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Promotion of academic hospitalists : room for improvement
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2021-10)
excluded; 78 responded (58%) reporting on 3294 faculty. Faculty: Most identified hospital medicine as a career. Promotion: 21% of institutions reported a single promotion track. Among institutions with multiple tracks (79%) faculty were reported...
MORVT final yields, 2021
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2021)
Final yield research presenting the grain type, cultivar, moisture, yield, and lodging of seven different areas and seven different dates. Areas included in research are Portageville, Neelyville, Rives, Fisk, Rice Farm ...
Burnout among investigative journalists : causes and solutions
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Investigative journalism is a hard profession. The job usually requires months of intense digging, seeking out wrongdoing committed by powerful people and organizations. By its nature, it requires reporters to closely examine some of the worst...
Are you a werewolf? : Teaching symbolic interaction theory through game play
(2021)
In this paper, we report on the implementation of using the game Werewolf as a student-centered applied-learning activity to teach symbolic interaction theory and concepts. Engaging with symbolic interaction theory can be a powerful experience...
Men and maternal care: how men make sense of their experiences with a partner's pregnancy, labor, and delivery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Men often report wanting to be involved in a partner's pregnancy, labor, and delivery but may feel unsure of what to do or if they are allowed to participate. Existing studies describe men's participation and are mostly from non...
Financial leverage and predictability of earnings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This study investigates whether firms' financial leverage affects earnings predictability. I posit and find that earnings predictability is negatively associated with firms' leverage. Further analyses using an instrumental ...
Essays on inequality and mobility of Korean households' income and consumption
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation analyzes income and consumption inequality empirically and theoretically using Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS). This dissertation consists of three chapters. First two chapters are about ...
The impact of gender and traditional norm adherence on event-level alcohol outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Men consume more alcohol than women, both globally and within the United States specifically, experience different patterns of social problems from drinking, and differ in their risk for developing alcohol use disorder ...
Sociocultural attitudes as a moderator of the relations between negative eating and weight messages from family members and Latinas' body image shame
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Research shows that family members are important for young women's body image. Using the sociocultural model, I explored associations between negative eating and weight messages from fathers, mothers, and sisters and ...
Social camouflaging and mental health in adolescence: differences by sex and diagnosis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
adolescents and 2) to examine age, sex, autism diagnosis, and camouflaging as predictors of depression, anxiety, and stress levels in autistic and non-autistic adolescents. The first study found that females reported higher levels of camouflaging when...
Pyogenic liver abscess and gastrointestinal lemierre syndrome due to fusobacterium nucleatum
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2021-01)
Pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) affects men disproportionately to women and is occurring with increasing incidence. The mortality associated with PLA nears 15% in the Western world. PLA constitutes a significant number of ...
Second chance: the paradox of felony convictions
(2021)
the stigma associated with felony convictions has affected their work volition and career trajectory, including the potential barriers they experience to employment. Participants reported receiving a felony conviction before age 24 and experienced post...
Short-term weekly effects of ethnic-racial discrimination on academic outcomes : ethnic-racial socialization and ethnic-racial identity as moderators
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
university in the Midwest to examine the short-term weekly effects of ethnic-racial discrimination on weekly academic outcomes (i.e., academic belonging, academic stress, negative academic behaviors). Weekly discrimination and academic data were reported over...
An examination of musical instrument practice among collegiate musicians
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation consists of three projects that were designed to investigate collegiate instrumentalists' practice habits and motivation orientations. The first investigation was a review of the literature about instrumental ...
Intolerance of Uncertainty and the Physiological Correlates of Anticipation and Appraisal of Affective Stimuli
(2021)
-related stimulus-preceding negativity (SPN) and image-related late positive potential (LPP) were captured and assessed as measures of emotional anticipation and emotional reactivity, respectively. Self-reported arousal and valence ratings following image...
Modifying Diet and Exercise in Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study
(2021)
a healthier lifestyle (3.87 ± 0.35 on 0 to 4 Likert scale). Activity scores increased from insufficiently active (M = 13.0, SD = 14.98) to active at follow-up (M = 43.50, SD = 21.31; t(7) = -3.33, p = 0.013). Self-reported fruit and vegetable...
Effects of partially decoupled payments on production decisions and their relation to farmers' demographics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
acre, the majority of respondents (68.7 percent) indicated no change in acreage, but more respondents (28.8 percent) reported they would increase acreage than reported they would reduce acreage (2.5 percent). Likewise, 65.9 percent of farmers reported...
The experience of female journalists of color on Twitter
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Since pivoting into a micro-blog platform, Twitter has transformed the journalism industry where it's now considered a common job requirement for many journalists in the U.S. While social media brought many perks, including ...
Conservation genetics of conflict in the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is an endangered species whose distribution spans 13 countries in south, southeast, and insular Asia. The primary threats to the survival of this species include direct conflict, primarily ...
Evaluation of a bibliotherapy-based stress management training for teachers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
strategies of planning (? = 0.62), positive reframing (? = 0.66), and decreased in self-reported substance use (? = -0.44). The intervention did not have statistically significant effects on contextual factors or on observed classroom behaviors...