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Domestic Violence Victim's Services — A Preliminary Analysis
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
The purpose of this brief is to provide an overview of domestic violence in Missouri and discuss how well domestic violence records are tracked in the justice system. This note compares how Missouri's records on domestic ...
Public Attitudes on State Election Administration, Goals, and Reforms*
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2009)
While few would disagree that elections
serve a fundamental role in democracy, there
is considerable debate regarding the rules by
which elections should be conducted. State
and local officials responsible for carrying
out ...
Profiles of Missouri: Obesity Rate in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
According to a recent report from the Trust for America's Health (TFAH), obesity rates in all but one of our fifty U.S. states rose last year at an alarming rate (the exception is Oregon, where the rate remained the same ...
What Missouri Thinks: An Examination of Public Attitudes
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2009)
of Missourians on a set of important political, economic, and social issues, researchers at the Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs examined results from the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey (CCES). This nationally-representative public opinion...
State Regulation of Trucking: The Policy Impact of Differential Speed Limits
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
Accounting for Uncertainty in Ecological Analysis: The Strengths and Limitations of Hierarchical Statistical Modeling
(Ecological Society of America, 2009)
and boundary conditions. Only then can we be confident in the scientific inferences and forecasts made from an analysis. Probability and statistics provide a framework that accounts for multiple sources of uncertainty. Given the complexities of ecological...
Universal Optimality in Balanced Uniform Crossover Design
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2003)
Kunert [Ann. Statist. 12 (1984) 1006-1017] proved that, in the class of repeated measurement designs based on t treatments, p = t periods and n = λt experimental units, a balanced uniform design is universally optimal
for ...
The Effect of the Designated Hitter Rule on Hit Batsmen: Pitcher's Moral Hazard or the Team's Cost-Benefit Calculation?: A Comment
(Oxford University Press, 1998-10)
is no longer statistically significant. However, the point estimates are close to our prediction, which does not rely on moral hazard....
Public library outreach as a function of staffing and metropolitan location.
(Library & Information Science Research, 2004)
Library literature suggests that staffing and metropolitan status may affect a public library’s provision of outreach efforts. Data from a 1999 survey of Arizona public library service outlets do not support the role of metropolitan status...
(Mis-) Measuring the Relative Pay of Public School Teachers
(Education Finance and Policy, 2006)
Statistics on the relative pay of public school teachers are routinely cited by plaintiffs in school finance (“adequacy”) lawsuits. However, comparisons of pay and
benefits for public school teachers to those of professional ...
Missouri Medicaid Program: The A Graphical Profile
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
This report provides a graphical summary of the Missouri Medicaid program. It is intended to provide background information of the policy issues being considered by the Missouri Medicaid Reform Commission. The report was ...
Seat Belt Use Among Rural & Urban Pickup Truck Drivers
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2007)
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), traffic crashes are a leading cause of death among Americans ages four through 34. Many
traffic fatalities are the result of a lack of or improper ...
The Cost of Incarceration in Missouri and the Benefits of Sentencing Alternatives
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2002)
Many and probably most persons sentenced to prison are not good candidates for
alternative sentences, either because they pose a danger to public safety or because they committed a crime for which a prison sentence is mandatory under current...
Universal Breakfast Programs in Public Schools
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2008)
The School Breakfast Program allows schools to provide breakfast to students at free and reduced costs in an attempt to provide nutritious meals for low-income students.
Nationwide, during the 2006-2007 school year, the ...
Policy Options for Addressing Childhood Obesity in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2008)
The prevalence of overweight children has increased threefold nationwide, from 5.7% to 18% between 1980 and 2004.1 The current percentage of overweight children in Missouri is greater than the national average. These trends ...
Ubiquity of simplices in subsets of vector spaces over finite fields
(2007)
We prove that a sufficiently large subset of the $d$-dimensional vector space over a finite field with $q$ elements, $ {\Bbb F}_q^d$, contains a copy of every $k$-simplex. Fourier analytic methods, Kloosterman sums, and ...
Should We Continue to Incarcerate Non-Violent Offenders?
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2002)
increase public safety....
Missouri's Senior Population: The Facts
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2001)
During the past century, the percentage
of Americans who are age 65 years and
older has more than tripled, from just over
4% of the total population in 1900 to nearly
13% of the total population in 1999. Older individuals ...
An Overview of Highway Funding In Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
Established in 1913, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is responsible for all modes of transportation including air, rail, water, and mass transit, as well as highway transportation. Unlike most other ...
Population Influences on Tornado Reports in the United States
(Weather and Forecasting, 2005)
The number of tornadoes reported in the United States is believed to be less than the actual incidence of tornadoes, especially prior to the 1990s, because tornadoes may be undetectable by human witnesses in sparsely ...