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A social network analysis of the use of social media to promote agriculture to indonesian youth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Farmer regeneration remains a big challenge for Indonesia to address food insecurity and promote sustainable agricultural development. With the issue of aging farmers, youth have the potential to become agents of change ...
Implications of ovarian and uterine maturity evaluated in replacement heifer candidates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Profitability across the reproductive lifetime of a cow depends on reproductive success in the first breeding season and requires heifers to attain puberty prior to this time. Pre-breeding evaluations may be used to determine ...
Agroforestry adoption: influential factors, land manager perceptions, and willingness-to-accept payments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The various environmental, economic, and social benefits of agroforestry have long been touted, but adoption remains minimal on the world's agricultural landscape. A metaanalysis of 69 global agroforestry adoption studies ...
A discussion of covid-19 vaccine in relation with traditional chinese medicine belief on weibo
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Traditional Chinese medicine has been influencing Chinese people for thousands of years. Vaccine, as a means of western medicine, has been on the controversial side of traditional Chinese medicine. When it comes to disease, ...
Bias filtered: internalized racial oppression, experiences of racism, and well-being and authenticity among black americans
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Internalized racial oppression and experiences with prejudice correlate negatively with psychological well-being. Authenticity is a well-established contributor to well-being, yet research has not addressed how racial ...
Synthesis and characterization of pn monoanionic ligands and their reactivity with actinides
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Organoactinide complexes have gained much popularity in the recent decades particularly in the field of nuclear waste sequestration. With the increase of nuclear power along side other residual nuclear waste from power ...
Communication at the end-of-life among advanced cancer patients in Ghana: what patients have to say
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Individuals with life-limiting illnesses require information and good communication throughout their illness. Effective end-of-life communication (EOLC) improves patients' understanding of their condition, care, and treatment ...
Improvement of co-digesting swine manure and waste kitchen oil
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Anaerobic co-digestion of swine manure (SM) and waste kitchen oil (WKO) was conducted to evaluate the effect of substrate loading rates on biogas production efficiency. Biogas yields of M4O2 (4 g-VSSM L-1 d-1 + 2 g-VSWKO ...
Understanding acceptance of Autonomous Mobility Services using statistical and deep learning approaches
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The emergence of vehicle automation and its subsequent growth has led to new transport service offerings, generally known as Autonomous Mobility Services (AMS), that have the potential to facilitate or even replace ...
Evaluating effects of neonicotinoid seed treatments and agroecosystem land management practices on solitary bees in Midwestern agroecosystems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Bees are declining due to multiple factors including habitat loss and non-target exposure to pesticides resulting from agricultural intensification. Solitary bees are often overlooked as important pollinators, but they are ...
Investigating the roles and functions of plasma membrane E3 ligases and MKP1 in plant immunity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
When a plant encounters a pathogen, a complex set of responses occurs on both sides of the interaction. In a process known as pattern-triggered immunity (PTI), the plant uses plasma membrane (PM)-localized proteins, or ...
Accurate, fast, and robust 3D city-scale reconstruction using wide area motion imagery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Multi-view stereopsis (MVS) is a core problem in computer vision, which takes a set of scene views together with known camera poses, then produces a geometric representation of the underlying 3D model Using 3D reconstruction ...
Securing cloud-hosted applications using active defense with rule-based adaptations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Security cloud-based applications is a dynamic problem since modern attacks are always evolving in their sophistication and disruption impact. Active defense is a state-of-the-art paradigm where proactive or reactive ...
Comparison of measured resistance for drilled shafts socketed in weak rock in Oklahoma to previously established SPT and TCP-based predictive design relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The design of drilled shafts socketed in shale and other weak rock is challenging for a multitude of reasons. Sites may be difficult to characterize because the materials may quickly degrade upon sampling. The materials ...
ClaimChain: secure Blockchain platform for handling insurance claims processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Insurance claims processing involves multi-domain entities and multi-source data, along with a number of human-agent interactions. Consequently, this processing is traditionally manually-intensive and time-consuming. ...
Structural and kinetic studies of human aldh7a1 and aldh9a1
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The regulation and detoxification of endogenously and exogenously derived aldehydes is paramount to cellular survival due to the highly reactive nature of aldehydes as electrophiles. Human aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs) ...
Introducing a personal-originality approach for scoring children's divergent thinking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Divergent thinking (DT), which can be described as the ability to conceive of and express a variety of novel solutions to open-ended problems (Gibson et al., 2009), is one of the most commonly studied constructs related ...
Public Discourse and India’s Green Revolution: Defining Approaches to Relief Efforts and Policymaking During the Bihar Famine
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)
The Bihar Famine of 1966-1967 was a dire crisis in postcolonial Indian history, resulting in
widespread crop failures, food shortages, and mass starvation across Northern India. However,
the Bihar Famine is generally ...
Deep heterogeneous superpixel neural networks for image analysis and feature extraction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Lately, deep convolutional neural networks are rapidly transforming and enhancing computer vision accuracy and performance, and pursuing higher-level and interpretable object recognition. Superpixel-based methodologies ...
Body size and shape in insular environments and applications of the island rule in biological anthropology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The discovery of small-bodied hominin fossils in 2004 on the island of Flores, Indonesia, unearthed a large debate within biological anthropology. This debate has exemplified that there are questions and research areas ...