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Morning Report and All That [poster]
(2007)
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 ...
Roles of Librarians in Advancing Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine [poster]
(2008)
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 ...
Exploring the Information Needs of Life Sciences Researchers [poster]
(2007)
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 ...
Commercializing Academic Research Using NIH SBIR Funding
(2010-03)
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 ...
Multi-scale Investigation of Weight-bearing Exercise on Bone Biomechanical Integrity in the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Model (oim) Mouse
(2010-02)
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 ...
Do Patients with Craniosynostosis Have an Increased Incidence of Auditory Neuropathy as Newborns?
(2010-02)
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. ...
Albuterol metered dose inhaler performance under hyperbaric pressures
(2010-02)
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 ...
Choose MyPlate.gov with illustrations
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2011)
This 24- by 36-inch, four-color poster includes the MyPlate graphic released by the United States Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services in June of 2011 to promote healthy food choices. At the bottom of ...
MyActivity pyramid [for kids] : be physically active at least 60 minutes, up to several hours every day (2011)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2011)
The 20- by 30-inch poster is designed to help children ages 6 to 11 include a variety of physical activities in their daily lives by being physically active 60 minutes, up to several hours every day.
Readability of top consumer health books: analysis & implications
(2012)
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 ...
Evolutionary studies & science studies: building collaborative portals
(2012)
This poster examines how facets of science studies and evolutionary studies can be used to build collaborative portals for researchers.
Study results in Clinicaltrials.gov: a whole new ball game
(2012)
Since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began requireing the reporting of trial results, the number of records in ClinicalTrials.gov containing study results has grown rapidly. This poster presents a content analysis ...
Modeling the R2* relaxivity of blood at 1.5 Tesla
(2012)
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 ...
The use of hi-fidelity mannequin for status epilepticus simulation to enhance medical student's performance
(2012)
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 ...
Adenovirus-36 antibody status and BMI comparison among obese Missouri adolescents
(2012)
Worldwide obesity rates have skyrocketed since 1980, a phenomenon often attributed due to changes in diet and physical activity. Adenovirus-36 (Adv-36) has been implicated in the multi-factorial etiology of obesity. Adv-36 ...
A model of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-induces insomnia in C57BL/6J mice
(2012)
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 ...
Testing the accuracy of two accelerometers for measuring steps in residential care and assisted living residents
(2012)
The purpose of this study is to compare the accuracy of the Fitbit Motion Tracker[trademark] to the Actigraph[trademark] GT1M for measuring daily steps in residential care/assisted (RC/AL)residents. A secondary aim was to ...
Trends in management of proximal humerus fractures in the United States : 1998-2009
(2012)
Proximal humerus fractures (PHFs) are common but they do not have a standard of treatment. Historically, surgeons have opted for closed reduction percutaneous pinning (CRPP) or open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) for ...
The Phenomena of Retraction in Biomedical Literature
(2010)
These are the preliminary results of a study that examines the impact of retracted articles in biomedical literature. The study is a continuation of Budd JM, Sievert ME, Schultz TR, JAMA. 1998;280 (3):296-7, which focused ...
Views of the library: a regional study in selected Missouri and Colorado libraries
(2010)
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 ...