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Understanding and managing disruptive and transformational technologies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Major technological changes unleash large-scale social, cultural, economic and political consequences. Digitized computing is the most recent example of disruptive technology; the wheel could be regarded as one of the ...
Resistance management and sustainable use of agricultural biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 2010)
While crop biotechnologies deployed worldwide with herbicide-resistant (HR) or insect-resistant (IR) traits have provided significant economic and environmental benefits, these benefits are threatened by the evolution of ...
Exposure Assessment for Endocrine Disruptors: Some Considerations in the Design of Studies
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2003)
In studies designed to evaluate exposure-response relationships in children's development from conception through puberty, multiple factors that affect the generation of meaningful exposure metrics must be considered. These ...
Recent Changes In The Characteristics Of Unemployed Workers
(Department of Economics, 2009)
We examine how gender, racial, and ethnic variation in unemployment and Unemployment Insurance (UI) receipt changed over time in the U.S. economy and how these changes are influenced by shifts in the occupational and ...
Progestin regulation of follicular dynamics in beef cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Progestins, such as melengestrol acetate (MGA) and Controlled Internal Drug Release (CIDR), can inhibit ovulation and synchronize estrus in cattle. However, long-term MGA treatment, in the absence of a corpus luteum, results ...
Environmental Health and Safety Notes, 2010 Fall
(University of Missouri--Columbia, Environmental Health and Safety, 2010)
Newsletter of the department of Environmental Health and Safety on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. Article subjects include Laboratory Emergency Preparedness, Lessons from Schweitzer Explosion, Compressed Gases, ...
The directed gaze : enargeia and film in the Annales of Tacitus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My aim in this study is to examine the visual aspects of Tacitus' Annales in order to elucidate his creation of vivid narrative through control of the ...
Meta-analysis of single-subject research using hierarchical linear modeling : empirical examination of the procedure and functional behavior assessment-based interventions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The role of evidence-based practices in both research and practice continue to provoke issues of disagreement and definition across multiple fields. ...
The impact of trained peers on the generalization of social competence of adolescents with autism spectrum disorders participating in a school-based social competence program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Although the social competence literature shows that individuals with HFA/AS can acquire social skills, these skills often do not consistently generalize ...
Institutions and issues : explaining radical right party existence and support in Europe, 1980-2005
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research aims to fill a major theoretical gap in the current radical right literature by examining on how institutions impact the existence of, ...
An examination of a district-wide implementation of professional learning communities through the lenses of leadership capacity and student learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this study was to focus on how a school district built leadership capacity through the implementation of Professional Learning Communities ...
Bayesian smoothing spline analysis of variance models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Based on the pioneering work by Wahba (1990) in smoothing splines for nonparametric regression, Gu (2002) decomposed the regression function based on a tensor sum decomposition of inner product spaces into orthogonal ...
Cost and Consequences of Sedentary Living: New Battleground for an Old Enemy
(2002)
The purpose of this review is to update our earlier review by itemizing, as best we can, the costs and consequences of sedentary living, and thus provide cost reasons to fight a war against sedentary lifestyles.
In vitro and in vivo approaches to tumor targeting by phage display
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Approximately 30% of breast cancers are linked with the over-expression of ErbB2. Because of its critical role in signal transduction, the progression ...
Integration of exercise sciences research: Achieving a balance between reductionist versus integrative approaches
(2000)
This presentation argues that exercise sciences will badly miss achieving a balance between reductionistic versus integrative approaches under the current NIH plan to reorganize NIH study sections. NIH wants to score ...
Computational model of extracellular glutamate in the nucleus accumbens predicts neuroadaptations by chronic cocaine
(Elsevier, 2009-02)
Chronic cocaine administration causes instability in extracellular glutamate in the nucleus accumbens that is thought to contribute to the vulnerability to relapse. A computational framework was developed to model glutamate ...
Price controls and biotechnology innovation : are state government policies reducing research and innovation by the ag biotech industry in India?
(AgBioForum, 2010)
In 2006, the governments of major cotton-producing states in India ordered all seed companies to lower their prices of Bt cotton seed to Rs. 750 per packet of seed, down from Rs. 1,600 per packet. Although biotech firms ...
Indirect land use change : a second-best solution to a first-class problem
(AgBioForum, 2010)
Concern about the possible effects of biofuels on deforestation have led to assigning biofuel producers with the responsibility for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the indirect land-use changes (ILUC) associated with ...
Public vs. private agbiotech research in the United States and European Union, 2002-2009
(AgBioForum, 2010)
We provide an in-depth analysis of biotechnology patents filed in the European Patent Office (EPO) and US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), building a comprehensive dataset of more than 7,000 patents for the period 2002 ...
Policy gridlock or future change? : the political economy dynamics of EU biotechnology regulation
(AgBioForum, 2010)
There are major differences in biotechnology regulation among various countries and in particular between the European Union and the United States. We summarize a formal and dynamic model of government decision-making on ...