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The culture wars & political polarization in perspective : why polarization and its perturbations are a persistant [i.e., persistent] puzzle in political science
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Political polarization in the American electorate has received a great deal of attention in recent years with most of the research focusing on social issues and their impact on electoral outcomes. However, scant attention ...
Non-survey input-output models for Missouri decision makers
(University of Missouri-Columbia, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1984)
Long-term study of successional trends in an oak-dominated forest of central Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Changes in species composition and forest structure were studied over a 36-year period in the Baskett Research and Education Area (BREA) in central Missouri. Permanent plots were...
Publications, University of Missouri Extension, 1997-01
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1997)
Trait anxiety : a psychometric shadow
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
The purpose of the present study is to examine the independent relationships which trait and state anxiety have to measures of fear in rat-phobic female college students during imagined and live encounters with a member ...
Statistical analysis of failure time data with missing information
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Failure time data arise in many fields and can involve different types of censoring structures and missing information. We consider three cases: right-censored data with missing censoring indicators, clustered current ...
Model-based simulations of the piercing process in piezo-ICSI
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
To develop a piezo intracytoplasmic sperm injection (piezo-ICSI) procedure without using mercury, the real physics behind the zona piercing must be understood. An effort has been made to formulate a three-dimensional model ...
Three essays on racial discrimination
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
dependence among them. To separate the contributions of age, period, and cohort on racial preference, the third chapter uses the General Social Survey from multiple waves (1972-2018) and estimates the bounds of the effects instead of obtaining point estimates...
An evaluation of pre- and post-timber harvest water quality in low-order streams in the Missouri Ozarks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Missouri Department of Conservation's (MDC) best management practices (BMPs) for Regenerative Oak Clear Cutting (ROCC) practice was evaluated on effectiveness to preserve downstream water quality. Fifteen sites, located on MDC lands in Shannon...
Forest adaptation and transition in the eastern united states under climate change : a forest landscape modeling method
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Forest management is rapidly shifting in focus to address the adaptive capacity of forests under uncertain future climates. Managers and researchers often utilize models to proactively develop strategies for forest adaptation ...
Essays in policy evaluation and labor economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation contains three chapters. The first chapter evaluates the effect of a gun control act in California. State legislators in the U.S. are striving to curb gun violence. A common approach is to extend the existing firearms ban list...
Mizzou weekly, volume 14, number 07 (October 7, 1992)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Development, University and Alumni Relations Division. Publications and Alumni Communication., 1992)
Semiparametric analysis of multivariate longitudinal data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Longitudinal studies are conducted widely in fields such as agriculture and life sciences, business and industry, demography and other social sciences, medicine and public...
Mizzou weekly, volume 14, number 08 (October 14, 1992)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Development, University and Alumni Relations Division. Publications and Alumni Communication., 1992)
Selection for placental efficiency in swine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
With the overall goal of increasing profitability by increasing litter size, two lines of pigs were divergently selected for four generations on an index of reproductive traits (n = 193 litters). The selection index (SI) ...
Mizzou weekly, volume 14, number 05 (September 23, 1992)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Development, University and Alumni Relations Division. Publications and Alumni Communication., 1992)
Mizzou weekly, volume 14, number 13 (November 25, 1992)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Development, University and Alumni Relations Division. Publications and Alumni Communication., 1992)
Three essays on innovation, corporate control and household consumption-based asset pricing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Chapter I: Tracking more than 100 billion weekly transactions of two million products at the barcode level from 2007 to 2017, we identify and categorize new products as pioneers, followers and improvers to study corporate ...