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Age-generations in the workplace : an organization system type and space use preference systems analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The 21st Century workforce includes four generations for the first time in US history yielding unparalleled workplace diversity. A systems approach was used to assess University of Missouri Extension employees' world view and space use...
Revisiting fund-raising encroachment of public relations in light of the theory of donor relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This qualitative study of public relations and fund-raising practitioners in charitable organizations found fund-raising encroachment of public relations occurring at a rate roughly comparable to levels documented in the first studies...
Fragile balance : a phenomenological study exploring work-life balance of Millennial professionals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This phenomenological study explored the work-life balance of Millennial regional specialist professionals at University of Missouri (MU) Extension, part of a nationwide non-credit educational organization, the Cooperative Extension Service System...
From crisis to celebration: exploring how extension educators experience mentoring at a midwestern land-grant university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The purpose of this grounded theory qualitative research study was to construct a framework that described the informal mentoring processes for Extension educators at a Midwestern land-grant university. The Mentorship in Extension: An organizational...
Managing in an era of accountability
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
and transparency in the service delivery process. Given the complexities of policy implementation, it is not unsurprising that the empirical evidence is largely mixed in regards to the effectiveness of accountability programs. While scholars have extensively...
Some results in convex geometry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
" inequalities which resemble the inequalities connected with the hyperplane conjecture for convex bodies. The third section is about a hyperplane-type inequality involving arbitrary measures and subspaces of unconditional spaces. This is an extension of A...
Bismuth impurity effects on copper: examining embrittlement in immiscible binary metallic systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
that occurs at the grain boundary. Although this phenomenon has been extensively observed it is not well understood. Duscher et al. studied this system and submitted that the embrittlement stems not only from the strain of a large impurity at the grain...
On the use of multiple emitters to improve the TDOA source localization accuracy in the presence of random sensor position errors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
locations as a special case. Moreover, scenario (iv) can be viewed as the extension of scenario (iii) in the sense that the unknown source positions are now generated by a moving source. For each localization scenario, we investigate the amount...
The integrating of teaching and learning through technology in high school : learning management systems (LMS) and alternatives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
in their early adoption of technology confirming the theory of DOI. This study found differences between the LMS use of the extensive and limited users of technology, with the extensive users incorporating a wide variety of tools in unsupported Open Source LMSs...
Living and dying Lakota : an ethnography of a tribal nursing home
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
observations, extensive fieldnotes, and 22 interviews -- 12 with staff, three administrators, and seven residents' interviews -- my findings show that there is a complex tension between institutional and cultural particulars competing with one another in a...
Model-based recursive partitioning of structural equation models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
simulation. A real-world example involving the tests is also provided, followed by a discussion of extensions and future development....
Two warehouse material location selection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
to bypass imperfect material movement information, in order to analyze inventory levels. Last, an application of the material location selection and production planning models is given as a potential extension of these models for determining an expansion...
Influence and authority of information sources in the Highlands : exploring the immigration debate during the Scottish Independence Referendum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This dissertation examines the role of the mass news media as an influencer of opinions on immigration through an examination of information sources used by host, Highland community members. There is an extensive range of research exploring...
Generating sequences of valuations and applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Application of deep learning networks to crime prediction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Crimes are a major public concern in cities. Every day, a tremendous amount of law enforcement and policemen have been assigned to patrol and protect society from crimes...
Action recognition via sequence embedding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
features, salient weak classifiers are picked up by AdaBoost algorithm. Our approach enables robust action recognition in very challenging situations and the framework is validated based on four public standard datasets: the Weizmann dataset, the KTH...
"The sphinx of the nineteenth century": Helena Blavatsky's syncretism in Britain, 1887-1891
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Helena Blavatsky, the enigmatic co-founder of the Theosophical Society, has an extensive biographical record, much of which is dedicated to proving or disparaging...
A geometric morphometric approach to Casas Grandes ceramic specialization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
contributes to the study of at least three important anthropological topics: 1) the study of the Medio period Casas Grandes culture, and by extension the organization of production in mid-level hierarchically organized societies; 2) geometric morphometric...
Microfabrication and modeling of a tool for thermodynamic characterization of micro-samples
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Cryopreservation is the process of preserving biological samples indefinitely at subzero temperatures. Successful cooling procedures have been developed for a limited number of cell types through an extensive amount of experimentation. In order...
Analyzing how grade four teachers plan to teach inquiry-based curriculum materials and the influences on their preparation of mathematics lessons
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
who perceived "holes" in the curriculum supplemented extensively. This study yielded a refined framework for researching teacher planning but additional studies are needed to validate the framework. Finally, implications are offered for Accountability...