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Knowledge of copyright issues and strategies used in solving copyright queries among academic librarians in Kenya
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
was found in self-reported knowledge about copyright issues among librarians based on their education level. No statistical significant difference in both tested knowledge and in 3 of the 4 factors used in assessing self-reported knowledge were found...
Evaluating the engaged institution : the conceptualizations and discourses of engagement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
As a relatively new term applied to the activities of higher education, "engagement" is an emerging conception that is being constructed and defined by actors within and outside of higher education. These constructions can ...
Messaging universal vote by mail : an exploration of the factors that influence message processing for niche policy topics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
According to the federal government, the current model of voting in the United States has changed little since the country's founding even as voting has moved from wooden ballot boxes to electronic voting machines and ...
Egypt, the Fictive Theater of Napoleon's Glory: A Celebration of the Egyptian Campaign in Paintings, Architecture, and Decorative Arts
(2013)
The reign of Napoleon Bonaparte was one of military glory, both real and imagined. In this thesis, I examine the promotion of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign (1798-1801), perhaps the most disastrous episode of his military ...
The poverty of place : a comparative study of five rural counties in the Missouri Ozark
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1999)
to further the understanding of the dynamics driving this phenomenon or to discover what types of public policies are likely to be successful at breaking up these areas of persistent poverty. The existence of a five county group in the south central Missouri...
Applied paleozoology and biogeography : four case studies from Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
and the Missouri State Historic Office, a method is developed that allows paleozoological data to be used to assist modern conservation biology through biogeographic range reconstruction and historic landcover associations. This project reconstructs the precontact...
Twenty-five years of extension work in Missouri : with the Annual report for 1939 Agricultural Extension Service, College of Agriculture, University of Missouri
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture ;|United States Department of Agriculture,, 1940)
"Established primarily to convey to the people of the open country the scientific information accumulated through the state and federal research, the Agricultural Extension Service in the last quarter-century has done all ...
Social skill in the workplace : what is social skill and how does it matter?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
on social skill. The findings also suggest that social skill successfully predicts the number of mentors, mentoring received, social support, organizational citizenship behavior, and job performance. Finally, the findings indicate that social skill should...
The identification of prehistoric Amazonian slash-and-burn cultivation practices using agent-based modeling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The Amazonian Slash-and-Burn Model and the Succession Model, both agentbased models, were developed to help address how much influence prehistoric Amazonian populations practicing slash-and-burn cultivation had on their ...
The sonic boom: effect of logo presentation style in television commercials on memory for the advertised brand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
was a 2 (Logo Style: Sonic v/s Visual) x 3 (Television commercials) fractional repeated measures experiment. Logo style was the within-subjects factor with two levels, the sonic-style logo and the visual-only style logo viewed in the commercial...
Effects of self-explanation as causal mechanism elicitation methodology on causal reasoning task performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
People have always tried to find explanations for how and why things happen to and around them. While understanding causality is fundamental for both science and everyday life, researchers found that people have a multitude ...
Goya and the grotesque: a study of themes of witchcraft and monstrous bodies
(2012)
Francisco de Goya lived during the "Enlightenment," an age associated with reason, when traditional superstitions became viewed as ridiculous beliefs of the ignorant poor. Goya adopted the theme of witchcraft into his ...
Missouri pest management guide, 2013
(University of Missouri. Extension Division, 2012)
in this publication are based on research conducted at the University of Missouri and elsewhere....
Can the family farm survive? : report of Seminar on Agricultural Marketing and Policy, jointly sponsored by University of Missouri-Columbia and M.G. and Johnnye D. Perry Foundation of Robstown, Texas, held November 9-10, 1978, Columbia, Missouri.
(Agricultural Experiment Station University of Missouri--Colombia, 1978)
University catalog, 2017-18
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Knowledge construction, social identity and social network structure in completely online groups
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
. This mixed methods study examines the development of eight completely online groups in a CSCL course held at the University of Missouri during the summer of 2008. The principal contribution of this work is a new and deeper understanding of completely online...
Muse, number 39-41 (2005-2007)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2008)
Latinx in the heartland : fostering resilience and cross-cultural connections : proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference, June 6-8, 2018, University of Missouri-Kansas City
(Cambio Center, 2019)
"The 2018 conference proved to be a good place for participants from thirteen states to explore collaboration and unity, in contrast to the nation's climate. The 17th Cambio de Colores Conference, titled 'Latinx in the ...
The Future of the Missouri livestock industry.
(Agricultural Experiment Station University of Missouri--Colombia, 1986)
An evaluation of a precollege program on college success
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a precollege summer program at Missouri University of Science and Technology known as Hit the Ground Running (HGR). It used a convergent mixed-methods research design, combining data from...