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Adoption of nutrient management practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Off-farm income has recently been incorporated into the analysis of technology adoption, due to its increasing share in total farm household income in the U.S. Previous studies, however, found inconsistent results with ...
Three essays on the economics of pesticide use
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
quality, pesticide usage has become more controversial. This dissertation investigates the use of pesticides and their alternatives from household, producer, and consumer perspectives to obtain insights about their behaviors and preferences. For households...
Hormonal regulation of bone health: novel understandings of xenoestrogens and estrogen receptor-[alpha]
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
to xenoestrogens, or environmental compounds that have anti-estrogenic qualities, is increasing in industrial countries, but the impact of these compounds on skeletal health in males and females remains unknown. In this dissertation, we used animal models...
Compressibility of a mixture of CH4 [plus] CO2 and correlation of compressibility factors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1986)
with the correlation. The overall percent absolute deviation for 804 data points for polar substances is 1.54 percent, in the reduced temperature range of 0.5 - 1.5 and reduced pressure range of 0.02 - 5.0. Extensive comparison have been made of the present method...