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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...
Health Disparities
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2007)
In the Healthy People 2010 report, issued
by the Department of Health and Human
Services, health disparities are defined
as “all differences among populations in
measures of health and healthcare.” Racial
and ethnic ...
Second-Generation GMOs : Where to from Here?
(AgBioForum, 2005)
The driving force behind the growth of the agricultural biotechnology industry is the potential to increase efficiency in the production of commodities and to provide benefits to consumers and producers as well as profits ...
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...
The impact of Wal-Mart on the rural retail wage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This study uses panel data to test the impact of Wal-Mart on the rural retail wage. There are observations from 2,986 counties in the contiguous United States from 1990-2005. Previous studies have reported mixed findings of the impact of Wal...
How social media are changing the way business journalists do their jobs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This professional project seeks to answer the question of how social media are changing business reporters' sourcing practices. In the past, reporters depended on face-to-face interviews or email. With the popularity of social media in the newsrooms...
Facing the pressure : HIPAA hampers health reporting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
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An Empirical Analysis of United States Consumers' Concerns About Eight Food Production and Processing Technologies
(AgBioForum, 2005)
For a representative sample of US consumers, we analyze ratings of concern toward eight food production and processing technologies: antibiotics, pesticides, artificial growth hormones, genetic modification (GM), irradiation, ...
Geotextile separators for dust suppression on gravel roads
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Dust can be a health concern because of its potential to contain respirable particles. The US EPA and state environmental agencies developed and implemented a reporting system for the amount of particulate (PM10) derived from various sources...
Climate change in the newsroom : journalists' evolving standards of objectivity when covering global warming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
with their experiences. In the case of "balance", reporters have redefined it to mean applying a "weight of evidence" approach (Dunwoody, 2005) to science stories, and they tend to use global warming "skeptics" as sources very sparingly. There only limited support...
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...
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...
Media coverage of the new economy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The late 1990's represented a time of unprecedented economic growth. However, the economic bubble ultimately burst and the nation entered into a recession. Following the crash, there was speculation that the media were ...
A fast, 3 MV Marx generator for megavolt oil switch testing and integrated Abramyan network design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
-ball electrodes. The test results from these experiments will be reported along with a conceptual design for a simple modification which will allow a rectangular pulse to be applied to the sample under test. By reverse-discharging a fraction of the Marx stages...
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)
Retention of early career teachers engaged in Missouri's career education mentoring program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
To investigate novice career education teacher retention as it relates to participation in Missouri's Career Education Mentoring Program, a multiple methods approach (quantitative and qualitative) to research was applied ...
Endocrinology of equine metabolic pathophysiology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Obesity in horses is associated with a number of maladies including insulin resistance and laminitis; therefore studies investigating the metabolic physiology of equine were done. In our first study, we characterized the ...
Reference source instruction : a model for teaching
(2005)
The ideology of American librarianship places a very high value on librarians' ability to find information and make that information accessible to the public. A broad and deep knowledge of reference sources is one of the ...
How External Political-Economic Forces Affect Firms' Attitudes Toward the Industrial Use of Genetically Modified Organisms : An Analysis in the South Korean Context
(AgBioForum, 2008)
, covering 240 firms, was conducted from November 15, 2005 through December 17, 2005. Results indicate that external political-economic pressures derived from government, consumers, industry, and markets were important for promoting firms' industrial use...
The elite press, the Bush administration, and Iraq: ideology confines scrutiny in the Post and the Times
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
their reporting, including individual, media routines, organizational, and extra media factors, but this study shows that an ideology of moral imperialism perpetuated the hegemonic frame of the Bush administration both before and after each newspaper's published...