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Developing Effective Study Committees
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Study committees can generate considerable enthusiasm with recommendations that will help solve the community's problems. They can develop a "group spirit" that carries over into the community. This "group togetherness" is greatly influenced...
Latinos in the Heartland : Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Conference
(Cambio Center, 2010)
often turned sour, bitter and, in some cases, violent. We are still a long way from achieving that new community, but many people are working to understand this change and, especially, to make it beneficial to everyone. Research and outreach efforts...
Immigration of Latinos to Missouri
(Cambio Center, 2002)
and values, we need to acknowledge and welcome their contributions and make an extra effort to weave and integrate them into the rich societal tapestry that results from such a change. Sylvia Lazos and Stephen Jeanetta together have studied and documented...
Three essays in regional economic modeling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
My dissertation is about regional economic modeling for understanding local economy, economic impact analysis and forecasting. In the first essay, I developed a nonspatial version of community policy analysis model for Missouri counties. In my...
Audit committee tenure, earnings quality, firm performance and cost of capital
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
business decisions that often fall outside of GAAP's jurisdiction. I find that audit committee tenure is associated with the use of abnormally low discretionary expenses, suggesting that current-period earnings are artificially inflated when audit committee...
Analysis of forecast performance for hit, miss, and false alarm thundersnow events during ROCS
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Thundersnow (TSSN) is a mesoscale event that is typically associated with large amounts of precipitation and both in-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning. Starting in 2003, the Research on Convective Snows (ROCS) group began ...
Accelerating data-driven discover in type 1 diabetes: an informatics-based approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
heterogeneity in T1D, and (3) development of a highly scalable pipeline to facilitate diabetes health outcomes research using multi-site EHR data. We also substantiate our commitment to openly disseminating our findings and tools to the research community...
Agroforestry buffer, biomass crop, and grain crop effects on soil quality and soil water use
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Soil degradation, impaired water quality, and reduced soil organic carbon have become major concerns in the management of degraded claypan soils with ...
Assessing red wolf conservation based on analyses of habitat suitability and human perception of carnivores
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
. This research shows that if red wolf reintroduction were to occur, there are large portions of its historic range considered to be suitable habitat. However, it is imperative to assess and be inclusive of local communities. This research shows baseline data from...
Discourse as a normative instrument : analysis of mental illness on a disability services discussion list
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
. This study critically analyzed the discourse practices of this community. In and through their online interactions, these professionals define and construct the concept of "disability", attitudes toward students with psychiatric disabilities, and ideological...
Occupancy modeling of ruffed grouse in the Black Hills National Forest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
from predators. By evaluating both broad-scale occupancy and small-scale activity center selection, forest management decisions to encourage ruffed grouse at both the population and individual level in the BHNF will be more robust....
Genomics of seasonal hair shedding and ecoregion-specific growth to identify environmentally-adapted beef cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Recently, interest has increased in augmenting current national scale cattle evaluations with precision genetic predictions tailored to specific environmental conditions. Some efforts to develop environmentally-aware ...
Avian nest survival and breeding density in cottonwood plantations and native forest fragments in southeast Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
I compared nest survival and breeding density between native bottomland forest and cottonwood (Populus deltoides) plantations over a three-year period for Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens), Prothonotary Warbler ...
A hierarchical Bayesian mixture approach for modeling reflectivity fields with application to Nowcasting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] We study a hierarchical Bayesian framework for finite mixtures of distributions. We first consider a Dirichlet mixture of normal components and utilize ...
A case study of cross-cultural and cross-age online literature discussion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
in the blogging activity. Pedagogical recommendations include creating a supportive and encouraging learning community, providing idea-sharing opportunities for students to respond about and from literature, and using the blog wisely to motivate students to read...
Birth order and gender : differential parental investment in Medieval England and France in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This dissertation addresses the question: will parents invest differently in their children based on gender and birth order? Using parental investment theory and four major sets of outcome variables--child survival, parental ...
Roman Egypt : change amid continuity in the art and architecture of an Eastern Imperial Province
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Roman province of Aegyptus has most often been considered from an administrative, governmental, or economic perspective while its art and architecture ...
Ecological genomics of divergence, admixture, and fitness in the smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
fishes and invertebrates in both streams and natural lakes, and they act as obligate hosts in the life cycles of several freshwater mussels. A great deal is known about the general ecology of Smallmouth Bass and their role in aquatic communities across...
Delineation of critical management areas at plot, field, and watershed scales for claypan soils
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
/Environmental eXtender (APEX) model was calibrated and validated for a 32-ha field from 1993 to 2002 for runoff, sediment, and atrazine loads. Two indices were developed using soil property and topography data, the Conductivity Claypan Index (CCI) and the Claypan...
An ecological study of American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) in the Missouri Ozark Highlands: effects of herbivory and harvest, ecological characterization and wild simulated cultivation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Matrix population analysis was used to analyze eight years of demographic data from six American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) populations in east-central Missouri to examine effects of herbivory by white-tailed deer ...