Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-123). Also available on the Internet.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 19, 2010). Thesis advisor: Dr. Daniel Wescott. Includes bibliographical references.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 19, 2010). Thesis advisor: Dr. Dale R. Musser. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, 1997. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 290-292).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-134). Also available on the Internet.

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 17, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Thesis advisor: Dr. Catherine Rymph. Includes bibliographical references.

This dissertation works toward a history of the ideals and work of teachers of photography for mass media in American schools of journalism, 1880's - 990's. The dissertation examines teachers' efforts to construct curriculum designed to elevate press photography from a trade to a profession and to achieve respect for photography in the field and academy. The dissertation, using history research methods and ethnographic oral histories, contextualizes these efforts within the environment in which they were exercised: that of print journalism practitioners and teachers. The dissertation, exploring the development of photojournalism programs within the journalism programs at the Universities of Missouri and Texas, examines photography teachers' endeavors to integrate a mechanically based practice with the social science emphasis commensurate to a course of study within schools of journalism and liberal arts universities and balance these endeavors with industry expectations of professional schools. The dissertation reveals that photography teachers in journalism programs, although they struggled for legitimacy in ways similar to those of their print journalism predecessors, labored against a more enduring stigma, rooted in the early relationship of press photography to print journalism, of photography as a mechanically based, lesser intellectual endeavor. Although this stigma concerning photography was to some extent overcome through the efforts of teachers at Missouri and Texas, the dissertation concludes that issues of legitimacy for both print and visual journalism will likely continue for teachers in professional schools within the liberal arts university. Teachers will face the challenges of determining curriculum that is sufficiently malleable and relevant to contemporary industry requirements and that also provides the integration of journalism, technology and social science necessary for the education of print and visual journalists who desire to be, more than tradespeople, critically thinking citizens of a democratic society. / text

Lower Paleozoic strata in southeastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri and northern Oklahoma are predominantly marine carbonates that comprise portions of three regional flow systems. Groundwaters in these three adjacent systems exhibit extreme chemical and isotopic variations that delineate large-scale fluid mixing processes and two distinct mechanisms for the generation of saline fluids. Hydrodynamic and geochemical data closely correlate with geographic location and indicate that each system contains waters of markedly different origins. Results of elemental and isotopic mass balance modeling demonstrate that fluid mixing processes exert a fundamental control on groundwater compositions over the 40,000 km² study area. This quantification of groundwater mixing provides an important basis for determining endmember water compositions and evaluating hydrologic models for these flow systems. The three endmember groundwaters are as follows. 1) Dilute modern-day meteoric waters of the Ozark Plateaus aquifer system, recharged to southern Missouri. The evolution of this groundwater is dominated by interaction with host limestone and dolomite aquifer rocks. 2) Eastward migrating, saline Na-Ca-Cl groundwaters from the northern part of the Western Interior Plains aquifer system in central Kansas. These groundwaters are of meteoric origin with distant recharge areas. Salinity is acquired via the subsurface dissolution of Permian halite and subsequent water-rock interaction with silicate minerals. The chemical signature of these groundwaters, coupled with the presence of brines resulting from the dissolution of Permian halite in central Kansas, allow development of a model for the formation of saline Na-Ca-Cl fluids, a common component of many sedimentary basins. Additionally, the large-scale topographically driven flow of the northern part of this aquifer system is a modem analog for models of similar ancient systems. 3) Na-Ca-Cl brines in north-central Oklahoma. In contrast to the other saline endmember, the geochemical signature of endmember 3 groundwater, integrated with hydrogeologic data, indicate that this groundwater may represent a marine-derived brine from the deep Anadarko Basin. / text

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Toledo, 2007. / Typescript. "Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science in Biology." Bibliography: leaves 35-38.