections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)This study explores the relationship between young adults' use of Twitter and their political participation during the 2018 midterm elections. While contributing to previous literature, this study aims to extend research ... -
Picturing race in local newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)The American news media has been criticized for failing to accurately reflect the country's racial diversity. Previous research has found that large broadcast and print news outlets overrepresent the White population, while ... -
Pixel level pavement crack detection using deep convolutional neural network with residual blocks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Road condition monitoring, such as surface defects and pavement cracks detection, is an important task in road management. Automated road surface defect detection is also a challenging problem in computer vision and machine ... -
PRO3DCNN : convolutional neural network for mapping protein structure into folds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Motivation: SCOPe 2.07 is a dataset of 276,231 protein domains that have been partitioned into varying folds according to their shape and function. Since a protein's fold reveals valuable information about it's shape and ... -
Region based object detectors for recognizing birds in aerial images
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)This project explores different types of deep neural networks (DNNs) for recognizing birds in aerial images based on real data provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation. The pipeline to identify birds from an ... -
Removal of hexavalent chromium and sulfamethazine by green zero valent iron nanoparticles (NZVI)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)A green and low-cost method for nZVI fabrication was developed in this thesis using FeCl3 as the source of iron and yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) extract as the reductant. The extract showed an impressive high content ... -
Seasonal fish community and reproductive biology of fishes in two tributaries of the lower Missouri River, USA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Tributaries provide important habitats for spawning, rearing and feeding of fish in connected river systems. Regulation of rivers may alter the fish communities and environmental variables triggering fish use. Habitat ... -
Shock tube experimentation utilizing advance diagnostics for the study of an impulsively accelerated multiphase cylinder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Shock driven multiphase instabilities (SDMI) are unique physical phenomena that have far-reaching practical applications in engineering and science. The instability is present in high-energy explosions, scramjet combustors, ...