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Oral effectiveness of the dimethyl ether of diethylstilbestrol and of various steroid hormones on the mammary glands of mice and rabbits
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1948)
Journalists' use of newspaper comment sections in the newsgathering process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
of an online survey sent to reporters (N=100) at dozens of daily U.S. newspapers. The purpose of the research was to examine reporters' use of newspapers' online comment sections and to study differences in responses between reporters who worked at newspapers...
Preliminary Analysis of the Grain, Oilseed, and Cotton Provisions of the House Committee on Agriculture's Draft Farm Bill Concept Paper
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001-07)
The “Draft Farm Bill Concept Paper” issued by the House Committee on Agriculture on
July 12, 2001 proposes a number of changes to U.S. farm legislation. The Food and
Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) has ...
Autism Overview
(GeneReviews, 2005-12)
This overviews Autism, including causes, evaluation Strategies, genetic counseling, management and further resources.
Coping with food vulnerability: the role of social networks in the lives of Missouri food pantry clients
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This paper utilizes data from Coping with Hunger: Food Pantry Clients in the Central Missouri Food Bank Region (2005) to better understand the ways in which informal social networks are utilized by families and individuals coping with food...
Exploring Options for a New Farm Bill
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001-01)
Agriculture Committee, to analyze the merits of alternative farm programs that would transfer $1, $2, or $3 billion per year (over and above the 1996 farm bill) to program crop producers (FAPRI-UMC Report 07-00). The farm program tools of interest were: a...
Temperature Dependence of the Tunneling Amplitude between Quantum Hall Edges
(American Physical Society, 2005)
Recent experiments have studied the tunneling current between the edges of a fractional quantum Hall liquid as a function of temperature and voltage. The results of the experiment are puzzling because at “high” temperature ...
Perceptions of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Cotton Varieties : A Case Study of the Cotton Industry in Gujarat, India
(AgBioForum, 2005)
The paper reports the findings of a study designed to consider the impact of the adoption of Bt cotton on markets, businesses, and institutional arrangements in India. Given that evidence to date suggests that widespread adoption of Bt cotton...
Channeling the waves : the use of radio narrowcasting on niche voting groups in the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
little research to show how it is done in a campaign and who is targeted. This paper examines the ads created for Tim Kaine for the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election. Using a content analysis of the advertisements created for both television and radio...
The effect of big four office size on audit quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
are less likely to have independent cerelated problems since an individual client is relatively less important due to larger client bases in bigger offices. My conjecture is tested for a sample of 6,568 firm-year observations for the period 2003 to 2005...
Bioethicists in the news : the evolving role of bioethicists as expert sources in science and medical stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
and 2006. A quantitative content analysis of 456 stories, a qualitative framing analysis on a subset of that coverage, and interviews with a science or medical reporter at each newspaper provided converging lines of inquiry. This study finds that one...
Update: A Farm-level Economic Analysis of Wildlife Habitat Buffers in Missouri
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008-05)
This is an update to the FAPRI-MU Report #23-07. It incorporates updated commodity prices and changes in program payments....
The experimental development of the mammary gland with special reference to the interaction of the pituitary and ovarian hormones
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1948)
Pre-harvest water quality of ephemeral streams in Missouri Ozark forests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) developed a best management practice that leaves a riparian buffer next to streams to reduce the possibility of water quality degradation. The purpose of this study is to ...
Identification and characterization of glyphosate-resistant common ragweed
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
A revolution in production agriculture has occurred over the past decade; the development and use of herbicide-resistant crops. Glyphosate is an effective, broad spectrum and offers flexible application timing with minimal ...
Two voices: social presence, participation, and credibility in online news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
of social language, and use or absence of a reporter photograph, both designed to increase feelings of social presence. Repeated measures ANCOVA was used to test the effects of the manipulations on social presence and regressions were used to test...
Technology use, cooperation, and organizational learning in patient safety reporting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Technology use, cooperation, and organizational learning are complex constructs that were often oversimplified and resulted in inconsistent findings in past studies. This study employed an innovative approach to building ...
Unintentional recruiting for diversity
(Public Libraries, 2005)
Based on interviews with Latino undergraduate students, Latino and Native American graduate students in library and information science, and Latino librarians, this paper documents some techniques librarians unintentionally ...
Assessment of references to agriculture in a middle grade science textbook
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
all references to agriculture within the textbook. All references were categorized according to the agricultural literacy areas as defined by Frick, Birkenholz, and Machtmes (1995). Text references were coded as reports, inferences, judgments...