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A novel filler for increased strength of polymer based composites for dental restorations [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2007)
Current dental composites consist of a polymer resin and micro-sized glass particles which are used as a filler material. These particles help reinforce the composite during the compressive loads created by the chewing ...
Social Trends Influencing Families in Missouri: Whither the Middle Class?
(University of Missouri Extension, 2008)
This OSEDA presentation discusses economic and social trends for the Missouri middle class, including sustainable wages, wage and salary employment growth by sector and income range.
Leadership Camden County
(University of Missouri Extension, 2008)
This OSEDA presentation discusses Missouri economic factors, including analysis of the PUMA lake area and economic share and self-sufficiency wage standards by county.
Indicators of Well-Being Among Seniors
(University of Missouri Extension, 2008)
This OSEDA presentation discusses the Missouri Senior Report for 2008, including such factors as supplemental security income and Missouri seniors with driver's licenses.
Social and Economic Trends in Missouri: Missouri's Communities and Change
(University of Missouri Extension, 2008)
This OSEDA presentation discusses Missouri social and economic trends, including county migration, Latino population, enrollment change in public schools and Missouri's retail "pull factor."
Demographic Trends Affecting Health Care in Missouri
(University of Missouri Extension, 2003)
This OSEDA presentation analyzes the number of registered nurses, physician assistants, physicians, dentists and physical therapists per 10,000 population and by county.
Collecting and Managing Data
(University of Missouri Extension, 2005)
This OSEDA presentation focuses on performance measurements, including collecting and managing data.
MoDOT Senior Management Team Presentation
(University of Missouri Extension, 2004)
This OSEDA presentation discusses Missouri demographics, including population change, average wage change and farm market value.
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.
Presentation to Hannibal CHART Partnership
(University of Missouri Extension, 2004)
This OSEDA discusses Missouri economic factors, including location of WalMart stores, composite county ranking and local government.
Overview of the U.S. North Central Region
(University of Missouri Extension, 2002)
This OSEDA presentation discusses population of the United States North Central Region which includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. ...
Chamber of Commerce 2008 Annual Planning Retreat
(University of Missouri Extension, 2008)
This OSEDA presentation discusses Boone County's economic and demographic trends, including top economic sectors, largest employers and employment change by economic sector.
Recent Demographic, Economic and Poverty Trends
(University of Missouri Extension, 2008)
This OSEDA presentation discusses Missouri's demographic, economic and poverty trends, including comparative performance of Missouri's economic areas, real change in real weekly earnings and poverty rates by age since 1959.
Functional analysis of MAP kinases in Arabidopsis thaliana: Fully rescuing the mpk3/mpk6 mutant phenotype [abstract]
(University of Missouri - Columbia Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are major pathways involved in the transduction of extracellular signals into intracellular responses. A MAPK cascade consists of three kinases. MAPKK kinase (MAPKKK or MEKK) ...
Efficiency and accuracy validation for incremental changes of a large-scale protein structure database [abstract]
(University of Missouri - Columbia Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
Proteins, the essential building blocks of organisms, have many important roles, from providing structure to aiding movement and digestion. The construction of proteins involves one or more polypeptide chains that fold ...
Blood glucose response to fructose levels of common Missouri grasses in ponies [abstract]
(University of Missouri - Columbia Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
Laminitis in horses is a serious disease which causes pathological changes in hoof anatomy, leading to long lasting, crippling effects. Grass founder resulting from grazing lush spring grass or stressed forage is the most ...
The advancement of women in decision-making roles in Nigeria, Tunisia and South Africa [abstract]
(University of Missouri - Columbia Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
As democratic systems replaced previous military or single party governments, the social and political environment in Africa presented the opportunity for more gender equal participation in the political realm and women's ...
Effect of delayed auditory feedback levels on vowel duration [abstract]
(University of Missouri - Columbia Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
Dysarthria is one possible speech disorder resulting from brain injury. Several distinct perceptual and acoustic characteristics result from impaired motor control and abnormal speaking rates. Therefore, many brain-injured ...
Why do toddlers learn words for objects before words for actions? [abstract]
(University of Missouri - Columbia Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
A huge proportion of children's early vocabularies consists of nouns. Researchers call this the “noun bias” but they do not agree on why children learn a preponderance of nouns early in development. Children may be ...
Role of the white gene in heat-box spatial learning paradigm in Drosophila [abstract]
(University of Missouri - Columbia Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
The white gene in Drosophila melanogaster codes for a half-size ABC transporter. We have identified a role of this transporter in heat box spatial learning. In the heat box paradigm, flies are allowed to move freely in a ...