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A mandate to preserve : assessing the inaugural Newspaper Archive Summit
(2011)
This paper reviews the issues of newspaper preservation confronting us today and how they were applied in the structure and content of the Newspaper Archive Summit held in Columbia, Missouri. Outcomes and takeaways of ...
Pennies for parks: the effect of social norm theory on donation behavior in Arkansas state parks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Although donation boxes are common in parks, museums, and historic sites, not much is known about how they influence visitor behavior. Perhaps some donation boxes are more efficient at generating revenue than others. The ...
Iterative refinement and testing of a brief school-based intervention for internalizing symptoms via an academic-community partnership
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
package of common therapy elements with research support for youth internalizing problems. Based on quantitative results and qualitative feedback from providers in the randomized trial for the first iteration of Show Me FIRST, refinements were made...
Growing an online audience for rich media : how the photography departments at the South Florida Sun- Sentinel and The Denver Post cultivated an online audience for multimedia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
During the height of newsroom layoffs, The Denver Post photography department found a way to attract millions of new viewers to their website by pushing for more visual, organized, quality photographs, videos and multimedia ...
Socio-cultural and school barriers that Latino Spanish-speaking and Mixteco-speaking families with a preschool child with autism experienced in the special education referral process in Santa Barbara County, California
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
for improving the support for parents....
White spaces in brown(ing) places: race, space, and community in the Nuevo South and Midwest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
in public spaces and workplaces. Mutually, it considers how Latinx/es respond to such racialized uses of space affecting their involvement in public life and workplace governance. These racial-spatial dynamics contextualized in the US South and rural Midwest...
College freshmen's perception of racism at the University of Missouri-Columbia : do you see what I see?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation examines the perceptions that college freshmen have of racism on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus (UMC). A detailed history of the social interactions that have occurred between Blacks and Whites ...
Renovations of a university library: the potential for place attachment among Gen Z students during a pandemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
University libraries are adapting their spaces to help support the needs of Gen Z students by adding collaborative spaces and encouraging social interactions. This qualitative case study explores the person-place interactions between Gen Z students...
Missouri alumnus, volume 079, number 03 (1991 Spring)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1991)
CVM news, 2019 July-December
(University of Missouri--Columbia. College of Veterinary Medicine, 2019)
Six-month compilation of news and events articles published by the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine.
Finding prehistoric roots of the two-spirit tradition in the North American Southwest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
We demonstrate the antiquity of the Native American two-spirit tradition using mortuary data from the North American Southwest. A two-spirit person embodies a liminal combination of masculine and feminine spirits and ...
Three essays on assimilation and acculturation of international instructors at U.S. research universities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
, as well as the acculturation of their instructor identity, in a U.S. public university....
Missouri alumnus, volume 067, number 04 (1979 May-June )
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1979)
The good news : measuring the impact of religious words in mass media communication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study explored the relation and use of religious ideas in television news stories. A psychophysiological experiment, based on Lang's (2006) model of limited capacity processing, was conducted using pre-recorded ...
Preservice teachers' sociopolitical consciousness in light of the racial disparities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Socioscientific issues (SSI) such as COVID-19 and climate change often highlight the inequalities that structural racism creates. If we ever wish to equitably solve these issues, we require a population that has the ...
Diagnostic competencies of those administering and interpreting cognitive (IQ) assessments for special education placement within Missouri: perceptions of special education directors and process coordinators
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
coordinators. Archival data from DESE as well as from the Missouri Association of School Psychologists were examined to provide supporting information. This analysis was mixed methods in nature while employing a pragmatic approach. The researcher sought...
Classification of air pollution regimes in the Missouri region
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
High levels of ground level ozone have been linked to large-scale weather patterns both at the surface and in the upper atmosphere. For this reason, the main focus of this study was to analyze the atmospheric conditions ...
Democracy beyond hard news: cultural journalism and the humanistic role
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
journalism ethics. Through analyzing both industry metacoverage and public-facing metajournalistic discourse it is clear that there is something important already regularly occurring within cultural journalism (such as literary journalism or arts criticism...
Applying a "hypocrisy" strategy to improve food safety practices in restaurants
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of hypocrisy approach on improving restaurant employees' handwashing behavior and glove behaviors by using the completely randomized design (CRD) and also to provide ...