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Anion and solvent influences on the self-assembly of copper(I) coordination solids
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
and the reaction conditions involved will be discussed. This presentation will be divided into four major sections. The first section covers an in-depth look at those structural variances found among the copper(I) coordination solids synthesized using 4,4...
Adaptive array signal processing using the concentric ring array and the spherical array
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This thesis introduces new methods for partial adaptive beamforming using concentric ring and spherical arrays for acoustic signals on a partially known interference environment. We propose novel methods to choose intra-ring ...
Radionuclide production and separation techniques for radiopharmaceutical development and nuclear waste processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] With increasing cancer incident rates and advancements in nuclear medicine, the demand for optimizing pathways to produce radionuclides or investigating ...
Oxidative DNA damage by 1-hydroxyphenazine, virulence factor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa : towards a molecular understanding of the bacterial virulence factor 1-hydroxyphenazine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
1-Hydroxyphenazine is a secondary metabolite and virulence factor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This organism colonizes the airways of the patients of cystic fibrosis and causes progressive destruction of the airways. It is ...
The Spoon Toe Site (11MG179): Middle Woodland gardening in the lower Illinois River Valley
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This thesis is an examination of archaeobotanical remains from the Spoon Toe site, a Middle Woodland Massey phase site located in the uplands above the Lower Illinois River valley in Morgan County in western Illinois. The ...
Quasi-metric geometry : smoothness and convergence results
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This thesis has two distinct yet related parts, the first pertaining to geometry on quasi-metric spaces with emphasis on the Hausdorff outer-measure, the natural extension of the Gromov-Pompeiu-Hausdorff distance to ...
Effect of a single AGE modification on the structure and chaperone activity of human alphaB-Crystallin
(American Chemical Society, 2007)
During aging, human lens proteins undergo several post-translational modifications, one of which is glycation. This process leads to the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) which accumulate with time possibly ...
Evaluating alginate and organic acids for restructured carp intended for zoo animal and human diets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
were analyzed for texture, pH and water holding capacity by using standard methods. Statistical results showed that the texture of all the treatments are significantly different (P [less than] 0.05) from the control. Treatment T3 had significantly low pH...
Gravitomagnetic Accelerators
(arXiv, 2010)
We study a simple class of time-dependent rotating Ricci-flat cylindrically symmetric spacetime manifolds whose geodesics admit gravitomagnetic jets. The helical paths of free test particles in these jets up and down ...
A fast, 3 MV Marx generator for megavolt oil switch testing and integrated Abramyan network design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The University of Missouri-Columbia has a new test facility online to study oil breakdown of enhanced and uniform gaps. The 3 megavolt Marx generator is operational with switch configurations tested including large electrode ...
Drug resistance in D. discoideum: isolation of 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide resistant mutants
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The drug 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide (4NQO) displays both carcinogenic and antitumor effects, a well known characteristic of many chemotherapeutic drugs. In addition 4NQO shares a similar operating mechanism with the commonly used chemotherapeutic drug...
Land cover classification from satellite imagery, and its applications in cellular network planning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] To further increase the classification accuracies, radar image processing techniques were investigated to preprocess the Radarsat data before classification. ...
Chemical mechanisms underlying the medicinal activity of metabolically-activated N-oxide antitumor agents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Tirapazamine (TPZ) belongs to a new class of bio-reductively activated hypoxiaselective anti-cancer agents and is currently undergoing in various clinical trials including Phase I, II and III. Anti-cancer activity of TPZ ...
Mechanisms of inhibition and resistance to antiviral drugs targeting human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Although human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) are very different viruses, the replication of their genome involves ...
Biomineralizers from the proterozoic to today : assessing taxonomy and paleoecology through the lens of taphonomy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The onset of metazoan predation is presumed to have triggered an evolutionary arms race of prey defenses, including the advent of biomineralization. ...
Fuel depletion analyses at the Missouri University Research Reactor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In developing, assembling and updating safety analysis cases for nuclear power and research reactors, fuel depletion plays a major role and ultimately ...
Characterization of the role of adenovirus-5 (Ad-5) gene products E2A, E4ORF6 and VA RNA on adeno-associated virus type 5 (AAV5) transcription, translation and replication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
of the intron whereas in AAV2 the same transcripts read-through the proximal (intronic) polyadenylation site. Furthermore unlike in AAV2, the AAV5 promoters do not depend on adenovirus genes E2a, E4orf6 and VA RNA for efficient activation and pre-mRNA splicing...
Numerical and experimental investigations on capillary-driven thin-film evaporation with applications in pumped two-phase loop and loop thermosyphon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
and tubular wick posts. The evaporation mode transition from flooded to thin-film evaporation was detected by the evaporator thermal resistance which is directly related with the liquid level in the monolayer wick base. In Chapter 4, an active flow control...