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Velocipedimania
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1971)
"A phenomenon, an avalanche, or a swarm of locusts, the influx of thousands of student bicycles has become a real problem on Campus."--Page 8
Barbara Allen and the English Ballad in Appalachia: Adaptations and Transformations
(1982)
The purpose of this study is to examine the eighteenth-century English Child ballads and "Barbara Allen" which survived in the Appalachian region of the United States.
Parallelism in verbal art and performance : an introduction
(2017-10)
Parallelism has been considered a fundamental feature of artistic expression. Robert Lowth (1753:180) coined the term parallelismus membrorum (“parallelism of members”) to describe a variety of different types of equivalence ...
A furified freestyle : Homer and hip hop
(1996-10)
Potential of Herbicide-Resistant Rice Technologies for Sub-Saharan Africa
(AgBioForum, 2009)
Weed-inflicted yield losses in rice equate to half the current rice imports in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and African rice farmers have a limited range of effective and affordable weed management technologies. Herbicide-resistance ...
The Dirty South: LatinX Art in the United States
(Graduate Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2023)
The Dirty South adds to the discourse of LatinX arts and culture by creating space for South American and other-identifying artists in the United States mainstream. Through historical context and data, this essay discusses ...
A review of Bayesian belief network models as decision-support tools for wetland conservation : are water birds potential umbrella taxa?
(2018)
Creative approaches to identifying umbrella species hold promise for devising effective surrogates of ecological communities or ecosystems. However, mechanistic niche models that predict range or habitat overlap among ...
Imaging modalities in acute ischemic stroke
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2017-04)
As "time is brain", acute ischemic stroke is considered a medical emergency. With the introduction of thrombolytic therapy and availability of modern neuroimaging modalities, timely diagnosis of an ischemic lesion, exclusion ...
Amerindian roots of Bob Dylan's poetry
(2007-03)
Optical and structural properties of ZnO films deposited on GaAs by pulsed laser deposition
(American Institute of Physics, 2000)
ZnO films were synthesized on GaAs substrates at different growth conditions by pulse laser deposition. High-purity (99.999%) oxygen was used as the ambient gas. The pressure of the ambient oxygen gas for ZnO film growth ...
Oral Verse-Making in Homer's Odyssey
(1989-10)
The library in the lives of Latino college students
(The University of Chicago, 2006)
Libraries share a perception of embracing and providing for all users. However, they also share a common philosophical stance shaped by librarians' individual discursive formations and the dominant cultural hegemony that ...
Biofuel policies and food grain commodity prices 2006-2012 : all boom and no bust?
(AgBioForum, 2013)
Biofuels policies have a large impact on food-grain commodity prices, first and foremost by linking biofuel prices to feedstock prices. The multiplier effect of higher biofuel prices on feedstock prices is shown to be very ...
The water quality assessment and biodiversity of phytoplankton in Phayao Lake, Phayao Province, Thailand
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2022)
was Chlorophyta (45%), composed of 40 species. Coelomoron sp. was the most dominant species, with 732 ± 252 individuals L-1. The ranges for the Shannon – Wiener index, the evenness index, the richness index, and the index of similarity were 0.210 to 3.101, 0...
Bt cotton adoption : a double-hurdle approach for north Indian farmers
(AgBioForum, 2013)
This article adds to the existing literature by identifying determinants of the Bt cotton adoption decision, as well as what influences the extent (or level) of adoption. Econometric results show that information is a vital ...
Incentives : The Scaffolding that Keeps Economic Orthodoxy from Teetering into Oblivion?
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2012)
Incentives are commonly perceived to be one of the primary motivational forces that drive a capitalistic economy. By in large, they are seen within the orthodox economic disciplinary field as the counterpart to self-interest ...