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North Korea's emulation Chinese politics : an examination of Mao Tse-Tung's ideological influence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1979)
North Korean leader, Kim Il-song has been known among western observers as a "faithful disciple of Stalin." Furthermore, Communist North Korea has been known to the western world as faithfully following the Soviet model. The central argument of my...
Soviet federalism, a solution to the nationality problem
(University of Missouri, 1962)
"This thesis is an analytical and descriptive study of federalism and the problem of nationality in the political organization of a state. The study is concerned generally with the nature of federalism and the national ...
An investigation of the mid-Missouri regional planning commissioners perception and acceptance of regional planning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
Data were collected concerning the commissioners' background, attitudes toward local governments, predisposition toward change, and attitudes toward the Regional Planning Commission. This information was analyzed with the aid of a regression model...
Risk assessment of adopting agroforestry in a peasant economy : the Honduran case
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1996)
was conducted in 1994, in 14 villages representing three regions in the El Merendon mountain range of Honduras Central America. Stochastic dominance was used in the assessment of risk perception; discriminant analysis and the logit model were used to identify...
Highway impacts on Ozark incomes and employment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1970)
emphasize public investments in physical overhead capital, especially highway construction, as a weapon for eradicating regional poverty. Such priority for highway expenditures has been seriously questioned in the professional literature. Consequently...
Early roads in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1936)
"The objectives of this study are to present a brief survey of some of the outstanding Indian trails of the State, an abbreviated account of the development of the important traces of the French and Spanish regimes, and a ...
Trade barriers to grain cooperatives in exporting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1986)
with a minor difficulty. The minor problem existed with the regionals. As long as they operate independently, they remain inadequately diversified to operate in a large-scale exporting environment. The major problem was that grain cooperatives do not have...
The poverty of place : a comparative study of five rural counties in the Missouri Ozark
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1999)
to further the understanding of the dynamics driving this phenomenon or to discover what types of public policies are likely to be successful at breaking up these areas of persistent poverty. The existence of a five county group in the south central Missouri...
Identification of the Missouri public's perception of natural resource problems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
. In such cases, the general approach has been that of government provision of public goods and services. Theoretically, the avenue for initiating or controlling the quantity and quality of public goods and services has been through the political process...
The Soils of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
Text from page 2: It is the purpose of this thesis to describe briefly the origin, distribution, and character of the soils in the different parts of the State, as determined by extensive field and laboratory studies and ...
Incentives for food crop production in Tanzania : with special reference to the Mbeya region
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1984)
The objectives of this study were to determine the potential impacts of a) increased output prices, b) reduction of input costs, and c) improved technology on increasing food production, specifically marketable surplus in the Mbeya region...
Structure and organization comparisons of U.S. large volume swine producers : a national survey
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1986)
A national sample of hog operations marketing 1,000 head or more a year was taken in 1981. A mail questionnaire gathered the necessary information. A second survey grouped operations into three groups: feeder pig producers, ...
Indexes of the influence of weather on corn yields in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1964)
yields in Missouri. The study was designed (1) to construct and evaluate Indexes of weather using existing techniques in a designated Central Missouri area, (2) to construct and evaluate indexes of weather in a designated area utilising the most recent...
Interpreters of Chicago : a study in American regionalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1932)
of regionalism in that country. She became, with Thomas Hardy, the interpreter of English rustic life. Their methods were very different: George Eliot made characters the means by which she revealed the middle section of England; Hardy was influenced...
The impact of the Sino-Soviet conflict on the Japanese Communist Party, 1961-1968
(University of Missouri -- Columbia., 1973)
to 1970. Based on the available biographical data, the JCP elites are divided into three groups--24 members of the JCP Central Executive Committee (1922-1927), 45 Moscow-trained middle echelon activists of the 1930's, and 154 post-war members of the JCP...
Place names of five central southern counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1939)
Counties: Dallas, Dent, Laclede, Shannon, Texas....
, Shannon, and Texas. My district is ranged in a sort of stair-stepped fashion across the central southern portion of the state. All of my counties are included in the region known as the Ozarks, yet each county is distinctive and dissimilar from the others...
, Shannon, and Texas. My district is ranged in a sort of stair-stepped fashion across the central southern portion of the state. All of my counties are included in the region known as the Ozarks, yet each county is distinctive and dissimilar from the others...
Social indicators of efficiency and equity convergence in four distressed regions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
. Social indicators can thus be employed to judge national versus regional welfare tradeoffs as incremental changes are made. Furthermore, such indexes provide a mechanism which can continuously monitor the system— in effect, provide data for evaluation...
A study of types of farming in the U.S. by the farm management survey method
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
The following study was made to get an insight into the conditions and farm practices of six different types of farming in the United States from the standpoint of farm management. Previous work along this line indicates ...
The Missouri Department of Community Affairs : a politico-administrative analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1968)
on the Missouri Department of Community Affairs. It is the central thesis herein that the Missouri Department of Community Affairs, a new and developing bureaucratic institution, underwent an adaptive process of accommodation and response to political stimuli...
Place names in the north central counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1928)
Counties: Adair, Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler, and Sullivan...
This thesis is an attempt to study and determine the origin of the names of the counties, towns, streams, townships, and country schools of the North Central Counties of Missouri. These counties include Adair, Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Lirin...
This thesis is an attempt to study and determine the origin of the names of the counties, towns, streams, townships, and country schools of the North Central Counties of Missouri. These counties include Adair, Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Lirin...