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Surveying community attitudes : a technical and procedural manual for communities
(University of Missouri. Extension Division, 1977)
"This publication is designed to assist communities of any size in obtaining accurate and valid assessments of the opinions and attitudes of community residents. This is a highly important and practical activity for any ...
Ecology of mid-continent migratory shorebirds, performance of tracking devices, and modelling animal social structure and demography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
) developing and evaluating a modelling approach to combine social structure and survival information. In chapter 1, we found that winter and spring weather conditions influenced migration duration and number of stopovers in black-bellied plovers...
Perspectives of informal caregivers on using in-home technology to monitor activities of person with serious mental illness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
As a result of the U.S deinstitutionalization policy of the 1960's persons with serious mental illness often live with and rely upon family members and friends to serve as informal caregivers. The purpose of this study was ...
Vocal agility in the male adolescent changing voice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This study was designed to investigate agility in adolescent changing voice males. Participants (N = 58), 11.5 to 15.9 years old, were from six Midwestern schools. The boys had varied experience in school and/or community ...
Instructional Program Coherence and Literacy Achievement
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
High stakes testing and meaningful accountability measures have caused many
suburban school districts to take a closer look at how their students were performing,
especially students from traditionally marginalized ...
Assessing single- and dual-process accounts of recognition memory using hierarchical Bayesian models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Recognition memory refers to a person's ability to recognize something that has been previously encountered. For several decades recognition memory has been thought to be governed by a single process whereby the strength ...
Characterizing territoriality and the mechanisms that mediate it in female Anolis gundlachi lizards
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Territoriality is a suite of behaviors through which animals secure access to particular areas or resources. It is prevalent across animal groups and has the potential to exert substantial influence on fitness by mediating ...
Knowledge of copyright issues and strategies used in solving copyright queries among academic librarians in Kenya
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Intellectual property and copyright in particular has become highly regulated through laws and treaties. In spite of stronger copyright mechanisms being put in place in Kenya over the years, copyright infringement has ...
Gandharan Sculpture: A catalogue of the collection in the Museum of Art and Archaeology University of Missouri--Columbia
(The curators of the University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1981)
The Gandharan sculpture in the Museum of Art and Archaeology of the University of Missouri--Columbia forms a collection that is almost as old as the Museum itself. The first piece was acquired in 1960, but the major growth of the collection occurred...
The effects of prompts-based argumentation scaffolds on peer-led interactive argumentation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
significantly greater amount of socio-emotionally enhanced strategy use. With regard to argument behaviors, students in all three conditions made a considerable number of opposing arguments, which could be attributed to the task design of the study. More...
Degradation and transport of veterinary antibiotics and estrogens in a vegetated buffer strip system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
] to E1, and vice-versa, was rapid with high metabolite concentrations in all mesocosm treatments within 24 h. The interconversion of E2[beta] and E1 in soil results in greater overall persistence, leading to more sustained estrogenicity and greater...
Examining bidirectional associations between momentary impulsivity, alcohol consumption, and daily life contexts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Longitudinal, cross sectional, and laboratory studies have examined the relationships between impulsivity and alcohol use. However, most studies so far have...
The perceived influence of the STARR teacher program on professional growth of program participants and subsequent career roles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The purpose of the study was to analyze the impact of the STARR program on the former STARR participants' personal empowerment, professional growth and the influence on subsequent career roles. Both quantitative and ...
Performance of Steel Pipelines Backfilled with Controlled Low-Strength Material (CLSM) under Seismic Wave Propagation and Reverse-Slip Fault Rupture
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Seismic events may drastically damage buried pipelines affecting economy and
public safety. Traditionally, buried pipelines are bedded and backfilled with compacted
soils, which is labor intensive, time consuming, and ...
Evolution of the Bahamian coastal environment of San Salvador Island over the last 3,500 years based on triangle pond sediment cores
(2014-07-25)
The multiproxy examination of ten soft sediment cores extracted from Triangle Pond
was used in order to establish alterations in the northwestern coastal environment of San
Salvador Island, The Bahamas over the last 3,500 ...
Perceived Stress among Public School Music Educators: Stress over Time, Demographic Differences, Common Self-Identified Factors of Stress, and Relationships between Demographic Differences and Emergent Stress Themes
(2016)
Teaching frequently has been identified as a stressful occupation, warranting
numerous studies of teacher burnout, attrition, and stress. Levels of professional burnout
and attrition among educators have been shown ...
Multi-objective network optimization: models, methods, and applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
to both managers and users of the system. While there can be an infinite number of feasible solutions to any multi-objective optimization problem in large networks (e.g., urban transportation systems), the efficient ones are usually more desirable...
Characteristics of mean flow and turbulence in bubble plumes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
using a single- orifice diffuser. The velocity fields in the plumes were measured via Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), and the integral characteristics were derived for comparison, including the evolution of plume width, center-line velocity, volume...
Against all odds : leadership in a high-poverty high-performing school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Research indicates that impoverished school districts face a unique set of barriers in regard to school achievement. However, according to statistics from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, there are schools that would...