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Mobilizing Science and Technology for Development : The Case of the Cassava Biotechnology Network (CBN)
(AgBioForum, 2006)
Cassava is regarded as the crop of last resort for millions of marginal farmers and their domestic animals in tropical regions. The Cassava Biotechnology Network (CBN) is addressing the major socioeconomic and agronomic ...
Compliance costs for regulatory approval of c4 rice
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2017)
GM rice plant required several gene transformations, assuming it would be realized simultaneously in the 13 Asian countries in 2035. We found it to be $18.8 million (undiscounted), around 16.3% of the total research and development (R&D) costs. We...
The Funerary Stele of Heliodora, Astrologer
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2019)
"We publish in this article a funerary stele that from its external and internal characteristics can be said with confidence to have been found at Terenouthis, in the Egyptian Delta. Although there are hundreds of such ...
Variety Market Development : A Bt Cotton Cropping Factor and Constraint in China
(AgBioForum, 2011)
In China, Bt-cotton varieties have been marketed since 1997 to help control attacks of some cotton pests, notably Helicoverpa armigera. It is estimated that Bt-cotton is currently grown on about 70% of the total Chinese ...
Single-molecule observation of nucleotide induced conformational changes in basal SecA-ATP hydrolysis
(2018)
SecA is the critical adenosine triphosphatase that drives preprotein transport through the translocon, SecYEG, in Escherichia coli. This process is thought to be regulated by conformational changes of specific domains of ...
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 ...
A sense of place
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2001)
Why a red campus, a white campus and all those boxy modern buildings? Campus master plans have evolved with tenor of the times and the requirements of teaching and research.
Fallen Angel : A Case Study in Architectural Ornamentation
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2016)
Accelerated fill-up of the Arbuckle Group aquifer and links to U.S. midcontinent seismicity
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)
The Arbuckle Group aquifer is the principal disposal zone for oil and gas field brines and hazardous/nonhazardous wastewater across the U.S. midcontinent and is traditionally viewed as an infinite capacity aquifer. Thousands ...
The Calibration of Mid-Infrared Star Formation Rate Indicators
(American Astronomical Society, 2007)
With the goal of investigating the degree to which the MIR emission traces the SFR, we analyze Spitzer 8 and 24 m data of star- forming regions in a sample of 33 nearby galaxies with available HST NICMOS images in the Pa ...
Dynamics of extended spinning masses in a gravitational field
(American Physical Society, 2006)
We develop a first-order approximation method for the influence of spin on the motion of extended spinning test masses in a gravitational field. This approach is illustrated for approximately circular equatorial motion in ...
Feels like home
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2006)
In this special section, rediscover Columbia - aka Collegetown USA. Remember how it once was, check out Homecoming details, and get the latest on Tiger football.
An electric charge has no screw sense—a comment on the twistfree formulation of electrodynamics by da Rocha & Rodrigues
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
Da Rocha and Rodigues (RR) claim (i) that in classical electrodynamics in vector calculus the distinction between polar and axial vectors and in exterior calculus between twisted and untwisted forms is inappropriate and ...
If they don't win it's a shame
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2015)
Mizzou alumni have been covering the Show-Me State's beloved baseball franchises for more than a century. As the 2015 Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals return to the diamond after deep playoff runs in 2014, Tiger ...
Tigers in the wild
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2016)
Whether your summer scene is a festival, a patio, a trail or a park, CoMo has you (un)covered. With so much life afoot in the open air, you might never want to go inside.
Fever dreams
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 2019)
"John Neihardt, a charismatic poet with one foot in the Wild West and the other in literature, packed lecture halls and inspired a generation of top writers."--Table of contents for issue.
From the vault
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2004)
From a notorious prankster to a pulp writer, these authors of the past got their start at MU.
A man of many words
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2010)
Steve Kopcha, a 30-year advertising executive turned MU journalism professor, often says "Good ads sell stuff." He would know - his did. Nine years out of the business (and into teaching), Kopcha, BJ '63, has never really ...