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What is the best treatment for wrist ganglion cysts?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2020)
Q: What is the best treatment for wrist ganglion cysts? Evidence-based answer: Open surgical excision of wrist ganglion cysts is associated with a lower recurrence rate than aspiration with or without corticosteroid injection ...
Do group visits improve HbA1c more than individual visits in patients with T2DM?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2005)
Do group visits improve HbA1c more than individual visits in patients with T2DM? Evidence-based answer: Yes. In patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), group visits led by health professionals or teams improved ...
A content analysis of word choice in social media news coverage of mass shootings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examined how news organizations utilized Twitter to report on the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. ...
Comparison of simple moving average and arima timeseries forecasting models on independent historic data and extrapolating echo program attendance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
predictive models without any dependent variables and evaluated both models by measuring error values. The second step; used the best model to forecast ECHO attendance for years 2020 - 2025. Results: The SMA model was better than the ARIMA model...
The Failing Right Ventricle : An Internist's Guide to the Diagnosis and Management of Pulmonary Hypertension
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2020-04)
Pulmonary hypertension represents a complex and multifactorial disease with significant implications on patients' morbidity, mortality, and quality of life. The number of patients hospitalized with pulmonary hypertension ...
An applied economic analysis of the demand for pork primal cuts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This study estimates domestic disappearance equations for the six main pork primal cuts (belly, butt, ham, loin, picnic, and rib) to determine the own-price, cross-price, and income elasticities for each cut. These equations ...
The debate is dead : how journalists cover climate change now that false equivalence is uncommon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Pod travel in the pandemic era: social media analytics on travel sentiment and spatial distribution
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
to understand pod travel through two phases. In study 1, pod travel is conceptualized using the text mining approach of Twitter by comparing two time periods: Jan 2019 (before COVID-19) and Jan 2021 (during COVID-19) to figure out distinguishable differences...
Provision of Telelactation Support to Improve Breastfeeding Outcome
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Breastfeeding is a valuable infant feeding method that offers many preventative health benefits
to mothers and infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization
provide recommendations ...
Understanding news values across newsrooms : what's the difference? Exploring how news values are prioritized in print news mediums and television newsroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] News values are a pertinent part of the story selection in newsrooms. This study aimed to understand how news values are prioritized between different ...
Mizzou, volume 108, number 3 (2020 Spring)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2020)
In Old Kentucky: A Study of American Melodrama
(2020)
This project, a graduate research thesis, means to unearth Charles T. Dazey’s most famous work, In Old Kentucky. This thesis examines the facets of In Old Kentucky which made it a perennial favorite across the entirety of ...
Factors that make journalists change hypotheses during investigations
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Journalists always go into investigative reporting with hypotheses, but few researchers have studied how journalists change their hypotheses when working on investigative stories. This research, through in-depth interviews ...
Walks before you : immigrant motherhood, roles and appearances in Columbia, MO
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
When photographers focus on subjects that come from minority groups, it is important for them to cover all perspectives of a specific character and try to depict his/her social roles as objectively, fairly, and evenly as ...
The elite media framing the emerging markets : a textual analysis of Mongolian case in the Wall Street Journal
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
of the Mongolian government. This framing was accomplished through The Journal's predominant reliance on elite sources. The study found that the international elite sources built up 76 percent of total sources in the coverage. The practical implications...
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...
Patient judgments about hypertension control : the role of variability, trends, and outliers in visualized blood pressure data
(Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2019)
Background: Uncontrolled hypertension is a significant health problem in the United States, even though multiple drugs exist to effectively treat this chronic disease. Objective: As part of a larger project developing data ...
A study of unplanned 30-day hospital readmissions in the United States : early prediction and potentially modifiable risk factor identification
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Unplanned hospital readmissions greatly impair patients' quality of life and have imposed a significant economic burden on American society. The pressure to reduce costs and improve healthcare quality has triggered the ...
The history of Missouri capitols
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1982)
"Before the nineteenth century few Americans or Europeans ventured into the land which came to be Missouri. Ordinarily it had been explorers, miners, and trappers who penetrated the wilderness. These adventurous men usually ...