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Native warm-season grass planning budget
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2021)
"Using this budget, farmers can estimate the costs and returns of establishing native warm-season grass (NWSG) forage species. Table 1 presents estimates for replacing existing forage stands with NWSG in Missouri. Assumptions ...
Canned peaches
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2016)
Recipes using canned peaches.
The draft of farm wagons as affected by height of wheel and width of tire
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1926)
Particle size of tobacco mosaic virus
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1938)
Heterochrony of floral and mating system characters between Nicotiana longiflora and N. plumbaginifolia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
(plum) follows this pattern with smaller flowers than its outcrossing sister species N. longiflora (long). This study focuses on a glasshouse grown population descended from a field collected population with three corolla length morphs: long, medium...
Condition assessment of Kevlar composite materials using Raman spectroscopy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This thesis presents the results of an investigation of the Raman scattering effects of aging Kevlar composite strands. The goal of this research is to investigate the potential application of Raman spectroscopy as a ...
Essays on money and credit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
When at least some transactions are anonymous and there is missing a publicly available record keeping device, individuals who sell goods cannot force buyers to payback the debt. Thus, money and collateralized credit are ...
A medicare benefit expansion: inpatient clinical and economic outcomes in deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011-07-08)
Background: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, (CMS) implements National Coverage Decisions (NCD) to expand access or eliminate regional reimbursement differences. Policymakers may estimate clinical and economic ...
EC-SGK1 and EnNaC mediate vascular stiffening
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Vascular stiffening is an independent predictor of cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death worldwide. High dietary salt intake has been shown to increase vascular stiffness in humans, ...
Efforts to identify large offspring syndrome during pregnancy through ultrasonography and maternal blood transcriptome analyses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Large offspring syndrome (LOS) is a fetal overgrowth condition observed in some bovine offspring produced in vitro. The main phenotypes of LOS is large body size due to overgrowth during development which can result in ...
Statistical analysis of multivariate interval-censored failure time data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
A voluminous literature on right-censored failure time data has been developed in the past 30 years. Due to advances in biomedical research, interval censoring has become increasingly common in medical follow-up studies. ...
Three essays on the demand system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This first essay investigates how scanner data affect demand elasticity estimates and develops methods for scientists to adapt estimated elasticities to analyses of specific policies. We conduct a meta-analysis of U.S. ...
Hydraulic Characterization of Interlocking Concrete Permeable Pavement
(2015-08-12)
The environmental benefits of permeable pavements are vast and include stormwater
quantity reduction, stormwater quality improvement, urban heat island mitigation, and
groundwater recharge, among others. Permeable ...
From carbon to copper : studies of novel nanomaterials
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Nanomaterials are materials on the order of 10-9 m that are currently being investigated for use in a wide range of applications in the growing field of nanotechnology. This dissertation documents the synthesis, characterization, ...
Dynamic analysis of complex panel count data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Panel count data occur in many fields including clinical, demographical and industrial studies and an extensive literature has been established for their regression analysis. However, most of the existing methods apply ...
Effects of new clients on the audit quality of an audit partner's existing portfolio
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Using AP forms filed with the PCAOB between 2017 and 2021, I find that audit partners on new engagements experience attention costs that adversely affect the audit quality of their existing engagements. The existing ...
A study on the trade-off between supervision and wages: an empirical test of efficiency wage theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This dissertation investigates the applicability of the shirking version of efficiency wage models in Korea. Analyses is based on the Survey on Wage Structure in the 1980's and 1990's - using data collected in 1983, 1989, ...
Do European Union farmers reject genetically modified maize? : farmer preferences for genetically modified maize in Greece
(AgBioForum, 2013)
The new EU proposal (IP/10/921) states that bans on genetically modified (GM) crops should not be based on environmental and health grounds, and it proposes a set of alternative reasons -- including public order and morals ...
Three essays on the competitiveness of the US corn seed industry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation provides an analysis of various aspects of the competitivity of the US corn seed industry. In the first essay I develop a price ...
Synthesis and structure-activity relationship of a series of sigma receptor ligands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
-activity relationships, a series of N-phenylpropyl- N'-benzylpiperazine and N-phenylpropyl-4-benzylpiperidine analogs systematically substituted on both phenyl rings was synthesized. These ligands were specifically designed to have certain substituents and substitution...