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Exposure to explicit sexual media impacts men's perceptions of women's motives for sexual intercourse [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
Previous studies have shown that exposure to sexually explicit media can influence males' attitudes toward sex and their sexual partners, their behaviors, and their emotions. Researchers found increased aggression towards ...
South Korea protein demands [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
Over the last 10 years South Korea has had experienced a steady increase in population averaging an increase of approximately 1% a year. They have also been able to acheive economic growth with a GDP that is almost two and ...
Growth of orthographic representations in children with LLD [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
One aspect of word learning from reading is knowledge of the orthographic representation of a word. Children with language-learning disabilities (LLD) might be expected to have greater difficulties than peers acquiring ...
Shipping Box Radiation Level Detector
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Shippers at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) are currently being exposed to radiation while manually testing the radiation level of outgoing shipping boxes. The boxes contain radioactive isotopes used in ...
Effects of maternal diet on offspring in terms of behavior and overall health [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
Polyunsaturated fatty acids have been touted to affect mammalian health and fecundity. Since stressed rodents tend to produce a surfeit of female pups, we studied the effects of these diets on female offspring behavior. ...
Prediction of superhelical proteins using machine learning methods [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
The main objective is to use three state of the art machine learning methods to find the most efficient way for predicting and characterizing the superhelical proteins based solely on their sequence information. To achieve ...
The effects of sensitization on habituation using the olfactory jump reflex in Drosophila
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Memories can arise from simpler habituation and sensitization training as well as associative classical conditioning. However, in a complex environment, animals receive sensory cues in a fashion that can be more accurately ...
Use of antisense oligonucleotides to enhance exon 7 incorporation in the pre-mRNA splicing of SMN2
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is relatively common in humans and is caused by loss of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. SMA is the leading cause of hereditary infant mortality ...
Expression of a putative virulence protein of Haemophilus influenzae in E. coli
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Haemophilus influenzae, a small, gram-negative bacterium, is a commensal organism of the human upper respiratory system as well as an agent of diseases ranging from otitis media to meningitis. Nonencapsulated (nontypeable, ...
A kinetic study of active site mutations in GDP-mannose dehydrogenase
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
In the human pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, GDP-mannose dehydrogenase (GMD) serves as a critical enzyme in the biosynthesis of alginate, a polysaccharide that functions as a protective coating against antibiotics ...
Rapid automated characterization of transposon insertion mutants in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough by srnPCR [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
Tn5 transposon mutagenesis occurs by a mechanism in which a segment of DNA (transposon) encoded in a plasmid is inserted into genomic DNA (the target) by a conservative (cut-and-paste) mechanism (Fig. 2). When the insertion ...
Efficacy of turmeric (Curcuma longa) to ameliorate the adverse effects of T-2 toxin in broiler chicks
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
A 3-wk feeding study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of turmeric (Curcuma longa) powder (TMP), containing a known level of curcumin to ameliorate the adverse effects of T-2 toxin in broiler chicks. Five pen replicates ...
Fragment based screens of the -D-phosphohexomutases as an initial step for inhibitor design
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
Enzymes in the -D-phosphohexomutases superfamily frequently play a role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates and glycolipids, critical for bacterial virulence and growth. -D-phosphohexomutases are being increasingly shown ...
Natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana: Molecular genetic architecture of stress tolerance under water deficit
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
The functional genomics tools available for studying Arabidopsis thaliana are a great resource for researchers trying to characterize and understand the genetic basis of natural variation. Genome wide transcript profiling ...
Uranium: The problem, or the solution?
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Uranium is of great importance as a nuclear fuel and is used to generate electrical power, produce isotopes, and to make weapons. The possibility of developing a realistic flow scheme for nuclear fuel reprocessing or ...
Characterizing polymerization dynamics using fluorescent molecular rotors and magnetoelastic sensors
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
The dynamics of polymerization are critical in many medical applications; for instance, polymers used to fill aneurysms must be timed accurately. Two distinct methods were examined for their ability to probe the polymerization ...
Aβ toxicity to SHSY-5Y human neuroblastoma cells
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that results in the loss of memory, language deterioration, confusion, restlessness, and eventually destroyed cognition. It is characterized by an ...
University of Missouri--Columbia Research Reactor (MURR) flux trap design using Fluent Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
The University of Missouri--Columbia Research Reactor Center (MURR) is the center of a world class, totally unique environment for the research, development, and production in major advances in nuclear medicine. The reactor ...
Imaging reticulospinal neurons in the lamprey brainstem using calcium indicator
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
Imaging reticulospinal neurons in the lamprey brainstem using calcium indicator In the lamprey, a lower vertebrate, reticulospinal (RS) neurons in the brain are the output elements of the command system that activate spinal ...
Analysis of mitochondrial DNA insertions into a nuclear chromosome of the maize B73 line
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2005)
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is known to have integrated into the nuclear DNA of plants and animals. The purpose of this project is to investigate the on-going migration of mtDNA into the nuclear DNA of maize plants. Specific ...