Browsing 2022 MU Dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Semester "2022 Spring"
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Access to high-quality and effective teachers through a para-to-teacher grow your own program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)This study investigated how a Grow Your Own (GYO) paraprofessional-to-teacher program increased access to a workforce of teacher educators in the rural areas of southwest Missouri. The teacher shortage has been described ... -
Advances in medical infrared thermography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The association between illness and body temperature dates back to the beginnings of medicine. Over the last few years, infrared thermography has attracted increased attention in various medical applications due to ... -
An analysis of discipline disparities of Black and White students in Springfield public schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)In the existing literature, there is evidence of inequities in the use of exclusionary discipline, however, there is an absence of literature examining why this discrepancy exists in light of substantial efforts to address ... -
An analysis of financial aid offers and parent plus loan borrowing from 2015-2019 at Missouri, public four-year universities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The Parent PLUS loan covers the financial gap of a student's educational expenses after other forms of financial assistance. Depending on the unmet need, the PLUS loan amount borrowed can be tens of thousands of dollars ... -
And yet, they remain: a phenomenological study of career, female, primary-role advisors at four-year institutions in the Midwestern region of the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Numerous women spend their entire careers in academic advising though it is not clear whether women stay in these roles because they experience high levels of personal wellbeing and meaningfulness or because they experience ... -
Border pedagogy: how white teachers cross intellectual borders to enhance students' critical thinking skills in racially homogeneous, low poverty spaces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)This research addresses the challenges of engaging students in critical conversations about controversial topics in racially homogeneous settings. Data analysis from this qualitative, phenomenological study reveals how ... -
Boron-neutron-capture radiation treatment of polymers for application in laminated glass window interlayer material
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Critical infrastructure that is either vulnerable to attack or that is located within a high threat area will require increased protection. United States government facilities worldwide have seen ... -
The business imperative of newsroom diversity: how identities influence Indonesian women media leaders' perceptions and implementation of newsroom changes and innovation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)News organizations tend to preserve male-dominated organizational culture and have been historically oriented to serve the male reader market. This, however, stifles innovation and fails to respond to rapid changes in the ... -
Candidate emergence and the first party era, 1789-1816
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)My dissertation evaluates the development of candidate in the early republic, 1788-1816. The creation of nomination procedures to structure candidate emergence informs our understanding on the development of political ... -
Capturing the complexity: examining the effect of instructional intensity in the context of a response to intervention framework on learning outcomes for students with academic and behavioral needs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The main purpose of this study was to investigate quality instruction for students with academic and behavioral needs within RTI framework by examining the differential effects of various levels of instructional intensity, ... -
A case study of teen leadership development within a 4-H camp counselor experience
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Utilizing teens as camp counselors for overnight camping is common within Missouri 4-H. It is also an experience that is often described as providing teens an opportunity to develop leadership skills. The purpose of this ... -
Celsr1 suppresses WNT5A-mediated chemoattraction to prevent incorrect rostral migration of facial branchiomotor neurons
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)As the nervous system develops, neurons often migrate from where they originate to their functional locations prior to them contributing to the circuits that drive cognitive and motor function. Within the vertebrate ... -
Communicating reform: apologies and policy implementation for policing's history
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Governments sometimes apologize for their mistakes but apologizing for mistakes does not always impart legitimacy on governments. Policing's history in the United States creates the context through which policing is ... -
Computational studies of gases adsorbed on graphene-like materials
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Nanoporous activated carbons generate interest for their gas storage and separation potential. Generally, adsorbents are assumed rigid, even though they are formed by feeble quasi-2D flakes of graphene. In 2019, Schaeperkoetter ... -
The conditions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The critical introduction to this dissertation examines Jericho Brown's 2019 Pulitzer Prize winning collection The Tradition as a work of eco-justice poetry. In this essay, I argue that the tenets of eco-justice poetics ... -
Coulomb explosions dynamics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Chemical reaction dynamics studies emerged with the advent of quantum mechanical theories in 1920s which have the capability of predicting the atomic motions by calculating potential energy surfaces. Experimental studies ... -
Data combining using mixtures of g-priors with application on county-level female breast cancer prevalence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)As more and more data are available, data synthesis has become an indispensable task for researchers. From a Bayesian perspective, this dissertation includes three related projects and aims at quantifying the benefits of ... -
Deep learning methods for 360 monocular depth estimation and point cloud semantic segmentation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Monocular depth estimation and point cloud segmentation are essential tasks for 3D scene understanding in computer vision. Depth estimation for omnidirectional images is challenging due to the spherical distortion issue ... -
Degradation and transport of veterinary antibiotics and estrogens in a vegetated buffer strip system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Knowledge of veterinary antibiotic (VA) and estrogenic hormone persistence in soil is critical to understanding environmental risks associated with these potential contaminants. Understanding sorption and transport of the ... -
Democracy beyond hard news: cultural journalism and the humanistic role
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)This project makes the case that a new humanistic role should exist alongside the previously established monitorial, facilitative, radical, and collaborative journalistic roles outlined by Christians et al. (2009). Normative ...