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Federal crop insurance -- a case study in Audrain County, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
. In 1971, 62 counties out of 114 counties in Missouri were authorized to write all-risk crop insurance. In these 62 counties, 6,556,774 acres were harvested in the 1971 crop year; but only 168,013 acres, or 2.6 percent, were insured by the Federal Crop...
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 methodology for shortage area designation of physicians : selected applications
(University of Missouri-Columbia., 1975)
Interaction of organophosphorus insecticide (Ciovap(R)) with phenothiazine anthelmintic in sheep with or without Haemonchus and Trichostrongylus species infection
(University of Missouri -- Columbia., 1981)
"This study was undertaken to examine the extent of cholinesterase inhibition and clinical effects of repeated topical application of the organophosphorus insecticide (Ciovap (R)) and the oral administration of phenothiazine ...
An optical lateral control system for vehicles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
access highways connecting these cities are near capacity. With the traffic volume increasing at a rate of more than 3% per year, the highways are becoming more crowded (2). As a result, the number of traffic accidents is also increasing. Thus, if we...
Stability and vibration characteristics of skew plates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
"Review of Literature. The deflection, stability, and vibration characteristics of rectangular plates have received considerable treatment in the literature. Solutions to the bending of rectangular plates with various ...
An analysis of the impact of the changes in the delivery procedure of the fresh shell egg futures contract
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
was attributable to the bias towards the long traders yielded by the inplant delivery provision. No evidence was found that the prediction ability of futures prices was affected by the changes in the delivery procedure. No distant futures prices were generally a...
A study of types of farming in the U.S. by the farm management survey method
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
The following study was made to get an insight into the conditions and farm practices of six different types of farming in the United States from the standpoint of farm management. Previous work along this line indicates ...
A simultaneous equation analysis of selected terminal hog markets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
. These contracts differ depending upon whom the contracting corporation is, but the general purpose of the contracts is to stabilize hog supplies so that the buyers and sellers may operate under less uncertainty, whether the buyer be a feed manufacturer or a packer...
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...
Investor capital, taxes and the structure of cattle feeding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
,000 head size have increased in numbers at a rapid rate in recent years. However, multi-lot cattle feeding firms have lots of widely varying sizes and in widely scattered locations. This pattern suggests considerations beyond production economies of size...
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...
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 ...
Alternate methods of coordination for agricultural producers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
"Every economic system must perform three basic functions; it must decide: (1) what goods and services will be produced; (2) how they are to be produced, that is, by whom, and with what resources and in what technological ...
An empirical study of advertised retail meat prices in a metropolitan area
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
. Weekly data for the advertised meat prices from different firms were obtained for a total of thirteen (1960-72) years by consulting the appropriate newspaper files in the Missouri Historical Society Library. The primary objectives of this study were...
Pulsatile viscous flow in flexible-elastic tubes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
solution to the problem, although there have been many variations on Womersley's original model. The main disadvantage to these solutions is that they are very laborious to apply. The solutions are given in terms of complex Bessel functions and in general...
A quarterly econometric model of the United States beef sector
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1982)
The United States beef sector has been modeled in many studies, perhaps, because beef represents a large proportion of the consumer food dollar and agriculture’s income. The predictive performance of these models has been, ...
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 ...
Child pain rating after injection preparation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
to provide therapeutic self care that nursing assistance is required. This assistance in the form of preparing the child for a painful experience benefits both child and parent (Orem, 1971), particularly the parent concerned about the hurt to the child (Szasz...
Technical response functions for corn -- an economic analysis of nitrogen fertilizer experiments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
of the three counties where the experiments were located. To avoid the consequences of one set of environmental conditions and to obtain more general results experiments were repeated by the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station during the period 1961...