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The effect of the flexible modular schedule on student academic achievement, student behavior, and student development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The purpose of this case study was to examine the effect the flexible modular schedule had on student achievement, student behavior, and student development. This study contained three questions that evaluated the effect ...
The Shamrock, 1925
(University of Missouri. College of Engineering, 1925)
Organizational Governance
(Russell Sage Foundation, 2008)
This chapter reviews and discusses rational-choice approaches to organizational governance. These approaches are found primarily in organizational economics (virtually no rational-choice organizational sociology exists), ...
Missouri alumnus, volume 054, number 06 (1965 March)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1965)
Market Structure in the US Electricity Industry: A Long-Term Perspective
(Elsevier, 2005-09)
We estimate changes in market structure in the US electric power industry during the last three decades using two independent approaches. First, we estimate an industry-wide conjectural-variations parameter. We find that ...
Do Entrepreneurs Make Predictable Mistakes? Evidence from Corporate Divestitures
(Transaction Publishers, 2001-06)
Mises (1990) famously showed that economic calculation is not possible without private property in all markets, especially markets for factors of production. The Austrian business-cycle literature (Mises 1934; Hayek 1935; ...
Mizzou weekly, volume 03, number 29 (May 3, 1982)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Relations Division. Office of Internal Communication., 1982)
Subjectivities of risk and environmental uncertainty : residents, regulatory agencies, and corporate interests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The West Lake Landfill Superfund site in Bridgeton, Missouri made for a compelling place to explore how risk was framed and contested by social groups and expert institutions in the context of environmental uncertainty. ...
Neural modeling case studies at biophysical, machine learning, and automation levels
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] This dissertation reports three case studies using machine learning, biophysical, and automation frameworks to study neural engineering challenges. The first study utilized machine learning with ...
The importance of relationships in the renewal process of one middle school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study was conducted primarily to investigate the restructuring and renewal activities of Study School District (SSD) as it reorganized its middle ...
Optical stimulation of quantal exocytosis on transparent microchips
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
) film was sputter-deposited onto glass coverslips, which were then patterned into 24 cell-sized working electrodes (2̃0 [mu]m by 20 [mu]m). We loaded bovine chromaffin cells with acetoxymethyl (AM) ester derivatives of the Ca²⁺ cage NP-EGTA and Ca...
The transition experience of faculty members into academic leadership
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The purpose of this case study was to understand the lived experiences of faculty members as they transitioned into the academic leadership role of chair. The case study design was used to provide an intensive bounded ...
Early-stage social ventures : resource acquisition, CEO selection, and impact investors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
In this dissertation, I explore early-stage social ventures' resource acquisition, the first CEO selection, as well as how funding foundations supporting early-stage social ventures overcome challenges emerge from the ...
Kangaroo, 1963
(University of Kansas City, 1963)
The Division of Animal Sciences : University of Missouri, 100 years
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Test tube to table
(College of Agriculture, University of Missouri--Columbia, 1976)
Conversation understanding and realistic artificial crash data generation with deep learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
. Formality-BERT is trained on a public dataset that contains four genres of text and outperforms existing models by 14 points on the Spearman correlation between predicted formality and human-labeled formality for four genres. We propose Politeness...
Mainstreamed English language instruction in a low-incidence rural school district : a case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
indicate a growing number of English language learners are enrolling in rural mid-west public schools. Many rural districts have very little experience or resources to meet the needs of this new diverse group of students. As a result teachers, especially...
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 ...
When hegemony prevails : a discourse analysis of two Korean newspapers during the 2008 financial crisis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This research seeks to find out if the American hegemonic ideology was embedded in two Korean newspapers (conservative and progressive) during the U.S. financial crisis of 2008. In addition, it seeks to explore how American ...