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Effects of pyramidal training on school psychologist and teacher implementation of trial-based function analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Educators often seek consultation with school psychologists for the assessment of problem behavior and the development of intervention plans to address problem behavior. School psychologists typically conduct functional based assessments (FBA) using...
Preventing Primary Cesarean Sections for First-time Mothers: Use of a Labor Dystocia Checklist
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2023)
for the intervention group without an increase in adverse maternal and newborn complications. The labor dystocia checklist is a safe, evidence-based, quality improvement intervention that can reduce unnecessary primary cesarean sections for first-time mothers....
Assessing costs and environmental impacts of municipal food waste treatment options in Columbia, Missouri : a decision support tool integrating life cycle analysis and robust optimization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Many municipal governments currently have goals in place to align with global efforts and policy to reduce greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions and take advantage of waste as a resource for renewable energy and nutrients. To ...
Bayesian spatial models for adjusting nonresponse in small area estimation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
in both situations. When the population of interest is binary and nonresponse has a degree of nonignorability, there are special difficulties in the data analysis. One common practice in mail surveys is to resend the survey questionnaire to nonrespondents...
Improving Obstructive Sleep Apnea Competency of Primary Care Clinicians Through Online Education
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2024)
. This evidence-based quality improvement (EBQI) project aimed to determine whether an online educational video on OSA would improve competency in primary care clinicians. The educational video included the OSA risk factors, complications, screening methods...
Social influence and the role of teachers in school-based mental health
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
, the study evaluated the effectiveness of a web-based social intervention targeted for teachers designed to enhance their role clarity and identification within school-based mental health practices. Youth mental health challenges are prominent and rising...
Sex variability
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
in considering very diverse aspects of the physical and psychic phenomena of human life. One of these is the greater variability of the male; this is true for almost the whole of the field we have covered, and it has social and practical consequences...
Fluorescence spectroscopy and parallel factor analysis of waters from municipal waste sources
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Excitation-emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectroscopy is becoming a valuable tool for studying the complex nature of dissolved organic matter. EEMs can identify fluorescence emitting organic substances (fluorophores) based on fluorescence peak...
Adoption of nutrient management practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
-farm income on adoption of conservation practices. The contribution of the current study is to provide a conceptual model which shows that off-farm work has positive impact on adoption of capital incentive practices and negative impact on adoption labor...
The impact of place-based pedagogy on teachers' professional identities, instructional decisions, and collaborations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This design study uses a design-based, formative approach to consider teachers' understanding and use of place-based pedagogical practices. The study focuses on teachers' awareness, understanding and use of place as they implemented classroom...
Process Evaluation on the YES Intervention
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Background: Childhood obesity affects 13.7 million children and adolescents which makes up
almost 20% of the world’s population. Childhood obesity continues to see an increase in cases
each year. The Youth Engagement ...
Characteristics of pretend play and their contributions to preschool children's emotion regulation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
is evident, the mechanisms driving this process are not well understood. The present longitudinal study used video observations to examine whether specific aspects of pretend play (emotional expression and social interaction) were related to improvements...
Scientific Evidence on the Environmental and Health Effects of Land Application of Biosolids
(2015-08-12)
The study is an objective evaluation of the controversy on whether the practice
of land application of biosolids for soil enrichment and restoration poses significant harm
to the environment, human and animal health. ...
Meretites' Faience Ushebtis: An Analysis and Determination of their Production in a Late Period or Ptolemaic Workshop
(2010)
The hundreds of faience shabtis in an individual Late Period burial demanded a significant production effort within a workshop. Petrie's discovery of thousands of molds for small faience objects in Amarna (1891-92) and Memphis (1908-13) led...
Older childless adults' inter-vivos transfers of emotional, instrumental, and financial support and predictors of giving to kin and non-kin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Inter-vivos transfers, or support given to others during a person's lifetime, are vital to the economy, public resource preservation, and social policies. The increasing prevalence of childlessness among older adults and ...
The interrelation of mental functions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
"The aim of this dissertation is to review the most important results published up to the present time, and to add a statement and discussion of results obtained in the laboratory of educational psychology at the University of Missouri." -- Pages 1-2....
Three essays on assimilation and acculturation of international instructors at U.S. research universities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation consists of three chapters that answer an overarching question: "How do foreign-born instructors assimilate and acculturate into U.S. academia as an immigrant-receiving environment?" Across the three ...
Stakeholder perceptions : the impact of a university-based laboratory school on a campus-based university educator preparation program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
A gap in research on the impact of a university-based laboratory school on a campus-based educator preparation program and a decrease in the number of university-based laboratory schools requires current laboratory school programs to evaluate...
Investigation of the performance of an automatic arterial oxygen controller
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
, manual adjustment of FiO2 is the common practice in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The automation of this adjustment is a topic of interest. The research team, at University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC), has developed a novel automatic arterial...
Essays in applied microeconomics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
are better explained by differences in the socioeconomic statuses of Black and White drivers. Whereas more discretionary practices such as searches and arrests are not well explained by these same differences. Confronting the same data limitations...