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Using wind energy to power an environmental clean-up system [abstract]
(2009)
Significant effort has been and is being spent cleaning up soil and groundwater contamination inthe U.S. with the purpose of reducing negative impacts to human health and the environment.
However, relatively little thought ...
Extension's Energy Efficiency Programs for Residential and Developers [abstract]
(University of Missouri Extension, 2009)
As the outreach arm of the University of Missouri, Extension has worked to improve the critical thinking and decision making skills of Missouri citizens around environmental and energy education within the context of their ...
Biohydrogen production by Cyanobacteria [abstract]
(2009)
Hydrogen has the potential to provide a clean, storable, transportable and renewable source of
energy that can supplement and eventually replace fossil fuels as the primary source of power in
the U.S. However, most current ...
Modeling Environmental Impacts of Bio-fuel Production [abstract]
(University of Missouri Extension, 2009)
The short term vision for bio-fuel independence has focused on corn and soybean crops being used for ethanol and bio-diesel production. With increased crop demand we see an increase in crop production and the potential ...
Defining the SMART Grid for Electric Utilities [abstract]
(2009-04)
World-wide demand for fossil energy resources, fuel transportation costs, climate change, renewable portfolio standards, and aging infrastructure: everyone agrees that retail electric rates and bills are going up. In fact, ...
University of Missouri Led Energy Efficient Projects in Global Market: Application of Sustainable Ground Energy in Olympic Facilities [abstract]
(2009-04)
University of Missouri, Columbia (MU) faculty members are involved in energy efficient projects in China with grant support by both the U.S. and Chinese governments. A large commercial building was selected by the Beijing ...
Security Integration for Electric System Assets [abstract]
(2009)
Challenges within the utilities servicing customers with electric power are faced with an evolving landscape of security requirements. Regardless of the issuing body, security regulations and/or standards offer a unique ...
Energy Education Park at the Graves Chapple Research Farm [abstract]
(University of Missouri Extension, 2009)
An office and educational building will be built on the Graves Chapple Research Farm in Atchison County. The building will start out as a shell with energy features being added as money can be obtained for them. The ...
From Landscape to Body : The White Body in Contemporary American Fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
"Whiteness," as both a field of study and an even an identity, has very often been viewed through its connections to postmodernity, most particularly with the assumption that whiteness equals a body situated within a ...
The health care experiences of adult survivors of child sexual abuse : a systematic review of evidence on sensitive practice [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
I propose to present a poster representing findings from my article, just published in the January 2008 issue of the Journal of Trauma, Violence, and Abuse entitled, "The health care experiences of adult survivors of child ...
Evaluation of a novel bone-tendon allograft technique for rotator cuff repair [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Background: The rotator cuff consists of a group of four muscles that collectively are vital for shoulder joint stability. A rotator cuff tear is a condition common in humans, occurring as a result of impingement of the ...
The Discipline of Silence : Childrens' Bodies as Public Space [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
I am a mother to two children, one eleven-year old boy in sixth grade and one nine-year old girl in the fourth grade. Their adventures through public school have been inspirational in this research, and have taken me to ...
The Death of Maternity : Decaying Female Bodies in Mary Shelley's Fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In this paper, I examine the trope of the dying woman in Mary Shelley's early works, including Frankenstein, Mathilda, and her short fiction. Critics are in general agreement that two of Frankenstein's essential subjects ...
Intervention/interruption [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
How does the body exist in time and in place? How is it that we recognize ourselves through memory or experience? And in defining ourselves as a presence in that space, how do we know where we are? ... For the project/pr ...
Identifying and transforming normalcy : challenges to compulsory able-bodied oppression in the deaf community [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This paper integrates excerpts taken from a fieldwork-based, thesis-length project that examines the personal experience narratives of Deaf and Hearing mothers of Deaf children. Driven by the goal of joining folkloric ...
Large nudes [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
I started my large nude series to challenge conventional media-driven standards of beauty and show that the large body is also beautiful. The work falls into two distinct areas: in one set, my self-portraits are abstract ...
The body and photography : examinations on the being [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
As a visual artist my choice of mediums in my research are the body through photography. My photographs show an elusive, immaterial reality that attempt to reach an understanding of the metaphysical world. ... My images ...
The Suburban Body in American Modern Poetry [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Critics seem only recently to have taken note of the prevalence of the suburbs as content in American poetry. Robert Van Hallberg ends his American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980 with a brief discussion of the poetry that ...
Look into My Eyes: Subalternity and Physicallity in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" She maintains that no the subaltern cannot speak. This is because the subaltern's identity has been constructed and shaped by western ideologies, and there is no space outside ...
Smashed Brains in German Literature [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Depictions of dissevered heads and smashed brains are abundant in German Literature: starting from descriptions of violence in the medieval literature, to the splattered brains of Dr. Faustus in early modern times to the ...