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Dairy grazing : dairy career paths (2011)
(University of Missouri. Extension Division, 2011)
Dairy producers face challenges as they enter, expand or exit the dairy industry. Those entering the dairy industry often find attracting financing difficult and may find that accumulating an acceptable level of equity to ...
Does early androgen exposure moderate developmental plasticity?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Little is known about what mechanisms allow some individuals more than others to flexibly develop cognitive competencies and behavioral biases while growing up to better meet the demands of their ecology, a phenomenon known ...
Are Hedonic Second-Stage Characteristic Demand Reflective of Actual Characteristic Demands?
(2003-10)
direct procedure. We model wheat protein because of the extensive previous research on valuing wheat protein and the availability of data to estimate direct protein demand models. Our results indicate concern in using indirect generated data to estimate...
Direct-from-sputum rapid phenotypic drug susceptibility test for mycobacteria
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The spread of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a leading global public-health challenge. Because not all biological-mechanisms of resistance are known, culture-based (phenotypic) drug-susceptibility testing ...
Determinants of Beef and Pork Brand Equity
(2003-11)
A set of consumer-level characteristic demand models were estimated to determine the level of brand equity for pork and beef meat cuts. Results indicate that brand premiums and discounts vary by private, national, and store ...
Letting customers win: live chat agent effectiveness in B2C sales negotiations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Sales negotiations over Internet-enabled live chat portals are increasingly common in business-to-consumer (B2C) durable product sales, but little is known about sales agent effectiveness in this context. Drawing from ...
Associations between psychosis risk and emotional distress disorders with cortical surface morphometry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Neuroimaging studies have consistently found structural cortical abnormalities in schizophrenia, especially in structural hubs. However, it ...
Maternity roost selection of Indiana bats (myotis sodalis) and occupancy of two threatened myotine bat species on national wildlife refuges in northern Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
of an extensive network of available roost trees. To identify the local- and landscape-scale factors associated with occupancy of M. sodalis and M. septentrionalis, we used ANABAT SD1 acoustic detectors to record the echolocation calls of passing bats at 87 sites...
A multi-configuration evaluation of the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) in a mixed land use watershed in the central U.S.A.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Distributed watershed hydrologic/water quality (H/WQ) models are ubiquitous tools for watershed management. Despite advancements, there remain impediments for end-users. This study presents a practical framework for use ...
Influence of entomopathogenic fungi from forest and urban habitats on founding pairs of reticulitermes flavipes (rhinotermitidae)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
In forest habitats, termites break down woody debris and assist in nutrient cycling of carbon and nitrogen. However, infestations in suburban habitats have given subterranean termites a high priority for pest management. ...
Sociocognitive and socioemotive factors associated with early academic abilities in preschool children in Costa Rica
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This study aims at providing a multi-report, multi-method model of academic and socio-emotional preparation in preschool children that integrates bodies of previous research that have been conducted primarily in isolation. ...
A systematic framework to improve knowledge management through information technology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Organizations rely on their IT infrastructure to perform on a daily basis, and a constant debate on whether the IT tools used are the appropriate ones to achieve their strategic planning objectives is always present. Many ...
Forest adaptation and transition in the eastern united states under climate change : a forest landscape modeling method
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Forest management is rapidly shifting in focus to address the adaptive capacity of forests under uncertain future climates. Managers and researchers often utilize models to proactively develop strategies for forest adaptation ...
8 weeks supplementation of fruit and vegetable juice concentrate reduced postprandial inflammation in overweight/obese, but otherwise healthy, women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Purpose: The prevalence of overweight/obesity is growing not only in the United States, but also worldwide. Increased adiposity is associated with ...
Hospital acquired pressure injury in adult orthopedic spine surgery patients: risk factors and risk assessment tools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Approximately 25 percent of all hospital acquired pressure injuries (HAPI) begin in the perioperative area. The study purposes were to identify risk factors in adult surgical patients undergoing orthopedic spine surgery ...
Crop Basis Patterns in the Presence of Spatial Competition and Government Intervention
(2002-05)
This study analyzes the effect of the Loan Deficiency Payment (LDP) program, established under the Federal Agriculture Improvement Reform (FAIR) act of 1996, on corn and soybean basis pattern patterns in Missouri. Additionally, ...
Three essays on monetary and financial economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This three-chapter dissertation focuses on the research topics in Monetary and Financial Economics. The first paper examines the time-varying impact ...
Agroforestry buffer, biomass crop, and grain crop effects on soil quality and soil water use
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Soil degradation, impaired water quality, and reduced soil organic carbon have become major concerns in the management of degraded claypan soils with ...
The politics of CO2 emissions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Climate change poses a severe threat to humanity for the last few decades. Various forms of natural disasters, extreme weather events, the outbreak of deadly diseases, life, and food insecurity are among common threats of ...
Applied genomics toward targeted improvement of soybean
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The abundance of genomic data produced by the research community in the last decade has offered an unprecedented view into the variation present in the soybean genome and has been exploited to uncover the genetic architecture ...