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2004 William T. Kemper award presentations for teaching excellence
(University of Missouri Office of the Chancellor, 2004)
This video shows the presentations of the Kemper Award for Teaching Excellence to the ten recipients for the year 2004....
Environmental Health and Safety Notes, 2004 Spring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, Environmental Health and Safety, 2004)
Newsletter of the department of Environmental Health and Safety on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. Article subjects include sharps disposal, Guidance on Unwanted Materials, Unwanted Radioactive Materials Pickup, ...
11beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity in adipose tissue [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Obesity is a major health and social problem, which has been linked to hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, and malignancies. Obesity occurs as a result of hypertrophy of existing adipocytes, or an ...
Lubricity testing with biodiesel blends [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
The number 1 diesel fuel needed for testing that met a certain viscosity and sulfur content was secured. The fuel was then mixed with biodiesel on two, three, four, five, and six percent blends. The fuel was tested using ...
Examining instability in Midwestern snowstorms with lightning and thunder [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
12 individual cases of thundersnow were examined in order to determine those common atmospheric
stability characteristics that attend such storms. We found that most thundersnow events have high
bases (between 10K and ...
Auditory comprehension of rate-manipulated yes/no questions [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Under ideal listening conditions and when stimuli are presented at normal speaking rates, many aphasic individuals perform well on tasks such as answering yes/no questions. However, difficulty increases when auditory stimuli ...
Bronte enhanced with exhibition labels
(2004)
Exhibition label for the Charlotte Bronte Exhibit, October 29, 2004....
Representation in State Legislatures
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
Graphic presentation of a survey regarding State Representation in Legislatures. Data representations include graphs, charts, tables and maps.
What is the best macrolide for atypical pneumonia?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2004)
Erythromycin, clarithromycin, and azithromycin are equally effective in treating pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae or Chlamydophila (formerly Chlamydia) pneumoniae (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B, small ...
Briefing Paper on the “Worst Case” Implications of Low Missouri River Flows For Power Plants
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004-05)
In April 2004, FAPRI evaluated two water control plans considered by the Corps of
Engineers for the Missouri River in terms of their impact on power plants. The Corps
called these plans the Preferred Alternative and the ...
Do antibiotics improve outcomes in chronic rhinosinusitis?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2004)
For children, antibiotics do not appear to improve short-term (3-6 weeks) or long-term (3 months) outcomes of chronic rhinosinusitis (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, randomized controlled trials). No adequate ...
Advocacy in The Missouri General Assembly, 2005
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
Powerpoint presentation assembled by David C. Valentine concerning advocacy in the Missouri General Assembly. Data is portrayed in charts, tables, and graphs.
The Ethical Use of New Drugs
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-10)
The practice of medicine requires clinical judgments within the context of an inexact and very complicated science, the end result of which has profound implication for the welfare of patients. The ethical question for the ...
A longitudinal analysis of political issue ownership trends and shifts from 1970 to 2004 [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
Learning the literary life
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2004)
A new generation of MU writers explores anatomy, rock'n'roll, relationships and a revolution.
The development of conversation skills in toddlers [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
utterance. Our findings indicate that mothers model how to begin a conversation. Mothers control the topic of conversation, particularly at 20 months. They initiate 65% of the topics when children are 20 months old and 58% when they are 30 months old...
Going underground: Benefits of phototropism in Arabidopsis depend on the soil environment [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Phototropins are blue-light photoreceptors that control shoot and root phototropism in
Arabidopsis thaliana. We investigated whether the soil environment influences the benefit of
phototropism. We hypothesized that root ...
The correlation between Chicano theater and Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
"The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it" are words that come from the Brazilian Dramatist's, Augusto Boal, commentary, The Theater of the Oppressed. What Boal is referring to is that the theater ...
Production of nano particles
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Nano particles (particles having diameters in the nanometer range) have applications in a variety of areas including medical, environmental, sensor, to name a few. However, the production of nano particles having uniform ...
Use of antisense oligonucleotides to enhance exon 7 incorporation in the pre-mRNA splicing of SMN2
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is relatively common in humans and is caused by loss of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. SMA is the leading cause of hereditary infant mortality ...