A. Problem: Are there any fundamental differences between rural and urban children in mental and physical growth and development? If there are differences, are they due to the inborn nature of the children, or to environment? ...

This issue of Archives is Summer 2014.

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Uzbekistan does not get a lot of coverage in US newspapers, but the coverage it gets is telling. A review of 53 articles in Harper's Magazine, ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project deals with the issues of suicide and the stigma that comes with. Four individuals, all of whom have attempted suicide and survived, ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The up-regulation of receptor for advanced glycation (RAGE) product has been implicated in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Elevated ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Targeted therapy of cancer, by binding the radionuclide with a carrier agent, provides more accurate delivery to focal tumor cell with low uptake in ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is about the lives of women and girls during a period of economic and demographic change in rural Bangladesh. This bulk of this change, ...

According to the 2006 Supplemental Victimization Survey, over half of the estimated 1.7 million technological stalking victims in the United States have had a previous intimate relationship with the aggressor (Baum et al., ...

Insulin has important vascular and metabolic actions. The vascular effects of insulin typically account for as much as 40-50% of insulin-stimulated glucose disposal. However, the vascular reactivity to insulin is impaired ...

This dissertation focuses on two specific research topics: First, I study the lithospheric structure beneath E. Tibetan Plateau, using new data from INDEPTH-IV (INternational Deep Profiling of Tibet and the Himalayas) ...

This week, Cary Stough talks to Wendy Xu, Co-editor of iO: a journal of new American poetry. Listen in as these poets talk about how and why iO looks for young emerging poets to publish in its online journal. Xu also talks ...

Two 35-d experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of reducing crude protein by 2.5% and diet complexity with amino acid supplementation on performance and feed cost during the nursery phase. In Exp. 1 and 2, ...