This proceedings is a compilation of the three Cambio de Colores conferences held between 2006 and 2008. In 2006, the theme "Latinos in Missouri: Beyond Borders" explored the extent to which the flow of people, goods and information is changing our...

of use of the trail, and their motivations to use the trail. The data was collected during the first week of October 2006 at the MKT trailheads on Stadium Boulevard and Scott Boulevard. During the survey period, 360 surveys were administered resulting...

In order to predict the location of heavy storm-generated rainfall that could produce flash flooding, forecasters want to know with what velocity a storm will move. However, few systems exist in meteorology where a storm is classified by type...

-U) and the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI). Correlation analyses performed on the five individual LPI exemplary leadership practices scores and the overall ECI-U score indicated the ECI-U was a significant predictor of all five leadership practices. Stepwise...

. The administration of the survey was online utilizing a leader webpage, developed by Mind Garden Inc. and career center directors, their supervisors, and their staff completed the survey to a 360-degree view of leadership style of the director. The 57 area career...

uses of the laser system, the first being determination of the spectral properties of species being synthesized and 'tuned' to be able to have a strong two photon cross section. The second use is the excitation of highly symmetrical species displaying...

the effectiveness of religious symbols, such as the cross, in health advertisements targeting African American women. Practical implications of the study include the branding of the church as a socially desirable commodity. The benefits of this type of "branding...

are less likely to have independent cerelated problems since an individual client is relatively less important due to larger client bases in bigger offices. My conjecture is tested for a sample of 6,568 firm-year observations for the period 2003 to 2005...

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...

associated with high levels of expectations and initiatives for parental involvement in different nations. Unlike other counties whose schools' expectation were influenced by a least one of those structural characteristics (school size, class size, et al.), U...

-driven formulas to student needs, local revenue requirements remain. However, no study has examined the potential links between a family, community and economic risk factors that affect a student's educational opportunity and local taxation choices. This study...

flow events and a water balance performed on an ephemeral drainage basin revealed approximately 20% of moisture exits as channel flow. Performance of all equipment is evaluated. Over 200 pieces of equipment have collected nearly 360 channel water...

Glyphosate-resistant (GR) crops represent more than 80% of the 120 million ha of transgenic crops grown annually worldwide. GR crops have been rapidly adopted in soybean, maize, cotton, canola, and sugarbeet in large part ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Due to the advancement of nanotechnology, understanding the heat transport mechanism in nano-scale devices has become a crucial factor in describing the operation of the device...

This study investigated the economics of multisystemic therapy (MST) vs. individual therapy (IT) using longitudinal rearrest data from a 13.7-year follow-up (Schaeffer & Borduin, 2005) of a randomized clinical trial with serious juvenile offenders...

The relationship between religiosity and institutional misconduct among prison inmates is examined using survey data collected from a large sample of state and federal prison inmates in the United States. It was determined that religiosity...

Using micropiles for slope stabilization is a proven technique but there are many uncertainties with how load is transferred from the soil to the structural elements. A large-scale model was constructed to test model slopes while measuring slope...

The central purpose of this study was to assess the degree of bias toward agriculture within a middle grade science textbook. Literary formats used to reference agriculture within the text were also assessed. A content analysis was used to identify...

. medically attended suicide attempt) and determines how these relations vary as a function of sex, race/ethnicity and adolescent development. Demographic and psychiatric moderators of the alcohol-suicide attempt relation were examined prospectively among a...

reorganization. I use a nested discourse analysis, first at the single-valley scale of Garden Park and second at the countywide scale, to explore how residents define what it means to live in their dynamic landscape. Results suggest that residents from across...