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What's the best way to treat Achilles tendonopathy?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
Rest and ice are considered first-line therapy for acute Achilles tendonopathy (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, expert opinion), as is nonsteroidal anti- inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (SOR: B, systematic review). Chronic ...
Designated hospice rooms in nursing homes : a new model of end-of-life care
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
features present in designated hospice rooms; and a prevailing emphasis on accommodating the needs of family members. The findings from this study will be beneficial to nursing home owners and administrators, social workers, and architects dedicated...
Messages of frugality and consumption in the Ladies' Home Journal : 1920s-1940s
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Since its inception more than 125 years ago, the Ladies' Home Journal has provided readers with cost-saving, pragmatic advice on domestic matters, while at the same time promoting consumerism by exposing readers to all the material trappings...
Examining the provision of child care subsidies across Missouri counties : the relationship between local dynamics and CCDF subsidy supply
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Previous research on child care subsidies and welfare programs has largely focused on examining individual characteristics associated with program ...
Wealth accumulation differences between wage-earning and entrepreneurial families : the role of active saving behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study examines the causal relationship between entrepreneurship and wealth accumulation. Saving behavior is a potential source of family wealth differentials. It is proposed that entrepreneurial families exhibit more accelerated active saving...
Laser target triggering of gas switches
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Laser target triggering has been investigated at the University of Missouri as a method to reduce the laser energy required to trigger a laser triggered gas switch. Laser targets were solid materials embedded into the ...
The military versus the press : Japanese military controls over one U.S. journalist, John B. Powell, in Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese war, 1937-1941
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Military controls over journalism and journalists during wartime have long existed in various forms. As multinational relations become more complex during a war, the military controls can extend beyond the journalists of warring countries...
Manual process productivity measurement : for Pre-registration Department in University of Missouri Healthcare
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In the healthcare industry, it is often hard to measure productivity, because the input and the output of the process may be difficult to distinguish ...
Current music practices and teachers' needs for teaching music in public preschools of South Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The present study aimed to investigate the current music practices and teachers' needs for teaching music in public preschools of South Korea. The data were obtained from the public preschools in South Korea, and 66.7% (n = 606) of the total sample...
Perceived relation of adult community college students between quality of effort and outcome gains : adult students at one community college
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study's purpose was to explore the relationship between the perceived quality of student effort and the perceived gains in skills and knowledge of adult undergraduate students. The student population of Metropolitan ...
Biracial children's psychosocial development from kindergarten to fifth grade : links to individual and contextual characteristics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
, and the moderating effects of child gender, parent socio-economic status, and school minority concentration on these links. Three-level linear growth models suggested no-growth trajectories of children's teacher-reported interpersonal skills and internalizing...
Decoder-learning based distributed source coding for high-efficiency, low-cost and secure multimedia communications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
, therefore it is desired to shift the bulk of computational burden to the decoder side. The resulting new coding paradigm is called distributed source coding (DSC). Most practical DSC schemes only achieve good results when a priori knowledge about the source...
Adoption of nutrient management practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
-farm income on adoption of conservation practices. The contribution of the current study is to provide a conceptual model which shows that off-farm work has positive impact on adoption of capital incentive practices and negative impact on adoption labor...
Revisiting fund-raising encroachment of public relations in light of the theory of donor relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This qualitative study of public relations and fund-raising practitioners in charitable organizations found fund-raising encroachment of public relations occurring at a rate roughly comparable to levels documented in the ...
Covering the bases : variations in the arguments to justify publicly-funded baseball stadiums
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Over the past few decades, most major U.S. cities have invested in major league sports facilities, often with the logic that they will generate significant economic development. Skepticism is growing however, as research ...
The social and cultural aspects of paddlefish snaggers at the Lake of the Ozarks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
In the spring of 2007, a questionnaire was administered to paddlefish snaggers using the Old Oar House Inn and Marina (private) or the Gordon Drake Memorial Harbor (public) at the Lake of the Ozarks near Warsaw, Missouri. ...
Intraguild interactions between native and domestic carnivores in central India
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
I determined various factors affecting the resource selection and spatial ecology of the Indian fox Vulpes bengalensis, a small canid endemic to the Indian subcontinent. I collected radiotelemetry data from 32 Indian foxes ...
A case study of cross-cultural and cross-age online literature discussion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
late September 2007 through late May 2008, twenty-two students (nine fifth graders from the U.S. and thirteen tenth graders from Taiwan) used blogs to post responses to literature. Multiple sources of data were analyzed by using the constant comparative...
Cultura y colegio : Latina/o cultural values, acculturation, cultural fit, psychological well-being and academic persistence in Mexican American college students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study examined the influence of cultural variables, such as Latino cultural values, cultural fit, Anglo-oriented and Mexican- oriented acculturation, on the perceptions of psychological well-being and persistence of ...
"A good line of advertising:" the historical development of children's advertising as reflected in St. Nicholas Magazine, 1873-1905
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Media researchers often assume that children's advertising began in the early days of radio and television broadcasting. In fact, it had begun nearly a half century earlier within the pages of children's magazines. One of ...