Market strategies tend to work as a negative force when it comes to ensuring adequate health care for the underserved in our society. When it comes to health care, and in particular end of life care, color still divides.

The purpose of this research was to learn the impact that ethics codes, ethics training, and audits have in promoting ethical behavior among local government employees. The research began with a survey of city auditors and finance department...

Socioscientific issues (SSI) are the hallmark of a reform-oriented approach to science teaching and learning (Sadler, Foulk, and Friedrichsen, 2017) that foregrounds controversial and unstructured societal challenges with substantive connections...

Political polarization in the American electorate has received a great deal of attention in recent years with most of the research focusing on social issues and their impact on electoral outcomes. However, scant attention has been paid...

along with discourse analysis focused on newspaper articles, government documents, websites and television programs. This study explores movement ethics as they relate to movement ethos, the social processes through which animals are commodified and no...

in the communist China. In particular, this paper will also be an attempt to address the political, cultural, and legal issues on how and why capital punishment was adopted, retained, and widely executed by the Chinese communist government since 1949; and also...

of advising relationships at the institution to not only illustrate the case of distance advising but also to show different perspectives on the issue. Findings included that distance advising was enacted somewhat differently online than face-to-face due...

This guide intends to outline multiple factors that affect agricultural employers who establish and manage a workforce. It divides the employment process into six segments: recruitment; hiring; onboarding, training and ...

Chronic illness has a profoundly negative impact on the welfare of households, especially for the adolescents who live there. Those who lack a social welfare safety net, particularly youth, are much more dependent on the ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This textual analysis addresses how The Wall Street Journal framed Mongolian economic and political image in the global capital market from 2012 to ...

Although religion is and has been an integral aspect of society, its journalism has been overlooked. Media scholars have viewed the religious press as less worthy and less professional than its commercial counterparts, ...

) Agreements and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB). Given that three of the top five producers of genetically modified crops (Argentina, Canada, and the United States) are not signatories to the CPB, this issue could become contentious. This article...

This narrative inquiry provides a contextualized understanding of teacher experiences complementing the extensive quantitative literature available regarding the underrepresentation of diverse students in gifted education ...

The programming of The Coterie Theatre of Kansas City, Missouri, under Artistic Director Jeff Church, was studied from September 1990 to August 2014. The works researched included world, commissioned and American premieres ...

"In a farm or other agribusiness, employees are important resources. The decision to hire additional labor begins by recognizing a work need. From that point, employers must make many decisions and create a fair, effective ...

Stories are a powerful medium through which the human community has exchanged information since the dawn of the information age. They have taken multiple forms like articles, movies, books, plays, short films, magazines, ...

) in Missouri and determine whether near-surface wind fields are enhanced at times when the LLJ is active. Upper-air observations at Springfield, Missouri (SGF), from 01 May 2003 to 30 April 2004, were analyzed to determine the cases that satisfied our criteria...

This document provides, in alphabetical order, short biographies of the colloquium participants.

"There is an increasing emphasis on management strategies such as reduced tillage, use of cover crops, and implementation of conservation practices (i.e. terraces, no-till, and cropping systems) in Missouri cropping systems. ...

This dissertation triangulates four theories of the policy process to explain state-level tuition policy change. Very little policy research examines theories of the policy process in concert. Moreover, the field of higher ...