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A Hybrid Modeling Approach to Assess the Efficacy of Control Measures on Paratuberculosis on U.S. Dairy Farms
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Paratuberculosis, also known as Johne's disease or JD, is a chronic contagious
infection, caused by Mycobaterium avium paratuberculosis (MAP). This fatal disease
is incurable and causes considerable economic losses to ...
An exploratory study of cohesion among co-located and virtual members of virtual, partially distributed groups
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This study provides insight into the factors of cohesion and its development in virtual, partially distributed groups. This qualitative exploratory research design examined how co-located and virtual group participants ...
An alternate approach to educational reform in the United Arab Emirates : exploring students' motivation through Pisa 2012
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] For over a decade, the public education system in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has engaged in educational reform with varying degrees of success. The ...
Exploring the process of an obstacles to hiring foreign-born journalists in American newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.]
Racial disparity in police killings : an analysis of 2014 United States lethal force data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The main purpose of this research is to create a reliable database concerning law enforcement use of lethal force and employ this database to evaluate whether evidence exists that the decision to use lethal force is impacted ...
Corequisite mathematics education at Missouri community colleges
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
In an effort to raise graduation rates, the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development directed public institutions to establish policies and create corequisite support structures to allow some underprepared students to take...
Examining the effects of an intergroup dialogue-based diversity and social justice course on students' multicultural competencies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Given the rapidly changing racial/ethnic demographics of the United States (U.S.), U.S. public institutions, including institutions of higher education, ...
The Brazilian Flute Topic
(2023)
, I also develop analyses of three twentieth-century works for flute solo by composers deemed as nationalist: Melopéias n.3 (1950) by César Guerra-Peixe (1914-1993); Fantasia Sul América (1983) by Claudio Santoro (1919-1989); and Improviso (1974...
Mugwumps and never trumps : the rhetoric of party bolting and party repair
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Political partisanship has long occupied a central position in the study of American political rhetoric, but scholarly understanding of intraparty political communication has lagged behind that of interparty conflict. While ...
Parametrized post-Newtonian theory of reference frames, multipolar expansions and equations of motion in the N-body problem
(arXiv, 2006)
We discuss a covariant generalization of the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism in a class of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. It includes an exact construction of a set of global and local (Fermi-like) references ...
The estimation of a corporate crisis communication based on perceived CEO's leadership, perceived severity of threats, and preceived opposing public's size
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Based on the contingency theory (Cancel, Mitrook, & Cameron, 1999), this study examined whether the perception of leadership as a powerful inner organizational factor influences the outside latent public's assessment of ...
Resilience, Risk and Protective Factors among Nigerian Youth
(2022)
Poverty or low socioeconomic status has been known to negatively impact the educational achievement of children across the world. However, some children have managed to succeed despite the daily challenges they face because ...
Make America politically incorrect (again) : a genealogy with applications to the 2016 presidential campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Political correctness is a term replete with meaning in American society, but dreadfully difficult to define. That definitional quandary is especially ...
An optimization model for the World Food Programme's "protracted relief and recovery operations" in Chad
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This thesis presents an optimization model for the World Food Programme's policy in Chad-Protracted Relief and Recovery Operations (PRRO). Chad is a landlocked country in Central Africa and around 87 percent of population ...
Leadership challenges to public secondary school principals in the era of education reform and cultural unrest in border provinces of southern Thailand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
eleven public secondary school principals in Southern border provinces, Thailand. Data analysis drew on constant comparative method associated with grounded theory technique. Working under the complexities of educational reform policies associated...
History of the Department of Poultry Husbandry
(University of Missouri, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1968)
Understanding the impact of MSHSAA by-law 3.15.3 on participation in Missouri high school athletics from 2008-2016
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
question number seven revealed that multi-sport participation has decreased significantly in schools that do not offer 11-man football and has increased in schools that do offer 11-man football....
Opportunity Recognition: A Contingency Framework of Individual Attributes, Time Pressure, and Uncertainty
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This dissertation clarifies individual differences in opportunity recognition as a
precursor to starting a new business. Using a contingency perspective, time pressure and
uncertainty are hypothesized to moderate the ...
Faculty Beliefs in Early Childhood Teacher Preparation
(2015)
Teacher preparation programs in the United States face increasing pressure to restore America as the preeminent leader in a knowledge-based global economy by graduating a highly skilled workforce. A growing national focus ...
Two essays on new B2B sales incentive mechanisms for enhancing selling effectiveness and coordinating inside and outside sales forces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Essay 1: Motivating Salespeople to Enhance Selling Effectiveness: The Role and Optimal Design of Activity-Based Incentive Plans This paper provides a rationale and model for the use and optimal design of salesplus activity-based incentive plans...