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A museum piece
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1982)
"The University's Pickard Hall becomes one of the nation's best homes for the ages."--Table of contents for issue.
The next generation
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1999)
Parents hand down their college of choice to the next generation.
Solo summit
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 2019)
"Senior linebacker Cale Garrett is the ultimate team player, but off the field, he tends to travel alone. Whether he's hiking up Pikes Peak or tracking down a running back, Garrett is always thinking about what happens ...
Lost and found
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2012)
Scott Wallace, MA '83, joins a 34-man expedition led by jungle explorer Sydney Possuelo deep into the Amazon. The mission: to track one of the planet's most isolated and dangerous indigenous tribes, the mysterious "Arrow People."
Don't throw rocks off the mountains
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1973)
"MU's Wyoming 'campus' draws students from 18 other colleges and universities, giving testimony to the national reputation of the Mizzou geology program."--Table of contents for issue.
An Analysis of Elements Associated with the Volunteer Church Choir Experience and Their Affect on Participation in Choir
(1994)
Previous studies have indicated that volunteer musicians
are influenced positively and negatively in their decision to
participate in a music group by various elements surrounding
them. Using a questionnaire/survey, ...
Impact factors in open access : the value, frustrations, and new paths forward
(2023)
The age-old metric associated with traditional print academic journals— the journal impact factor (JIF)—has carried over into some electronic open access journals (OA). JIF receives a fair share of criticism (e.g., easy ...
Kalavasos - Kopetra : 1991
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1991)
"Fresh out of the classroom and beckoned by the long mild days of early summer, we returned to Cyprus this year for our fifth season of work at the Late Roman settlement at Kopetra. In previous years our museum-sponsored ...
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...
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 ...
Food values, personality traits, and attitudes towards genetically modified food in Norway and the United States
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2023)
We explored the effects of personality traits and subjective beliefs on willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid genetically modified (GM) foods using a random effects interval regression model. The personality traits were measured ...
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 ...
The Development of the Horn
(1985)
The transition of the horn from the hunt to its function in the
orchestra was a slow and difficult process. The entry of the French horn
in the orchestra dates back to the early eighteenth century. This
development falls ...
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 ...