"Each year, the best seed companies and organizations select several of their best hybrids for evaluation by the MU Variety Testing Program. We use the latest scientific principles and procedures to provide farmers and ...

This paper compares frequentist risks of several Bayesian estimators of the VAR lag parameters and covariance matrix under alternative priors. With the constant prior on the VAR lag parameters, the asymmetric LINEX estimator ...

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This thesis presents a comparative study on using nanocomposite of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) nanocoating on carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and bare CNFs for enhancing the cement mortars mechanical properties, durability under ...

This research evaluated a series of MoDOT concrete mixtures to verify existing relationships between surface resistivity (SR), rapid chloride permeability (RCP), chloride ion diffusion, and the AASHTO penetrability ...

Urbanization is still widely perceived as a social and economic issue that needs to be tackled immediately yet the fact of the matter is that no country has made to the list of developed nation without experiencing rapid ...

We examine whether cooperatives are characterized by greater trust than investor-owned firms. We survey 2000 Missouri corn and soybean farmers and find that trust and farmer perceptions of honesty and competence are higher ...

We propose and investigate dynamic spatial-temporal point process models for independent and interacting events. The models for independent events are dynamic spatial-temporal Poisson point process (DSTPPP) model that ...

The multiproxy examination of ten soft sediment cores extracted from Triangle Pond was used in order to establish alterations in the northwestern coastal environment of San Salvador Island, The Bahamas over the last 3,500 ...

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 ...

Several projects are covered in this dissertation: the application of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) and rigorous statistical analyses to the sourcing of Egyptian limestone and Kenyan obsidian, and the ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation provides an analysis of various aspects of the competitivity of the US corn seed industry. In the first essay I develop a price ...

Mixed hardwood systems of the Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project are harvested using clearcutting (CC) and single-tree selection (STS) regeneration methods. This work indicates possible effects of regeneration method ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Interval-censored failure time data arises when the failure time of interest is known only to lie within an interval or window instead of being observed ...

Askja is a caldera volcano located in central Iceland that was glaciated approximately 70,000 to 10,500 years ago. Askja’s basaltic lavas have been classified into one preglacial, six glacial, one Early Holocene and thirteen ...