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Missouri's Efforts to Confront Racial Profiling
(Cambio Center, 2007)
Livelihoods, Vulnerabilities, and Opportunities in Rural Missouri
(Cambio Center, 2007)
The issue of immigration, since the beginning of time, has never been an easy one. Countries have struggled with the integration of newcomers, and the U.S. is not an exception. In this country, 80 percent of immigrants are ...
Demographic and Census Trends of Latinos in the Kansas City Area
(Cambio Center, 2007)
Presentation made at Latinos in Missouri (2nd : 2007 : Kansas City, Mo.) and published in the annual conference proceedings.
Agroforestry interactions and soil water use in watersheds under corn-soybean management
(2009)
intervals for 2004 through 2007. Initial soil moisture was lower in tree and grass buffer areas than crop areas probably due to water use by the permanent vegetation before crops were established. The differences were larger for shallower depths as compared...
Competition for applied 15N fertilizer in a longelaf pine/native woody ornamental intercropping system
(2009)
The cultivation of ornamentals to produce woody floral products -- the fresh or dried stems that are used for decorative purposes -- may be an attractive option for southeastern landowners looking to generate income from ...
Stimulant Holidays in Children and Adolescents with ADHD: A Retrospective Study to Explore Variables in Parent and Prescriber Initiated Holidays
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
A stimulant holiday is an underutilized and under-researched intervention that could improve
patient outcomes and patient and parent satisfaction to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
treatment. Given the pervasive ...
Evidence-Based Practice Asthma Education in Primary Care
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Asthma affects more than 300 million people across the globe. The financial burden
impacts individuals and their families as well as communities and health care systems. Although
asthma education is a fundamental ...
Veterinary antibiotic sorption to agroforestry buffer, grass buffer and cropland soils
(2009)
Veterinary antibiotics are used to treat infectious animal diseases and enhance animal growth. In Missouri, the increased growth of confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and the need to dispose of manure generated by ...
Immigration Reform: Comprehensive Solutions for Complex Problems
(Cambio Center, 2009)
In January 2004, after more than two years of silence, President George Bush reignited the national immigration debate when he proposed a new guest worker program. Members of Congress of both political parties have entered the debate by introducing...
Porous spheres: Direct observation of interethnic interaction in a small midwestern community
(Cambio Center, 2012)
Indications of community integration in rural communities, where there has been a large increase of immigrants, are largely based on survey and interview responses of community members. However, as an anthropologist, I ...
Poverty and Health of Children from Racial/Ethnic Minority and Immigrant Families in the Midwest
(Cambio Center, 2011)
with immigrants consistently found that acculturation is detrimental to health (Cho, Frisbie, Hummer, & Rogers, 2004; Hummer, Powers, Pullum, Gossman, & Frisbie, 2007; Landale, Oropesa, & Gorman, 2000). The basic premise of those studies is that culturally...
Networks and Context of Reception in Accumulation Strategies of Latinos in Rural Communities of the Midwest - A Quantitative Analysis
(Cambio Center, 2010)
earnings are low, and Hispanics live in homes in which multiple adults work full time and have low skills and limited English proficiency (Hernandez 2005; NCLR 2004; Gibbs, Kusmin and Cromartie 2005). For change to be beneficial and sustainable for every...
Examining the Health Literacy of Rural Latina Immigrant Mothers and Their Use of the Internet to Seek Health Information
(Cambio Center, 2014)
, & Yamamoto, 2004). This study draws its sample from Rural Families Speak about Health (RFSH). Mothers were recruited using Respondent Driven Sampling (Heckathorn, 2002), a strategy for recruiting hard-to-reach populations and for whom sampling frames...
Wellness Promotion in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The older adult population is growing, and is the largest utilizer of healthcare. Most older adults live independently within the community. Community-based health promotion programs benefit the maintenance of older adult ...
Nitrate and fecal coliform concentrations in silvopasture and pasture leachates
(2009)
grazing season (2004-2008). Geometric mean fecal coliform bacteria concentrations were greatest in SP (18.0 cfu 100 ml-1) with no difference between CP (7.5 cfu 100 ml-1) and HF (5.6 cfu 100 ml-1). Mean NO3-N concentration was lowest in SP (2.2 mg L-1...
Biotic interactions in organic farm systems
(2009)
Fire, drought, and grazing were primary ecological drivers of the historical Great Plains' prairie ecosystem. The suppression of fire, a shift in grazing and cropping systems, and the introduction of windbreaks and other ...
Human Social and Cultural Capitals among Latino Gardeners in Denison and Marshalltown, Iowa
(Cambio Center, 2011)
This paper explores different community capitals among Latinos participating in community gardens and farmer starter programs in Denison and Marshalltown, Iowa. Using the community capital framework, this study describes ...
Transitional Care Intervention to Reduce 30-day Readmission Rate in Cardiac Transplant Patients
(2016-05)
Readmission remains a financial burden in our healthcare arena. Billions of dollars in hospital payments were made from Medicare towards readmissions. The problem of patients’ ineffective transitions during hospital discharge ...
Influence of a faculty development workshop on clinical evaluation practices in a nurse anesthesia program
(2016-05)
Faculty development has a number of benefits in academiaacademia. Specifically, in nurse anesthesia
education, doctoral programs are required to provide faculty development for their clinical
instructors. In order to ...
Riparian forests with and without grass filters as buffers of concentrated flow from crop fields
(2009)
A vegetation inventory within naturally occurring forested riparian buffers (natural forest buffers) and a survey comparing buffering of concentrated flow paths (CFPs) by natural forest buffers with and without planted ...