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Green building
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
"Thinking Green" is the new buzzword of the twenty-first century. There are the green IBM commercials that demonstrate a substantial amount of money saved if a business, "goes green" the Mac commercial with the new energy ...
Was the need to produce pesticides higher than need to protect civilians?
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Your blood turns cold. Your eyes become blind. Panic hits and all of a sudden air won't enter your lungs quite as easily. In the dead of the night of December 3rd, a noise resembling the pain of thousands of people was ...
Forests and greenhouse gases: a science primer
(2010)
Professor Stephen Pallardy of the Forestry department at the University of Missouri-Columbia delivers a summary lecture on the topic of greenhouse gases, forest growth, and global climate change from the perspective of a ...
Side jumps in the spin Hall effect: Construction of the Boltzmann collision integral
(American Physical Society, 2010)
We present a systematic derivation of the side-jump contribution to the spin Hall current in systems without band-structure spin-orbit interactions, focusing on the construction of the collision integral for the Boltzmann ...
Gauge-invariant formulation of spin-current density-functional theory
(American Physical Society, 2010)
Spin-currents and non-Abelian gauge potentials in electronic systems can be treated by spin-current density-functional theory, whose main input is the exchange-correlation (xc) energy expressed as a functional of spin-currents. ...
Beating of Friedel oscillations induced by spin-orbit interaction
(American Physical Society, 2010)
By exploiting our recently derived exact formula for the Lindhard polarization function in the presence of Bychkov-Rashba (BR) and Dresselhaus (D) spin-orbit interaction (SOI), we show that the interplay of different SOI ...
On the relation between the scalar and tensor exchange-correlation kernels of the time-dependent density-functional theory
(arXiv, 2010)
The scalar $f_{xc}$ and tensor $\hat{f}_{xc}$ exchange-correlation (xc) kernels are key ingredients of the time-dependent density functional theory and the time-dependent current density functional theory, respectively. ...
Gastrointestinal disease and diet
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Despite the large number of people affected by digestive diseases, gastroenterologists maintain a less than optimal course of treatment. The medical community has largely ignored the role that diet plays in treating and ...
Facebook : our social tool
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This article discusses what Facebook is and the variety of reasons people use this social networking website.
The Anti-ana
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
According to the National Eating Disorders Association, NEDA, about 35 million people suffer from Anorexia or Bulimia, and millions more suffer from disordered eating. On the Internet, many websites are available in support ...
The Gate to marriage : benefits and detriments of arranged marriage
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The processes of choosing a lifetime partner dramatically differ between Western and Eastern cultures. In Western cultures, mates select one another directly based on interpersonal attraction. Since marriage is not the ...
Feminism in Austen's Northanger Abbey
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
In the excerpt from Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," she responds to Dr. John Gregory's "A Father's Legacy to His Daughters," where he discusses his view of proper womanly behavior. Wollstonecraft ...
Who consumes illegal wildlife? : an analysis of bear bile usage in Vietnam
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Vietnam is home to two species of bears: Asiatic Black bear (Ursus thibetanus) and Malayan sun bear (Helarctos malayanus). Both of these species are under serious threats, mainly from illegal hunting and trade. Bears are ...
Marketing modernism to the maitresse de maison : art nouveau and the female consumer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The design reform movement known as Art Nouveau developed in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Its popularity peaked in 1900 at the Paris Exposition Universelle and waned around 1910 with the advent of true ...
Cosmopolitanism as a measure of political tolerance : an inquiry into the acceptability of homosexuality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The term "cosmopolitanism," or feelings of global citizenry, is often used in contemporary culture but neglected in the social sciences. This study attempts to resurrect cosmopolitanism and evaluate its relationship with ...
Damaged
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
I have always been fascinated by the psychology [i.e. of] human and what motivates behaviors and choices made in life. This interest is more profound than merely my own inactive and proactive conduct, it also involves ...
Geochemistry and reaction path modeling of the Beowawe hydrothermal system, Nevada : a barren end-member epithermal system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The Beowawe geothermal area is manifested by numerous hot springs, fumaroles, and before the installation of an electric power plant, spectacular geysers. Beowawe also bears many geologic similarities to ancient epithermal ...
Head Movement in Bantu DPs
(2010)
Carstens argues against the approach of Cinque (2005) to deriving facts of adjunct order related to Greenberg's Universal 20, based on Shona data. Some implications are that head-movement exists in grammar and has syntactic ...
The Manhattan-Rochester Coalition, research on the health effects of radioactive materials, and tests on vulnerable populations without consent in St. Louis, 1945-1970
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This piece analyzes a covert Manhattan Project spin-off organization referred to here as the Manhattan-Rochester Coalition, and an obscure aerosol study in St. Louis, Missouri, conducted under contract by the U.S. military ...
Maori moko : a costly signal?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Costly signaling theory (CST) addresses cultural behaviors that are risky or apparently wasteful but which may serve to convey important fitness--related information. Recent studies have expanded the application of CST to ...