The future of the biodiesel industry will rely on several critical issues. The major factors are the price of a barrel of crude oil versus the price of soybean oil, and the cost of turning both products into usable diesel ...

Given the increasing numbers of Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S. population, and given the opportunities associated with a college degree, there is a need for understanding how predominately white institutions can provide ...

The process of Auditory Stream Segregation (AudSS) allows animals to separate relevant acoustic signals from non-relevant signals by grouping them into useful perceptual objects. AudSS has been described extensively in ...

The graphical processing unit (GPU) contained on modern video cards can be a powerful tool for performing certain nongraphical computational tasks. This is because the specialized hardware necessary for speeding up graphical ...

Due to the rising number of explosion attacks, the need for blast resistant structures has increased greatly. Many materials have been tested for blast retrofit design but have shown to have limitation. The focus of this ...

Engineering ceramics, such as alumina, exhibit a number of desirable qualities including high strength and stiffness, resistance to chemical attack, high hardness or wear-resistance, good thermal conductivity and utility ...

The Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) has conducted surveys in the northeastern Pacific Ocean since the mid-1970s. These surveys collect data to 1) determine marine mammal abundances and distributions, 2) describe ...

A study was conducted to investigate thermal balance of lactating dairy cattle managed in an intensive managed rotational grazing system. The farm was located at the University of Missouri Southwest Research Center in ...

Southwestern corn borer (SWBC) and fall armyworm (FAW) feeding on maize causes extensive crop damage in the United States. Total crop loss is valued at approximately 300 million dollars annually. Previous proteomic analysis ...

Multimodality molecular imaging that combines anatomical and functional information has demonstrated great potential in the detection of breast cancer. Among different biomedical imaging modalities, fluorescence molecular ...

The goal of this research is to amend current ACI code parameters for the case of blast resistant design. The specific amends being investigated concern the structural qualities of stay-in-place formwork. Under current ACI ...

Microglial activation has been linked to multiple pathologies, including Alzheimer's disease and cerebral ischemia. Nitric oxide (NO) production by inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and superoxide from NADPH oxidase ...

Each year approximately 1.44 million newborns worldwide die from infections during the first four weeks of life. This is due in part to the inability of the developing neonatal immune systems to mount a Th1 immune response, ...

There are many species of plants that do not accept their own or closely related pollen. This self-incompatibility (SI), is seen in members of the genus Nicotiana. There are three proteins that are known to be required for ...

ConferenceXP is an open source collaborative project that is sponsored by Microsoft Corporation. This project is exploring ways to utilize a new IPv6 protocol that allows for multicast messages to be sent and routed ...

Maize non-chromosomal stripe (NCS) plants are defective plants with mutations within mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) resulting in deficiencies in the electron transfer chain (ETC). It has been shown the cells will synthesize ...

Sjögren's syndrome (SS), an autoimmune disorder, is distinguished by inflammation and salivary gland cell death, leading to xerostomia (dry mouth). The G protein-coupled P2Y2 receptor (P2Y2R) is up-regulated in response ...

Immigrants have slowly stopped migrating to traditional coastal states (i.e., California, Florida, New York, etc.) and have begun settling more in the Midwest (Bump, Lowell, & Pettersen, 2005). Over 120,000 Latinas/os ...

Natural gas is an economically and environmentally superior fuel to both gasoline and diesel. One challenge of this fuel is to find a high-capacity, low pressure method of storing it. Fractal networks of nanopores in ...

X-ray imaging and detection are useful measurements, in familiar applications like dental X-rays and less familiar ones like elemental analysis. The Pulsed Power and Plasma Science group in the Electrical and Computer ...