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Monitoring of an urban level spreader as part of the collaborative adaptive management process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Irregular flows, such as the high flows caused by stormwater runoff after a rain event are a major cause of stream impairment in urbanized watersheds. The Hinkson Creek CAM (Collaborative Adaptive Management) approach is ...
Knowledge of copyright issues and strategies used in solving copyright queries among academic librarians in Kenya
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Intellectual property and copyright in particular has become highly regulated through laws and treaties. In spite of stronger copyright mechanisms being put in place in Kenya over the years, copyright infringement has ...
Some factors influencing fruitfulness in apples
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
"SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: Missouri apple yields tend to rotate in three year cycles, the sizes of the crops produced showing the following order: heavy, light, medium, heavy, etc. A five years' study of the behavior of individual apple fruit spurs...
Sour rot : effects of fruit fly life stages, chemical management, and winemaking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Sour rot is a disease of grape clusters near harvest involving Drosophila fruit flies, in which berries discolor, pulp liquifies, and acetic acid accumulates. The specific role of fruit flies in progressing sour rot has ...
Paleolimnological Analysis of Sediment Cores from Guana Island Pond, Guana Island, The British Virgin Islands
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Shallow sediment cores extracted from three locations in Guana Island Pond were
analyzed using multiple paleolimnological techniques, including sediment description, grain
size analyses, X-Ray Fluorescence, elemental ...
Single and multi-object video tracking using local and deep architectures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Moving object tracking is a fundamental computer vision task with a wide variety of real-life applications ranging from surveillance and autonomous systems to biomedical video analysis. A robust, accurate, scalable, and ...
Minimum milk requirement for calf raising
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
The dairyman is keenly interested in knowing how he can raise his calves in an economical and successful manner. This thesis reports the results of several experiments in early weaning and minimum use of milk for calf ...
Assessing the impact of the 1918/1919 influenza pandemic in Missouri counties heavily involved in lead-zinc mining
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
transmission and severity during the pandemic within three rural mining districts in the state of Missouri, USA: the Tri-State District, Central District, and Old Lead Belt. Missouri mines supplied much of the lead produced during this time, with many...
Assessing variance in inpatient hospitalization rates for three major chronic conditions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
in Missouri was assigned a residential status value of metropolitan (1), micropolitan (2), and rural (3); this file was uploaded to the MUHC SQL Shared Analytics Server. A query was designed to pull individual-level IP hospitalization data for 17 variables...
Cover crop effects on corn plant water uptake and soil health
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
pore distributional characteristics of the surface soil layer. The study was conducted at Bradford Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia and the Chariton County, Cover Crop Soil Health Research and Demonstration Farm (CCSH), Missouri in 2016...
Retention of construction teachers engaged in Missouri's secondary school system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the reasons construction teachers were leaving their profession in their first five years of service, or if they stayed, what were the dominant factors that caused them to ...
The investment horizon issue in user-owned organizations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This research addresses the issue of an investment constraint in user-owned agricultural organizations called the horizon problem. Scholars have suggested the restrictions on the transferability of residual claimant rights and the restricted...
Assessing biotic communities and the capacity of restored bottomland hardwood forested wetlands to provide multiple ecosystem functions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, and associated Wetland Reserve Easement (WRE) program were established to restore private marginal agricultural land to wetlands following major wetlands losses throughout...
Studies on the physical properties and preservation of the North American pawpaw (Asimina triloba) fruit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
regions of the world. The fruit is native to the United States and grows in over 30 states in the United States including Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and parts of Texas. The fruit has remained underutilized and uncommercialized for several centuries...
Merging technology development of trapped ion mobility spectrometry quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry with biological investigation of Medicago truncatularoot exudates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "New commercial ion mobility instrumentation has the potential to improve current analytical techniques, but developments need to be applicable to real-world problems...
Valorization of purple corn pericarp using two-pot emerging thermal and non-thermal extraction technologies and evaluation of product quality, structure, and bioactivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
. The BBD samples had lower levels of phenolic acids but higher levels of total phenolic content (118.86 [plus or minus] 3.60 g GAE/kg), condensed tannins (231.74 [plus or minus] 8.45 g EE/kg), antioxidant activity, cyanidin-3-glucoside (90.46 [plus or minus...
Knowledge discovery and data mining from freeway section traffic data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Archived traffic-generated data (traffic flow, accident, work-zone, and weather data) from PR-18 in San Juan was examined by means of association mining and the KDD process. A total of six studies were developed and studied ...
An evaluation of pre- and post-timber harvest water quality in low-order streams in the Missouri Ozarks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Missouri Department of Conservation's (MDC) best management practices (BMPs) for Regenerative Oak Clear Cutting (ROCC) practice was evaluated on effectiveness to preserve downstream water quality. Fifteen sites, located on MDC lands in Shannon...
Interplay of Bacillus anthracis spore proteins in the assembly process of the exosporium
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Spores are the infectious form of the zoonotic pathogen, Bacillus anthracis. The outermost layer of these spores is the exosporium. It consists of a basal layer (major structural proteins are ExsY, CotY, BxpB, and ExsFB) ...
Rheological and morphological evolution of basaltic lava flows
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Over 500 million people live in proximity of an active volcano globally. Although lava flows rarely endanger human life, they often destroy critical infrastructure. Advancing our understanding of lava flow dynamics is ...