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Development of implementation methods of water quality trading policy : using the Hydrological simulation program-Fortran (HSPF)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
between different locations within a watershed, as long as water quality standards are not violated along the stream. Many pilot programs and projects have generated useful information on how to implement water quality trading, but the number of actual...
An empirical approach to exploring the role of selective incentives in mitigating the free rider problem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
analyzed, and 2) is member free riding influenced by the by-laws and polices under the control of the collective action organization? A confirmatory factor analysis model is used to test for the coexistence of multiple free riding activities. A structural...
Building bridges between us and them : cultivating inclusive attitudes toward immigrants through global citizenship education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] An inclusive attitude towards immigrants is a crucial attribute for students to develop, especially in a globalized world with an increasing number of international migrants and refugees. Promoting inclusive attitudes...
The investment horizon issue in user-owned organizations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
liquidity through a secondary market results in a disincentive for user-owners to invest in growth opportunities. However, despite the conceptual and anecdotal arguments supporting the existence of and degree of investment constraints, the empirical evidence...
Assessing the predictability of election victory from a functional theory perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This investigation utilized the Functional Theory of Campaign Discourse (Benoit, 2007) and previous content analyses of television advertisements to determine whether candidate...
Material and volunteer convergence in developing a disaster resource portfolio
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
volunteers following a large-scale disaster creates a convergence problem, especially when the agencies have limited capacity to handle them. Furthermore, different severity of disasters, community exposure, and resilience make effective and efficient relief...
African-American student perceptions of their parents' and guardians' attitudes towards education and academic achievement
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-26)
The purpose of this study was to examine African-American student perceptions of
their parents' and guardians' attitudes towards education and academic achievement at five
urban schools in the Kansas City, Missouri School ...
Three essays on innovation, corporate control and household consumption-based asset pricing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
. In contrast, family-owned firms are often praised for instilling a long-run vision that limits self-dealing. In our data, 75% of family firms employ a dual-class ownership structure and 46% of these companies do so by holding these shares within a trust. We...
The politics of CO2 emissions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
. The first study of the dissertation investigates whether democracy as a political institution performs better in reducing per capita CO2 emissions than non-democracies. Applying seven different empirical research designs, including the TSCS and multilevel...
Taste biases : confounding sensory and label evaluations for yogurt
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] When you taste something bitter, something with a thicker consistency, or something with less sweetness does it make you think it is healthier? Does the taste of the product lead...
'High places' in the Aegean: the case for non-Cretan peak sanctuaries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
My dissertation, centers on the overseas religious and cultural influences of the so-called Minoan culture of Bronze Age Crete through a critical, comparative analysis of alleged peak sanctuaries in the Aegean islands, and Greek mainland. A detailed...
Activity involvement and place attachment of fish giggers in the Missouri Ozarks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Despite being an integral part of Ozark culture for nearly 200 years, little is known about fish gigging and those who participate in this activity. A mail-back survey was administered to 1,011 licensed Missouri anglers who lived in one of seven zip...
What were we thinking? : an analysis of Department of Defense advanced studies group theses from Operation Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Freedom I, 1992-2002
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
the research, however, is a concentrated analysis of countless operational-level decisions made by mid-level officers, or the motivations behind these decisions. A mixed-methods study investigating the research produced by the 1,124 graduates of each...
Symphony No. 2 (“Brasiliana”) by Walter Burle Marx: an edition and commentary
(2013)
This research on the Brazilian composer Walter Burle Marx (b São Paulo, 1902; d
Akron, Ohio, 1990) is part of an ambitious project, which aims at publishing a
performing edition of all four of Burle Marx's symphonies. ...
Examining the relationship between students' perception of servant leadership by physical therapy faculty mentors and interprofessional socialization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Interprofessional collaborative practice, requiring providers from two or more disciplines to effectively work together, is considered necessary to enhance health outcomes at the individual, organizational, and system-level in the United States...
Assessment and diversity of fish communities in non-wadeable tributaries of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
communities inhabiting the Grand (10 sites, prairie region) and Meramec (12 sites, Ozark region) river systems. Chapter 3 examined tributary use by large-river specialist fishes (LRS), a guild of fishes that likely disperse into tributaries from the Missouri...
Three essays on assimilation and acculturation of international instructors at U.S. research universities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
and qualitative data were collected and analyzed to study the situations of international instructors and understand their changes in behavioral patterns over time using different immigration theories. In the first chapter, using grading as a marker...
A statewide evaluation of gifted education in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
, and attendance rates were used as dependent variables to determine the effectiveness of gifted program delivery models in Missouri. The grades most frequently served by gifted programs were 3-8 and boys were enrolled in gifted programs at a higher rate than girls...
Value chain integration, cluster cooperation, and sustainable livelihoods : bridging small farmers to high value markets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This study explores the conditions for the possibility of an effective participation of small vegetable farmers in the modern value chains and the effects of this participation on the farmers' livelihood sustainability. Taking a confluence of ideas...
Fording the Severn : the influence of intermarriage and judicial participation on Welsh identity and self-identification in Shropshire and the Central March of Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
A study of how intermarriage and the creation of multicultural communities helped to determine the way in which people used their identity along the often-fractious border zone of the Welsh March in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries...