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Latinos in Southwest Missouri : Capturing the American Dream through Farming
(Cambio Center, 2006)
Even as farm ownership is declining in the US as a whole, an increasing number of Latinos are entering the farming business. In fact, Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group of farm owner/operators in Missouri and in the US as a whole...
Political engagement among religious leaders and their relationships with the media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
and from denomination to denomination. This professional project will explore the nuances of political engagement among religious leaders and media representation through a series of interviews with clergy in the American Christian church who have displayed...
Assessing the Impact of Changing Climate on Agriculture in Missouri and the use of Crop Insurance as Adaptation Strategy (1980-2010)
(2015)
such as floods, droughts, and hurricanes in the last few decades. General Circulation Model (GCM) projections of future climate show that these extreme events will become more frequent and intense in the coming decades. This study investigates the spatial...
An in depth evaluation of internal criteria for determining the number of clusters in a data set
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Clustering procedures partition data sets into groups, minimizing the distance within clusters while maximizing the distance between clusters. Clustering can be a powerful tool...
Broadening the perspective on employee absenteeism : the effects of work group and nonwork factors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The present study examined employee absenteeism in relation to variables new to absenteeism literature while addressing several methodological issues highlighted...
Who did what?: age-related differences in memory for people and their actions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
. In order to extend the ADH to relatively dynamic stimuli, participants in the present experiments viewed a series of brief video clips, each showing a different person performing a different action. Memory for the actions, for the people, and for who did...
Multiple potential well structure in inertial electrostatic confinement devices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) devices are of interest as neutron generators for many applications. An essential part of these devices is the formation of a multiple potential well structure within the devices. ...
Testosterone and cortisol in coalitional competition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Fourteen teams of three young men competed in within-group and between-group videogame tournaments. Salivary cortisol and testosterone levels were assessed twice before and twice after each tournament, along with intelligence, ...
Competing or Collaborating Siblings? Industrial and Trade Policies in India
(Department of Economics, 2006)
) and its gradual relaxation during the 1980s and 1990s to test whether industrial de-regulation that leads to more competition domestically, affects firm-level productivity. To our knowledge, ours is the only detailed data set on Indian industrial policy...
Cultural values, emotions and information : a comparison of webpages from two culturally different countries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
difference on emotional appeals is not significant because of the universality of basic emotions. As predicted, since online advertisement is more cost-efficient than traditional media, American online advertisement is highly localized. The results also...
Multilevel models for intensive longitudinal data with heterogeneous error structure : covariance transformation and variance function models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Recent developments in data collection methods in the behavioral and social sciences, such as Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) enables researchers to gather intensive longitudinal data (ILD) and to examine more detailed ...
Decadal mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from satellite radar altimetry and its contribution to global sea level change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this research, we estimated the decadal mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet using the European Space Agency's ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellite radar altimeter data over the time...
Visitor experiences at Eagle Days in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Eagle Days are series of organized wildlife viewing events that were created by the Missouri Department of Conservation to increase public awareness about bald eagles and their declining populations. Although Eagle Days have been held across...
Fallen Angel : A Case Study in Architectural Ornamentation
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2016)
Entrainment and transport of coarse stream bed material in a fluviokarst watershed, south-central Missouri : a tracer particle study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Plateau of south-central Missouri, and Bear Cave Hollow (BCH), one of TCC's surface drainage streams, bed load entrainment and transport dynamics of mainly siliciclastic material, was evaluated using hydrological measurements and 670 painted tracer...
The Hidden Treasures of Rome : Tracing the Context of Isolated Artifacts
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2015)
The effects of age and gender on optimistic bias and stereotype salience for cardiovascular disease in college students
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-08-17)
at reducing optimistic bias and stereotype salience for CVD among college students. Data were collected from a sample of 162 undergraduate students at a midsized Midwestern university. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four vignette conditions...
Pricing, price stability, and post Keynesian price theory
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-15)
This dissertation contributes to heterodox microeconomics by building a comprehen-
sive and coherent theoretical system for price cyclicality and stability since they are
under-theorized issues in both neoclassical and ...
The generalization of positive intergroup attitudes : reducing intergroup anxiety
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Contact settings that include equal status, cooperation/pursuit of common goals, acquaintance potential, and authority sanction can improve intergroup attitudes. However...
An exploration of the moderating impact of mentorship on the relationship between Christian religious orientation and moral reasoning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study explored the moderating impact of quality mentorship on the relationship between two domains of religious orientation and principled moral reasoning. Undergraduate...