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Keep Your Hands Off These Columns
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2006)
The MU Alumni Association celebrates its 150th anniversary.
Only the columns remain
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2001)
What was it like that night in 1892 when fire destroyed Academic Hall?
Detection of a Far-Infrared Bow-Shock Nebula Around R Hya: the First MIRIAD Results
(American Astronomical Society, 2006)
. With our unique mapping strategy, we have achieved better than 1 MJy sr 1 sensitivity in 3 hr of integration and successfully detected a faint (!5 MJy sr 1), extended (∼400 ) far-infrared nebula around the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star R Hya. Based...
Ice chemistry in embedded young stellar objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud
(American Astronomical Society, 2009)
We present spectroscopic observations of a sample of 15 embedded young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). These observations were obtained with the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) as part
of ...
Applying the Polarization Memory Effect in Polarization-gated Subsurface Imaging
(The Optical Society of America, 2006-05)
Polarization memory is a well established phenomenon occurring when circularly polarized light propagates in turbid media of larger particles. Recent studies have demonstrated that the circularly crosspolarized imaging can ...
Heart and soul of old Mizzou
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2001)
Today, no one would even whisper that maybe, just maybe, the buildings around Francis Quadrangle should be razed to make way for more modern, utilitarian classroom buildings. That would be almost as heretical as suggesting that the treeless plains...
Epitaphs and tombstones of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus
(2002)
Tombstones and their epitaphs yield excellent evidence on the nature of the population of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus. Analysis of these monuments can reveal who the deceased were, their social classes, ethnic origins, ...
Impact of Biotech Grains on Market Structure and Societal Welfare
(AgBioForum, 2002)
We quantify the economic impact of introducing genetically modified (GM) crops. Short-run results suggest that it might be optimal to maintain the identity of a greater proportion of non-GM grain than is currently demanded ...
The interface between the stellar wind and interstellar medium around R Cassiopeiae revealed by far-infrared imaging
(arXiv, 2009)
The circumstellar dust shells of intermediate initial-mass (about 1 to 8 solar masses) evolved stars are generated by copious mass loss during the asymptotic giant branch phase. The density structure of their circumstellar ...
HOPE for the Pell? Institutional Effects in the Intersection of Merit-Based and Need-Based Aid
(Southern Economic Journal, 2006)
Prior empirical evidence finds that general enrollment effects of merit-aid programs such as the Georgia Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (HOPE) scholarship are large and significant, while the effects of need-based ...
3-D Dynamics of Interactions between Stellar Winds and the Interstellar Medium as Seen by AKARI and Spitzer
(2009)
Recent far-infrared mapping of mass-losing stars by the AKARI Infrared Astronomy Satellite and Spitzer Space Telescope have suggested that far-infrared bow shock structures are probably ubiquitous around these masslosing stars, especially when...
On the Anomalous Silicate Emission Features of AGNs: A Possible Interpretation Based on Porous Dust
(arXiv, 2008)
properties of the obscuring dusty torus around AGNs. Compared to that of the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM), the 10 micron silicate emission profile of type 1 AGNs is broadened and has a clear shift of peak position to longer wavelengths. In literature...
Autoimmunization of Ewes Against Pregnancy-associated Glycoproteins Does Not Interfere with the Establishment and Maintenance of Pregnancy
(Animal, 2009)
Pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) are a large grouping of placental proteins that belong to the aspartic peptidase gene family. Although useful to detect pregnancy in ruminant species, the function of these molecules ...
Dean of discipline
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2003)
"Students either loved 'Black Jack' Matthews or hated him. His career as Mizzou's dean of students spanned the panty raids of the 1950s through the war protests of the 1960s.
Past Posts
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2000)
How did people "reach out and touch someone" before telephones? They sent notes on postcards.
Taking a crack at geology
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2002)
Geology majors cap off their course work during a six-week field camp full of maps, rocks, sun and tough assignments that draw on all their skills.
Motional Coherence in Fluid Phospholipid Membranes
(American Physical Society, 2008)
We report a high energy-resolution neutron backscattering study, combined with in situ diffraction, to investigate slow molecular motions on nanosecond time scales in the fluid phase of phospholipid bilayers of ...
Astrometric Effects of Secular Aberration
(arXiv, 2005)
One of the main endeavors of fundamental astrometry is to establish a practical realization of an inertial reference frame anchored to celestial objects whose positions are defined in the barycentric coordinates of the ...
From Polytheism to Christianity in the temples of Cyprus
(2002)
Over his career Eugene Lane has contributed much to our understanding of the religions of the late classical world, and in particular to clarifying the evolution of Christianity within the context of the Roman empire. The ...
Supercell studies of the Fermi surface changes in the electron-doped superconductor LaFeAsO1‑xFx
(American Physical Society, 2008)
-Z shrink in size, and the third hole pocket around Z disappears for an electron-doping concentration in excess of about 7%-8%, while the two elliptical electron cylinders along M-A expand in size. The spin-orbit coupling does not affect the Fermi surface...