with no direct congruency to a student's undergraduate degree flourish with membership. Why do students choose not to join departmental clubs or organizations that correspond with their major? A three part Delphi study was conducted to identify what factors...

of ecological data, policy implementation chronologies, Mexican newspaper reports, and social research on actors provided a multi-disciplinary approach to analyze governance. The research indicates that the construction of power and discourses of neoliberalism...

plot. GIS computer software was used plot, analyze and compare potential differences in den site use between the experimental and control sites. Data was collected 4-5 consecutive days per week over a two month period between June 1, 2008 and July 31...

The main objective is to use three state of the art machine learning methods to find the most efficient way for predicting and characterizing the superhelical proteins based solely on their sequence information. To achieve this goal we will first...

Ferroelectric thrusters can be used in applications where small thrusts are useful such as guiding the movement of satellites. The Pulsed Power and Plasma Science group in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at MU is characterizing a...

-long nanofibers with uniform lengths must be developed. The goal of this research was to determine the nucleation and growth rates of hydroxyapatite nanofibers and use this information to design a process to control the length of the crystals. The methods used...

The goal of this research is to design and implement an X band Class-E amplifier. This amplifier will be centered on an ideal switch but, specific characteristics of the chosen transistor will be taken into account. The steps taken that compose...

Many of the problems that exist today with current dental restoration materials can be eliminated through the use of nanofiber fillers such as hydroxyapatite. Materials like this can ultimately provide greater strengths ...

Cysteine residues in proteins are readily oxidized to sulfenic acids. Sulfenic acids, in turn, can act as potent electrophiles that have been observed to form intrastrand protein crosslinks with neighboring amide or cysteine ...

The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate improvements in the response of a physical hydraulic system when using closed-loop control. A hydraulic system consisting of a power supply, accumulator, and linear actuator ...

Over the years, the societal differences that contribute to the concept of diversity have evolved and expanded. Because of this, the understanding of the term diversity and its implications for higher education vary greatly ...

There are many function optimization algorithms based on the collective behavior of natural systems — Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) are two of the most popular. This poster presents a ...

We propose a new hippocampus segmentation method from MRI by integrating region-growing methods such as K-means clustering with PDE-based level set methods. Starting from a single point provided by the user, our algorithm ...

The project's objective is to detect metastatic melanoma cells in lymph node cross sections using a pulsed laser to generate the photoacoustic effect. When melanoma metastasizes it uses the blood stream or the lymphatic ...

This is a multidisciplinary research project that is about the use of race in political ads from 1988 to 2006. Although the student researcher has analyzed five political ads, only one of the ads, “The Willie Horton” ad, will be discussed...

Bio based blends were prepared with pork and beef fat, as well as ethanol on a volume per volume basis. These percentages were determined using previous research. Blends were then tested on temperature characteristics set forth by ASTM standard...

Missouri is the 6th largest soybean producing state according the USDA, producing 194.18 million bushels in 2006. US soybean production in 2006 approached nearly 3 billion bushels. As the US soybean production increases, ...

Investigating the possible moderating affects of sibling ordinal status, researchers tested how differences in parent-child communication and trust between first-born and later-born children influence adolescent depressed mood and problem behavior...