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Unveiling the influence of family of origin environment and relationship education programming on single adults' relational attitudes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
programming. Data were collected from 595 adults who participated in a relationship education program for singles. Results from a structural equation model found that positive retrospective reports of family of origin environment was significantly associated...
Historical review of financial equity in Missouri : 1993 foundation formula and amendments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
, and the legislative decision to guarantee a minimum (hold harmless) payment per student to analyze whether funding for Missouri public schools was more equitable than the pre-1993 OSA formula. Specific fiscal years from 1998-99 through 2005-06 were selected...
Anisotropic organic materials : ferroelectric crystals and spin-polarized radicals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
,4-diphenyl-1,3-butadiene is analyzed with various methods. Toward quasienantiomeric non-linear crystals, 1- methyl-1,3,6-triphenyl-7-(E-2-phenylpropenyl)-1,2-dihydronaphthalene is probed in molecular interactions, synthesis, and chiral separation. In Chapter...
Meretites' Faience Ushebtis: An Analysis and Determination of their Production in a Late Period or Ptolemaic Workshop
(2010)
The hundreds of faience shabtis in an individual Late Period burial demanded a significant production effort within a workshop. Petrie's discovery of thousands of molds for small faience objects in Amarna (1891-92) and Memphis (1908-13) led...
Organoisocyanates: the conformational stability determination by infrared, raman and microwave spectroscopy and ab initio calculation
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2012)
) in the annealed solid but in the fluid phases most of the molecules have energies above the barriers of the two predicted bound vibrational states i.e., trans and gauche forms. For dimethylsilylisocyanate, the low wavenumber Raman spectrum of the gas with a...
Quantifying riparian canopy energy attenuation and stream temperature using an energy balance approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
/ and 0.25 m3/s within the E-W and N-S reaches respectively. Mean stream temperature was greatest in August and was 24.4 [degrees]C in the E-W reach and 24.0 [degrees]C in the N-S reach. Net shortwave radiation was the primary energy flux causing stream...
An ecological systems approach to reduce children's encounters with obscenity on the internet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Ecological Systems Model to solve the problem of children's encounters with online obscenity. The ecological systems perspective is a framework for recommendations and solutions. When each environmental system from the model collaborate in effort toward a...
Essays on labor market policies in Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This dissertation examines the impact of employment protection regulations using job duration data in Korea. In 2007, the Korean government introduced a labor market reform that required employers to convert a worker's contract from a temporary...
Communication and use of scientific farm information by farmers in two Taiwan agricultural villages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1968)
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism: An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri
(Department of Economics, 2007)
State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changes and their impacts, there have been few ...
Genetic variation and health in rural Caribbean village
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
, highlighting the regionally variable nature of admixture throughout the Caribbean and unique historical outcomes in Dominica. Genome-wide association tests of cardiometabolic phenotypes identify a genomic region of interest downstream of the ANK3 gene...
The sublethal effects of methoxyfenozide on the field orientation and courtship behavior of Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: tortricidae)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The sublethal effects of ecdysone agonist methoxyfenozide on the mating behavior and field orientation of codling moth, Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus), was examined. Five different lure types were placed in the upper canopy of 25 apple trees in a 5-acre...
Phytoplankton response to water quality threats in Midwest reservoirs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms and invasive species threaten water quality. These threats are expected to worsen in the future, emphasizing the need for creative management solutions and a thorough understanding of their impacts. The objective...
Comparing mosquito communities of various patch-matrix landscape combinations in central Missouri, with implications for developing models to forecast abundances of important mosquito taxa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
-matrix landscape combinations common in five central Missouri counties; 2) evaluate the temporal occurrence of these mosquito taxa; 3) assess relationships between regional weather factors and the occurrence and abundance of the mosquito fauna; and 4) categorize...
Quasi-metric geometry : smoothness and convergence results
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
, and smoothness of quasi-metric spaces, and the second dealing with Euclidean geometry, namely the role geometry plays in analysis, particularly in the characterization of Lipschitz domains via cones, domains of class C[superscript 1], [superscript w], where w...
Degradation of the veterinary antibiotics in swine manure via anaerobic digestion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
of veterinary antibiotics (VA) in swine manure. Nine laboratory ADs were kept at 39 [plus-minus] 2 [degrees] C in incubators and were loaded every two days. The digesters had a working volume of 1.38 L (in a 1.89-L glass jar), with a hydraulic retention time...
Use of enzymes to produce soy-based polyol for polyurethane
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
to improve the functionality (reactivity) of soy-based materials. All enzyme reactions proposed in this work were successfully operated at low temperature, less than 70oC. And most of the reaction did not require organic solvent which was occasionally...
The impact analysis of structural change in Korean agriculture with respect to the Korean-United States free trade agreement : dynamic simultaneous equation model approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The main objective of this study is the analysis of the impacts of the Korean-United States Free Trade Agreement. On April 2, 2007, Korea and the United States concluded a...
Factors influencing non-music majors' decisions to participate in collegiate bands
(2013)
to motivate all students, regardless of degree path, toward lifelong music making. After high school, many students do not pursue music as a major yet decide to participate in a collegiate ensemble. It seems relevant to investigate the influences behind...
Three essays on labor economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
at the added worker effect in the great recession, the wife's labor market response to a husband loss of job. The second chapter investigates the impact of a wife's labor market participation on family poverty. The third chapter examines employment...