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Haga cuatro comidas con 12 alimentos (2011)
(University of Missouri Extension, 2011)
Balancing Agricultural Development Resources : Are GM and Organic Agriculture in Opposition in Africa?
(AgBioForum, 2011)
Organic agriculture has been promoted vigorously by many civil and donor organizations engaged in agricultural development in Africa. Certified organic products are grown in more than half of African countries, targeted ...
Examining positive schizotypy's relationship with openness facets, maladaptive openness, and other maladaptive traits
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] Positive schizotypy is a trait reflecting increased risk for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and includes symptoms such as magical beliefs and unusual perceptual experiences. The normative ...
Essays on early childhood education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Early childhood educations plays a fundamental role in human capital development. This dissertation studies skills development during early childhood. Chapter 1 focuses on early childhood intervention from birth to age 3. ...
Characterization of diverse soybean genotypes for phosphorus uptake and use efficiency
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill) is one of the most important legume crops grown worldwide. However, without phosphorus (P) fertilization, soybean yields often are limited by phosphorus availability. Phosphorus is an ...
Effects of Selected Contaminants on the Physical, Chemical, and Geotechnical Properties of Aquifer Solid
(2014)
The primary objective of this study was to investigate the potential effects of hydrocarbons on the geotechnical properties of sand. A series of laboratory experiments were carried out to ascertain the influence of some ...
Molecular mechanism, binding free energy, and sequence selectivity of intercalation of doxorubicin and DNA
(2021)
Many drugs interact noncovalently with DNA either by groove binding or intercalation. Intercalation is a key process in drug discovery and biosensor development. Doxorubicin (DOX) is an intercalator drug that treats a wide ...
Three essays on political polarization in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Is the United States polarized? In order to address this question, this dissertation explores three dimensions of political polarization. Three related, but independent, essays on political polarization provide information ...
Human rights in presidential democracies : does a runoff rule reduce repression?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
I argue that within a democratic context the presence of a presidential runoff rule leads to the following outcomes: a reduced distance between the ideological position of the president and the median voter, a reduced ...
Three essays on the impact of public policies on the health and educational outcomes of young adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Young adulthood is a critical time in the life course when access to resources and opportunities help determine later in life outcomes. To contribute to the research on young adults, this dissertation uses restricted health ...
Three essays on labor economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation addresses labor market issues. The first two chapters deal with employment issues during the great recession using nationally representative data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The ...
Of floods and gales: environmental value creation due to creative destruction
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Recent discussions on environmental issues, such as global climate change, implicates many of the wider processes studied by scholars in the management sciences. As a result, there has been considerable debate regarding ...
Canopy recruitment dynamics in naturally regenerated longleaf pine (pinus palustris) woodlands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The ecological and cultural values of the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem, in combination with an approximately 97 percent loss in historic range, has led to increasing interest in ecosystem restoration and ...
Interactions between helicobacter-induced inflammation acute changes in the gut microbiota, and colorectal cancer in Smad3-/- mice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, accounting for 551,269 deaths in 2018 alone. One ...
Friends in high places : ecology of mycorrhizal associations in alpine plant communities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Mutualisms are ubiquitous in nature, yet these interactions often vary in strength and persistence. This variation raises the questions of what determines whether mutualisms persist or vanish, and how does variation in the ...
Teachers as agents of change : how knowledge gained from secondary English language arts professional development impacts classroom practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Gathering information about how secondary English Language Arts (ELA) teachers use pedagogical content knowledge gained from professional development (PD) to change their classroom practices in one Midwest Missouri school ...
Semiparametric analysis of complex longitudinal data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Event history data consist of the longitudinal records of event occurrence times. Recurrent event data and panel count data are two common types of event history data that occur in many areas, such as medical studies and ...
Advanced Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing Systems with Cyclic Prefix-Less Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output Discrete Fourier Transform Spreading and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-Assisted Cyclic Postfixed Windowed Schemes
(2023)
In the proper designing of spectrally efficient 5th Generation (5G)/Beyond 5G (B5G) systems, minimization of Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of the time domain Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM)/Cyclic ...