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A quantitative performace measurement framework for health care systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Performance measurement has been widely used in the manufacturing industry for years. This research has focused on the adaptation of a performance measurement system used in manufacturing for application in health care ...
A multimedia investigation of remittances sent to Guatemala and an exploration of ethics with comics journalism editors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
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Standards of objectivity : a comparison between daily and alternative newsweekly papers in three Ohio cities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Journalism has professional standards. But should the standards practiced by daily newspaper journalists extend to their alternative newsweekly ...
Mizzou weekly, volume 25, number 28 (April 22, 2004)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2004)
The Cost of Product Development of Bt Corn Event MON810 in the Philippines
(AgBioForum, 2007)
The estimated total cost of developing Bt corn MON810 in the Philippines is $2.6 million (128 million Philippine pesos) at 2004 discounted prices. This includes the entire process of product development, from concept initiation done in the US...
Mizzou weekly, volume 27, number 25 (March 23, 2006)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2006)
Citizenship goes to the dogs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The conclusion I defend is that "domestic animals" have a moral claim to what I refer to as "basic citizenship rights," and that they do so for the same reason that "non-autonomous humans" do. I define each of these key ...
Mizzou weekly, volume 28, number 17 (January 25, 2007)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2007)
Mizzou weekly, volume 33, number 18 (February 2, 2012)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2012)
Newspaper circulation scandals : testing a new dimension of media credibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
of trust and credibility toward newspaper sales departments. A survey of 82 automobile dealerships in an urban Texas market afflicted by one such circulation overstatement scandal in 2004, that served by The Dallas Morning News, sought to determine to what...
Maternal-child nurses' social judgments about types of fathers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
descriptions of the father and child, nurses were presented with forced-choice questions about their perceptions of and emotional reactions to the fathers. They also were asked to answer questions raised by the fathers, using written responses. A series of one...
Climate change in the newsroom : journalists' evolving standards of objectivity when covering global warming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Climate change may well be the most important environmental issue of our time. For journalists covering the environmental beat, there is no bigger story - and none more treacherous. Journalists have been accused of distorting the scientific...
Informing in order to form : the Roman Catholic Church and media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
A dominate discourse in understanding the relationship between religion and media has been one of competition. This discourse of competition posits that the relationship between religion and media is inherently competitive. ...
Words and rumors of words : comparative war rhetorics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This thesis surveys how democratic governments convince their people to go to war and to continue fighting unpopular wars by exploring the relationship between contemporary and classical war rhetoric. Focusing on the ...
Telling Stories of Teacher-To-Teacher Trust in Culturally Relevant Teaching Professional Development
(2020)
This study examined White female teachers’ storied experiences of teacher-to-teacher trust as they navigated culturally relevant teaching practices presented through professional learning, using the qualitative research ...
Developing and establishing the reliability and validity of the teacher perceptions of school culture survey (TPSC)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable and valid survey instrument to measure beginning teacher perceptions of their induction into the school community and culture. Data was also analyzed to determine construct ...
Killing them with kindness: a meso-dialectical study of the conceptual formation of humane and inhumane in the no-kill animal shelter movement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
along with discourse analysis focused on newspaper articles, government documents, websites and television programs. This study explores movement ethics as they relate to movement ethos, the social processes through which animals are commodified and no...
The debate is dead : how journalists cover climate change now that false equivalence is uncommon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Angling the truth : how sponsored content and media framing impact the charter school movement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
focus groups where 24 participants were asked to read two articles- one written by a journalist, one written by a sponsored content provider. From there, users were asked a series of semi-structured questions related to the articles in order to access...