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Pumped up pudding (2015)
(University of Missouri Extension, 2015)
Adoption and Uptake Pathway of GM Technology by Chinese Smallholders : Evidence from Bt Cotton Production
(University of Missouri, 2015)
Bt cotton was commercially released in 1997. After this, it was successfully adopted in China, helping Chinese farmers recover their cotton production in the late 1990s. Descriptive statistics and findings from focus group ...
Farmer Experience with Weed Resistance to Herbicides in Cotton Production
(University of Missouri, 2015)
declined thereafter. Farmers relied extensively on labor-intensive and mechanical/chemical practices to control resistant weeds. The proportion of farmers in the sample who indicated they had total weed control costs of $50 or more per acre nearly doubled...
Spectrum, volume 02, number 06 (April 4, 1975)
(University of Missouri (System), 1975)
This issue of Spectrum offers informational pieces on diverse topics from all University of Missouri campuses....
Publications, University of Missouri Extension, 2017-05
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2017)
Catalog of CDs, software, videos and hardcopy publications of the University of Missouri Extension Office....
The relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction in Missouri public school teachers in 2023
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Teacher recruitment and retention is a pressing issue in Missouri schools, and an increased understanding of why teachers are committed to their school districts may improve the efforts to remedy this problem. This quantitative study investigated...
Investigating changes in the Plasma Membrane proteome and role of USPA-related proteins during plant immune responses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Food insecurity is a growing global concern as food prices continue to increase. While many factors influence the loss of food production, plant diseases are a contributing factor that result in ...
Education for library service to youth in five countries
(Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, 2006)
Youth services instructors from five countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States) were surveyed as to the content of youth-oriented courses they had taught between 2000 and 2003. A ...
Mizzou, volume 104, number 4 (2016 Summer)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2016)
Impact factors in open access : the value, frustrations, and new paths forward
(2023)
The age-old metric associated with traditional print academic journals— the journal impact factor (JIF)—has carried over into some electronic open access journals (OA). JIF receives a fair share of criticism (e.g., easy ...
Nanofibrillation of lignocellulosic biomass into lignin-containing nanocellulose for 3D printing and antimicrobial applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Lignin-containing nanocellulose (LNC) has become an emerging subcategory of nanocellulose. Compared toedtraditional pure nanocellulose, LNC contains lignin and hemicellulose that are not fully removed from original ...
Assessing Missouri soybean fields for azoxystrobin resistant cercospora sojina
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
counties in southeast Missouri, but no further assessment was conducted. In this study, 121 isolates were collected from 15 surveyed counties between 2019 and 2020 in an effort to understand the geographical distribution of fungicide-resistant C. sojina...
Genome-wide exploration of direct GBX2 target genes and their contributions to mouse development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The cells that comprise the vertebrate nervous system require molecular cues to determine their cellular position, identity and their ability to make appropriate connections...
Muse, number 49 (2015)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2015)
Structural and biochemical studies of virus : host interactions in HIV-1
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] According to 2021 UNAIDS estimates, as of 2020, 680,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses and 38 million people globally were living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (1). Despite ...
Public library outreach as a function of staffing and metropolitan location.
(Library & Information Science Research, 2004)
Library literature suggests that staffing and metropolitan status may affect a public library’s provision of outreach efforts. Data from a 1999 survey of Arizona public library service outlets do not support the role of ...
OPT and the geography of employment : understanding the post-graduation work mobilities of Missouri's international students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis looks at the geographic distribution of employment for Missouri's international students following graduation, as well as their employment location preferences...
Accelerating materials processing via machine learning : towards autonomous manufacturing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "Given the advantages of ML, this research thesis focuses on developing appropriate methodologies to solve the problems that inherit in the three phases...
Restoration treatments and regeneration dynamics in East Texas mixed wood forests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Extensive harvesting, fire exclusion, and plantation forestry altered composition and structure, and thus function and habitat values of east Texas Pineywoods uplands. Upland restoration efforts are made difficult by the abundance of sprouting...