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Capturing the complexity: examining the effect of instructional intensity in the context of a response to intervention framework on learning outcomes for students with academic and behavioral needs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The main purpose of this study was to investigate quality instruction for students with academic and behavioral needs within RTI framework by examining the differential effects of various levels of instructional intensity, ...
A study of learner experience design and learning efficacy of mobile microlearning in journalism education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
With the increasing number of mobile technologies, people rely on smartphones to connect with the world and obtain news and information. The emergent use of mobile technologies changes the way journalists produce and disseminate news...
An Ethnographic Case Study Examining the Experiences of African American Students with Nonresident Fathers
(2022)
The purpose of this ethnographic case study was to identify influences that replace the presence of Black fathers with children living in non-paternal homes. For my research investigation, influence was defined as people ...
Identifying chemical compounds responsible for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Zimmerman) browse resistance in northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.), also known as arborvitae or eastern white-cedar, is an important tree species with a wide range of economic, spiritual, and ecological benefits. Found throughout southeastern ...
"It's all country boys" : rural young male perceptions of risk and protective factors for dating violence and technology-based interventions as an acceptable response
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In 2019, one in eight US teens reported experiencing Teen Dating Violence (TDV) as physical, psychological, sexual, and online abuse. Studies show rural youth report up to twice the physical violence rates of urban youth ...
Reddit news fandoms as digital news literacies: structuring the evaluation of information sources in a challenging information ecosystem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Journalism is in crisis. There is consensus that this crisis is driven by four principal factors -- the overcrowded media sphere, the failing funding model of news, declining trust in media, and growing partisanship among ...
Health-related quality of life in midlife and older women with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
An understudied area of gerontology is the impact of inherited genetic disorders as individuals age and how such conditions affect health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in older adults. Such is the case with hypermobile ...
Performance tests, 1989 : White food corn
(University of Missouri--Columbia, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1989)
Let it breathe : social media musicking practices among Black women coping with mental health struggles during transboundary crisis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Wrought with one crisis after another -- the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide civil unrest in response to police murders of Black people in the U.S., and a highly volatile election season, the year 2020 arose to the level of ...
"Rape is a part of life where I live" the normalization of girl-child sexual abuse in Jamaica
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This research focused on understanding the role of institutions, social and cultural factors, and women's socio-economic status in (re)producing and perpetuating the sexual abuse of girls in Jamaica. Using an interpretive ...
The business imperative of newsroom diversity: how identities influence Indonesian women media leaders' perceptions and implementation of newsroom changes and innovation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
initiatives in the newsroom ecosystem and how such initiatives impact business and innovation. It finds that newsroom diversity cannot be accomplished solely by increasing the number of women sitting in top management positions. Only a woman leader who has a...
Local free convection to non-Newtonian fluids from a horizontal, isothermal cylinder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
. These experimental results involved Newtonian fluids, and since that time volumes have been devoted to the subject. Only in recent years has attention been focused on the commonly encountered, yet rheologically more complex, non-Newtonian class of fluid. It is within...
Exploring perceptions, barriers, and facilitators of access to primary health services among African immigrant women in the U.S. : a study of Ethiopian immigrant women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Access to healthcare services remains a top public health concern in the United States and immigrants are disproportionately affected by low rates of health insurance coverage and poor access to healthcare services. It is ...
Mobile truck entrepreneurship: motivations and strategies of non-food mobile retail truck entrepreneurs in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
into this emerging retail venue. Study limitations include the short duration of the study and the small number of participants, which does not allow for the data to be generalized across all mobile retailers. This study offers a preliminary exploratory view...
What Makes Us Human? A Grounded Theory Study Examining Educators’ Emotional Evolution in the Classroom
(2022)
Emotions are ubiquitous in education. However, most discussion of emotional learning and development is focused on the student. Yet, teachers are human and experience strong emotions in their work. This research sought to ...
Transnationalism from below : an exploration of transnational engagement behavior of Nicaraguan immigrant entrepreneurs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This study explores the concept of transnationalism through individual experiences of migrants from the community of Villa Sandino, Nicaragua that have become entrepreneurs as immigrants in the United States. Through ...