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Digestion trial with two Jersey cows on full ration and on maintenance
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1911)
This trial explored the digestibility of different diets for Jersey cows in order to determine the proper digestion coefficients for cows in milk.
Gifts to the Rare Book Room of Ellis Library
(Special Collections, Ellis Library, University of Missouri--Columbia, 1982)
News in the County Paper
(University of Missouri, 1913)
Time-dependent response of reinforced concrete elements near collapse
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
consisting of 4 and 6 beams were tested at concrete ages of 67 to 543 under sustained loads ranging from 82 percent to 98 percent of the short-term capacity for time periods from 24 to 52 days, with one beam failing under sustained load within 84 minutes. Ten...
State Regulation of Trucking: The Policy Impact of Differential Speed Limits
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
Race, Bureaucratic Discretion, and the Implementation of Welfare Reform
(Department of Economics, 2003)
This paper explores the impact of the race of individual clients and of the local racial context on the implementation of sanctions for recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in a Midwestern state. ...
Are we developing strains of codling moths resistant to arsenic?
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1933)
Three essays on social policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
the fact that the work requirement exemption depends on the age of the youngest child and the county of residence. I find a modest reduction in SNAP participation due to the SNAP work requirement. The cumulative survival estimation indicates...
Prenatal growth of the pig
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
Numerous observations on various phases of growth are to be found in the biological literature. Most of those concerning prenatal growth are upon the human embryo; although scattered observations are also recorded on other ...
Volatility estimation and price prediction using a hidden Markov model with empirical study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This work provides a solid development of a hidden Markov model (HMM) from the economic insight to the mathematic formulation. In this model, we assume both drift and volatility of the security return process are driven ...
One-Shot Learning Model for Cancer Diagnosis from Histopathological Images
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Cancer diagnosis from tissue biomarker scoring is a vital technique used in determining type and grade
of cancer. This is a significant part of workload for pathologists, the process is tedious, time
consuming, subjective, ...
Essays in policy evaluation and labor economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
model with a quadratic assimilation term and expand it to explore the assimilation process's heterogeneity. I find that the "bias" disappears with a quadratic assimilation effect. The assimilation effect is sensitive to age at arrival and country...
The fiscal responsiveness to economic fluctuations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
In this paper I investigate the pattern of the fiscal responsiveness with economic development and the determinants of the fiscal responsiveness for 79 central governments during 1972 ~ 2007. For the analysis, I estimate ...
Labor-Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis
(Department of Economics, 2010)
In this paper, we evaluate the labor-market returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using Missouri administrative data. We develop a fuzzy regression discontinuity (FRD) method to account for the ...
Genetic variation and health in rural Caribbean village
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Bwa Mawego is a small-scale horticultural community (~500 people) on the island of Dominica that has been the site of a longitudinal health research project for more than 30 years. Cardiovascular diseases and metabolic ...
Eugenics revisited : the case for germinal choice
(University of Missouri, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1973)
Growth and development of dairy calves on a milk diet
([University of Missouri], 1936)
Factors influencing households' demand for life insurance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This thesis aims to examine both the type and amount of life insurance purchased by households. To this end, comprehensive models of households' demand for life insurance were developed, which included demographic variables, ...
Genotype by environment interaction estimated by using reaction norms in cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The objective of this study was to evaluate GxE by comparing reaction norms among U.S. Angus bulls. Dependent variables were adjusted weights at birth, 205 d weaning, and 365 d yearling. Environments were defined as progeny ...
Multi-scale factors influencing detection, site occupancy and resource use by foraging bats in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Conservation of bat populations requires understanding the associations between bats and their use of resources. We used maximum likelihood to estimate probability of site occupancy using acoustic data for ten species of ...