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Effects of heat stress on leukocyte function and gene expression in lactating dairy cows
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The effects of heat stress in animal agriculture are expected to become more serious as global temperatures continue to increase. Negative effects on production, reproduction...
Reciprocity in marketing relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Marketing researchers have often cited reciprocity as an important aspect of relational exchange; however the extant research has not conceptualized or measured reciprocity in marketing relationships. This research is a ...
A semantic framework for event-driven service composition
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-14)
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a popular paradigm for designing
distributed systems where loosely coupled services (i.e. computational entities) can be
integrated seamlessly to provide complex composite ...
Canopy recruitment dynamics in naturally regenerated longleaf pine (pinus palustris) woodlands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The ecological and cultural values of the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem, in combination with an approximately 97 percent loss in historic range, has led to increasing interest in ecosystem restoration and ...
Discrimination and health: how being Hispanic can make you sick
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-25)
The perception of discrimination is a stressor that can lead to a reduction in an individual's reserve capacity and an increase in negative emotions, among other deleterious effects. I tested the Reserve Capacity Model as ...
Detecting subtle variation in two cryptic primate families (tarsiidae & lorisidae) through morphology and genetics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Cryptic species look morphologically similar but in fact are several different species lumped together. This is problematic as it hinders conservation efforts and makes it challenging to infer the evolutionary history of ...
The boys on the blogs : intermedia agenda setting in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This study analyzes intermedia agenda setting during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign to determine the agenda-setting role of prominent political bloggers in relation to the mainstream news media and the candidates. An ...
The Effect of Emotion Stimulus Intensity on the selection and Implementation of Distraction and Reappraisal as Emotion Regulation Strategies
(2015)
Emotion regulation is an important coping mechanism for handling emotional
situations and stimuli in day-to-day life. More effective emotion regulation is linked to
better mental and physical health. The present study ...
Instrumental music teacher perceptions regarding student self-regulation of music learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
In this study I examined instrumental music teacher's perceptions regarding student self-regulation of music learning. Relying on an interpretivist approach to an instrumental collective case study, data were collected ...
A mixed method phenomenological case study of how members of a democratic micro school experience leadership and democratic principles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
A democratic micro school is a school with fewer than 150 students that ascribes to a democratic leadership structure where all of the school community members, especially the students, have leadership in their learning. ...
Relationship between family, school, peer, and student characteristics and student scientific literacy in Azerbaijan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study examined the effects of school, family, peer and student individual characteristics on scientific literacy scores. The study analyzed data from the Program...
Enhancing Development in the Saudi Renewable Energy Sector: A Promising Strategy for Job Creation and Economic Diversification
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Unemployment, a critical modern problem, has economic as well as social costs.
While its economic cost can be illustrated through the loss of the value of labor, its social
costs include divorce, addiction to illegal ...
Effects of prescribed fire and timber harvest on terrestrial salamander abundance, behavior, and microhabitat use
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
surveys for three years and used a statistical modeling approach that accounted for the tendency of terrestrial salamanders to be belowground and unavailable for surveys. I found that terrestrial salamander density at our Missouri Ozark study site ranged...
Reparative dysfunction during muscle regeneration in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: therapeutic approaches to modulating the muscle environment and muscle stem cells
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal muscular dystrophy resulting from functional loss of the dystrophin protein, a critical sub-sarcolemmal protein involved...
Social capital and membership in dairy cooperatives in Kenya
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Dairy cooperatives in Kenya have been promoted for over 50 years as an important mechanism for providing collective bargaining power for the rural poor (Dobrin, 1970; Musalia, et al, 2007). The cooperative business model ...
Anxiety, attentional control, and performance : quiet eye training in Division I baseball
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The quiet eye (QE) represents the time needed to cognitively process information being fixated or tracked and to focus attention on the demands of the task (Vickers, 2009...
Meta-analysis of single-subject research using hierarchical linear modeling : empirical examination of the procedure and functional behavior assessment-based interventions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The role of evidence-based practices in both research and practice continue to provoke issues of disagreement and definition across multiple fields. One area of contention...
Let's agree to agree : effects of self-awareness and social identity on online deliberation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This experiment assesses the effects of ingroup versus outgroup communication in an online, one-on-one, anonymous setting on perceptions of deliberation quality in a conversation task pertaining to abortion policy. ...
Attitudes and beliefs about corporal punishment among inner city homeless parents : a qualitative narrative study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Despite the large body of research on the harmful effects and ineffectiveness of corporal punishment (CP), it is a common and socially acceptable method of child discipline in the United States. Parents are most likely to ...
An Original Institutionalist Approach to the Structure, Conduct, and Performance of the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Importance of Intangible Assets
(2016)
This dissertation presents an examination of the pharmaceutical industry with a
primary focus on the importance of intangible assets from the original institutional
economics perspective. This is done in three main ...