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Action research investigation into teaming in one school district
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Working as an insider in collaboration with other insiders, this participatory action research study, through two action research cycles of diagnosing, planning, taking action, and evaluating, explored the implementation ...
Influences on contraceptive use among college women
(2015-05-19)
Background: An unintended pregnancy (UIP) occurs before an ideal time or is completely unwanted. In 2011, the rate of UIP in the United States was 49% of all pregnancies. Unintended pregnancies are expensive to society and ...
Administrator view on technology directorship in southeast Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The purpose of this inquiry study is to discover how district school administrators perceive the directorship skills needed for a successful technology director in Missouri. At this stage in the research, the skill needs ...
Deep learning methods for 360 monocular depth estimation and point cloud semantic segmentation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Monocular depth estimation and point cloud segmentation are essential tasks for 3D scene understanding in computer vision. Depth estimation for omnidirectional images is challenging due to the spherical distortion issue and the availability of large...
Cultural values reflected within Chinese children's stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
A total of 145 Chinese children's stories published from the 1980s to the present were examined to explore the changes in Chinese culture as a result of modernization and globalization in Chinese society. The selected ...
Augmenting biological pathway extraction with synthetic data and active learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The corpus of biomedical literature is growing rapidly as many papers are recorded in PubMed every day. These papers often contain high-quality biological pathways in their figures/text, which are great resources for ...
Time delay compensation in finite-order models of acoustic wave propagation in homogenous media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Finite-order models do not completely account for the delay in acoustic wave propagation and thus require an additional phase correction, besides parameter adjustments to fit experimental measurements. As a consequence, ...
Working memory in reinforcement learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The ability of an individual to learn from delayed action outcomes helps them to better adapt to their environment. In order for learning to take place, they might utilize working memory to hold in mind a response they ...
Decoder-learning based distributed source coding for high-efficiency, low-cost and secure multimedia communications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Conventional multimedia compression leverages the source statistics at the encoder side. This is not suitable for some emerging applications such as wireless sensor networks, where the encoders usually have limited ...
The Investigating Meaning/Purpose and Connectedness (IMPACT) Study: A Comparative Case Study of Parents of Adult Children with Schizophrenia
(2020)
videoconferencing technology on a phone or computer. Three in-depth interviews were conducted with six participants, and artifacts were documented. Cases were analyzed individually using thematic analysis and across cases to identify similarities and differences...
Mizzou weekly, volume 34, number 03 (September 6, 2012)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2012)
Alcohol/HIV-Induced Neurodeficit and Circumvention by Neuroprotective Agent
(2023)
Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) remains a major problem in the United States, with usage varying between acute (binge) and chronic (heavy usage) staging. Alcohol Use Disorders affect 14.5 million people, with 9 million men and ...
A genetic approach to determine river otter abundance in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Extirpated from Missouri by the 1930s, river otters (Lontra canadensis) were reintroduced by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) from 1982-1992. Since the reintroductions, concerns over the legitimacy of otter ...
Democracy beyond hard news: cultural journalism and the humanistic role
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This project makes the case that a new humanistic role should exist alongside the previously established monitorial, facilitative, radical, and collaborative journalistic roles outlined by Christians et al. (2009). Normative ...
The mass-loss return from evolved stars to the Large Magellanic Cloud. III. Dust properties for carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars
(EDP Sciences, 2010)
We present a radiative transfer model for the circumstellar dust shell around a Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) long-period variable (LPV) previously studied as part of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) ...
Turkic Educators and Students Breaking Their Silence: An Oral History of a Tangled Web of Political Power
(2023)
The social genocide of the Hizmet people by the Erdoğan regime has left an indelible mark on Turkic educators and students worldwide. The practice of genocide as a form of political control is steeped in the history of the ...
The effects of gender, academic concerns, and social support on stress for international students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
and different types of social support as moderators of that stress. Survey data from a midwestern university is reviewed regarding general adjustment issues experienced by international students (N = 169). Descriptive statistical and multiple regression analyses...
A policy study about equity and college access : the Missouri A+ schools program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
educators, this program has done more for the quality of education than any other reform effort. However, from 1997 to 2010, several issues surrounding the A+ Schools Program shifted from the original intent. The current constituents and intent seem to have...
A simplified holistic model of pulmonary oxygen transfer and its application in assessing exercise ability of pulmonary patients
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
rate, and CPT (p[less than]0.05) compared to resting normoxia. Do increased during SSH+CPT compared to SSH alone (p[less than]0.05). The OD method was applicable to only 9 participants and did not show any difference among treatment conditions (p...
Video adaptation for IPTV applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In recent years, with the growing popularity of inter-networking and digital video, there arises a trend of delivering television services using the ...