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Roy Wilkins as a journalist
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1970)
"This study is primarily concerned with an observation of Wilkins' journalistic image as reflected in his newspaper, magazine and syndicated columns concerning the racial and economic problems of the Negro American. A detailed observation is made...
A quarterly econometric model of the United States beef sector
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1982)
The United States beef sector has been modeled in many studies, perhaps, because beef represents a large proportion of the consumer food dollar and agriculture’s income. The predictive performance of these models has been, however, quite...
The young Thomas Jefferson's geographic thought, 1743 - 1784
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-13)
Jefferson's early life and his writings until 1784, to provide a survey of his geographic thought. It will look at his work in surveying, cartography, climatology, his influence on military movements during the Revolutionary War, his contribution...
The middlewestern wool manufacture 1860-1914
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1966)
Subversion of the gaze Degas and the social implications of his Dancers
(2011)
Edgar Degas' portrayal of women has generated particular interest. His subjects
were often thought to be women of ill-repute, yet Degas shows them hard at work. I believe
that Degas purposefully set out to chronicle the ...
Exhaustible resources and technological change in the United States agriculture, 1940-1969
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
Technological progress has played an important role in American agriculture since the beginning of World War II. The rapid rate of growth of population and industrialization in the U.S. has to be met by a rapid rate of growth of food and fiber...
Expectation formulations and optimal decisions in cattle feedlot problems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
in the context of a cattle feedlot operation. Several structural models describing the feedlot operation are developed. A number of objective functions are considered in connection with these structural models in which the expectation mechanism is regarded...
Characterizing territoriality and the mechanisms that mediate it in female Anolis gundlachi lizards
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Territoriality is a suite of behaviors through which animals secure access to particular areas or resources. It is prevalent across animal groups and has the potential to exert substantial influence on fitness by mediating how individuals...
Conservation of Sooty Terns on Wake Atoll complex
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
the past two decades. However, the danger of non-target poisoning to seabirds has rarely been examined. In a second study, I assessed the risk of rodenticide bait to nesting Sooty Terns using placebo bait. I found no evidence of pellet ingestion based...
Trait anxiety : a psychometric shadow
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
The purpose of the present study is to examine the independent relationships which trait and state anxiety have to measures of fear in rat-phobic female college students during imagined and live encounters with a member of their feared stimulusclass....
The veering path of progress : politics, race, and consensus in the north St. Louis Mark Twain Expressway fight, 1950-1956
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This thesis examines how a complicated mix of factors converged to influence the planning, proposal, protest, and final route of the Mark Twain Expressway through St. Louis's North Side in the 1950s. To proponents, the expressway symbolized...
A managerial-economics analysis of selected Midwestern Class I motor common carriers of refrigerated commodities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1966)
were general comedities carriers who operated at least twelve refrigerated trailers. Company executives were interviewed in 1964. Financial and operating data for I960 and 1963 were obtained from secondary sources. A comparative analysis of specialized...
Ripening Kinetics of Iron Sulfides in the Presence/Absence of a Carbonyl Group
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
The ripening of mackinawite (Fe₁+ₓS) to pyrite (FeS₂) or greigite (Fe²⁺Fe³⁺ ₂S₄) was
examined at temperatures between 23 and 90°C to better understand the kinetics of low
temperature iron sulfide crystallization in the ...
Scale and utilization economics in feeding cattle under three feeding systems : a feasibility study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1967)
"Since the end of World War II the cattle feeding industry in the United States has been characterized by three major, and to a certain degree, related developments: 1. A marked expansion in numbers. In the two decades from 1945 to 1965 the number...
Women of the Heartland : tradition and evolution in the Missouri women's movement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This thesis is a local study of the women's movement in Missouri. The primary topic is organized feminist activity, though it shows also feminist/antifeminist interactions. Missouri early established an official Commission on the Status of Women...
God's words in the language of men : the professionalization of the Southern Baptist Press
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
of the press and autonomy became the professional values most at stake for newsworkers as denominational leaders insisted journalists should concentrate on promotion. Through the Civil Rights Movement, most journalists tried to maintain a centrist position...
Desegregation and its impact on institutional culture at a historically black university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
In this case study, 38 Black and White participants shared their recollections of intergroup contact during the first 15 years of desegregation (1954-1969) at a Historically Black University in a predominantly White Midwestern community. Faculty...
Metals hosts in the Pennsylvanian Hushpuckney and Stark Black Shales from Selected Areas in Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The Hushpuckney Shale of the Swope Formation and the Stark Shale of the Dennis
Formation, two black shales in the Pennsylvanian Kansas City group, contain elevated
concentrations of transition and based metal elements, ...
The cult of Rodin : words, photographs, and colonial history in the spread of Auguste Rodin's reputation in northeast Asia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
exhibition in Japan, Korea, and China held in 1966, 1985, and 1993, respectively, this study argues that wide dissemination of images and written accounts of the sculptor's works, fueled by each country's urge to emulate the culture of the West, created a...
The development and psychometric testing of the shared decision-making instrument
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-18)
, or anal cancer. Healthy People 2020 established a goal that 80% of 13 to 15 year old females complete the HPV vaccine series. Previous research has focused on the medical provider and parents influence on HPV vaccine receipt and have excluded the school...