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Design and testing of heat pipes [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
The project focuses on the design and testing of straight heat pipes. During the duration of the project three different styles of heat pipe manufacturing were developed. The first style consisted of flattening the pipe around a smaller charging...
Rotational excitation of carbon dioxide due to collision with a liquid surface [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
To improve our understanding of collisional energy transfer at a gas-liquid interface, we have investigated collisions of carbon dioxide molecules with a simple atomic liquid surface. Our particular focus here is on the transfer of the impinging...
Producing practical uses for biodiesel byproducts through the conversion of glycerol [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
glycol, acrylic acid, and other platform chemicals to be used by many different industries. The research focuses on catalytic processes with high yields and selectivities towards high value products and low selectivities towards toxic byproducts...
Efficient IP multicasting [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
. One alternative to this is IP Multicast, which allows efficient one-to-many and many-to-many communications. The focus of our research was IP Multicast, which is mainly used for one-to-many connections. One of IP multicast's weaknesses is its lack...
Agarose entrapped gold nanoparticles for the crosslinking of collagen: A comparison study [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
biomechanical and biodegradation properties are inadequate for many of these applications. Efforts to strengthen the matrix and control biodegradation have traditionally focused on increasing the number of crosslinks formed between collagen molecules using both...
Effect of Salmonella typhimurium on human cancer line tumors in mice [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
the therapeutic breadth of Salmonella cancer therapy. Using tissue cultures, therapeutic Salmonella candidate CRC2631 will be tested on various human cancer cell lines. My studies will focus on colon cancer cell line HT29. Predicted Outcomes: Salmonella attachment...
Neonatal exposure to xenobiotic estrogen may alter the adult immune response and exacerbate endometriosis in mice [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
in the peritoneal fluid of experimental mice (exposed to diethylstilbestrol) versus control mice (no xenoestrogen exposure). In order to study our second focus, immune cell function, we are using a cytokine antibody array to determine the relative cytokine...
Laser ablation of necrotic tissue to promote healing in burn injury [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
eventually lead to poor grafting beds and slow healing. The technique of laser ablation involves removing a particular tissue using high energy, rapid laser pulses. Our research focuses on using this technique to precisely remove only the necrotic tissue of a...
Immigrant women and domestic abuse: Barriers to seeking services [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
and how these barriers contribute to the extremely complex dynamics of domestic violence. The two barriers selected as the focus for this research project are cultural perceptions on domestic abuse and immigration status. Working in cooperation...
Computational and experimental assessment of public dose from normal research reactor operations [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
allows discrete sampling of elements as it disregards chemical form of a sample and focuses solely on its nucleus. NAA is a sensitive analytical technique useful for performing both qualitative and quantitative multi-element analysis for mayor, minor...
Characterizing a human embryonic stem cell model of placental development [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
atmosphere on the differentiation process by comparing cells cultured under high (H) oxygen (20%) and low (L) oxygen (4%) conditions. We narrowed our focus to the protein products of two genes: GATA2, and CGA. GATA 2 is a transcription factor important...
Biochemical characterization of phosphoproteins involved in defense signaling in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
raised against three of these proteins and used the antibodies together with isoelectric focusing (IEF) to detect phosphorylation. Each antibody was tested against plant extracts and gave a signal with immunoblot analysis at the expected molecular weight...
The effects of anxiety and depression on the academic achievement of African American youth [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
in educational and other settings. By focusing on the association of anxiety and depression with academic achievement, this study contributes to a decrement in the dearth of research on two factors that contribute to the disparities in academic achievement...
The function of the fork-head-associated domain in Arabidopsis thaliana [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
focus my research on one gene, AT5g07400. Besides the FHA domain both AT5g07400 and its animal orthologous gene have a tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase domain, which is involved in DNA repair. I have isolated two independent homozygous mutants in AT5g07400...
Functional analysis of nematode secreted proteins to devise innovative approaches for plant resistance against nematodes [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
Approximately 1 billion dollars in soybean yield loss is caused annually in the US by a microscopic parasite known as the soybean cyst nematode (SCN; Heterodera glycines). My research is focused on studying cyst nematode parasitism genes. Cyst...
Ga-Ga over 68Ga: Novel chelates for PET heart imaging [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
in high specific activity. In our case, 68Ge can be transported anywhere in the world, where it generates a viable PET agent without the constraint of an on-site cyclotron. Our work focused on Schiff base and aminothiolate ligand systems. Specifically, we...
Evaluation of a new series of copper-64-nota-bombesin targeted radiopharmecuticals with PET imaging potential [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
Tissue-specific radiopharmaceuticals having promise as diagnostic and therapeutic targeting vectors for human cancers is of significant interest. In recent years, our group and many others have focused upon design and development of targeting...
Effects of early intervention targeting mathematically at-risk first grade students [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
In the 2006-2007 school year, 7.3 percent of third grade students scored in the lowest percentile in mathematics on the Missouri Assessment Program test. This percentage increased as students progressed through school. In tenth grade, 24 percent...