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Using Visual Thinking Strategies to Improve Mathematics Instruction
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
The purpose of the study was to explore the use of Visual Thinking Strategies as it
applied to mathematics instruction for teachers in a small, urban elementary school
containing grades 1-6 in a large Midwestern ...
Instrumental music teacher perceptions regarding student self-regulation of music learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
In this study I examined instrumental music teacher's perceptions regarding student self-regulation of music learning. Relying on an interpretivist approach to an instrumental collective case study, data were collected ...
Maintaining the Segregated City?: Exploring the College Planning Experiences of Kansas City’s Urban Students of Color and the Implications on Their Access to Higher Education
(2014-09-30)
This dissertation examined the role of school-based college planning guidance
services in the college trajectories of central city students of color. It is projected that by
2018, most jobs will require some postsecondary ...
Undergraduate catalog 2010-12, revised
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
A Comparison Study of Grace-Based Groundwater Modeling for Data-Rich and Data-Scarce Regions
(2014-09-30)
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) modeling in water resources is
an emerging field in hydrology. Investigation of groundwater change using remote sensing
data helps overcome data limitation at a regional ...
An examination of the leadership competencies within a community college leadership development program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
An extensive review of the literature suggested the nation's community colleges are quickly approaching a leadership crisis as current leaders are fast approaching retirement. In response, community colleges are investing ...
The role of the mammary gland during heat stress
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Disruptive effects of climate change, such as increasing environmental temperature, have direct impacts on economic viability and efficiency of food production. In lactating...
Potential diagnostic methods and nutritional changes to combat bovine respiratory disease in receiving cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) accounts for up to 70 percent of health disruptions and $500 million in associated medical costs and production losses, thus receiving considerable attention from cattle health personnel ...
A Theory of Consumer Fraud in Market Economies
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Of the many forms of human behavior, perhaps none more than those of force
and fraud have caused so much harm in both social and ecological environments. In
spite of this, neither shows signs of weakening given their ...
Science frictions : science, folklore, and "the future"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Folklore and science, along with the subject of the future which has slowly over time worked its way into the discourses of both, have a long, complicated history together. One...
Undergraduate catalog 2012-14
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
A mixed method phenomenological case study of how members of a democratic micro school experience leadership and democratic principles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
A democratic micro school is a school with fewer than 150 students that ascribes to a democratic leadership structure where all of the school community members, especially the students, have leadership in their learning. ...
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 ...
The evolution of the U.S. financial architecture, asset prices, and the role of fiscal and monetary policy
(2015-03-04)
In the past years there has been increasing interest in shadow banking institutions.
Economists identified the shadow banking system at the core of the 2007-2008 Global
Financial Crisis and it was a key component of the ...
"Mood-Stuff" and "Metaphoric Utterance": Norman Corwin's radio art
(2013)
Norman Corwin (1910-2011) is widely acclaimed as the best radio writer in early
American radio art (from the early 1920s to 1950). Ample research has been done on him as a
radio dramatist, patriotic propagandist, and ...
Cerebrovascular Accident Behavioral Modification Education for High-Risk Women
(2017)
Cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) continue to be one of the leading causes of disability and
death throughout the United States (U.S.). While both men and women are at risk for CVAs,
more women have CVAs each year than ...
Undergraduate catalog 2010-12, original
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
University catalog, 2018-19
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Welcome to the University of Missouri 2018-2019 catalog! We are pleased to provide an interactive and searchable catalog online. The catalog is a comprehensive reference for your academic studies. It includes a list of all degree programs offered...
Interrogating transnational media representations of "harmful" bodylore
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The category of "harmful" cultural practices' has become a central and defining concept in global health and development policy. A key target of Sustainable Development Goal 5...
Toward a search perspective on entrepreneurship
(2014-07-17)
Drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm, this dissertation examines the learning and searching processes in new ventures. This dissertation includes three essays, each focusing on one specific aspect of a search ...