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Fire risk assessment of the western portion of the central hardwoods forest region
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study examined how fire risk, a combination of fuels conditions and fire probabilities, varied across a large portion of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. Case studies were conducted to evaluate the fuel loading ...
Overstory density and its effect on oak regeneration abundance and oak understory height growth in the Missouri Ozark Highlands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study examined how overstory density affects regeneration abundance and understory height growth in the Missouri Ozark Highlands. Data were collected on three different treatment types, no harvest management, uneven-aged ...
Systemic preservation and political legitimation : a critical examination of the Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Act ought to be of considerable academic interest. After reviewing the relevant literature pertaining to the origins of the Sherman Act in the social sciences and elsewhere, I perform a textual analysis of Congressional debates in both Houses...
Upper White River Watershed Integrated Economic and Environmental Management Project
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008-09)
This report outlines enhanced existing local cooperative water quality efforts, sumarizes economic and physical data, and discusses how that information was used to develop analytical models.
The evolutionary significance of developmental plasticity in the communication system of Neoconocephalus triops (Orthoptera: tettigoniidae)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The katydid Neoconocephalus triops is a tropical species that extended its distribution range to North America. In North America, males display developmental plasticity in mating calls between reproductive generations: the ...
Intraguild interactions between native and domestic carnivores in central India
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
I determined various factors affecting the resource selection and spatial ecology of the Indian fox Vulpes bengalensis, a small canid endemic to the Indian subcontinent. I collected radiotelemetry data from 32 Indian foxes ...
Restoring forest composition and structure of riparian corridors in the Missouri Ozarks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Desire to restore the function of riparian forest ecosystems has become a primary objective of many land management agencies in the United States. In the eastern U.S., much emphasis has been placed on planting native ...
Wildlife response to spatial and temporal changes in forest habitat
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
A common goal in land-management planning is to describe the relationship between management actions, vegetation and wildlife habitat conditions for large landscapes. Achieving this goal can be challenging because ecological ...
Estimation of adult skeletal age-at-death using the Sugeno fuzzy integral
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Age-at-death estimation of an individual skeleton is important to forensic and biological anthropologists for identification and demographic analysis, but it has been shown that current aging methods are often unreliable ...
Evaluating flood tolerance measures for Missouri oak species
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The aim of this research was to determine the effects of four flooding treatments on survival of seedlings from 45 seedlots of seven oak species at two sampling dates using logistic analysis, and to quantify growth responses ...
The semiaquatic heteroptera (Gerromorpha) of Thailand : faunistics, biogeography and phylogeography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Semiaquatic heteropterans (Gerromorpha) were collected from mountain streams and waterfalls and lowland ponds adjacent to the mountains were collected from 2002 to 2006. One hundred fifty-eight species representing 31 ...
Mizzou, volume 096, number 4 (2008 summer)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2008)
Healing the frontier : Catholic sisters, hospitals, and medicine men in the Wisconsin Big Woods, 1880-1920
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
to mainstream America, a trouble-free advent of the cannon of modern public health care was not a foregone conclusion in Hayward, nor was the development of a modern definition of health or sickness inevitable. At critical moments, individual Haywardites...
Budgeting charity : a historical perspective on the Kansas Orphans' Home
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
societies, the concept was adopted by modern industrializing nations, where many orphanages are still in operation. Whether publicly or privately funded, orphanages put extremely private matters of family structure--child-rearing practices...
Theoretial [sic] analysis of oscillating motion, heat transfer, minimum meniscus radius and charging procedure in an oscillating heat pipe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
With the rapid development of electronic technology, investigation and application of devices with high performance of heat removal have become competitive issues recently. Different from traditional heat transfer strategy, ...
Spatially resolved and bulk zinc analysis in biological samples of patients at different stages of Alzheimer's disease by high resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
One hypothesis that has gained considerable attention in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is trace element toxicity, and various elements, including zinc, have become the foci of renewed interest. The first ...
Recreation of Chernobyl trauma in Svetlana Aleksiyevich's Chernobylʹskaya molitva
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Little has been written about the literary methodology of the contemporary Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksiyevich. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the aesthetic manipulation of factographic content ...
On the synoptic and mesoscale organization of mid-latitude, continental convective snow events
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
An ingredients-based methodology was pursued in order to evaluate the likelihood of thunderstorms occurring in the presence of snowfall (i.e. thundersnow; TSSN). In order to properly distinguish from typical snowstorms ...
Breathing in the other : enthusiasm and the sublime in eighteenth-century Britain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This project assesses enthusiasm and the sublime as important eighteenth-century phenomena for establishing the limits and bases of reason and polite discourse. My research focuses eighteenth-century and current sources ...
Adoption of nutrient management practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Off-farm income has recently been incorporated into the analysis of technology adoption, due to its increasing share in total farm household income in the U.S. Previous studies, however, found inconsistent results with ...