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A Profile of Missouri's Energy Use
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2007)
With the rising prices of energy, and concern over supply shortages, there has been a renewed focus upon energy conservation within the United States. Due to the strong relationship between energy use, environmental quality and economic vitality...
Term Limits & Tenure in the Missouri General Assembly (2007)
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2007)
The following report examines tenure and turnover in the Missouri General Assembly from just before term limits took effect through the election of 2006. The 2002 election was the fi rst since the decennial redistricting, ...
Electronic Commerce, Sales Tax, & the Implications for Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2007)
The internet is an ever-growing source of information, services, products, communication, and income for millions of people around the world. With these growing capabilities comes the issue of how to tax goods and services ...
Childcare Subsidies in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2007)
Nationwide, 70.5% of women with children were in the labor force in 2006. Three out of four working mothers work more than 30 hours per week, and over 90 percent of their families use some kind of child care. Access to ...
The Division of Labor Under Homogeneity: A Critique of Mises and Rothbard
(Blackwell, 2007-04)
Even the most passionate defenders of free trade, such as Mises and Rothbard, claim that trade cannot occur under conditions of strict homogeneity of land, labor, and capital. We show that specialization, trade, and the ...
Seat Belt Use by Missouri Teens*
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2007)
In 2006, the Institute of Public Policy conducted 12 focus groups with Missouri teens on behalf of the Missouri Department of Transportation to:1) understand how teenagers make decisions on seatbelt use; and
2) determine what outreach methods could...
Scale and Transaction Costs in the U.S. Biopower Industry
(Berkeley Electronic Press, 2007)
With increasing interest in renewable energy from agriculture, including biopower and cellulose ethanol, there is a need for better understanding of the economic organization of this emerging industry. Study of the organization of the biopower...
The Effects of Photographic Identification on Voter Turnout in Indiana: A County-Level Analysis
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2007)
I examine the change in voter turnout across Indiana counties before and after the implementation of photo ID requirements. Overall, statewide turnout increased by about two percentage points after photo ID; further, there ...
Art in the Basement: Mandingo Gara from Sierra Leone
(MU Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2007)
In the spring of 2006, however, while a graduate intern at the Missouri Folk Arts Program, I was able to observe firsthand an artist as he created art in what may seem the most unlikely of settings—a basement in urban St. ...
Money for Nothing? The Impact of Changes in the Pell Grant Program on Institutional Revenues and the Placement of Needy Students
(American Education Finance Association, 2007)
Using new institutional-level data, we assess the impact of changing federal aid levels on institutional-level Pell revenues. Using various policy instruments associated with Pell generosity, we quantify the sensitivity ...
From Contention to Collaboration
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2007)
In the 1970s and 1980s, student protests sparked a dynamic partnership.
What is the recommended workup for a man with a first UTI?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2007)
Obtain a urine culture in all men with suspected urinary tract infection (UTI), to reliably diagnose an infection (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C). For further evaluation, ultrasonography with abdominal radiography ...
Development and assessment of scoring functions for protein identification using PMF data
(Wiley-VCH, 2007)
PMF is one of the major methods for protein identification using the MS technology. It is faster and cheaper than MS/MS. Although PMF does not differentiate trypsin-digested peptides of identical mass, which makes it less ...