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The politics of land reform in South Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
Land reform in the developing countries has been of particular concern to social scientists as well as politicians and revolutionaries because of the preponderant role of agriculture in the area. Economists have paid ...
Seasonal inventory control and the price of storage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1977)
a dynamic representation of the changing flows of information and physical products which occur in present-day commodity marketing systems. The aim of this research is to examine some of the general requirements of a more appropriate model...
Microbiological and electrophoretic studies of the binding of antibiotics by milk and milk components
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1970)
"The most common form of mastitis is associated with the growth and multiplication of bacteria in the milk secreting tissues of the udder. The infected gland reacts to microbial invasion and the host defense mechanism may ...
Federal crop insurance -- a case study in Audrain County, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
in Missouri. The importance of Missouri commodities for the entire United States is summarized in Table 2. As the table indicates, corn, wheat, and soybeans account for a large portion of the number of crops insured by the FCIC in the United States."--Introduction....
The biosystematics of the Lupinus sparsiflorus complex and allies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
"The genus Lupinus officially dates back to Linnaeus (1753) and Tourenfourt is credited with originating the name in prelinnean work; however, a species had been illustrated in an Old World herbal back to the time of the ...
Exhaustible resources and technological change in the United States agriculture, 1940-1969
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
prior to the estimation of Cobb-Douglas type function. The test evinced the insignificancy between the CES and CD functions. Nonexperimental time series data were used to estimate the aggregate production function. Factors of production that entered...
Estimation of demand parameters : an empirical analysis of consumer behavior in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
is insufficient for the estimation of a large number of the required parameters. Recent studies of the theory of consumer behavior have provided a number of empirically useful hypotheses concerning the separability of the consumer’s utility functions...
Pursuit of national interests through neutralism : case of India
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
/neutralism is an evolutionary concept—from certain initial general negative propositions like anti-colonialism, anti-racialism (that did not necessarily include anti-alliance postures), it came to have more positive characteristics, including willingness to solve international...
Trait anxiety : a psychometric shadow
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
The purpose of the present study is to examine the independent relationships which trait and state anxiety have to measures of fear in rat-phobic female college students during imagined and live encounters with a member ...
Roy Wilkins as a journalist
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1970)
"This study is primarily concerned with an observation of Wilkins' journalistic image as reflected in his newspaper, magazine and syndicated columns concerning the racial and economic problems of the Negro American. A ...
Behavioral effects of three social conditions of reinforcement on an inpatient token reinforcement system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
Applied research in clinical settings substantiates the beneficial effects of group operant systems with a variety of patient populations and problems. Additional proof of either the clinical potential or efficacy of ...
A feedlot beef cattle production function study with an economic analysis of corn-silage rations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
"The Problem and Objectives: The basic Impetus for this study is well summarized by Heady’s comment: Although economics deals quite largely with the maximization (profit, national product) or minimization (cost, resource ...
The Old English Herbal in Cotton Ms. Vitellius C. iii : studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
been made in this century. The only published complete edition of the herbal complex appears in Volume I of Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England, ed. Thomas O. Cockayne, Rolls Series, Vol. 35 (London, 1864) . This work has recently been...
An essay on the idea and logic of agricultural economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1977)
belief in the universal validity and applicability of neoclassical economic theory. All these problems essentially arose as an unintended consequence of the applied economists' solution to what is termed the "Schultz Dilemma." Therefore, this essay...
A study of parametric instability of eccentrically stiffened rectangular plates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
-dependent ordinary differential equations, were then expressed in matrix notation. The solution of the resulting matrix equation, which was assumed in the form of a Fourier series, showed that the boundary of the regions of parametric instability could be determined...
Political development in the mini-state Caribbean : a focus on Barbados
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
"Seconds after midnight, November 30, 1966, a new trident-bedecked, gold and blue banner caught the prevailing Caribbean breeze signaling the birth of another new nation. The fact that this former British outpost, Barbados, ...
Job turnover among displaced agricultural workers within the Mississippi Delta area of Eastern Arkansas : extent, costs, and criteria of cause
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
by a number of factors. Thus, the conclusions and generalizations are limited. The scope of the inquiry was limited to: (1) only those firms of the eastern Arkansas area which employed displaced agricultural workers and hired more than fifty factory...
Encounters and careers of postdoctoral students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
in a few very prestigious universities. In recent years, however, they are found not only in a somewhat wider range of universities but in a number of non-academic institutions. The postdoctoral usually has been granted the Ph.D. degree although some...
A semi-annual econometric model of the United States feed grain-livestock economy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1979)
was chosen for application because it remains operational even when the number of predetermined variables exceeds the number of observations. It also assures consistent estimators for the structural and reduced form parameters. In structural and reduced form...
An optical crosscorrelation technique for turbulent density measurements in flames
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
A crossed-beam schlieren (cbs) system has been constructed and used to study the structure of an open, premixed propane-air flame that was pilot-stabilized on a two-dimensional burner. The cbs is composed of two perpendicular ...