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2009 Hog Market Outlook
(2009-02)
This presentation gives an outlook of the hog market in 2009. 2009 should be a good year for producers. Supply of meats will be down. Unfortunately, meat demand is very weak.
Social and Economic Trends in Missouri
(University of Missouri Extension, 2009)
This OSEDA presentation discusses social and economic trends in the United States and Missouri particularly with an emphasis on labor statistics, unemployment rates, renewable energy and green economy, cheetah firms, and ...
Reinventing Reference: Changing front‐line roles, Building new skills, Addressing management and leadership challenges
(Greater Western Library Alliance, 2009)
This video with accompanying slides is of the Greater Western Library Alliance Fall 2009 Deans & Directors Meeting held at the University of Missouri. The presentation addresses the changes and challenges in libraries over ...
Linking Career Development Events to Authentic Assessment (TSA) and the Classroom
(2009)
This presentation discusses the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006, Career Clusters, School-based Agricultural Education, and Technical Skills Attainment, and their impact on agriculture ...
Asset accumulation strategies in 3 new settlement communities (June 2009)
(Cambio Center, 2009)
Purpose of focus groups: to understand... how immigrants are integrating economically and socially; immigrant perceptions on community climate; social relationships and their effect on economic and social integration and ...
Integration efforts of Latino immigrants in three rural communities in the Midwest
(Cambio Center, 2009)
Overall goal of the project is to examine the strategies newcomers use to accumulate assets, minimize vulnerabilities, and to integrate in their communities.
Community integration and immigration policy : the Missouri experience
(Cambio Center, 2009)
The purpose of this research is to examine the strategies newcomers employ to accumulate assets, minimize their vulnerability to risk exposure and become part of their new communities. "Getting by and getting ahead". The ...
Small Hydropower Potential in Missouri
(2009-04)
The overall objective of this research is to advance our understanding of how, and to what
degree, small hydropower development can aid in the fight against global warming. The leading
cause of climate change today is ...
Epitaxial Electrodeposition of Metal Oxide Thin Films and Superlattices for Energy Conversion and Storage
(2009-04)
Electrodeposition, like biomineralization, is a soft solution processing method in which inorganic materials are produced from solution precursors. The technique provides degrees of freedom that are not accessible to UHV ...
Implementation of Advanced Fuels and Combustion for Internal Combustion Engines
(2009-04)
Advanced engine designs for transportation has shown significant reduction in engine-out emissions while simultaneously achieving gains in fuel efficiency by using Low Temperature Combustion (LTC) modes and feedback control ...
Next Generation Neutron Detection for Next Generation Nuclear Reactors
(2009-04)
As the demand for nuclear energy increases worldwide, and MO reactors come online, so does
the availability of spent fuel that may be used as a medium of terror. That is, fuel for and waste
or byproducts from fissile ...
A Research Program on Very High Temperature Reactors
(2009-04)
Prismatic and pebble bed very high-temperature reactors (VHTRs) are very attractive both from a thermodynamic efficiency viewpoint and hydrogen-production capability. This project addresses numerous challenges associated ...
Photovoltaic and Betavoltaic Efforts at University of Missouri-Columbia
(2009)
Photovoltaic device converts solar energy into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Efficiency of a photovoltaic device depends on the active material which absorbs light as well as the window layer which transmits light ...
The University of Missouri Center for Sustainable Energy
(2009-04)
The University of Missouri Center for Sustainable Energy was formed as a collaboration between the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources and the College of Engineering. Over 70 faculty members, from a wide ...
Emissions from Alternate Aviation Fuels and their Environmental Impact
(2009-04)
The anticipated growth in commercial air traffic, rising fuel costs, and an increasing
desire to reduce reliance on fossil fuels produced in politically unstable regions, has
driven research into alternate renewable ...
A Research Program Nuclear Energy Conversion
(2009-04)
Direct conversion of nuclear energy to electricity has been a challenging problem since the
inception of the generation of electricity from nuclear reactions. The development of wide bandgap,
p-n junctions in materials ...
Green, Sustainable, Energy Efficient, Cost-Effective Refrigerated Storage Facilities
(2009-04)
A green, sustainable, energy efficient, cost-effective refrigerated storage facility is defined as a structure that maintains a safe and appropriate environment for the storage of perishable food items while limiting its ...
Hydrogen Generation via Novel Supercritical Water Reformation Technology
(2009-04)
A novel, robust, fuel reformation technology has been developed for portable, mobile, stationary, and on-site generation of hydrogen from a variety of feedstocks involving both renewable and nonrenewable resources. Unlike ...
Algae Photobioreactor Design Considerations for Commercial Scale Production
(2009-04)
Recent growth in the biofuels industry (ethanol and biodiesel) has put market
pressures on agricultural feedstock supplies, primarily corn and soybeans. In order for the biofuels industry to sustain and continue to grow, ...
High Speed Production of Large Coal to Facilitate Easier and More Effective Cleaning
(2009-04)
Most modern mining equipment extracts coal through grinding it from the solid using a set of rotating picks. This produces coal that is quite small in average size and generates a lot of dust in the process. The coal is ...