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Initial evaluation of a mental health literacy intervention : mental health care in schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Teacher mental health literacy (MHL) includes their attitudes, knowledge, and help-seeking abilities to support youth mental health. Students' access to support in schools...
Consequences of plant water limitation for aphids, their natural enemies, and insect communities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Climate change is causing an increase in drought events around the world. Water limitation affects the quality and quantity of plant resources for herbivorous insects, resulting...
Pertechnetate immobilization with sulfide in aqueous media under anaerobic and aerobic environments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Technetium-99 (Tc-99) is a high yield radionuclide produced from thermal neutron fission. As a consequence of the development of nuclear weapons over the past 50 years...
Applications of the fourier transform to convex geometry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
modifications and generalizations. We solve the Busemann-Petty problem in hyperbolic and spherical spaces, and the lower dimensional Busemann-Petty problem in the hyperbolic space. In the Euclidean space we modify the assumptions of the original Busemann...
Cover crop effects on corn plant water uptake and soil health
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Cover crops (CC), close growing crops that provide soil and seeding protection between periods of normal cash crop production or between trees in orchards or vines in vineyards...
A Quantitative Exploration of the Educational Paths to Completion Taken by First Generation College Students and Students Who Have a Parent with A Four-Year College Degree
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This quantitative study examines students’ survey responses as they begin the
transition from high school into and through their initial year of college then to
completion of a four-year college degree, to explore ...
Integrating cover crops into crop rotations in upstate Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"There is an increasing emphasis on management strategies such as reduced tillage, use of cover crops, and implementation of conservation practices (i.e. terraces, no-till, and cropping systems) in Missouri cropping systems. By combining best...
Ars moriendi as social reality : articulation of the good death in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Death and dying are often theorized as micro-level processes, focusing on the experience of the death process from the perspective of the dying, or in the context of grief and psychological healing on the part of the ...
The experience of rural children whose daily lives are limited by asthma
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Asthma is the most common cause of disability in childhood, affecting more than one million U.S. children. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to describe children's experience of disabling asthma. After obtaining ...
Balanced Calendar versus Traditional Calendar: Measuring the Difference in Reading Academic Achievement among Kindergarten through Third-Grade Students Who Have Been Identified as Reading Below or Well-Below Grade Level
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
School accountability is increasing with federal mandates. As public schools investigate
strategies to raise students’ achievement scores and graduation rates, some have implemented a
modified school calendar. Schools ...
Mizzou, volume 096, number 1 (2007 fall)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2007)
Ambrosia beetle habitat use, host use, and influence on early wood colonizing microbes in an oak-hickory forest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Knowledge of how exotic ambrosia beetles influence microbe communities and how forest characteristics affect ambrosia beetle abundance will improve policy and management...
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 relationships among middle level teachers' assessment practices, instructional leadership, and student achievement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationships among teachers' assessment practices, instructional leadership, and student achievement in the middle level schools in Missouri. The method of analysis was primarily quantitative...
Quasi-metric geometry : smoothness and convergence results
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This thesis has two distinct yet related parts, the first pertaining to geometry on quasi-metric spaces with emphasis on the Hausdorff outer-measure, the natural extension of the Gromov-Pompeiu-Hausdorff distance to ...
A semester in "The Other Washington" with The Spokane Spokesman-Review
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
and the Madison Capital Times) coverage of the 2012 legislative elections, both to state legislatures and the U.S. Congress, provides a snapshot of how state capital newspapers are coping with dwindling numbers and the relative quality of their coverage across...
"When people push us, it just makes us feel better" : a multi-case exploration of the tools, relationships, and contexts of near-peer mentoring for college
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This study sought to explore the unique ways near-peer mentors serving in three different public high schools help historically marginalized students address and overcome informational and psychological barriers to college. ...
Data Driven Decision-Making in Midwest Charter Schools: Teachers’ Experiences in the Classroom
(2014)
at two Midwest charter schools in the same area. While both schools were under the sponsorship of the same university, they yielded very different achievement scores on the yearly state assessments. The participants were interviewed, observed...
Impact of social networks on well-being : evidence from Latino immigrants in non-urban Missouri communities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
of social capital on well-being. A three step approach is used to test this general hypothesis using Latino immigrant household survey conducted in three areas of rural Missouri as primary source of data. The first step uses a binomial logit regression...
Reliable service chain orchestration for scalable data-intensive computing at infrastructure edges
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
In the event of natural or man-made disasters, geospatial video analytics is valuable to provide situational awareness that can be extremely helpful for first responders. However, geospatial video analytics demands massive ...