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Confucian values and economic performance: exploring their effects on citizens satisfaction with democracy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The political climate in East Asia is of emerging importance in the world. Democracy in this region has had mixed levels of success in the past decades leading to a significant debate on how democracy and cultural values ...
Measures on Hilbert spaces and applications to hydrodynamics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Homogeneous and isotropic statistical solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations are produced. These are shown to be approximated by Galyerkin statistical solutions on finite dimensional subspaces. Homogeneous and isotropic measures are approximated...
Accessibility of public services : city government institutions and service spatial distribution
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Public services are central to the purpose of city government, and scholars have found that government institutions affect policy and budgetary decisions. I use the locations...
Outdoor relief by the counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
sufficient facts have been learned to give a comprehensive idea of the situation, certainly no claim can be made of statistical completeness and minute analysis. To accomplish the latter for a public question, involving an entire state, would require...
Bayesian semiparametric spatial and joint spatio-temporal modeling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
of descriptive statistics concerning the state of cancer in the U.S. The information available through these statistics present limited information concerning spatial or temporal trends in the course of cancer in the U.S. Recently, there have been more efforts...
Principal and teacher beliefs and knowledge regarding grade retention : a case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This study examined the beliefs and knowledge of principals and teachers in a selected Missouri public school district. One hundred and thirty-two teachers and nineteen principals participated in the study. The use of retention in the selected...
Building a media agenda on health disparities : how issue perceptions and news values work to influence effectiveness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Building on prior literature conceptualizing the role of public relations in influencing the media agenda, this study proposes a model of agenda building that explores the determinants of the agenda building process and centers around the dynamics...
The shrinking city school: following trajectories of shrinkage across three decades of an urban school desert
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Late on the evening of January 12th, 2021, the Saint Louis Public Schools (SLPS) Board voted to close seven of its schools and transition one of its high schools to a middle school (Clancy, 2021). Sweeping closures are not a new phenomenon...
News media's asymmetric response to the economy and its impact on the public perception
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
was compared with economic indices. People's economic perceptions were investigated in terms of their associations with reality and news coverage. As indicators for economic reality and public perception, the study used the indices released by the Korea...
Detecting change-points in a Compound Poisson Process
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)
A statistical change point problem was first studied in the mid-1950s in the
context of quality control in industrial processes. A change point is defined as a point
in the time order when the probability distribution ...
Statistical analysis for survival data with missing information
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
As a branch of statistics, survival analysis, which is often referred to as "reliability theory" in engineering, has a long history. While in practical problems, some information might be missing. This dissertation discusses two types of missing...
Statistical optimization of acoustic models for large vocabulary speech recognition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This dissertation investigates optimization of acoustic models in speech recognition. Two new optimization methods are proposed for phonetic decision tree (PDT) search and Hidden Markov modeling (HMM)-- the knowledge-based ...
Applications of elemental analysis for archaeometric studies : analytical and statistical methods for understanding geochemical trends in ceramics, ochre and obsidian
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
, including INAA, and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF). Multivariate statistics of the data point to trends in the inter- and intra-source variability of ochre. Elemental results from Missouri, California, Oregon, Texas, Arizona, and Peru have been...
N-of-1 : better living through self-experimentation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
-experimenter collected data on themselves from several different sources such as mood questionnaires and a Fitbit wearable, among others. This data from the various sources was merged so that a variety of statistical methods could be performed. A few different modes...
Comparison of a commercial weight loss program to traditional exercise
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] To compare the effectiveness of a popular commercial weight loss program, Weight Watchers (WW) to a traditional exercise program (TE) for weight loss ...
Exploring the dynamics of competing risk models for multiple discrete outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
, he/she may continue to work without taking retirement, or take retirement and did not come back to teach again the same public school retirement system, or may take retirement but continue working, which is popularly known as "double...
The perceived importance and gender differences in Missouri public high school assistant principalship duty delegation for promotion preparation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
's preparation for promotion to the building level principalship. The second purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the relationship between gender and the job profiles of those in the position of high school assistant principal. Statistical...
Residents' perceptions of agroforestry landscape: implications for agritourism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This study assessed residents' perceptions of the visual appeal of agroforestry landscapes for recreational purposes in Missouri, Pennsylvania and Texas. Specific objectives of this study were: (1) to identify the features ...
Determining the relations between canine crown height and root basal diameters and root length: implications for the hominin fossil record
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Canine reduction in hominins is one of the original apomorphies to appear in hominin evolution. Canine crown size is sexually dimorphic in most primates, sexual dimorphism is linked strongly to sexual selection; therefore ...
Empirical analyses on the effects of economic incentives on teacher retention and teacher quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This study conducts empirical analysis on the effects of economic incentives on retaining teachers, both in the late-career and early-career, and improving teacher quality in public schools. The first chapter analyzes whether a large pension...