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Come hell or high water : a framing analysis of local newspaper coverage of Hurricane Katrina
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29, 2005 in what would become one of the most deadly and destructive natural disasters in United States history. Throughout the storm and in the immediate aftermath, the New Orleans Times-Picayune continued...
The use of cognitive enhancing substances and academic stress
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study investigated relationships between reported academic stress, caffeine consumption, and illicit prescription stimulant use, as a means of better identifying students...
Teacher social justice advocacy for children: a scale development and preliminary validity
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-18)
Social injustices on the school, neighborhood, societal, and family level can affect
certain populations of children and these injustices have been associated with school-related
consequences, including: unequal access ...
Channeling the waves : the use of radio narrowcasting on niche voting groups in the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
little research to show how it is done in a campaign and who is targeted. This paper examines the ads created for Tim Kaine for the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election. Using a content analysis of the advertisements created for both television and radio...
Climate change in the newsroom : journalists' evolving standards of objectivity when covering global warming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
with their experiences. In the case of "balance", reporters have redefined it to mean applying a "weight of evidence" approach (Dunwoody, 2005) to science stories, and they tend to use global warming "skeptics" as sources very sparingly. There only limited support...
Community Factors in Differential Responses of Child Protective Services
(2015-06-19)
Child maltreatment results in over 3 million referrals annually to U. S. child
protective services agencies and an estimated 695,000 children who are determined
to be child maltreatment victims. There are ongoing concerns ...
The impact of Wal-Mart on the rural retail wage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This study uses panel data to test the impact of Wal-Mart on the rural retail wage. There are observations from 2,986 counties in the contiguous United States from 1990-2005. Previous studies have reported mixed findings of the impact of Wal...
How social media are changing the way business journalists do their jobs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This professional project seeks to answer the question of how social media are changing business reporters' sourcing practices. In the past, reporters depended on face-to-face interviews or email. With the popularity of social media in the newsrooms...
Quality and intensity of pain associated with continuously applied orthodontic stresses of relatively high and low magnitudes
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-07-21)
The purpose was to assess longitudinally pain intensity and quality during tooth
translation by 2 continuous stresses. Eight subjects (five males, 3 females) who required
maxillary first premolar extractions had maxillary ...
The relationship between police and citizen collaboration regarding crime in multifamily rental complexes
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 5/6/2011)
) Is there a correlation between reported crime and frequency of police-public contact? (2) Is there a correlation between reported crime and initiation of police-public contact? And (3) Is there a correlation between reported crime and level of investment...
Modification of fatty acid composition in soybean seeds to improve soybean oil quality and functionality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The purpose of this project is to modify the fatty acid composition in soybean seeds to improve soybean oil quality and functionality. By sequencing the FAD2-1A and FAD2-1B genes in 24 plant introductions, we identified two novel mutant alleles: one...
The boys on the blogs : intermedia agenda setting in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
and wire service reporters who covered the campaign (N = 80) found that reporters who wrote about the campaign on a regular basis and who contributed to a blog on their news organizations' Websites had higher levels of exposure to political blogs. Reporters...
Reporting from the front : a textual analysis of embedded reporting in the New York Times
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Embedded reporting during the Iraq War grew out of a new approach to the relationship between the news media and the military. Embedded reporters were given unprecedented access...
Speed of Human Orthodontic Tooth Movement and Reported Pain When Applied Loads are Changed
(2015)
and at each study visit completed a validated pain report for right and left canines consisting of the Visual Analogue Scale and the Modified McGill Pain Questionnaire Short Form designed for orthodontic subjects, plus had maxillary impressions made...
Proactive environmental risk communication : multiple publics' evaluation of for-profit corporations' sustainability communication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research expands understanding of corporate environmental communication beyond green advertising and environment responsibility reports of CSR into the more developed...
An Ecological Model of Mexican Immigration and Mental Health
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The literature on the relationship between cultural factors and mental health outcomes
for immigrant groups has been extensive (e.g., Berry, 1976; 1997; 2004; Sam & Berry,
2006). The complex nature of interacting factors ...
Studies on the mechanisms of action of the male specific lethal complex in Drosophila
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
the repressive property of the MSL complex, selected protein components of the complex were combined with the yeast GAL4 binding domain. When targeted to a UAS-minimal promoter mini-white reporter, which was recovered at several X and autosomal positions, GAL4...
Missouri superintendents' perception of a sense of urgency to improve student academic performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Performance Report. The Missouri Annual Performance Report ranks districts from highest to lowest with the following designations: performance with distinction; full waiver; limited waiver; provisionally accredited; and, unaccredited. This study focused only...
Development of a pregnancy associated glycoprotein assay to detect late embryonic mortality in cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
et al., 2013), and may serve as an indicator for placental development and function (Perry et. al., 2005). Pohler et al. (2013) reported that circulating concentrations of PAGs were higher on day 28 in cows that successfully maintained pregnancy until...
A Case Study of Two 21ˢᵗ Century Schools: Are We Preparing Students for the Global World?
(2016)
There is no question that we live in a global society. The ability to compete
successfully in the global marketplace is a fact facing our world today as it never has before.
American education must prepare students ...