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Resveratrol and procyanidin content in select Missouri red wines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
in the skins of grapes and are present in higher quantities in red wines than white wines. These polyphenols levels have been reported for wines around the world. However, the Norton grape is one of the predominant grapes grown in Missouri, and there is limited...
The effect of big four office size on audit quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
are less likely to have independent cerelated problems since an individual client is relatively less important due to larger client bases in bigger offices. My conjecture is tested for a sample of 6,568 firm-year observations for the period 2003 to 2005...
A quantitative performace measurement framework for health care systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Performance measurement has been widely used in the manufacturing industry for years. This research has focused on the adaptation of a performance measurement system used in manufacturing for application in health care ...
Endocrinology of equine metabolic pathophysiology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Obesity in horses is associated with a number of maladies including insulin resistance and laminitis; therefore studies investigating the metabolic physiology of equine were done. In our first study, we characterized the ...
The boys on the blogs : intermedia agenda setting in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
and wire service reporters who covered the campaign (N = 80) found that reporters who wrote about the campaign on a regular basis and who contributed to a blog on their news organizations' Websites had higher levels of exposure to political blogs. Reporters...
Pottery: art as relationship
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This thesis asserts that pottery is art because of the relationships people form with it. These formations occur on three levels. The first is the human response to the form of the pot. In this case a cup and a plate serve ...
Speed of Human Orthodontic Tooth Movement and Reported Pain When Applied Loads are Changed
(2015)
and at each study visit completed a validated pain report for right and left canines consisting of the Visual Analogue Scale and the Modified McGill Pain Questionnaire Short Form designed for orthodontic subjects, plus had maxillary impressions made...
Reporting from the front : a textual analysis of embedded reporting in the New York Times
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Embedded reporting during the Iraq War grew out of a new approach to the relationship between the news media and the military. Embedded reporters were given unprecedented access...
Retention of early career teachers engaged in Missouri's career education mentoring program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
To investigate novice career education teacher retention as it relates to participation in Missouri's Career Education Mentoring Program, a multiple methods approach (quantitative and qualitative) to research was applied ...
Repetitive sequence analysis for soybean genome sequences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Repetitive DNA sequences represent many difficulties in genome sequencing and analysis. Meanwhile, some of repetitive sequences play an important role ...
A Case Study of Two 21ˢᵗ Century Schools: Are We Preparing Students for the Global World?
(2016)
There is no question that we live in a global society. The ability to compete
successfully in the global marketplace is a fact facing our world today as it never has before.
American education must prepare students ...
Establishing the perimortem interval: correlation between bone moisture content and blunt force trauma characters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] When determining the time of occurrence of skeletal injuries forensic anthropologists know that antemortem skeletal injuries are recognized by evidence ...
Social skills and siblings in India
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Parents and teachers in India completed questionnaires giving details about the quality of children's sibling and peer relationships. Analyses of social skills of children with and without siblings revealed no significant ...
Proactive environmental risk communication : multiple publics' evaluation of for-profit corporations' sustainability communication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research expands understanding of corporate environmental communication beyond green advertising and environment responsibility reports of CSR into the more developed...
The fragility of knowledge
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this exhibition of assemblage sculpture works, I incorporate fragmented elements and light projectors to simultaneously convey an objectification ...
Pre-harvest water quality of ephemeral streams in Missouri Ozark forests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) developed a best management practice that leaves a riparian buffer next to streams to reduce the possibility of water quality degradation. The purpose of this study is to ...
Studies on the mechanisms of action of the male specific lethal complex in Drosophila
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
the repressive property of the MSL complex, selected protein components of the complex were combined with the yeast GAL4 binding domain. When targeted to a UAS-minimal promoter mini-white reporter, which was recovered at several X and autosomal positions, GAL4...
Newsroom decisions and autonomy in Missouri newspaper's abortion reporting in spring 2019
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The purpose of this research is to explore how newspaper journalists in Missouri covered the abortion issue around May 2019. Although research on abortion reporting and journalistic theories have been developed, not all previous research has...
Cultural framing of diabetes from a public health perspective: a comparative content analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
and violence-focused "public health model of reporting" by applying it to stories about diabetes in Latino and mainstream media. A two-tailed independent samples t-test showed a significant difference in the following public health facts at the .05 level...
Agronomic and pest interactions in no-till corn and soybean wih fall versus spring herbicide applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Fall herbicide applications have increased in popularity in recent years. Little is known of how fall herbicide applications impact soil conditions, insect populations, and winter and summer annual weed populations. Few ...