scholarly journals Preparing Undergraduates for Agriculture and Food Research Careers: An Internship Paradigm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Mott ◽  
Todd Lorenz ◽  
Jo Britt-Rankin
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Agricultural Economics ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Food Research ◽  
Integrated Stem ◽  
Career Option ◽  
Agriculture And Food ◽  
The University

The University of Missouri Integrated STEM Internship Program (MU-ISIP) is a 9-week internship experience that helps prepare undergraduates for the workforce or graduate school in four AFRI areas: (a) plant health and production, (b) animal health and production, (c) food safety, nutrition and health, and (d) agricultural economics and rural communities. This program helps address the need for the next generation of agriculturalists and food scientists through experiential learning. Additionally, it exposes undergraduates to Extension as a career option. This article outlines our approach to MU-ISIP and lessons learned during the program’s inception.

Heat Conduction of Fixator Pins with Polymethylmethacrylate External Fixation

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. 153-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Tomlinson ◽  
A. W. Hahn ◽  
G. M. Constantinescu ◽  
Colette Wagner-Mann ◽  
N. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Properties ◽  
Heat Conduction ◽  
External Fixation ◽  
Thermal Conduction ◽  
Thermal Injury ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
External Fixators ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The University ◽  
Honor Society

SummaryThe purpose of this study was to determine the degree of thermal conduction along the fixation pins associated with acrylic external fixators and to develop a means of minimizing the potential for thermal injury. The data suggest that the degree of temperature conducted with 1.9 cm diameter acrylic external fixators was of minimal clinical significance if maintained a distance of one centimeter from the patient’s tissues. Larger diameter columns increase the potential for injury, however, this can be minimized with the use of a constant saline drip at the pin-acrylic interface to facilitate heat loss.This article describes the evaluation of thermal properties of polymethylmethacrylate external skeletal fixators. The data demonstrate heat conduction along the fixation pins. Thermal injury is theoretically minimized if columns are maintained a distance of at least one centimeter from the patient’s tissue.Research supported in part by and presented for the University of Missouri Pi Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Zeta in coordination with SmithKline Beecham Animal Health, April 7, 1994

Partnerships for Progress

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Donald W. Robinson ◽  
Charles R. Granger ◽  
Barbara T. Holt ◽  
Doris A. Trojcak ◽  
Rickey George
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
School District ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The University ◽  
Programme Element ◽  
School Youth

The University of Missouri–St Louis Partnerships for Progress, Project Compete partnership programme was initiated in 1986 between the University and the St Louis School District, stimulated by a large grant from one major St Louis-based international corporation. Initially, the project involved only one major programme element, known as the ‘Bridge’ programme, which operated in two St Louis city high schools (grades 9–12). A second programme for high-school youth – the Engelmann Institute – was added in 1987, and a third programme, Access to Success, was added in 1988 to extend the programme to the middle school (grades 6–8). Each programme is discussed in this article, as are the lessons learned from Project Compete and its potential for future development.

scholarly journals Pemanfaatan Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi untuk Pengembangan Ekonomi Pertanian dan Pengentasan Kemiskinan

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Badari Burhan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Agricultural Economics ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Agricultural Business

This study is intended to gain a better understanding of the use of ICTs from several developing countries for the purpose of developing agricultural economics and poverty alleviation. From the lessons learned, it is expected to get opportunities and challenges that must be addressed in relation to the use of ICTs for the development of agricultural economics and poverty alleviation, especially in Indonesia. The literature study method from several developing countries shows that ICTs play a role in helping farmers in decision making, in terms of planting and harvesting time because this is important in agricultural development. In this case, ICT empowers farmers with productive assets and marketing, increasing their productive capacity so that reducing their poverty status. Affordable ICT services in rural communities have played a very strong role in improving the economic conditions of the population that contribute to the rural economy. ICTs have the potential to be effective instruments in supporting poverty alleviation. In Indonesia, ICTs have not been used properly for agricultural business development because of the low level of education in agricultural business households and access to information on internet media. To overcome the information gap for rural households/ communities is to make the extension officers more effective, accelerate the development of telecommunications infrastructure in order to strengthen telecommunications signals, and provide continuous support to rural farmers and agricultural businesses.

An exploration of mechanisms for Arabidopsis TCP transcription factor activity at an interface of development and immunity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Benjamin J. Spears
Keyword(s):  
Receptor Gene ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Sequence Motifs ◽  
Crop Species ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Agriculture And Food ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "The work presented in this dissertation aimed to characterize new functions and regulatory targets for TCP8, potentially in both defense and development signaling networks. Using in vitro and in vivo promoter interaction screens in yeast and Arabidopsis, respectively, the PTI-related immune receptor gene EFR as well as a set of growth-related BR signaling genes were identified as regulatory targets of TCP8; these findings were verified through direct interaction assays characterization of tcp mutants for associated phenotypes. Additionally, SRFR1-interacting TCPs were shown to be post-translationally modified by SUMO proteins, alongside data suggesting that SRFR1 sequence motifs that facilitate interactions with SUMO are critical to its function. Together, these data describe novel roles for TCP8 and other class I TCPs, as well as novel regulatory mechanisms for their activities in the context of their interactions with SRFR1 and other TPR proteins. As a highly-conserved TF family among plants, including economically relevant crop species, advancing our understanding of TCP regulatory activities could eventually yield translational benefits to agriculture and food production worldwide."--Page 36-37.

scholarly journals PEMANFAATAN TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI DAN KOMUNIKASI UNTUK PENGEMBANGAN EKONOMI PERTANIAN DAN PENGENTASAN KEMISKINAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-247
Author(s):  
Ahmad Badari Burhan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Agricultural Economics ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Agricultural Business

This study is intended to gain a better understanding of the use of ICTs from several developing countries for the purpose of developing agricultural economics and poverty alleviation. From the lessons learned, it is expected to get opportunities and challenges that must be addressed in relation to the use of ICTs for the development of agricultural economics and poverty alleviation, especially in Indonesia. The literature study method from several developing countries shows that ICTs play a role in helping farmers in decision making, in terms of planting and harvesting time because this is important in agricultural development. In this case, ICT empowers farmers with productive assets and marketing, increasing their productive capacity so that reducing their poverty status. Affordable ICT services in rural communities have played a very strong role in improving the economic conditions of the population that contribute to the rural economy. ICTs have the potential to be effective instruments in supporting poverty alleviation. In Indonesia, ICTs have not been used properly for agricultural business development because of the low level of education in agricultural business households and access to information on internet media. To overcome the information gap for rural households/ communities is to make the extension officers more effective, accelerate the development of telecommunications infrastructure in order to strengthen telecommunications signals, and provide continuous support to rural farmers and agricultural businesses.

TEM study of boron additions to cobalt aluminide

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Feldewerth
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Aerospace Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ordered Alloys ◽  
The University ◽  
Very High

In recent years an increasing emphasis has been placed on the study of high temperature intermetallic compounds for possible aerospace applications. One group of interest is the B2 aiuminides. This group of intermetaliics has a very high melting temperature, good high temperature, and excellent specific strength. These qualities make it a candidate for applications such as turbine engines. The B2 aiuminides exist over a wide range of compositions and also have a large solubility for third element substitutional additions, which may allow alloying additions to overcome their major drawback, their brittle nature.One B2 aluminide currently being studied is cobalt aluminide. Optical microscopy of CoAl alloys produced at the University of Missouri-Rolla showed a dramatic decrease in the grain size which affects the yield strength and flow stress of long range ordered alloys, and a change in the grain shape with the addition of 0.5 % boron.

MARS — Its Tenth Anniversary of Operation and its Future

1980 ◽  
Vol 19 (03) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
G. S. Lodwick ◽  
C. R. Wickizer ◽  
E. Dickhaus
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Computer Scientist ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Complete Bibliography ◽  
The University ◽  
Economic Considerations

The Missouri Automated Radiology System recently passed its tenth year of clinical operation at the University of Missouri. This article presents the views of a radiologist who has been instrumental in the conceptual development and administrative support of MARS for most of this period, an economist who evaluated MARS from 1972 to 1974 as part of her doctoral dissertation, and a computer scientist who has worked for two years in the development of a Standard MUMPS version of MARS. The first section provides a historical perspective. The second deals with economic considerations of the present MARS system, and suggests those improvements which offer the greatest economic benefits. The final section discusses the new approaches employed in the latest version of MARS, as well as areas for further application in the overall radiology and hospital environment. A complete bibliography on MARS is provided for further reading.

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