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King Arthur and his part in the breaking of the Round Table
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
This is an examination of King Arthur's responsibility for the fall of Camelot and the destruction of the Round Table due to his selfish, oblivious nature and his misunderstanding of how to separate his personal and ...
How effective are opioids for chronic low back pain?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
Q: How effective are opioids for chronic low back pain? Evidence-based answer: Short-term (<4 months) treatment with opioids provides modest relief of chronic low back pain, but only minimal improvement in function compared ...
Which interventions can increase breastfeeding duration?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
Q: Which interventions can increase breastfeeding duration? Evidence-based answer: Breastfeeding support, beyond standard care, from lay people or professionals increases both short- and long-term breastfeeding duration ...
Language and living in alien cultures
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
Culture encompasses people's beliefs, traditions, behaviors, values, styles of life and thinking, and the like. People behave culturally through language that passes along from one generation into another. So, it is not ...
HACKED! Lessons learned from an URL injection
(Information Today, 2015-06)
The article discusses lessons learned by the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law after experiencing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) injection type of hacking and ways to avoid it. Topics include poisoning ...
Does high dietary soy intake affect a woman's risk of primary or recurrent breast cancer?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
Q. Does high dietary soy intake affect a woman's risk of primary or recurrent breast cancer? Evidence-based answer: No, it doesn't affect the risk of primary breast cancer, but it does (favorably) affect the risk of cancer ...
The potential economic impacts of herbicide-tolerant maize in developing countries : a case study
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
In this study, we evaluate the potential economic impact of herbicide-tolerant (HT) maize in Kenya. HT maize is essentially a new weed-control approach. The potential agronomic changes from the use of HT maize are ...
To See the Negro Saved: The Religious Pragmatism of Booker T. Washington
(UMKC Honors Program, 2015)
It might seem strange to group the words of Thomas Jefferson and Booker T. Washington
together in the same context. Nearly a century separated the two men and they came from
vastly different social and racial backgrounds. ...
The Language of Liberty: Milton’s Nationalistic Linguistics
(UMKC Honors Program, 2015)
English as Lingua Franca, or ELF, seems a straightforward concept: in today’s
globalized society, speakers of all varieties of languages elect to use English as a means
of communication, regardless of their native tongues. ...
On Midpoints in the Middle Ages
(UMKC Honors Program, 2015)
While the centuries surrounding the turn of the first millennium in Europe are typically
associated with ignorance, superstition, and the dismissal of scientific thought in the name of
religion, many brilliant, ...
Willingness to pay for organic food products and organic purity : experimental evidence
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
The market for organic products has grown rapidly over the past decade, and such products are now available not only in specialty stores but also in large grocery stores, supermarkets, and big-box super stores. The objective ...
Education, Learning, and Knowledge: It’s in the Student’s Hands
(UMKC Honors Program, 2015)
On the inside of a public charter school in the Midwest, the students’ colorful artwork
is proudly displayed throughout the building. The artwork is a visual representation to
show what they learned. You can see drawings ...
Double MRT thermal lattice Boltzmann method for simulating natural convection of low Prandtl number fluids
(2015)
Purpose: The purposes of this paper are testing an efficiency algorithm based on LBM and using it to analyze two-dimensional natural convection with low Prandtl number.
Design/methodology/approach: Steady state or oscillatory ...
Mechanized agriculture : machine adoption, farm size, and labor displacement
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Mechanization in such countries as the United States and Canada has dramatically reshaped the agricultural landscape since the time of early settlement. The introduction of new technologies -- such as the mechanical tomato ...
Does the packaging make the product? Identifying consumers' preference for "natural" in packaging
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Today's consumer is interested in safe food products and foods with "natural" ingredients. The main objective of this study was to determine consumers' purchasing decisions for ground beef labeled with different packaging ...
Issues in Biotechnology Regulation and Its Effects on Industrial Structure
(University of Missouri, 2015)
This article analyzes research and development in genetically modified crops, the changing attitudes of regulatory agencies, and the impacts of these factors on the agri-biotech industry. It provides details on the deregulated ...
Special Issue on Agri-biotech Studies from Policy and Regulatory Perspectives : Preface
(University of Missouri, 2015-04)
Genetically modified (GM) crops, often referred to as biotech crops, have made phenomenal progress in both industrial and developing countries during the last 18 years (1996 to 2013). The first biotech crops with two ...
Storing and sharing wisdom and traditional knowledge in the library
(2015)
Traditional library practice focuses on print collections and developing collections of materials that have been published, which means the documents have gone through some kind of review or vetting process. This practice ...
Cuba libros
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2015)
Part literature, part artistic creation and part assemblage, Ediciones Vigía books offer a unique medium for the written word. Juanamaria Cordones-Cook, professor of Spanish and collector of the Cuban books, wants to spread ...