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Which patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) should have esophagogastroduoudenoscopy (EGD)?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2001)
No evidence was identified that provides a basis for determining whether EGD leads to improved outcomes in patients with GERD. However, patients with GERD referred for elective EGD who were found to have Barrett's esophagus ...
What is a reasonable initial approach to the patient with fatigue?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2001)
Half of all patients presenting with fatigue have a psychological cause. Patients with a history of anxiety or depression or those with a duration of symptoms for more than 3 months are more likely to remain symptomatic 6 ...
What are the most effective treatments for bacterial vaginosis in nonpregnant women?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2001)
Either oral or vaginal metronidazole or vaginal clindamycin provides equivalent treatment for bacterial vaginosis in nonpregnant women. Oral clindamycin 300 mg twice daily for 7 days is an effective alternative. There is ...
What is the value of screening for heart disease with an exercise stress test (EST) in an asymptomatic person?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2001)
There is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against an EST for screening asymptomatic individuals of any age. (Grade of Recommendation: C, based on case series.)
Insiders' Views on Business Models Used by Small Agricultural Biotechnology Firms : Economic Implications for the Emerging Global Industry
(AgBioForum, 2008)
The source of most innovations coming from the emerging agricultural biotechnology industry is small and medium enterprises (SMEs), yet SMEs have a high failure rate, which raises questions, such as "is there some flaw in ...
Pricing and Welfare Impacts of New Crop Traits : The Role of IPRs and Coase's Conjecture Revisited
(AgBioForum, 2008)
Crop traits are durable when embedded in varieties, and thus they may be subject to Coase's conjecture that monopolists who sell durables may be unable to earn normal monopoly rents, or in the extreme case, not any rents ...
Discovering the District: A Look at the history of Downtown Columbia
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Our project began in late January 2009. We took a walk through the streets of downtown Columbia admiring each building and wondering what stories they had to tell. After much consideration, we chose the Tiger Hotel, the ...
Rap, dogs, and human nature
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
A performative, visual narrative layered on top of a traditional narrative about the author's memory of his experience with rap.
Hip Hop 1000
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Writing happens in a number of different forms. Student Kendall Dumas composed this original hip hop piece in order to reflect on his experiences in English 1000. This composition is a multimodal performance that builds ...
Critics of America's engineers form bashing squad Following Katrina
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This article examines public opinion and criticism of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that occurred after the levees collapsed in Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina.
The Environment, maize and the human genome
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Corn, as it is today, is a result of a long history of humans changing the land, its flora and fauna. Corn produced today is the product of thousands of years of humans selectively breeding corn's ancestors for beneficial ...
Editor's Introduction to Issue 3 of Artifacts
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
All Mizzou students have one important thing in common: they are writers. Thanks to the writing intensive courses across the University, students have the opportunity to experience different writing situations in every ...
Editors' Introduction to Issue 2 of Artifacts
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The second issue of Artifacts features articles on a range of topics, from an historical narrative of Mizzou's medical school to a critical analysis of engineering failure during Hurricane Katrina. These texts reflect ...
Focus Groups on Infant Care Practices in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
The goal of this research project was to better understand how individuals, primarily low-income African-American parents in Missouri, make decisions on infant care
practices, specifically those focused around feeding and ...
Profiles of Missouri: Obesity Rate in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
According to a recent report from the Trust for America's Health (TFAH), obesity rates in all but one of our fifty U.S. states rose last year at an alarming rate (the exception is Oregon, where the rate remained the same ...
Are any oral iron formulations better tolerated than ferrous sulfate?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2002)
Ferrous salt preparations (ferrous sulfate, ferrous gluconate, and ferrous fumarate) are equally tolerable. (Grade of recommendation: A, based on randomized controlled trial.) Controlled-release iron preparations cause ...
Do antioxidants (vitamins C, E) improve outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2002)
Antioxidant supplements of vitamins E and C do not reduce cardiovascular death in people with coronary artery disease. Vitamin E supplementation, in a variety of doses, does not decrease the incidence of cardiovascular or ...
Does postcoital voiding prevent urinary tract infections in young women?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2002)
Healthy women who urinate within 15 minutes of sexual intercourse may be slightly less likely to develop a urinary tract infection (UTI) than women who do not urinate afterward (grade of recommendation: D, extrapolation ...
Dynamics of Eddy-Driven Low-Frequency Dipole Modes. Part II: Free Mode Characteristics of NAO and Diagnostic Study
(American Meteorological Society, 2007-01)
Through calculating the scatter diagrams of the streamfunction ( P or T) versus potential vorticity (PV)(qP or qT), where P and T are the planetary-scale streamfunction and total streamfunction, respectively, and using ...
ACMES: fast multiple-genome searches for short repeat sequences with concurrent cross-species information retrieval
(Nucleic Acids Research, 2004)
We have developed a web server for the life sciences community to use to search for short repeats of DNA sequence of length between 3 and 10 000 bases within multiple species. This search employs a unique
and fast hash ...