Browsing Theses (MU) by Thesis Semester "2014 Summer"
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8 weeks supplementation of fruit and vegetable juice concentrate reduced postprandial inflammation in overweight/obese, but otherwise healthy, women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Purpose: The prevalence of overweight/obesity is growing not only in the United States, but also worldwide. Increased adiposity is associated with ... -
Acute phase proteins in naturally occurring respiratory disease of feedlot cattle : a novel approach to diagnosis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is the most costly disease of feedlot cattle in the United States. Costs associated with BRD have been estimated from $13.90 to $15.57 per head with annual losses to the cattle industry ... -
Un cajón vacío es inimaginable. efectos del poder y la censura en la cultura cubana del período de la revolución
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] En las páginas que siguen exploramos los efectos del poder en la cultura cubana del periodo de la Revolución y lo hacemos a través de las metáforas de ... -
Calculating information leakage using model checking tools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)A confidential program should not allow any information about its secret inputs to be inferred from its public outputs. As such confidentiality is difficult to achieve in practice, it has been proposed in literature to ... -
A case of documents in the cloud : what changes DocumentCloud brings to the practices of daily reporting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)This study explored the roles that journalists play in newsrooms in correlation with their use of the DocumentCloud platform. The results of this study indicate that DocumentCloud influences journalists’ routines and their ... -
Comparison of nondestructive testing technologies used for inspection of welded joints
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this research is to report on the comparison between different nondestructive test (NDT) methods applied for the detection of defects ... -
Covalent adduct formation between the antihypertensive drug hydralazine and abasic sites in double and single-stranded DNA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Hydralazine is an antihypertensive agent that displays both mutagenic and epigenetic properties. Here, we provide evidence that medicinally-relevant ... -
Data processing system for a personnel walking activity
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A deep learning method for protein model quality assessment
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Designing the dream in postwar American suburbia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)The American suburban landscape is intrinsically intertwined with our national identity. As a symbol of expansion, safety, success and the "American Dream", our suburban landscape has provided us with a housing system that ... -
Determining the viability and effectiveness of a roughing biofilter for use in drinking water treatment plants
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The development of the first generation of exo-affinity labeling agents, inactivators of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Type II Diabetes (T2DB) is one of the worldwide problems characterized by ineffective insulin signal transduction as a result of insulin resistance and impaired glucose homeostasis. Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B (PTP1B), ... -
Dry weight and cell density of individual algal and cyanobacterial cells for algae research and development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Phototrophs have received more and more attention due to their nutrient removal, biomass production as well as the potential for biofuel feedstock. This research determined the dry weight of algal and cyanobacterial cells ... -
Effectiveness of Advanced Stay Strong, Stay Healthy in community settings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Introduction. The Advanced Stay Strong, Stay Healthy (ASSSH) program was developed in 2009 by a team of MU Extension Specialists to meet the increasing need for a follow-up program to the Stay Strong, Stay Healthy (SSSH) ... -
The effects of alkalinity, hardness, and pH on the formation potential of disinfection by-products
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Chlorine is the most common disinfectant used; its use has dramatically decreased a number of waterborne diseases. However, the use of disinfectants creates another potential problem in the creation of disinfection by-products ... -
Electrodeposition of copper for metamaterial fabrication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Metamaterials, termed as a class of artificial material with exceptional characteristics obtained not from their composition but from their structures, ... -
Electrospinning polyampholyte nanofiber membranes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The elimination of nonspecific protein adsorption is an important challenge in many biomaterial applications. To address this issue, numerous nonfouling ... -
Emissions of greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane from duckweed systems for stormwater treatment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)This study determined the greenhouse gas emission from lab-scale duckweed treatment systems that were used for stormwater treatment. By using the static chamber technique, the fluxes of CO2 emission from the duplicate ... -
Ethics of filmmaker-subject relationships in documentary
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)The relationship between filmmaker and subjects is one of the central issues in scholarly research of the documentary genre. It raises many ethical questions - is it possible to document the reality without intervening, ... -
Etiological teleosemantics and theories of nonconceptual content
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Within the philosophy of mind, discourse regarding the relation between human thought and its objects refers to ‘intentional content’, the information ...