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Bayesian spatial analysis with application to the Missouri Ozark Forest ecosystem project
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Bayesian hierarchical framework brings more flexibility by accounting for variation from different levels and improves the estimation of parameters ...
An evaluation of the relationship of nursing school administrators' leadership frame orientation to faculty perceptions of job satisfaction and leadership effectiveness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
satisfaction with supervisor scores. No statistical mean difference was shown for general job satisfaction between the various frame choices. Most nursing school administrators were identified as using none of the 4 frames consistently, while the second highest...
A study of international baccalaureate science teachers' choices in curriculum and instruction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
. Teachers' reasons for their option choices were also analyzed. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS descriptive statistics, Pearson's product-moment correlations, and linear regression. It was found that IB science teachers' most frequent reasons...
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 ...
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...
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...
Visible reflectance spectroscopy to observe the effect of copper embedded socks on erythema in feet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Objective assessment of skin characteristics is necessary to aid in the clinical detection of erythema and debilitating skin conditions. The ability to treat different skin pathologies based on individual patient skin ...
A profile analysis of diagnostic data from college students experiencing math difficulty
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Level, shape and scatter are three characteristics of profiles that determine the specific focus of profile analysis procedures. In this study, three methods of profile analysis that emphasize each of these characteristics ...
Multilevel models for intensive longitudinal data with heterogeneous error structure : covariance transformation and variance function models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
of statistical models in use. In the present thesis, issues in the analysis of ILD and problems of current use of statistical models for the analysis of ILD are discussed and investigated. Specifically, the issue of heterogeneity of autocorrelation and variance...
Shape reconstruction from volumetric images
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
initialization in a 2-D grayscale image, a PDE is proposed to evolve an explicit model based on the interior statistics of the previously identified region. The algorithm is adapted to volumetric diffusion tensor MRI to extract the thalamus and thalamus nuclei...
Diffusion of viral marketing into the world of public relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
With the ever-changing world of technology, consumers can be reached through more and more media. These opportunities are only possible if the advertising and public relations industries follow their audiences and understand how to reach them...
Semiparametric analysis of multivariate longitudinal data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Longitudinal studies are conducted widely in fields such as agriculture and life sciences, business and industry, demography and other social sciences, medicine and public...
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...
An analysis of transfer student success utilizing an initial college choice-persistence Nexus model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
for community college transfer students to a Midwestern, public research university. In contrast, only first-semester GPA and transfer hours had a positive effect on baccalaureate attainment for four-year transfer students to the same institution. Additionally...
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...
Spatially adaptive priors for regression and spatial modeling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The smoothing splines and penalized regression splines (P-splines) are popular nonparametric regression methods for curve fitting problems, and the ...
Perceptions of employers of graduates of the Agricultural Systems Management Program regarding skills and competencies needed for successful employment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
,". Competencies denoted of moderately high importance by respondents but of lesser demonstrable effectiveness by MU ASM graduates included: "incorporation of safety into the workplace," "demonstration of effective written communication skills," "demonstration...
The rhetoric of the uninsured : claimsmaking in public policy research
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Public policy research is often seen as another arena applicable to the objective lens of science, as policy makers "the best evidence," or scientific facts, about a social problem to determine which solutions are most warranted. Hundreds...
Essays on applied econometrics : applications of the futures markets and the international tourism demand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation applies econometric methods to analyze the optimal hedge ratios, basis variability, and dynamic tourism demand. In the first essay, ...