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Understanding in what ways career, elementary public school teachers perceive tiered academic intervention : a multiple case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this multiple case study was to gain an understanding of career (15 years and more experience), elementary public school teachers' perceptions of tiered academic...
Mass spectrometry-based seed allergen quantification and applications in seed quality assessment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Incidences of food allergies have doubled in the past two decades, becoming a worldwide public health concern. Together, tree nuts and peanuts cause approximately 80...
Geographic inequities in local higher education opportunities? : identifying college deserts with critical GIS
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
proposes a geographic information systems based methodology for quantifying college access at multiple spatial scales. This methodology was implemented with the Python programming language and ArcGIS. A sample of six metropolitan statistical areas were...
Developing molecular docking methods to model protein interactions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
protein-ligand interactions and protein-peptide interactions. The studies include the improvement of statistical potential-based scoring functions for evaluating protein-ligand interactions, the development of a docking-based method for predicting peptide...
The effect of an intensive teacher training on the accuracy of social, emotional, and behavioral screening results
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
students per classroom (n = 74). Teachers (n = 64) were randomized into an intensive Frame of Reference training or familiarization control condition. Results suggest no statistically significant improvement from an intensive teacher training...
Alternative applications of whole genome de novo assembly in animal genomics /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
data requires that short reads be compiled into contiguous sequences. These methods, called de novo assembly, are based in statistical methods and graph theory. In addition to genome assembly, the research presented in this dissertation demonstrates...
Recidivism and resource use by mental health patients in the emergency room
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
). This patient population requires complex interventions before effective treatment can be assessed (Andrew Kolbasovsky, Reich, & Futterman, 2007). The objective of this study is to use statistical analysis to identify important predictors of recidivism in our...
Present-day and late Quaternary crustal deformation along the southern Dead Sea Fault System, Jordan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
-evaluates published geomorphic data from six sites along the southern DSF using a standardized statistical analysis. Our statistical analyses reduce the slip rate uncertainties, and suggest a slip rate of 4.5-5.0 mm/yr for the past 100 ka. In addition to implications...
Representative bureaucracy and bureaucratic responsiveness : linking passive and active representation in Ghana's education bureaucracy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
diverse public service that mirrors the social demographics of its population in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity (passive representation) is more likely to be responsive to the needs of all citizens (active representation). While a substantial amount...
Can public relations professionals help span the boundaries between scientists and journalists, and does this function help increase accuracy of news articles about public health?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
A function of public relations professionals working for public health agencies is to perform a boundary-spanning role, facilitating communication between public health professionals and the news media. The purpose of this research was to examine...
Factors affecting teachers' participation in professional development activities in Turkey
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
teachers' participation in PD activities in statistically significant ways; gender, teaching experience, grade level of teaching, education level, teachers' self-efficacy, principal, and school culture do not affect their participation in these activities...
Examining the relationship between trust and online usage of news media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
measures from the Pew Research Center and usage measures from ComScore found a positive, statistically significant relationship between trust and direct traffic, but it found no association between trust and frequent usage. When testing how additional...
A pilot intervention to improve medication adherence in nonadherent inflammatory bowel disease patients
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
-intestinal manifestations of IBD, and medical therapy actions and side effects. Demographic statistics, change scores for within and between-group differences, and effect size estimates were calculated. Results: Nine nonadherent participants (medication adherence score <.85...
The mechanics of fiber-based absorbent evaporative cooling (fbaEC) for transport
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
research, a new evaporative cooling system model using absorbent fabric wrapping in curtain structure on a scaffold for short-term transport and storage was built in a laboratory scale, and a series of laboratory scale experiments to statistically verify...
A logic model program evaluation : examining the outcomes of academic performance and persistence towards graduation of at-risk students enrolled in the Academic Center
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The purpose of this study was a program evaluation of a high school transitional support program, the Academic Center, using a logic model evaluation method. This study used data from institutional records of a single public high school...
A mixed model for variance of successive difference of stationary time series : modeling temporal instability in intensive longitudinal data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Temporal instability of a stochastic process has been of interest in many areas of behavioral and social science. Recent development in data collection techniques in behavioral and health sciences, such as Ecological ...
Three essays on agricultural policy and food demand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
capita arable land area, agricultural population rate, and a shift variable that serves as a proxy for Uruguay Round Agreement Act implementation. The results indicate that there are statistically significant effects of income, income square, and income...
Design considerations in three-level regression discontinuity studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
In education, sample characteristics can be complex due to the nested structure of students, teachers, classrooms, schools, and districts. In the past, not many considerations were given to such complex sampling schemes in statistical power analysis...
A study of ADA public rights-of-way accessibility guideline impacts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The aim of this research is to improve safety and mobility for the disabled community by examining the impacts of the Public Rights-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines (PROWAG). Another aim is to identify the economic consequent for cities throughout...
Influential product characteristics of apparel product performance as measured in profit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This study investigated what previous studies have suggested as influential product characteristics of apparel product performance in an effort to prove the statistical significance of those characteristics. One hundred and two participants were...