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GIS-based analysis of environmental justice and compound natural hazards in the built and natural environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] Infrastructure design connects people and the built environment with the natural world; thus, accessible, equitable, and sustainable infrastructure is critical for community resilience. As changing ...
Seizing the elephant : Kansas City and the great western migration, 1840-1865
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"The famed editor of the New York Tribune, Horace Greeley, reportedly once said, "Go west, young man, and grow up with the country."[1] Probably apocryphal, the sentiment was quintessential Greeley by the 1850s. His newspaper ...
Elephant in the room : a study of the impact of emotional experiences on burnout among Chinese reporters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
and reporters' experience of engaging in surface acting magnify their levels of job burnout. Meanwhile, the use of problem-focused coping strategies can reduce reporters' job burnout caused by emotional labor engagement. Findings in this study fill the gap...
Great Lakes lake trout early mortality syndrome (EMS) : contaminants, thiamin status, and their possible interaction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Salmonid populations in the Great Lakes experienced a decline in the early twentieth century, presumably due to over-fishing combined with the introduction of exotic parasites such as the sea lamprey. Despite intensive ...
Turkic Educators and Students Breaking Their Silence: An Oral History of a Tangled Web of Political Power
(2023)
representations of the Hizmet people and their roles in political influence are portrayed as terroristic threats. The purpose of this oral history was to illuminate the stories of Hizmet educators and students and their experiences of the social genocide...
Missouri alumnus, volume 017, number 05 (1929 January)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1929)
Assessment of a voluntary nonlead ammunition outreach program on midwestern national wildlife refuges
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
at four managed hunts, 29 semi-structured interviews of program staff, and an online survey of 325 NWR staff. Objectives were to (1) examine lead exposure risks and suggest communication strategies, (2) explore attitudes and experiences of NWR staff...
"Send only your serious cases" : delivering flu to Toronto: an anthropological analysis of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This project looks at the 1918-19 pandemic influenza experience in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Based on historical records (most notably death registries and archival material) this work strives to understand the social, biological, and environmental...
Occupancy modeling of ruffed grouse in the Black Hills National Forest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) are important game birds and the management indicator species for quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) in the Black Hills National Forest (BHNF). As a result, a robust monitoring protocol ...
Acculturation and social capital of Somali Muslim women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/31/2026] This study examines the social capital and acculturation of 20 Somali immigrant women who participate in a community garden in a small Minnesota town. Even though some of them did not enter the ...
General structural pest control
(University of Missouri. Extension Division, 2000)
"Pest management and control depend on using the right technologies. To be successful, they must be effective and not adversely affect people or the environment."--From preface.
Use of main channel and shallow-water habitat by larval fishes in the lower Missouri River
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
I developed a series of research objectives organized in a spatial hierarchy to characterize larval fish nursery habitat within the lower Missouri River. Native carpsucker spp./buffalo spp. (Carpiodes spp./Ictiobus spp.) and chub spp. (Macrhybopsis...
Social inequalities and mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic on the island of Newfoundland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
statistics, death registers, census data, and historical archives from The Rooms Provincial Archives in Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as supplemental historical qualitative archives from the Memorial University of Newfoundland Special Collections...
A Comparison Study of Grace-Based Groundwater Modeling for Data-Rich and Data-Scarce Regions
(2014-09-30)
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) modeling in water resources is
an emerging field in hydrology. Investigation of groundwater change using remote sensing
data helps overcome data limitation at a regional ...
Missouri Shamrock, 1958-1959, volume 25, number 1-8
(University of Missouri. College of Engineering, 1958)
Body size and shape in insular environments and applications of the island rule in biological anthropology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The discovery of small-bodied hominin fossils in 2004 on the island of Flores, Indonesia, unearthed a large debate within biological anthropology. This debate has exemplified that there are questions and research areas ...
Genetic mapping of soybean cyst nematode resistance and evaluation of resistant germplasm in soybean and pennycress
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
A single mode of genetic resistance derived from PI 88788 (rhg1-b) has dominated the $57.5 B US soybean market for almost three decades. The breakdown of resistance and selection of virulent nematode populations poses a ...
Identification and characterization of health-promoting benefits and bioactive molecules in black walnuts (Juglans nigra l.) and waste materials from agroforestry systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
selected and cultivated for nut production by the University of Missouri - Center for Agroforestry (Columbia, MO, USA). Additionally, it is likely that the bioactive activities of black walnut are correlated with its bioactive constituents including...
Effect of climate change, drought, and insects on oak-pine forests in the Ozark highlands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Oak-dominated forests in the Ozarks Highlands of Arkansas and Missouri have been suffering severe oak decline and this became a chronic problem since the late 1970s...