Browsing 2020 MU dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Semester "2020 Spring"
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Adaptive apparel advocacy : a case study exploring how Mindy Scheier catalyzed the adaptive apparel market
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The purpose of this study is to gain an in-depth, holistic, and contextualized understanding of how Mindy Scheier catalyzed the adaptive apparel market by exploring her role as an adaptive apparel advocate and her collaboration ... -
Advocacy and accountability in school counseling : assessing the use of data as related to professional self-efficacy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)School counselors are uniquely trained and positioned within schools to use data for the purpose of addressing opportunity and achievement gaps present in many schools. Even with this position, the literature for school ... -
Animals in ancient Greek warfare : a study of the elephant, camel, and dog
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)My dissertation asserts that the study of animals is integral to the thorough understanding of the ancient military landscape, and three animals in particular warrant particular attention: the elephant, camel, and dog. I ... -
Antigone in Ferguson : the experience of seven members of the democratic chorus in a social justice musical production
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate the experiences of seven of the auditioned chorus members in the five-week run of Antigone in Ferguson at the Off-Broadway theater, Harlem Stage in Harlem, New ... -
Assessment and diversity of fish communities in non-wadeable tributaries of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)As the geographical centers of riverscapes, rivers support fish populations at local and basin-wide scales. However, refinements to fish sampling protocols and theories underpinning basin-wide community ecology have been ... -
Authoritarian successor parties and political protest in Asia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)How does an authoritarian successor party (ASP) interact with civil society in East and Southeast Asia? Does an ASP's control over the executive and legislature increase or decrease protest movements? Do ASPs effectively ... -
Before the singing : the journey of an artistic director
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Reflective practices and teacher leadership development can be meaningful and integral components of music teacher education. The purpose of this study was to examine the professional journey and reflective practices of ... -
Big ideas in little boxes : nation building in three nineteenth-century American parlor games by Milton Bradley and Company
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Milton Bradley and Company manufactured its first game, The Checkered Game of Life, in 1860, only months before the American Civil War broke out. Soon after, it produced the Myriopticon A Historical Panorama of the Rebellion, ... -
Biological responses of ligament and tendon graft-derived fibroblasts to clinical levels of cyclic strain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) is one of the major ligaments in the knee. ACL injury is the partial or complete tear of the ACL usually as a consequence of a traumatic sports related injury. ACL injury commonly affects ... -
Biomimetic reactions relevant to the study of abasic sites in DNA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Abasic (Ap) sites represent the most common form of DNA damage in mammalian cells. With steady state levels of 10,000 sites existing in each cell, there is a dire need to study these noxious biological electrophiles. While ... -
Birth order and gender : differential parental investment in Medieval England and France in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)This dissertation addresses the question: will parents invest differently in their children based on gender and birth order? Using parental investment theory and four major sets of outcome variables--child survival, parental ... -
Bridging biochemical activities with conformational dynamics observed in atomic force microscopy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)This dissertation was written with the intention to provide future investigators with general information sufficient to start their own investigations in biological atomic force microscopy. It is noted that background ... -
Challenges and opportunities in diabetes self-management education and support : the analyses of diabetes mobile applications and provider documentation patterns
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Diabetes mellitus is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in the United States. As a disease with long-term complications requiring changes in management, diabetes requires not only education at the time of diagnosis, ... -
Characterizing a model of early human placenta
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)In the few weeks following fertilization of a human ovum, there is little known about the events of early human development. What we do know we've learned from a few collections of fixed sections of implantation sites ... -
Citizenship goes to the dogs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The conclusion I defend is that "domestic animals" have a moral claim to what I refer to as "basic citizenship rights," and that they do so for the same reason that "non-autonomous humans" do. I define each of these key ... -
Combining shamir and additive secret sharing to improve efficiency of SMC primitives against malicious adversaries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Secure multi-party computation provides a wide array of protocols for mutually distrustful parties be able to securely evaluate functions of private inputs. Within recent years, many such protocols have been proposed ... -
Comparative study of Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 and type 2 single and dual infections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) type 1 and type 2 are two related lentiviruses that have strikingly divergent features in terms of transmission rates, distribution, pathogenesis, and clinical outcomes. In places where ... -
Computational protein structure prediction using deep learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Protein structure prediction is of great importance in bioinformatics and computational biology. Over the past 30 years, many machine learning methods have been developed for this problem in homology-based and ab-initio ... -
Core values driving sustained elite performance cultures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Organizational culture within sport has an important influence on the performance and well-being of the group and individuals. Often, cultural descriptions are based on teams' results (e.g., winning teams have strong ... -
Cover crop and rotation intensity effects on soil health and yield in corn-soybean cropping systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)In the Midwest, corn-soybean [Glycine max (L). Merrill] is the dominant biennial cropping system, which covers approximately 75% of the arable land surface (Hatfield et al., 2007; Plourde et al., 2013). The growing demand ...