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Evaluating distance education : the student perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
that covered topics that could assist in identifying the framework needed for the web-based evaluation system. The framework under study included: (a) evaluation design and format, (b) evaluation questions used and the manner in which they are constructed, (c...
Beliefs about the Impact of Excess Body Weight on Biopsychosocial Functioning in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Background: Recent research indicates that obesity may exacerbate certain symptoms
of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Nevertheless, little research has examined patients’ perceptions
of how obesity may impact their MS symptoms. ...
Subjectivities of risk and environmental uncertainty : residents, regulatory agencies, and corporate interests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The West Lake Landfill Superfund site in Bridgeton, Missouri made for a compelling place to explore how risk was framed and contested by social groups and expert institutions in the context of environmental uncertainty. The landfill has been...
An analysis of the relationships between servant leadership, school culture, and student achievement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of the study was to quantitatively explore and analyze the relationships among the factors of servant leadership, school culture, and student achievement in Missouri elementary schools. Two survey instruments, the Servant Leadership...
Place names of St. Louis and Jefferson County
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1939)
confined to relatively small areas. It is the task of the place-name worker to find the significance, large or small, past or present, obvious or concealed, in each and every name...Pages 1-2....
The experience of young adults living with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
techniques sequentially to recruit participants residing in a six-county area. I recruited six participants between 20 and 40 years of age with a medical diagnosis of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Data collection involved a series of three in...
Reconstructing gender, personal narrative, and performance at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This ethnographic study examines the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, a thirty-two-year-old, week-long event that features women performers and relies on an all female staff who produce the event for an audience of women ...
A Quantitative Exploration of the Educational Paths to Completion Taken by First Generation College Students and Students Who Have a Parent with A Four-Year College Degree
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This quantitative study examines students’ survey responses as they begin the
transition from high school into and through their initial year of college then to
completion of a four-year college degree, to explore ...
A study of the property rights constraints in US agricultural cooperatives : theory and evidence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1998)
as possible vested with the party receiving the residual returns. This is because in the process of maximizing its own individual returns, that party will also generally be led to maximize organizational efficiency. Until now, scholarly work has concentrated...
Toxic schools? Teacher perceptions of indoor air quality and negative place attachment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
). Since the onset of the pandemic, teachers are leaving the workforce in unprecedented numbers due to poor working conditions, unreasonable demands, and unrealistic expectations (Steiner and Woo, 2021). Addressing teacher retention is critical to stymie...
Academic satisfaction among East Asian international students in the U.S. : an examination of SCCT
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
With the Asian Hate outbreak during the COVID-19 pandemic, East Asian international students experience more overt racial discrimination and attack while seeking education afar from home. Despite the increased emphasis on ...
Sisterhood as strategy : the collaborations of American women artists in the gilded age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This dissertation employs four case studies--illustrator Alice Barber Stephens in Philadelphia; Louisville-born sculptor Enid Yandell; photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston in Washington, D.C.; and the Newcomb College Pottery in New Orleans...
A case of resistance : herbicide-tolerant soybeans in Bolivia
(AgBioForum, 2012)
The Bolivian National Constitution of 2009 prohibits the commercialization of genetically modified organisms, but the decree permitting the unique event of glyphosate resistance was enacted earlier. Herbicide-tolerant (HT) ...
Evaluation of Penetrating Sealers on Service Life of Concrete Infrastructure
(2022)
, concrete contains aggregate that is susceptible to D-cracking, and concrete susceptible to form expansive calcium oxychloride. The results, presented in Chapters 3-6, show that the rate and timing of sealer application substantially affect sealer...
Mizzou, volume 100, number 1 (2011 Fall)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2011)
Mosaics Magazine, 2008 Spring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, College of Arts and Science, 2008)
Magazine of the College of Arts and Science. Subjects include Morgan Hopes for a Rising Starr, Ancient Art Sheds Light on Society, Patience Required; Silence Not Necessary, Goth Girl, Help for the Dangerously Thin, Silent ...
From Revolution To Ruin: A Preliminary Look at Rwanda’s First Two Presidents, Grégoire Kayibanda and Juvénal Habyarimana, and Their Administrations
(2015)
This paper brings together primary and secondary materials from a vast number of sources
related to the first two presidents of Rwanda, Grégoire Kayibanda and Juvénal
Habyarimana, in a preliminary look at the men and ...
Alternative certification science teachers' understanding and implementation of inquiry-based instruction in their beginning years of teaching
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
years of teaching; (b) describe constraints and needs that these beginning science teachers perceived in implementing inquiry-based science instruction; and (c) understand the relation between what they learned in their ATCP and their practice...
Human Development As the Expansion of Work Capability: An Examination of Vietnam
(2020)
This dissertation aims to enhance the application of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach by including work capability in the current assessment of human development. Development theorists have long overlooked the role of ...
Mizzou, volume 089, number 1 (2000 Fall)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2000)