Previous studies have shown that exposure to sexually explicit media can influence males' attitudes toward sex and their sexual partners, their behaviors, and their emotions. Researchers found increased aggression towards ...

A number of scholars classify Aphra Behn's Oroonoko as one of the first anti-slavery or abolitionist narratives. However, my research discusses the seemingly problematic nature of Behn's text because of her decision to ...

Over the last 10 years South Korea has had experienced a steady increase in population averaging an increase of approximately 1% a year. They have also been able to acheive economic growth with a GDP that is almost two and ...

One aspect of word learning from reading is knowledge of the orthographic representation of a word. Children with language-learning disabilities (LLD) might be expected to have greater difficulties than peers acquiring ...

Shippers at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) are currently being exposed to radiation while manually testing the radiation level of outgoing shipping boxes. The boxes contain radioactive isotopes used in ...

Polyunsaturated fatty acids have been touted to affect mammalian health and fecundity. Since stressed rodents tend to produce a surfeit of female pups, we studied the effects of these diets on female offspring behavior. ...

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 ...

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 ...

This study analyzes the effects of 8 weeks in the PACE program, a low-intensity exercise program for people with arthritis in the areas of pain, stiffness, function, and physical performance. PACE, which stands for People ...

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 ...

The MU Geotechnical Experiment Site team is conducting laboratory testing on soil samples from a field site consisting of 9 bore holes ranging from a final depth of 20 to 50 foot below the surface. The purpose of this ...

The heating of household water, which consists of nearly 20 to 30% of the average household's energy costs, has drastically increased in recent years. Solar water heaters have become popular to lower this cost, and one ...

The objective of this study was to understand whether Botswana's leading world growth in GDP can be partially explained by its accounting reporting and its capital market. We studied economic measures such as gross domestic ...

The gram-negative coccobacillus H. influenzae is part of the respiratory mucosal flora of most healthy humans. Before the era of Hib vaccination, encapsulated H. influenzae of serotype b were the leading cause of childhood ...

Nature recycles proline by converting it to glutamate. This 4-electron oxidation process is catalyzed by two catabolic enzymes, proline dehydrogenase (PRODH) and Δ1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase (P5CDH). Inborn ...

Pioneering techniques for therapeutic treatment of cancers involve targeting cancer sites with strong beta-emitting radionuclides, thereby destroying the cancer cells. This is achieved by coordinating the radioisotope to ...

During embryonic heart development the atrio-ventricular (AV) cushions swell and fuse to form the valves and septa of the adult heart. Initially, the cushions appear as swellings on the interior wall of the AV canal and ...

An empirical relationship between molecular free volume and viscosity has been established (Doolittle AK, J Appl. Phys. 1952; 23: 236-9). Non-Newtonian fluids hold much importance to scientific study because of their ...

African American men throughout history have tried to establish and define their identities, collectively and individually, beyond those formed, forced, and fashioned by western civilization. Consequently, they have inflicted ...

This study involves the use of remote sensing equipment to observe plant communities. A remote sensor is any instrument that gathers information about an object or area from a distance. Advanced cameras, the most common ...