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Disclosure and dividend policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation examines the relation between firm disclosure and dividend policy. It draws on recent research which contends that firm disclosure ...
Influence of gamma irradiation on chemical vapor deposited boron-doped diamond films
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Carbon based materials such as graphite, fullerene, amorphous carbon and diamond in all forms and specifically doped diamond is of great interest owing ...
Higher-order thinking in the high-stakes accountability era : linking student engagement and standardized test performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The present study attempted to statistically test whether a nexus exists between student engagement levels within schools that elect to incorporate ...
Numerical analysis of pile group within moving soils
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] A coupled soil-pile interaction analysis method for pile groups within moving soil is proposed and implemented in a new computer program MU-PILE-GROUP. ...
Making meaning of service-learning : the power of direct service and reflection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand student perceptions and self-described meaning of their individual participation in ...
Leonard Stöckel: docta pietas in the service of Lutheran reform
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Born in 1510 in the royal free city of Bartfeld (Bardejov, Bartfa) in the kingdom of Hungary, Leonard Stöckel was an influential reformer in Upper Hungary during his life. A student and confidant of Philipp Melanchthon, ...
Architects and the design of ordinary single-family houses in the United States : the American Institute of Architects and the Architects' Small House Service Bureau
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The development of the design process for ordinary single-family houses has followed a uniquely American pattern. As early as the beginning of the eighteenth century, pattern books appeared in the colonies and were used ...
South Korean parents' goals, knowledge, practices, and needs regarding music education for young children
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The purpose of this study was to explore South Korean parents' understanding of and desires for music education for their children. Following a constructivist paradigm and qualitative research methodology, data collection ...
Utilization-focused evaluation of the program evaluation process of a Missouri school district
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The purpose of this study was to provide a utilization-focused evaluation (Patton, 1997) of a Missouri school district program evaluation process. The problem addressed by this study was that The school district had not ...
A multidisciplinary study on juvenile recidivism and multilevel impacts : risk factors, neighborhood features, and juvenile justice intervention
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This study incorporates the economic theories of crime, human capital investment, extended theory of subjective expected utility, as well as developmental criminological theories in a life-course perspective to develop a ...
Approximate isometries and distortion energy functionals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
A fundamental problem in Riemannian Geometry and related areas is to determine whether two diffeomorphic compact Riemannian manifolds (M, [subscript g][subscript M]) and (N, [subscript g][subscript N]) are isometric; that ...
Synthesis and testing of soy-based polyols : phosphate and glycerolysis oligomers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Soy-based polyols are important industrial prepolymeric materials that use renewable resource. They react with isocyanates to produce polyurethanes (PU) and can be produced at costs less than polyols derived from petrochemicals. ...
The American dream and the margins in twentieth century fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
While the American Dream is an oft trod, even clich'ed, terrain in literary criticism, discourse around the topic tends to rely on a dichotomized discourse of celebration or critique. This tendency is a result of understanding ...
From developmental biology to tissue-engineering: printing blood vessels
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death and often requires vascular reconstruction. However, the use of synthetic materials and scaffold-based approaches has shown several limitations for small-diameter blood ...
Investigative study of long-term packaging effects and donor characteristics on acellular dermis scaffolds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Acellular tissue sources have become progressively popular for a variety of tissue engineering and medical applications, such as soft tissue augmentation, ...
The dynamics of modern realignments : examining the role of campaign messages in the realignment process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation studies the dynamics of partisan realignments by tracing the realignments of Evangelical and military officers. The first goal of ...
Differentiating anxiety and depression : a socioaffective tripartite model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The current study tested a newly-developed socioaffective tripartite model that includes family processes as potential etiological contributors to ...
A study of internet use and its impact on individual level social capital indicators and motivation to volunteer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This paper explores the relationship between Internet use among college students and the production of individual level social capital. As such, this paper applied the uses and gratifications theory to motivations for using ...
Battle on the home front : a contingency approach to analyzing how an army unit communicates with families during a deployment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
A case study with an Army aviation unit was conducted to determine what factors in Cameron's contingency theory contribute to how Army rear-detachment commanders and family readiness group leaders communicate with families ...
Evaluation of patch-burn grazing on species richness and density of grassland birds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
A patch-burn grazing (PBG) management technique was applied to four native tallgrass prairies in southwest Missouri to evaluate its effect on species richness and density of grassland birds. Treatment prairies were spring ...