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Interview : Stacia Decker, agent at the Donald Maass Literary Agency
(The Missouri Review, 2014-05)
This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we talk to agent Stacia Decker about query letters, sample pages, and establishing a good author-agent relationship. Decker joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency in 2009. A ...
Interview : Scott Garson, editor of Wigleaf : an online journal of (very) short fiction
(The Missouri Review, 2014-03)
This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth Tanya McQueen talks to Scott Garson, editor of Wigleaf: an online journal of (very) short fiction, about Wigleaf's Top 50, the short short story, and trends in online publication. ...
Care practices in complementary and alternative medicine in Thai breast cancer survivors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The purpose of the study was to explore perspectives of Thai breast cancer survivors and Thai nurses about care practices in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The study used an ethnonursing method. Seventeen ...
Factors affecting teachers' participation in professional development activities in Turkey
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between factors (internal [personal] and external [environmental]) and teachers' participation in professional development (PD) programs in Turkey. The researcher ...
Equity measures of the Missouri SB287 school funding formula
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The purpose of this study was to compare horizontal equity measures in Missouri school funding through the fifth year of implementation of the Senate Bill 287 (SB 287) funding formula with the final year of the previous ...
A comparison of three opportunities to respond strategies across students with emotional and behavioral disorders in high school classrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
A single subject alternating treatment design across three teacher-student dyads was used to investigate the comparative impact on student academic engaged time (AET) of three common opportunities to respond (OTR) ...
Biomass assessment in the U.S. midwest using MODIS time-series
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Bioenergy becomes the largest source of renewable energy in the United States. Switchgrass, a type a Warm Season Grasses, has been regarded as alternative resources instead of annual crops for obtaining the bioenergy. The ...
Hydrogen storage in engineered nanomaterials : how densely can you pack hydrogen in condensed matter systems?
(University of Missouri, 2013)
These slides support the oral presentation given by Peter Pfeifer and the ALL-CRAFT Team.
Application of a piezo sensor matrix for in situ, real-time characterization of low energy nuclear events.
(University of Missouri, 2013)
An experimental design is presented which includes a high-throughput technique for identifying environmental conditions and material surface morphologies responsible for Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) active sites." ...
Mizzou Today
(University of Missouri Press, 2007)
"Picture the adrenalin-pumping excitement of hoop action on Norm Stewart Court. Now envision the tranquillity of a late summer day, with a half moon rising in a blue sky over the Columns. These photos tell the same story: ...
2006 William T. Kemper award presentations for teaching excellence
(University of Missouri Office of the Chancellor, 2006)
This video shows the presentations of the Kemper Award for Teaching Excellence to the ten recipients for the year 2006.
Organizational identity of sorority women: the interplay of belonging, appearance, representation and institutional meaning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In this project, I explore the connections sorority women on a large college campus create between their appearance, sorority membership, sense of belonging, and identity. By interviewing twenty members of ten of the ...
Preservice elementary teachers' initial and post-course views of mathematical arguments: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Recent curriculum recommendation call for mathematical argumentation to play a significantly greater role in U. S. mathematics instruction at all grade levels, including the elementary grades. To better understand how ...
Where is the L in STEM?: one teacher's integration experiences with literacy, science, and engineering
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to gain a better understanding of how literacy is integrated within the context of STEM education (more specifically science and engineering) in a primary classroom through ...
Estimating the potential economic benefits of adopting Bt cotton in selected COMESA countries
(AgBioForum, 2013)
Cotton farmers in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) face pest challenges, the most destructive of which is the African bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera). Reduction in these pest infestations can ...
Movement ecology of juvenile pond-breeding salamanders: implications for the management and conservation of amphibian populations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Human-induced habitat change is widely regarded as a primary factor threatening the persistence of species. One major consequence of habitat alteration is its effect on the movement behavior of individuals. Spotted salamanders ...
The role of biofuel policy and biotechnology in the development of the ethanol industry in the United States
(AgBioForum, 2013)
The US Renewable Fuel Standard sets a lower bound on the amount of biofuels used, with consequences for behavior of agricultural commodity markets that currently supply the vast majority of feedstocks for biofuel production. ...
Reacculturation of college freshmen in a freshmen orientation course
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
According to Bruffee (1999), the current construct of university education does not prepare graduates to interact with other human beings on substantive issues because they are not reacculturated. One approach to institutional ...
Teacher trust in leadership, professional learning community, and student achievement: an analysis of statewide survey data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The foundation of positive interpersonal relationships is trust and such relationships are needed for professional collaboration and learning to take place. Building trust, then, must be important in order to meet ...
The space of the south and self-definition in African American return migration novels of the post-civil rights era
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
My dissertation examines the representation of the return migration in African American novels across the last five decades and argues that these return migration novels are distinct from earlier migration narratives and, ...