Browsing 2021 MU Theses - Freely available online by Thesis Semester "2021 Fall"
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Agroforestry adoption: influential factors, land manager perceptions, and willingness-to-accept payments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The various environmental, economic, and social benefits of agroforestry have long been touted, but adoption remains minimal on the world's agricultural landscape. A metaanalysis of 69 global agroforestry adoption studies ... -
The battle for the bonus: world war i veterans and the debate for adjusted-compensation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Following World War I, veterans returned home to a country that was reaping the economic benefits of mass producing for the war effort. It became apparent to those in Congress that some sort of compensation would need to ... -
Bias filtered: internalized racial oppression, experiences of racism, and well-being and authenticity among black americans
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Internalized racial oppression and experiences with prejudice correlate negatively with psychological well-being. Authenticity is a well-established contributor to well-being, yet research has not addressed how racial ... -
ClaimChain: secure Blockchain platform for handling insurance claims processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Insurance claims processing involves multi-domain entities and multi-source data, along with a number of human-agent interactions. Consequently, this processing is traditionally manually-intensive and time-consuming. ... -
Comparison of measured resistance for drilled shafts socketed in weak rock in Oklahoma to previously established SPT and TCP-based predictive design relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The design of drilled shafts socketed in shale and other weak rock is challenging for a multitude of reasons. Sites may be difficult to characterize because the materials may quickly degrade upon sampling. The materials ... -
Corn tissue nutrient response related to soil health and fertility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Nutrient uptake in corn (Zea mays L.) is influenced by many different factors which include properties of soil health. The push for increasing soil health has raised the question of how soil health and fertility measurements ... -
Cover crop effects on soil moisture dynamics & thermal properties
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The climate change induced weather uncertainty has increased the environmental extremes such as severe droughts and floods affecting volumetric soil moisture content (θ), thus food security. It also has increased the weather ... -
Dashboard design and usability study for geospatially enabled information seeking to assist pandemic response and resilience
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Counties in Missouri are primarily rural. Rural communities often consist of individuals with poor health, lower economic status, and lack of public health infrastructure. During the COVID- 19 pandemic, most research was ... -
Developing simulation to meet practice competencies at a coordinated program in dietetics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Dietetics programs have begun to incorporate simulations into curriculum in the last few decades. Simulations are replicated patient interactions that can use Standard Patients, which are trained human actors who role-play ... -
Direct laser scribed MoO2-based materials and their applications in bioelectronics and soft robotics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Overcoming the disadvantages of rigid traditional electronic materials, flexible epidermal electronics with soft, elastic and mechanically conformable characteristics are capturing wide attention. In order to meet the ... -
A discussion of covid-19 vaccine in relation with traditional chinese medicine belief on weibo
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Traditional Chinese medicine has been influencing Chinese people for thousands of years. Vaccine, as a means of western medicine, has been on the controversial side of traditional Chinese medicine. When it comes to disease, ... -
Does incidental mean indiscriminate? a study of incidental news consumption's effect on processing of claims in health news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Since the 2016 election, fake news has taken center stage in the American news landscape. The risk of fake news being widely disseminated and widely believed is a great fear for many, and this study addresses factors ... -
E-scooter simulator development and applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Although electric scooters have brought a lot of convenience to people's lives, the laws and regulations related to it are just being developed, and the number of people injured by electric scooters is increasing every ... -
Evaluating effects of neonicotinoid seed treatments and agroecosystem land management practices on solitary bees in Midwestern agroecosystems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Bees are declining due to multiple factors including habitat loss and non-target exposure to pesticides resulting from agricultural intensification. Solitary bees are often overlooked as important pollinators, but they are ... -
The factors behind the fake news label : why some people distrust news media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)News organizations across the country have struggled with the fake news labelling effect, meaning news one labels “fake” because one dislikes or disagrees with it, rather than the spread of misinformation itself, for a ... -
Fantasy theme divergence during covid-19 a fantasy theme analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)In an era of selective attention, media fragmentation, political polarization, and social media trolls, the communication landscape has never been more fraught with the potential for carefully crafted messages to take on ... -
Foundation design: presumptive vs. measured strength of the burlington limestone
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Much of the main campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia is underlain by Burlington limestone. When new structures are built on campus, often the foundations of the structure must be set into bedrock, as it provides ... -
How depictions of race and a magazine's mission have changed over time: a summative content analysis of cosmopolitan magazine covers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)In media imagery, women are often viewed as sexual objects rather than depicted as human beings, a term coined as the objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997). However, women are not a monolith and intersectional ... -
How distributed energy resources and dynamic pricing interact to modify residential electricity loads
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)In this paper, we develop a model to analyze the effects of different electricity pricing regimes on the consumption decisions of consumers with installed solar photovoltaic generation assets under different asset ... -
Identification of trends in racial/ethnic disparities of patients with diabtes mellitus using web-based tableau dashboard- a cross sectional study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Many ways of creating data visualizations using the Business Intelligence tools have been implemented and new ways are continuously evolving. In this project, I have used Tableau Public software to analyze the trends of ...