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The State of Early Childhood Programs: 2009
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2009)
in the likelihood children will some day engage in criminal activity or be dependent on public welfare programs....
Consumer and descriptive analysis of flavored omeprazole oral suspensions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
suspensions. Consumer preference data ana lysis reveals no significant differences between Strawberry cream without omeprazole, Zegerid [trademark symbol TM] and Tutifruti products. Descriptive data analyses by multivariate statistical tools showed...
Public perception of the effectiveness of public input in the parks and recreation planning process at the Boone County fairgrounds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The United States government process is open to the public, allowing the public to be involved with decisions that will shape their lives. Professionals still dominate the planning process and make the final decisions which shape government policy...
Inflation and seigniorage studies in Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This paper explores the link between inflation and seigniorage, which is the revenue governments get from printing money. My research uses data from twenty-nine African countries in the time period 1981 to 2005 to find the ...
Can public relations professionals help span the boundaries between scientists and journalists, and does this function help increase accuracy of news articles about public health?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
A function of public relations professionals working for public health agencies is to perform a boundary-spanning role, facilitating communication between public health professionals and the news media. The purpose of this research was to examine...
A mixed model for variance of successive difference of stationary time series : modeling temporal instability in intensive longitudinal data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Temporal instability of a stochastic process has been of interest in many areas of behavioral and social science. Recent development in data collection techniques in behavioral and health sciences, such as Ecological ...
What's the big deal?: the effect of corporate reforms on manufacturing productivity in Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Although Korea has achieved striking economic success during last four decades, following the 1997-98 foreign exchange crisis, Korea's economy was in urgent need of restructuring amid a series of corporate bankruptcies and ...
Empirical likelihood approach estimation of structural equation models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This thesis provides a preliminary investigation of empirical likelihood approach estimation of structural equation models. An auxiliary variable approach built on general estimating equation methods in the EL settings is ...
The estimation of a corporate crisis communication based on perceived CEO's leadership, perceived severity of threats, and preceived opposing public's size
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Based on the contingency theory (Cancel, Mitrook, & Cameron, 1999), this study examined whether the perception of leadership as a powerful inner organizational factor influences the outside latent public's assessment of an organization's crisis...
Psychometric properties of the School Leader Practice Survey (SLPS) to determine Missouri school superintendent perceptions about Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) standards performance indicators
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The study of Missouri superintendent perceptions about the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards Performance Indicators was conducted to determine psychometric properties of the School Leaders ...
Revisiting fund-raising encroachment of public relations in light of the theory of donor relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This qualitative study of public relations and fund-raising practitioners in charitable organizations found fund-raising encroachment of public relations occurring at a rate roughly comparable to levels documented in the first studies...
Cultural framing of diabetes from a public health perspective: a comparative content analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This content analysis of 161 newspaper articles identified public health facts and socio-cultural schema within two Los Angeles County newspapers, La Opinión and the Daily News of Los Angeles. It extended Rodgers and Thorson's (2001) crime...
Nonparametric and semiparametric methods for interval-censored failure time data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Interval-censored failure time data commonly arise in follow-up studies such as clinical trials and epidemiology studies. By interval-censored data, we mean that the failure time of interest is not completely observed. ...
An investigation of African American socialization influences on gender satisfaction as measured by the Noel-Levitz Inventory at selected peer, regional universities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
statistical analysis procedures using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences v. 14: descriptive summary analysis, two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and discriminant analysis. The study found significant main and interaction effects of satisfaction...
Housing subsidy and self-perception of well-being : does housing subsidy make a difference in residents' perception of their physical and mental health?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
. Around the country, individuals are being moved from their homes in public housing into Section 8 housing. This study, conducted in Columbia, Missouri, (a mid-sized Midwestern town) compared Section 8 and public housing residents in terms of perceived...
Energy price uncertainty, energy intensity and firm-level investment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
-level data sets. The first is for U.S. firms and the second is for European firms. The effect of oil price uncertainty will be examined with over 38,800 observations on over 2,665 publicly traded U.S. firms between 1971 and 2006. The effect of energy price...
Estimates of school productivity and implications for policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
School productivity was not perfectly estimated because of the sampling error and the measurement error. The traditional Ordinary Least Square (OLS) leaves the estimation of school productivity questionable. Moreover, ...
Black alumni of the University of Missouri-Columbia : financial support as the mirror of attitudes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2001)
relevant to the school's leadership, image, correspondence, alumni association, student experiences, and general impressions of fund raising techniques and purposes. ANOVA was chosen for the statistical procedure. Findings did not indicate a statistically...
The effect of rhythmic pattern instruction on the sight-reading achievement of wind instrumentalists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
: facility, ensemble, and flow. The results of the statistical analyses revealed no significant differences between experimental and control groups. There were, however, statistically significant differences between pretest and posttest scores...
The development of the junior wear industry 1926-1930
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study examines the debate over the "junior" size category in the social cultural context of the 1920s. Through analysis and interpretation of articles that discussed this transition found in Women's Wear Daily from ...