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Watershed planning: a community development process
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
Community Development/Watershed Management is a process to counsel, educate, and cooperate with communities as they develop assets to seek solutions and solve problems, directly or indirectly affecting quality of life. ...
Manure/CAFO regualtions update
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This presentation discusses the EPA requirement that new facilities must make phosphorus assessment, and discusses how phosphorus will be managed, suggesting that management strategies for phosphorus can be developed with ...
Web-Based Tools for Environmental Planning
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This presentation describes the goals of CARES (Center for Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Systems ) to promote understanding of resource issues using information technologies, including Geographic Information ...
Urban Erosion and Sediment Pollution
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This presentation discusses urban erosion and sediment pollution, including Polyacrylamide.
On the Distinctiveness of Farmers of the Middle: A Preliminary Report on the Missouri Farm Poll, 2006
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
Most U.S. farms are family farms, which the USDA defines as "proprietorships, partnerships, or family corporations that do not have hired managers." There is a perception and even expectation that "farmers of the middle" ...
Principals Make a Difference: An Analysis of Principal Leadership in High and Low Achieving Middle Level Schools
(2007-11)
This report presents the findings of the second phase of a comprehensive two-year state-wide study. The second phase includes a teacher survey of leadership, climate, culture, efficacy, commitment, trust, assessment.
Improving Mathematics Education in Missouri: There are no silver bullets
(2007)
There is no simple solution to improve student learning opportunities for Missouri students. Rather, we need a “recipe” that will maximize the liklihood of students learning important mathematics.
Bioprinting: Development of a novel approach for engineering three-dimensional tissue structures [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
Bioprinting is a tissue engineering technique in which spherical cell aggregates, the "bio-ink", are deposited into biocompatible hydrogels, the "bio-paper", by a 3-axis "bio-printer". The aggregates can be deposited into ...
Effect of transgene introgression site on gene migration from transgenic b. napus to b. rapa [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
There is a growing concern of the possible transgenic introgression from GM plants into agricultural weeds, which has stimulated research in the process of crop to weed gene flow. Crop to weed gene flow often involves the ...
Vocabulary growth through reading in adolescents with language learning disabilities: A case study [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
Background. The amount of vocabulary development that takes place during the school-age years is impressive; children acquire about 3,000 words a year (Beck & McKeown, 1991). A primary means of vocabulary development during ...
QTL analysis for genes for brace root angle in zea mays l. [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
Brace roots play a major role in determining amount of lodging, and are responsible for a significant portion of water and nutrient uptake. Using the randomly intermated B73 x Mo17 (IBM) RIL mapping population, we are ...
Artificial selection on genes for epigenetic regulation in maize [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
Maize (corn) was domesticated from teosinte through a single domestication event in Mexico about nine thousand years ago. This domestication brought about the original landrace maize varieties that were spread though out ...
Hysteresis and dither in a metering poppet valve [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
The objective of the following thesis is to reduce the hysteresis of a hydraulic flow control valve through the use of dither. A hydraulic valve system, used in controlling the valve and collecting and converting the ...
Regional Demographics: The Lake, Jeff City and Columbia
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This OSEDA presentation discusses Mid-Missouri demographics, including the percent of work force working outside their county of residence, population change from 2000-2006 in Mid-Missouri and indicators of child well-being.
2007 Lake Area Business Conference
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This OSEDA presentation discusses emerging trends at Missouri's PUMA lake area, including commute time, education analysis and lake area employment by industry.
Demographic & Socio-Economic Trends in Johnson County
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This OSEDA presentation discusses the socio-economic trends of Missouri's Johnson County, including drop-out rates, average annual wages of Missouri, and average wages for manufacturing, retail and service industries.
Regional Demographics
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This OSEDA presentation discusses Missouri demographics and economic development trends, including percent population change by county, 2006 population estimates and Missouri's expected employment growth from 2004-2014 by ...
Hispanic Student Performance on Missouri Standardized Achievement Tests
(Cambio Center, 2007)
This OSEDA presentation discusses an overview of Hispanic students in Missouri, including enrollment change, high school graduation and standardized test results.
Demographic Trends in Missouri
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This OSEDA presentation discusses Missouri trends, emerging economic characteristics and new forms of information. Topic include population aged 81 and older, percent of Missourians who are cost burdened by housing and ...
Thermal status for different breeds of dairy cattle exposed to summer heat stress in a grazing environment [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
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 ...