[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2023] Estimating dynamic discrete choice models (DDCM) is a common task in many disciplines, including various fields of economics. In a typical DDCM a forwardlooking decision-maker chooses from a ...

This interdisciplinary dissertation in statistics, economics, and social science methodology derives a methodological approach for economics from philosophical principles, identi es barriers to its adoption, and presents ...

Little is known about what attracts men to the counseling profession and what their experiences are in counseling programs and the profession post-graduation. This qualitative case study examines what attracts men to the ...

This collection of short fiction and plays represents an exploration of twenty-first century gay culture, viewed from the vantage point of successive lifestages: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, maturity, and old ...

"The publication of an alumni directory for the School of Journalism as a 50th Anniversary project has been an enormous job. Every effort has been made to include full biographical information on the 6,485 names listed in this volume as graduates...

To account for uncertainty in geotechnical projects, knowledge of the uncertainties should be understood. Many sources of uncertainties can be reduced with increased sampling and good practices, but due to the nature of geomaterials, inherent...

The purpose of this phenomenological, narratological, heuristic study is to understand the phenomenon of relationship building between teachers and students at an alternative high school. For this study, the phenomenon of ...

Estrogen is one of the most influential hormones on bone growth and maintenance throughout the life cycle in both men and women, but there are still unknown roles of estrogen and the estrogen receptors in males. In addition, ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] On Poetry: The Emergence and Function of Meaning is intended to contribute to the scholarship of poetics and literary theory. The work is ...

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Humankind has long possessed a fascination with the cosmos and the cosmic bodies they can see from their earthly home. Overtime humans began to associate deities with the cosmic bodies, and religions developed to explain ...

This thesis delves into the most volatile years of the notoriously volatile life of French poet and theatrical theorist Antonin Artaud (1896–1948). At the heart of the research is an examination of his voyages to Mexico ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Out-of-core image techniques provide for interactive visualization, analysis, and processing of extremely large images exceeding primary memory. This ...

A single mode of genetic resistance derived from PI 88788 (rhg1-b) has dominated the $57.5 B US soybean market for almost three decades. The breakdown of resistance and selection of virulent nematode populations poses a ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Magazine covers serve as the first impression for readers and determine whether the reader will pick up and read the magazine. Therefore, it is important ...

International Baccalaureate (IB), a highly rigorous academic and college preparatory program, has sometimes been implemented to turn around otherwise struggling school systems. Little is known about the impact on school ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation uses feminist critical discourse analysis of five popular "women's comedy" texts, interviews with eighty-nine viewers of those texts, ...