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Zeneca Agrochemicals
(AgBioForum, 2001)
Zeneca's agrochemical strategies had two major strands: developing the profit potential from existing patented and off-patent chemicals where this was feasible; and major investment in discovery of new, patented products. ...
Bayer AG--Chemicals and Life Sciences
(AgBioForum, 2001)
Bayer AG is a global pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and life sciences group. Its structure reflects important synergies based on core competencies within the field of chemistry. A number of research collaborations and joint ...
BASF : AgBio Fast Follower
(AgBioForum, 2001)
BASF has been a latecomer to agrobiotechnology. Until mid-1998, BASF continued its longstanding focus on chemicals production with massive economies of scale, in particular, but also of scope. In 2000, it announced the ...
Bat avoidance behavior in Neoconocephalus retusus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Nocturnally flying insects avoid predation by insectivorous bats by monitoring for echolocation calls and, when detected, using evasive behaviors. We examined the responses of Neoconocephalus retusus to models of bat calls ...
Need to Know, Number 02, October 2007
(Sinclair School of Nursing, 2007-10)
Need to Know, Number 03, November 2007
(Sinclair School of Nursing, 2007-11)
Need to Know, Number 01, September 2007
(Sinclair School of Nursing, 2007-09)
Small Hydropower Potential in Missouri
(2009-04)
The overall objective of this research is to advance our understanding of how, and to what
degree, small hydropower development can aid in the fight against global warming. The leading
cause of climate change today is ...
A Wealth of Absence: Visualising the Body in Winckelmann, Lessing and Blake [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (published 1755), Johann Joachim Winckelmann sets a precedent, through a series of metaphysical exclusions and affirmations centred on the nature of ...
The Performing Body: Physical Self-Concept in Athletes [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This paper presentation will present a review of literature on the unique way the body is negotiated in athletics and pivotal role it plays in identity development and global selfesteem. Current findings will be extended ...
Jane Austen's Dirty Jokes [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
While folklorists, including Katherine Briggs, have asserted that Jane Austen's novels contain no folklore, Jill Heydt-Stevens and other Austen scholars have argued that Austen knowingly inserts obscene humor, puns, and ...
Music and the body: modern pedagogical techniques for teaching Afro-Cuban rhythms [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Music is a ubiquitous part of our lives, inescapable and unforgettable. Its power moves our body, invokes peaks and valleys of emotion, and can cause vivid recollection of events long past. And why is it that an anatomist ...
Annexing the planets : the colonization of the alien body in science fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Science fiction has its historical beginnings in the late colonial era, and the discourse of colonialism shares with the discourse of science fiction a terminology of discovery, exploration, conquest, mapping and the ...
We are not our faces [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
One of the themes prevalent in my work is that the notion of "self" as separate from "other" is a mental construct. According to our senses we are separate and on those levels, we are. However, if we examine ourselves on ...
Écriture Féminine : thinking the female body through writing [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Traditional feminist readings of Helene Cixous's theory of ecriture feminine have centered on the essentialist debate, overlooking the important contribution to gender studies her theoretical work constitutes. In this paper ...
Why Does The Birds Attack?: Teaching the Body in Hitchcock [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
The body is a central feature in Hitchcock both in the way he shoots and cuts it and shoots and cuts it. True, his bodies are shot and stabbed; they fall off Mt. Rushmore, get chopped up and carried away in suitcases on ...
The Identity and Objectification of Personal Trainers [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
The purpose of this study is to examine how personal trainers perceive their body. My research questions are the following: How does the structure or the focus of the organization affect the trainer's perception of their ...
Going underground: Benefits of phototropism in Arabidopsis depend on the soil environment [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Phototropins are blue-light photoreceptors that control shoot and root phototropism in
Arabidopsis thaliana. We investigated whether the soil environment influences the benefit of
phototropism. We hypothesized that root ...
The role of language in the expression of shyness [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research., 2004)
Abstract of a presentation presented at the Undergraduate Research Conference 2004. Presentation reported on a study designed to analyze the relationship between verbal and non-verbal communication and shyness in twenty-four ...
Neurohormonal responses to human-animal and human-robotic dog interaction [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
Medicine BACKGROUND: Research shows that interacting with companion animals reduces humans' blood pressure, stress, and improves mood, believed to be rooted in neurohormonal changes. The extent to which responses occur ...