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Steps in the small wind series : assessing your wind resource
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2019)
"This guide will help you understand the effects of wind speed, wind shear, wind distribution, prevailing winds, turbulence and elevation. Take time to understand wind assessment and learn about your wind resource to help ...
Parent-child relationship factors associated with emotional adjustment and academic engagement in the transition to college
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The current study used a person-centered approach to examine how the parentchild relationship is associated with emotional adjustment and academic engagement during...
Publications (Missouri Cooperative Extension Service, 1983)
(Missouri Cooperative Extension Service, 1983)
This is a list of popular University of Missouri Publications....
Publications (Missouri Cooperative Extension Service, 1984-09)
(Missouri Cooperative Extension Service, 1984)
This is a list of popular University of Missouri Publications....
Regression analysis of correlated interval-censored failure time data with a cured subgroup
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
cure model. To estimate the unknown parameters, an expectation maximization (EM) algorithm based on an augmentation of Poisson variable is developed. To assess the performance of the proposed method, a simulation study is conducted and suggests...
Three essays on phosphorus runoff and water quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Water pollution caused by nutrients, and the resulting eutrophication, have increased over time. This water pollution is increasingly caused by non-point source pollution, both...
Fantasy theme divergence during covid-19 a fantasy theme analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In an era of selective attention, media fragmentation, political polarization, and social media trolls, the communication landscape has never been more fraught with the potential for carefully crafted messages to take on ...
Funding belonging : the relationship between higher education funding and sense of belonging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
), graduate (Morrow and Ackermann, 2012), learn (Kernahan et al., 2014), thrive (Strayhorn, 2019), and have reduced drug use (Goff and Goddard, 1999). Various campus offices impact a student's sense of belonging including housing, academic advisors, campus...
Lifestyle treatment in the regression of NASH: insulin resistance, lipid synthesis, and methodological innovation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation is focused on factors that increase risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NALFD) and the more advanced form nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). These factors include postprandial lipid handling ...
Of floods and gales: environmental value creation due to creative destruction
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Recent discussions on environmental issues, such as global climate change, implicates many of the wider processes studied by scholars in the management sciences. As a result, there has been considerable debate regarding ...
EC-SGK1 and EnNaC mediate vascular stiffening
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Vascular stiffening is an independent predictor of cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death worldwide. High dietary salt intake has been shown to increase vascular stiffness in humans, ...
Essays on early childhood education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Early childhood educations plays a fundamental role in human capital development. This dissertation studies skills development during early childhood. Chapter 1 focuses on early childhood intervention from birth to age 3. ...
Dynamic analysis of complex panel count data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Panel count data occur in many fields including clinical, demographical and industrial studies and an extensive literature has been established for their regression analysis. However, most of the existing methods apply only to the situations where...
A shellabration of early life : exploring the taphonomy, diversity, and distribution of small shelly fossils surrounding archaeocyathid reef systems in the Harkless System, Death Valley, NV
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] Cambrian archaeocyathid reef systems represent the earliest metazoan-dominated topographically complex bioconstructions in the rock record and provide valuable insights into community composition ...
Keeping up with the Joneses: Relative economic voting, electoral participation, and reference points
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This research explores the role relative economy plays in vote choice and turnout. The decision to vote and for whom to vote are heavily predicated on selecting competent policymakers based on their performance handling ...
Degradation and transport of veterinary antibiotics and estrogens in a vegetated buffer strip system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Knowledge of veterinary antibiotic (VA) and estrogenic hormone persistence in soil is critical to understanding environmental risks associated with these potential contaminants. Understanding sorption and transport of the ...
Assessing red wolf conservation based on analyses of habitat suitability and human perception of carnivores
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
of carnivores was assessed from over 1,100 surveys distributed across a spectrum of natural resource and general events in Missouri and Arkansas, two regions that ranked high in habitat suitability. The majority of respondents had positive views based...
Effects of hip joint orientation and skeletal torsion on human locomotor biomechanics and evolution
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] Bipedal locomotion is a defining feature of the human lineage. However, the form of bipedality in different hominin taxa and the timing of emergence of a human-like striding bipedal gait have ...
Aptamers that bind filovirus GP : a new frontier for detection and neutralization of Ebola and Marburg virus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Aptamers are single chained, nucleic acid-based affinity probes that bind to their targets with strong affinity and specificity. They are made through an in vitro combinatorial selection method, wherein large libraries of ...
Heat transmission thru boiler tubes
(University of Missouri, 1916)