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Evaluation and Monitoring: Developing Indicators and Measuring Impact
(University of Missouri Extension, 2006)
This OSEDA presentation discusses how to understand the development and use of indicators for program evaluation. Topics include performance measurement frameworks, data collection methods and various types of evaluation.
Ozarks Technical College - Career Round Up
(University of Missouri Extension, 2006)
This OSEDA presentation examines how investment in education is rewarded in the workforce.
Interim Committee of Missouri Legislature on Job Creation
(University of Missouri Extension, 2003)
This OSEDA presentation discusses Missouri economics, including analysis of commuting as well as bank deposits and taxable sales per capita dollar by county.
Showing You the Data
(University of Missouri Extension, 2004)
This OSEDA presentation discusses online data sources, including the Census Bureau, Census 2000 Gateway, Census 2K, American FactFinder, ODESA, Dexter-Data Extractor and Uexplore.
Successful Applications: Development Issues
(University of Missouri Extension, 2004)
This OSEDA presentation discusses key factors for public application development. Links to examples are included.
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 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 ...
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 ...
Mere Shadows of Human Forms: Intersections of Body Theory and Literary Adaptation in Jane Eyre [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
I have recently developed an interest in cinematic body theory and the ways women are presented in mass media. Although current scholars recognize the limitations of psychoanalytic ideologies of spectatorship, their works ...
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 ...
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 ...
Identification of zebrafish genes affecting motor neuron development [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
The zebrafish genome has been completely mapped and sequenced, but the roles of most genes in the development and physiology of the organism remain unknown. Therefore, efforts are underway to systematically inactivate gene ...
Identification of the mammalian homolog of Apg14 by a yeast two-hybrid screen [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
Intimate Opposition: Moderating effects of culture and closeness on the romeo and juliet effect [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
Generating a neutralizing antibody against IL13R1? [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
Each year approximately 1.44 million deaths result from neonatal infection. Initial insights into the differences between the adult and neonatal immune systems were revealed by Sir Peter Medawar during his studies of organ ...
Images of African Americans among winning newspaper entries in the Pictures of the Year archive [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
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 ...
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 ...