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Natural & artificial digestion of crude fiber compared with chemical methods of estimation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
In digestion trials at the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station on feeding steers in the "Use of Food" investigations it has been found that 84- 65 percent of the total feed is digested while it was observed that considerable was present...
A study of the processes of fat metabolism and methods for the determination of fat
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
Our present conception of how fat is absorbed is indeed very modern. The most work has been done within the last fifteen or twenty years. It shall be my purpose to go into a detailed account of the work of modern investigators, ...
The story of the farmer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
Text from preface: "The purpose of this study is to develop among boys and girls of junior high school age an appreciation of the farmer and the value of his work to society. Many books have been written about the things ...
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 ...
A study of the property rights constraints in US agricultural cooperatives : theory and evidence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1998)
This research addresses the issue of efficient user-owned and controlled organizational design. Using agricultural cooperatives as an example set of user-owned and controlled institutional arrangements, the economic issue ...
Age as a factor in animal breeding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
The experiment furnishing the basis for this discussion was begun in 1909 by Director F.B. Mumford and has since been continued under his general direction. Swine were used in the experiment since they probably lend ...
Place names of St. Louis and Jefferson County
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1939)
"Strangely fascinating are place-name, not only by their euphony, but by their romantic associations." So attractive is the study of place-name that it develops in the student a curiosity concerning the origin of all names. ...
A study of the chemical composition of steers on different planes of nutrition and of the relative cost of maintenance and growth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
This thesis describes the methods and results of an experiment carried out by the author to discover what affect diet has on the composition of beef cattle.
Place names of five central southern counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1939)
Counties: Dallas, Dent, Laclede, Shannon, Texas....
"Research was started at the University of Missouri in 1928 under the inspiration of Mr. Allen Walker Read, then of the department of English. It has been continued under the supervision of Dr. Robert L. Ramsay of the English Department...
"Research was started at the University of Missouri in 1928 under the inspiration of Mr. Allen Walker Read, then of the department of English. It has been continued under the supervision of Dr. Robert L. Ramsay of the English Department...
Dimensions of nursing home care: perspectives of patients, family members, and care providers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1991)
Conflict among care participants in the nursing home setting concerning the expectations for care-giving and care-seeking behavior has been well-documented. The question explored in this study is whether substantial ...
The origins of the liberal Republican movement in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
, and later in the war, the gradual tendency toward more radical measures. The Radical Convention of protest in September 1863 well voiced the sentiments of the party which was to rule Missouri. The death of Governor Gamble in 1864, and the absence from...
The influence of Carlyle on the social ideas of Ruskin in the period from 1860 to 1884
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
Text from page 1: "To connect the name of Ruskin with that of Carlyle is not a new idea. Every biographer and critic of Ruskin refers to the relation which existed between the two men; all mention especially Ruskin's ...
An experimental study of the rest period of plants : the effect of rest period breaking agencies upon hardwood cuttings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
, desiccation, freezing, wounding, electricity, warm baths, nutrient salt solutions, radium, etc.... The rest period of the plants has in a large number of cases, been much shortened and in some cases even entirely eliminated. The use of these agents in breaking...
Place names of six southeast counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1938)
Counties: Pemiscot, Dunklin, New Madrid, Scott, Mississippi, and Stoddard...
"This study is one of a series undertaken to solve the problem of the origin of place-names in the one hundred and fourteen counties of Missouri and the city of St. Louis. This investigation was begun in 1928, and eight studies, covering sixty...
"This study is one of a series undertaken to solve the problem of the origin of place-names in the one hundred and fourteen counties of Missouri and the city of St. Louis. This investigation was begun in 1928, and eight studies, covering sixty...
Political development in the mini-state Caribbean : a focus on Barbados
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
"Seconds after midnight, November 30, 1966, a new trident-bedecked, gold and blue banner caught the prevailing Caribbean breeze signaling the birth of another new nation. The fact that this former British outpost, Barbados, ...
The survivals of medieval religious drama in New Mexico
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1959)
Every year in many remote villages in New Mexico people gather at Christmas and Easter to witness dramatic productions of Biblical stories concerning these two seasons. Although these religious performances have taken on ...
Sports column writing : a comparison of ten 1957 and five 1927 columnists
(University of Missouri., 1958)
"It is the purpose of this study to: (1) Compare the sports column style of the 'Golden Era of Sports'(1927) with our modern (1957) columnists and (2) To analyze the content of the modern sports columns as exemplified in ...
John Horne Burns : Toward a Critical Biography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1985)
The dissertation traces John Horne Burns's life and career as a novelist and English teacher, from his origins in Andover through his literary success with The Gallery (1947), Lucifer with a Book (1949), and A Cry of ...
Place names of five southeast counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1944)
...This sixteenth study, a continuation of the project, covers one of the most interesting sections of the state. The district of the Sainte Genevieve was one of the political divisions in what is now Missouri during the French and Spanish...
Place names of six east central counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1933)
Counties: Audrain, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Ralls, and Randolph....
Graduate students in the English Department of the State University under the supervision of Dr. Robert L. Ramsay have treated, to date, fifty-four counties in six master's theses (see Bibliography). The six counties included in this work make a...
Graduate students in the English Department of the State University under the supervision of Dr. Robert L. Ramsay have treated, to date, fifty-four counties in six master's theses (see Bibliography). The six counties included in this work make a...