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Scale and stability analysis of selected atmospheric blocking events
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Global six year climatology of mid latitude atmospheric blocking events, during the period 1999-2004, is presented based on the scale and stability analysis, using the NCEP/NCAR re-analysis data. A total of 278 blocking events over the Northern...
Teacher Retirement Benefits
(Education Next, 2009)
's public schools spent $187 billion in salaries and $59 billion in benefits for instructional personnel. Total benefits added about 32 percent to salaries, up from 25 percent in 1999-2000. The increase reflects the well-known rise in health insurance costs...
Patria o muerte: ideograph and metanarrative in Cuban state-produced media during the battle of ideas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
in the wake of the 1999 Elián González crisis. Drawing from social construction of reality theory, ideological criticism and narrative theory, and synthesizing ideological and deconstructive methods of analysis, this study uses a new theoretical model...
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism: An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri
(Department of Economics, 2007)
State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changes and their impacts, there have been few ...
Changes in global blocking character in recent decades
(MDPI AG, 2019)
that the number of blocking events and their duration have increased significantly in both hemispheres. The blocking BI has decreased by about six percent in the NH, but there was little change in the BI for the SH events. Additionally, there is little...
Mizzou weekly, volume 33, number 18 (February 2, 2012)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2012)
The efficacy of third-party interventions: international organization-led interventions into ongoing and post-conflict situations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
on the unity and clarity of the mission's command and control structures, the severity of national caveats, and the number and integration of troop-contributing countries. Essentially, higher formalization shows a unity of effort that means the IO is able...
Covering the bases : variations in the arguments to justify publicly-funded baseball stadiums
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Over the past few decades, most major U.S. cities have invested in major league sports facilities, often with the logic that they will generate significant economic development. Skepticism is growing however, as research ...
Mizzou weekly, volume 24, number 03 (September 12, 2002)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2002)
What is the appropriate evaluation and treatment of children who are "toe walkers"?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2006)
[SOR]: C, based on case series). Observation alone is generally as successful as serial casting and surgery in decreasing the frequency of toe-walking at follow-up (SOR: C, based on case series)....
Spatial ability of transitioning 2d to 3d apparel design : applying apparel spatial visualization test (asvt) into virtual environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
of courses a student has taken) effects performance on 3D ASVT. Results from this study indicated there was no relationship among general spatial ability tests and the developed 3D ASVT. Generally speaking, the study found that the number of product...
Museum Magazine, Number 56 (2010 Winter)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2010)
The issue's feature article, "Connecting with Contemporary Sculpture," explores the relationship between viewer and object from a variety of standpoints. Other articles include a focus on goldsmith's art in "The Voyage of ...
Mizzou weekly, volume 23, number 11 (November 1, 2001)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2001)
Mizzou weekly, volume 20, number 09 (October 22, 1998)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 1998)
Interannual Variability of Snowfall Events Southwest Missouri and Snowfall to- Liquid Water Equivalents at the Springfield WFO
(National Weather Association, 2005-12)
difference in the number of snowfalls per winter season. When the study period was stratified to include interdecadal variability, changes in ENSO- related variability did emerge. Additionally, the SL ratios were smaller during El Niño years and there has...
A Nonlinear IV Likelihood-Based Rank Test for Multivariate Time Series and Long Panels
(Berkeley Electronic Press, 2010)
-sectional correlation of the disturbances. The nonlinear IV rank test also extends earlier research on nonlinear IV unit root tests. However, the optimal instrument in the univariate case is not admissible in the more general multivariate case. The chi-squared result...
Three essays on agricultural price volatility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
variance hedge ratio when preference free optimal hedge ratio does not exist; the third essay described the empirical changes in the hog price volatility summarized by a series of long memory GARCH model of the absolute return series in view of the recent...
A Kernel-Based Spectral Model for Non-Gaussian Spatio-Temporal Processes
(Statistical Modelling, 2002)
Spatio-temporal processes can often be written as hierarchical state-space processes. In situations with complicated dynamics such as wave propagation, it is difficult to parameterize state transition functions for ...
The illicit methamphetamine landscape of Franklin County, Missouri: application and analysis of a GIS-based risk assessment model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Illicit methamphetamine, a synthetic, highly addictive drug, has gained national attention because of its destructive properties. Between 2002 and 2004 close to 400 clandestine methamphetamine labs were seized in Franklin ...