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Long hedge example with options (2011)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2011)
This guide describes how to place an input (long) hedge in the options market to reduce the price risk associated with buying an input used in your business. A long hedge in the options market is accomplished by purchasing ...
How effective--and safe--are systemic steroids for acute low back pain?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2011)
Short courses of systemic steroids are likely safe, but they are ineffective. A single dose of intramuscular (IM) or intravenous (IV) methylprednisolone doesn't improve long-term pain scores in patients with low back pain ...
What's the best way to relieve mastitis in breastfeeding mothers?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2011)
Frequent breast emptying helps both infectious and noninfectious mastitis (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, 1 randomized controlled trial [RCT]). Antibiotics may be useful for women with positive milk cultures (SOR: ...
Managing innovation : navigating disruptive and transformational technologies
(University of Missouri, 2011)
Major technological changes unleash large-scale social, cultural, economic and political consequences. Digitized computing is the most recent example of disruptive technology; the wheel could be regarded as one of the ...
Following the money : how salient is media ownership information to U.S. citizens?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This qualitative study seeks to assess how significant media ownership information is to citizens' lives and to understand on what bases this information is salient for some citizens and not others. Ten respondents were ...
Conservation and allocation of slope in gravity sanitary sewer design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Gravity sanitary sewers are traditionally designed in a relatively direct route from source to destination after considering property boundary/easement constraints and topographic features. A methodology is presented in ...
Identification and management of glyphosate-resistant annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Annual bluegrass is the most problematic weed on golf courses in the Transition Zone and Southern United States. Applications of glyphosate are common on dormant zoysiagrass to remove winter annual weeds. In 2007, a suspect ...
Temporal patterns and variability of trophic state parameters in Missouri reservoirs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Eutrophic reservoirs in Missouri, as a group, do not display the bimodal spring and fall pattern of peak algal biomass that is accepted phenology in eutrophic temperate lakes. Instead, Missouri's eutrophic reservoirs display ...
Characterization of thermally activated solid electrolyte lithium anode primary reserve batteries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The purpose of this research was to perform an initial characterization of the capabilities of thermal batteries. Thermal batteries have a very high theoretical specific energy. If they also have a suitably high specific ...
The politics of election coverage : a content analysis of Indiana's two largest newspapers during the 2008 presidential election
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The goal of this study was to investigate the 2008 presidential election coverage of Indiana's two largest news publications - The Indianapolis Star and The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - and determine if any statistically ...
Web based nursing home information system : needs, benefits, and success in providing efficient care at long term care facilities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Most of the nursing homes in the United States do not have clinical information systems at their facility due to which elderly people who reside in the facilities are not reaping the benefits that these systems are thought ...
Damaged
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
I have always been fascinated by the psychology [i.e. of] human and what motivates behaviors and choices made in life. This interest is more profound than merely my own inactive and proactive conduct, it also involves ...
Geochemistry and reaction path modeling of the Beowawe hydrothermal system, Nevada : a barren end-member epithermal system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The Beowawe geothermal area is manifested by numerous hot springs, fumaroles, and before the installation of an electric power plant, spectacular geysers. Beowawe also bears many geologic similarities to ancient epithermal ...
What should you tell pregnant women about exposure to parvovirus?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2011)
Tell patients that parvovirus infections before 20 weeks' gestation confer a risk of fetal morbidity and mortality as high as 16%, but don't significantly increase long-term developmental sequelae (strength of recommendation ...
Counseling is a must with this smoking cessation aid
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2012)
Inform patients who are interested in taking varenicline (Chantix) that there is a small cardiovascular (CV) risk associated with it, as well as neuropsychiatric risks -- and consider recommending that smokers with a history ...
Is high-dose oral B12 a safe and effective alternative to a B12 injection?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2012)
Both high-dose oral B12 and injected B12 raised low vitamin B12 levels and improved hematologic parameters and neurologic symptoms in short-term studies (3-4 months) predominantly involving patients with conditions associated ...
Tarsal coalition (rigid flatfoot)
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2012)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of tarsal coalition.
Head Movement in Bantu DPs
(2010)
Carstens argues against the approach of Cinque (2005) to deriving facts of adjunct order related to Greenberg's Universal 20, based on Shona data. Some implications are that head-movement exists in grammar and has syntactic ...
Views separated by time and terrain : the feminine perspective in the travel writings of Isabella Bird and Kira Salak
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This study compares the feminine perspectives of Isabella Bird and Kira Salak, each of whom traveled alone across many continents and wrote - for publication - about her experiences. The purpose of this study is to identify ...
History at risk : a survey to determine the size and status of local television news archives in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
It is a generally accepted fact that local television news archives are slowly deteriorating. In 1999 the AMIA created the "Preserving Local Television Case Studies and Symposium Project Proposal". One of its goals was a ...