This dissertation presents a novel method to detect bearing defects in Adjustable Speed Drives (ASD's), which are increasingly used in many commercial and industrial applications. The harmonics in pulse-width-modulation ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Ordovician Period includes both the largest and longest period of sustained biodiversification--the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project investigates the unintended political and gender-specific effects of economic sanctions in target countries. Drawing insight from the existing literature...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay estimates the joint effects of spatial diffusion and high-tech industry fluctuations on housing prices. The work...

not respond to the oil price shocks. According to the literature, oil price shocks have an asymmetric effect on economic activity and the stock market in that oil price increases have a greater impact than oil price decreases. However, in this dissertation...

This dissertation examines the potential of local food as an economic development strategy in the United States. Using an interdisciplinary approach it traces the development of the local food movement within the broader historical context of U...

This dissertation consists of three chapters that answer an overarching question: "How do foreign-born instructors assimilate and acculturate into U.S. academia as an immigrant-receiving environment?" Across the three ...

The impact of neo-liberal policies on labor and employment opportunities in developing country like India has been less than satisfactory. The purpose of this dissertation is to study the role of government in employment ...

not possess statistical significance. Overall, the effects tend to expand with years of experience. We also discuss possible economic mechanisms and reasons. In the third chapter, we build machine learning and simple linear models to predict academic paper...

Over the past two decades, Saudi Arabia has witnessed acceleration in both national unemployment and environmental degradation. These two areas are at the forefront of being very real challenges. In solving the ...

paradigm shift in in the field of economics from the Keynesian/institutionalist to the neoliberal paradigm. Simultaneously, the nexus of contracts definition replaced the resource-based definition as the dominant paradigm of the economic theory of the firm...

This paper studies the impact of fuel ethanol on motor gasoline market, especially how the gasoline price will be affected if fuel ethanol takes a big share of motor fuel consumption. A system of structural equations is estimated over historical...

This dissertation examines the interconnectedness between money/credit creation and its empirical relevance to macroeconomic variables. It takes the position that the amount of money/credit created for GDP-related ...

This dissertation contributes to heterodox economics by presenting a unique heterodox economics approach, utilizing aspects of heterodox surplus approach, Post Keynesian, Institutional, feminist, and ecological economics. ...

The objective of this dissertation is to conceptualize and contour an alternative provisioning system (“Pax Ecologica,” “ecocentric provisioning”) to address, account for, and coordinate humankind’s scientific-technological ...

The opioid epidemic has disproportionately affected the rural Appalachian region, and poverty is a root cause of this. However, both poverty and the Appalachian region are historically under-covered and negatively framed ...

to discover why, contrary to what is expected, the county at the center of this group has been notably more prosperous over time than her persistently poor neighbors. When Lyson's concept of economic distance is applied to the five county region a relationship...

The Missouri River basin underwent a major transformation when the United States Congress approved the Flood Control Act of 1944 and the Bank Stabilization and Navigation Project of 1945. Generations removed from those ...

In the past years there has been increasing interest in shadow banking institutions. Economists identified the shadow banking system at the core of the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis and it was a key component of the ...

My dissertation is about regional economic modeling for understanding local economy, economic impact analysis and forecasting. In the first essay, I developed a nonspatial version of community policy analysis model for Missouri counties. In my...