RSS 1.01970-1979 Dissertations (MU)
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Background and applications of the honor code in Dryden's four Spanish-oriented heroic plays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)The treatment of honor in John Dryden’s four Spanish oriented heroic plays--The Indian Queen, The Indian Emperour, and both parts of The Conquest of Granada--follows dramatic patterns conspicuously parallel to those in ... -
A vertical coordination analysis of meat distribution in the food service industry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1979)The market channel for meat, after the packer stage, is divided into two basic alternate channels or segments. Of these two market channels, the largest consists of those meat products distributed for sale in retail grocery ... -
Isolation and characterization of Streptococcus uberis of bovine mastitis origin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1970)"Thin, watery, large mucoid colonies on blood agar plates, gram variable cocci in long chains, inability to grow in common laboratory media--these were among the un usual observations made in May, 1968 in the investigation ... -
The ambiguity of ideology and administrative reform
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1975)"The central question of this study is whether social and administrative reform has an essentially different character in developing as compared to developed nations. For example, if reform, in developing countries is ... -
A review and reappraisal of speculative limit establishment procedures as applied to the Chicago Board of Trade wheat, corn, and soybean markets under non-crisis conditions
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1973)This study was undertaken to review and reappraise the regulatory rationale applied in the establishment of speculative trading and position limits by the Commodity Exchange Authority of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. ... -
Technology and climatic effects in aggregate production functions
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1977)"Purpose of the Study: The justification for this study rests upon the last of the problems noted in the previous section. The primary purpose is to deal with the weather-technology problem in the agricultural production ... -
Employment factors and characteristics of women graduates of rural community colleges
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1979)The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether or not the effects of employment characteristics and factors on women associate of science degree graduates from two rural community colleges. The research hypothesis of ... -
The image of the house in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1974)Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes the image of the house in relation to a number of the thematic issues that are central to his work. The larger theme connected with the house is the search for home, but the search is a com ... -
The meaning of structure in chaucerian narrative
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1979)In its larger design, this dissertation investigates the models of narrative brought forth to explain the alterity of medieval narrative and then advances its own. The characteristic in particular which has made medieval ... -
Biosystematics of Lupinus lepidus-L. caespitosus complex
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1972)"Over a score of literature reviews have been made of the genus Lupinus attributing its introduction to Tournefort (1700, Institutions rei herbariae) and the epithet establishment to Linnaeus (Sp. Pl. 1753), although lupine ... -
Sources of the Old English Guthlac poems
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1976)"The tenth century manuscript collection of Old English poetry called the Exeter Book preserves two Old English poems on the Anglo-Saxon saint, Guthlac. The poems are the fourth and fifth items in the collection, following ... -
Cost-benefit analysis of vocational-technical education programs in Missouri junior colleges
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1972)Objectives of the Study: The major purposes of this study were: (1) to ascertain the per student cost of two-years of junior college vocational-technical education, (2) to determine the economic benefits of the students ... -
Miranda and the police : the impact of the Miranda decision in medium size Missouri cities
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1973)The United States Supreme Court ruled in Miranda V. Arizona that persons questioned by the police, if they are in any significant way deprived of their freedom of movement, must be warned that they have a right to remain ... -
Some socio-economic considerations in the Bedouins' agricultural settlement (an example from Libya)
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1977)Agricultural settlement is one important policy goal adopted in Libya, and many other developing countries in Africa and the Middle East, to improve the level of living in rural areas. These countries share several general ... -
The effects of coal related development on communities in the Mendota region
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1978)Coal related development has been experienced by the two county Mendota coal region of northern Missouri during the 1970's. Coal surface mining has increased until nearly one million tons were mined in 1977. A coal ... -
Condensation heat transfer on a rotating cylinder
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1973)"The mechanism of the vapor condensation on a cold surface was first mathematically formulated by Nusselt in 1916. Though many modifications of Nusselt's formulation have been introduced by other scientists later (see ... -
Evaluation of natural fermentation and germination to improve the nutritive value of cereal grains
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1978)Natural fermentation was used to improve the nutritional quality of cereal grains. Three lots each of soft wheat, three lots of dent corn and one variety each of barley, oats, millet and rice were ground and separately ... -
Phenomenological criticism : an analysis and an application to the fiction of John Updike
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1975)Although phenomenological criticism of literature varies in its appearance, it is all based upon the seminal studies in phenomenology of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938). The value of Husserl's phenomenology to literary criticism ... -
An introduction to the short fiction of H. E. Bates
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1978)This dissertation offers an extensive introduction to the short fiction of H. E. Bates, a writer whose short stories and novellas have been praised as some of the finest produced by a British author in the twentieth century. ... -
Sino-Indian war of 1962 : a framework and case study of international conflict resolution
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1972)Since time immemorial history has recorded man's efforts to avoid war and maintain peace. War is defined as, "a violent contact of distinct but similar entities." Attempt after attempt has been made to end or limit wars, ...