by Robbins (2005), my research reevaluates the utility and motivation behind sorority women's use of clothing, styles, and consumption. Rather than being illustrations of groupthink or conformity, sorority women's use of symbols, brands, styles, and language...

This study examined the effects of online content structure on attention and memory as indicators to overall communication effectiveness. For the purposes of this study, content structure was defined as either Bite-Snack-Meal ...

In spinal cord-transected larval lamprey, descending brain neurons, most of which are reticulospinal (RS) neurons, regenerate their axons across a transection site and contribute to behavioral recovery. In the present ...

In the course of research, soybean oil was polymerized to form bodied soybean oil (BSBO) also termed heat polymerized soybean oil which was used to derive the epoxy bodied soybean oil-hydroxyl value # 193, BSBO/aceto-hydroxyl ...

in challenge past one's skill level can produce greater levels of enjoyment in any certain activity in which we engage (Csikszentmihalyi,1999; Pearce, Ainley & Howard, 2005). This study was an attempt to add a slight increase in challenge of trail users at Katy...

, the commonly accepted performance standard for sequestration (Hepple and Benson, 2005). Mineralogical analysis also indicates a grain matrix composed almost entirely of quartz which is non-reactive with CO2; this indicates that dissolution of the grain matrix...

its social availability. Over 85% of Missouri’s forests are privately owned, indicating that without the state’s private landowners’ acceptance utilizing woody biomass as bioenergy feedstock to the energy industry is impossible. Data was collected...

include environmental factors, such as atmospheric effects, illumination, moisture conditions, and inherent spectral variability of the material itself, such as the variations in biophysical and biochemical composition in vegetation (Song, 2005). Under...

The purpose of this study was to determine significant relationship between overall satisfaction with the day's experience and overall event satisfaction. In addition, the study determined demographic characteristics of Katy Trail Ride 2005...

will have warmer affective attitudes toward homosexuality with 2005 data from the World Values Survey. I find that even after controlling for normal predictors of homosexual tolerance (i.e., gender, education, religion, partisanship, and political ideology...

stream for both real time playback and full quality storage, where the QoS requirements of the two targets are different. We design a joint streaming protocol to fully exploit the available bandwidth to deliver both real-time and retransmitted packets...

resources. We modeled summer and winter resource selection for 50 GPS-collared, female adult pronghorn in North Dakota, 2005-2008. We used vegetation type, ruggedness and distance to nearest roads as predictors. During both seasons, pronghorn selected open...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Repetitive DNA sequences represent many difficulties in genome sequencing and analysis. Meanwhile, some of repetitive sequences play an important role ...

Before and after Hurricane Katrina struck in the fall of 2005, journalists made vital decisions to report on life and death issues. Those decisions framed news coverage in ways, among others, that depicted conflict, human-interest, and a lack...

Growing interest in e-commerce necessitates research to determine how to effectively use this medium. Of the features on these websites, product presentation is an important form of advertising. This research focuses on ...

-knowledge necessary for free action is available only from others, while Chekhov's characters who find meaning in their actions are able to do so by virtue of their orientation toward others rather than themselves....

Crossdocking operations seek to move materials from inbound locations to outbound locations as quickly as possible. In some cases this can be achieved without intermediate product staging. However, in an environment with ...

This thesis presents the research algorithms and techniques applied to three volumetric image problems(1) high quality mesh reconstruction from distance field volumetric data, (2) distance field surface approximation from ...

The University of Missouri-Columbia has a new test facility online to study oil breakdown of enhanced and uniform gaps. The 3 megavolt Marx generator is operational with switch configurations tested including large electrode ...

endothelial cells. This hypothesis was tested by incubating porcine aortic endothelial cells (PAECs) with various oxidized PUFAs and saturated FFAs. Twenty hour exposure of PAECs with the oxidized PUFAs (0-100[mu]M) linoleic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid...