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What's the best test for renal artery stenosis in patients with refractory hypertension?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2009)
(strength of recommendation [SOR ]: A, large meta-analyses)....
Factors that lead to principal retention: an arts-based narrative inquiry
(2023)
Building principals are more than the face of the school. School administrators spend
their time guiding teachers and students, collaborating with parents, establishing a
responsive culture, and navigating accountability ...
Infusing Geropsychiatric Nursing Content into Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Curricula: Challenges and Solutions
(2016-05)
to address the needs of older adults. The purpose of this project was to improve geropsychiatric knowledge and competency among Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner students through a competency enhancement project. A Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse...
A descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational exploration of perceived stress, quality of life, and family functioning in parents of a child with congenital heart disease: The PinCHeD Study
(2020)
only one CBP surgery (n = 14, Mdn = 17.00, IQR = 7). Having a child with CHD and abnormal brain imaging negatively influenced many aspects of their parents’ quality of life and family functioning (p < 0.05): physical function (r(58) = -0.296, p = 0...
Modeling transportation impacts of natural disasters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
. The study found that several factors contribute to evacuees choosing a freeway over other routes. In the descending order of importance (i.e., marginal effects), these factors are willing to use the official recommended route, living in a single-family...
Three essays on labor economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
at the added worker effect in the great recession, the wife's labor market response to a husband loss of job. The second chapter investigates the impact of a wife's labor market participation on family poverty. The third chapter examines employment...
A neo-Gramscian communication analysis of structure and agency in the hegemonic struggle for meaning: organic retailer and organic activist group
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
of the paradox between the ethos of the adherents of the environmental movement and the characteristics of the newly mainstreamed version of the movement, of which large corporations producing and retailing green consumer products are newly a part. The project...
Youth agripreneurship development in Benin : lessons for scaling up from Songhai Center agripreneurs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
. Their main motivation for enrolling in the program is that they have been inspired by the reputation of the center (31.05 percent), by the success of previous Center graduates (30 percent), and by being encouraged by a family member or a friend (26.32 percent...
Alternative tillage and nitrogen management options to increase crop production and reduce nitrous oxide emissions from claypan soils
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The Central Claypan Region covers an area of 10 million acres of claypan or claypan-like soil in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois. Agricultural production on claypan soil can have lower yield and a greater impact on the environment...
Stimulant Holidays in Children and Adolescents with ADHD: A Retrospective Study to Explore Variables in Parent and Prescriber Initiated Holidays
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
A stimulant holiday is an underutilized and under-researched intervention that could improve
patient outcomes and patient and parent satisfaction to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
treatment. Given the pervasive ...
Short-term weekly effects of ethnic-racial discrimination on academic outcomes : ethnic-racial socialization and ethnic-racial identity as moderators
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
the challenges associated with growing up as an ethnic-racial minority in society, many African American and Latinx young adults are often equipped with important culturally responsive familial and individual resources that may function as protector factors...
Relations between videogame play and 8th-graders' mathematics achievement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
on math performance. However, on some math scales spatial content interacted with time spent playing, such that there were higher levels of math performance when participants played games high in spatial content at low amounts of time. A similar...
Understanding the change to integration : an organizational analysis of a small newspaper
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This multimethod study examined change efforts to integration at a mid-sized family-owned newspaper as a new content-management system was implemented. Using the open systems model, the organization was analyzed through the lens of organizational...
Mizzou weekly, volume 32, number 26 (April 14, 2011)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2011)
Recovery from Infidelity: Exploring Variables Related to the Healing Process
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011)
Clinicians and researchers report that growth and improvement is possible after infidelity takes place. However, research has not explored specific variables that should relate to improvement in the aftermath of infidelity. ...
Class awareness in Iceland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
In this paper new survey data are used to study class awareness in Iceland. Responses to two subjective class questions are analyzed to test a synthesis of Weber's theory of class and reference group theory. The findings, and secondary data, reveal...
A revolutionary heroine for the twentieth century : Sybil Ludington in media, myth, and American memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
State militia during the American Revolution. Instead, it was a short episode about Sybil Ludington's horseback trip through the night of April 26, 1777 to warn of the British march on Danbury, Connecticut, that seized the public's imagination. Historic...
Comparing mosquito communities of various patch-matrix landscape combinations in central Missouri, with implications for developing models to forecast abundances of important mosquito taxa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
environmental conditions within different landscape configurations may help approximate a model for predicting the risk of encountering these disease vectors. Therefore, the goals of the research were to 1) describe the mosquito fauna of the various patch...
A Dyadic Analysis of Racial-Ethnic Socialization Among Black-White Interracial Parents
(2020)
-ethnic background (Stevenson, 1995) in a society pervasively impacted by oppression and racial discrimination (Hughes, Rodriguez et al., 2006). Although much has been written about the process of racial-ethnic socialization, most of this research has focused...
Competition and management of volunteer corn (Zea Mays L.) in corn
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Volunteer corn (Zea mays L.) is the result of corn kernels remaining in the field following harvest and is a competitive weed in a number of subsequent crops. With widespread adoption of glyphosate-resistant (Gly-R) corn, Gly-R volunteer corn has...