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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 ...
Natural rights and two conceptions of promising
(Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2006)
Does one have an obligation to keep one's promises? I answer this question by distinguishing between two broad conceptions of promising. On the normativized conception of promising, a promise is made when an agent validly ...
Hurley on Justice and Responsibility
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
In Justice, Luck, and Knowledge, Susan Hurley defends a reason-responsive account of responsibility, argues that appeals to responsibility cannot provide a justification or non-trivial specification of brute luck egalitarian ...
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.
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 ...
Library Connections, 2007 Spring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, MU Libraries, 2007)
Inhibition of progestin-induced VEGF in mammary cancer by curcumin and 2-methoxy estradiol and their potential role as anti-angiogenic & chemopreventive compounds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Estrogen/Progestin combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is commonly prescribed to alleviate the symptoms of menopause in women. Combination HRT however is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, an effect ...
The Rights and Duties of Childrearing
(William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 2003)
What rights and duties do adults have with respect to raising children? Who, for example, has the right to decide how and where a particular child will live, be educated, receive health care, and spend recreational time? ...
Desert and Entitlement: An Introduction
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the sixth volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume addresses two issues: (1) desert-based ...
Introduction to Equality and Justice: The Demands of Equality
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the second volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume addresses the question of whether justice ...
Manure/CAFO regualtions update
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This presentation discusses the EPA requirement that new facilities must make phosphorus assessment, and discusses how phosphorus will be managed, suggesting that management strategies for phosphorus can be developed with ...
Watershed planning: a community development process
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
Community Development/Watershed Management is a process to counsel, educate, and cooperate with communities as they develop assets to seek solutions and solve problems, directly or indirectly affecting quality of life. ...
Web-Based Tools for Environmental Planning
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This presentation describes the goals of CARES (Center for Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Systems ) to promote understanding of resource issues using information technologies, including Geographic Information ...
From the textbook to the enacted curriculum: Textbook use in the middle school mathematics classroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2003)
The dissertation study reported here describes how teachers use district-adopted mathematics curriculum materials and other curricular resources. Analysis of survey data, textbook diaries, and classroom observations was ...
Sedentary death syndrome is what researchers now call America's second largest threat to public health
(2001)
Obesity has doubled, Type 2 diabetes has increased nine-fold, and heart disease remains the number one cause of death for Americans. Sedentary Death Syndrome, or "SeDS," is a growing list of health disorders that are ...
Dynamic Geometry: GeoGebra
(2008-02)
This presentation discusses the benefits of using GeoGebra, a freely available “dynamic mathematics software” for learning and teaching in schools. It enables teachers to create accurate diagrams and illustrations, create ...