The BMW Motorcycle Owners of America (BMW MOA) was chartered in April of 1972 with the stated goal to “promote the camaraderie and friendship of individual members and BMW motorcycle clubs.” Since then BMW MOA has grown ...

It is commonly known that obtaining a Bachelor's degree or higher will help someone reach a higher household income. The process of earning a Bachelor's degree is timely and expensive, so it logically follows that ...

Understanding a place like the University of Missouri can be expanded by a visual representation of the activities that occur here. An example is the import and significance of externally-funded research. As an unusual ...

The U.S. is the second largest beer producer in the world, accounting for 14 percent of the worlds' total market share. The 162 billion dollar industry directly employs 900,000 U.S. workers, and millions of workers indirectly ...

The Olympics are one of the few events that bring most countries together for competition. It brings a lot of pride to the countries that are able to send the athletes to compete in the summer and winter games. Only the ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence of auditory neuropathy, abnormal auditory brainstem response (ABR) with normal otoacoustic emissions, in newborn patients with craniosynostosis as compared to published standards. ...

Pinnacle Technology has developed successful university collaborations to bring new preclinical research systems to the marketplace. Primary funding for these collaborations has been through the NIH Small Business Innovation ...

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a heritable connective tissue disorder generally due to type I collagen defects, is characterized by small stature, reduced bone mineral density, and frequent fractures. Bone is inherently ...

INTRODUCTION: The stimulus for this presentation was an asthma attack suffered on the first dive by a victim of a severe industrial electrical burn. The patient's response to albuterol metered dose inhaler (MDI) treatment ...

In October 2005, the Zalk Veterinary Medical Library at the University of Missouri-Columbia introduced a clinical librarian service for faculty, interns, and residents of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH). ...

Veterinary medical librarians and the EBVMA Librarians Committee are involved in supporting and advancing evidence-based veterinary medicine in clinical care, education, and research. In addition to the important traditional ...

In October 2005, the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri-Columbia introduced a clinical librarian service for interns, residents, and faculty of the Department of Child Health. The clinical librarian ...

To determine the needs of bioscience researchers in a newly established, multidisciplinary center designed to facilitate collaborative research. Because the center houses researchers from different departments traditionally ...

Readability levels were assessed on all book titles from a popular library list of best consumer health books. This was done to discover how literate a reader needed to be in order to successfully read a top-rated book in ...

Objective: The main objective was to find out to what degree our institution's NIH grant awardees have access to the articles that they cite in their publications. Methods: Articles published in 2012 as a result of current ...

Present Lochon and Extended-Lochon Models for the low-energy nuclear reaction, LENR, fusion process predict the fusion of monatomic deuterium into a sub-fragmentation level excited condition of 4He*^. The ^ and * indicate ...

This poster summarized a study to determine the use of health sciences library information and services among clinicians and other health care professionals in four hospitals serving medium and large communities in Colorado ...

BOLD (Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent) imaging is used in fMRI to show differences in activation of the brain based on the relative changes of the T2* (= 1/R2*) signal of the blood. However, quantification of blood ...

Status Epilepticus (SE) is one of the most commonly occurring neurologic emergencies and there are about 200,000 episodes of SE in the US with a high mortality risk of around 22% and requires rapid effective treatment for ...

Repeated exposure to stressful conditions leads to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which affects about 60% of U.S. combat veterans and 8% of U.S. adults. PTSD is characterized by persistent re-experienceing of the ...