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Grover Shannon, soybean breeding specialist at the MU Fisher Delta Research Center. For many years Grover's work has been in breeding new lines of soybeans for producers. Recently his team has developed a line of high-oleic soybeans that do not produce trans fat.
Photo by Kyle Spradley | © 2014 - Curators of the University of Missouri
Angle of car spoilers effects where exhaust fumes are concentrated. See this research.
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35 research participants and 1.5 hour interview for each leads to a lot of stuff to analyze. We've really gone crazy with the stickies since this photo was taken last week. I'll post a version of the current space as soon as I stitch together the photos I just took.
Students meet with CEI researchers to choose which research tract they would like to pursue during the semester.
The Cloisters is a museum located in Fort Tryon Park, New York City. The building, which is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was built in the 1930s resembling architectural elements of several European medieval abbeys. It is used to exhibit art and architecture from Medieval Europe....
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The turtle, flats, and conch research teams headed up to Half Sound where they used a seine net to capture and tag seat turtles and bonefish
Bear/salmon research volunteers Andy, Shelby, and Kristina hike to a remote wildlife camera for maintenance and data collection. Credit: Lisa Hupp/USFWS
Graduate student Rene Raphemot (right, with his mentor, Assistant Professor Jerod Denton) remembers shivering in a hospital bed, his 9-year-old body weakened by malaria.
Today, his personal efforts to end the scourge are aided by a three-year, $1.4 million grant.
Read more: www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12098
Annual fundraising event, Swim Across America, at Ensworth Natatorium. All proceeds benefit research at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Photos by: Susan Urmy
Starring Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon, Robert Strauss, Edgar Stehli, Patty Duke, Guy Raymond, and Chic James. Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr..
James Congdon plays While a bit obscure, 4D Man (4D for short) is more of a low A-grade movie than a B-movie. For one thing, it's shot in color. It has some A-grade actors, and some cleanly done optical special effects. As in many sci-fi films, the technology isn't the star, but a plot device to propel a larger human drama. In this case, it gives the main character a special power. How he handles (or mishandles) that power is the meat of the tale.
Synopsis
Tony Nelson is talented scientist who is obsessed with his research, to the point of having a hard time keeping a job. He is trying repeat an earlier fluke success at getting one material to pass through another. (a pencil through steel) He travels to see his brother, Scott Nelson (Robert Lansing). Scott heads up a research lab trying to make a metal stronger than steel -- Cargonite. Scott convinces Tony to accept a job at his lab, but this only complicates the social scene. Scott was about to propose to co-worker-scientist Linda. Instead, Linda falls in love with Tony. Frustrated at all this, Scott goes to the lab late one night and gets into Tony's secret apparatus. He manages to get it to work. His hand passes through the steel. Meanwhile, another lab scientist, Roy, has stolen Tony's notes and is trying to sell the facility's director on the idea, so he can be a chief scientist himself. When Scott and Tony re-try the experiment in the lab, it works, even though the equipment wasn't working. Scott has "the power" all by himself. He tells Tony that he doesn't want anyone to know just yet. A newspaper headline tells of a bank robbery. The next morning, Scott sees that he's aged noticeably. Passing through matter ages him. He rushes to a friend's apartment for help, but when he touches the friend on the shoulder, the friend drops dead, his body aging to a gray shriveled corpse. Scott, however, was young again. His special power also saps life from others. He hides the amplifier so no one else can share his power. Things quickly unravel. Scott confronts his credit-stealing boss and saps him. Scott tries to find solace in a bar, with a floosie, but kills her with a kiss. The police know there's a killer on the loose. Tony tells the police all about it. The police cannot stop Scott, however. He shifts through walls, touches (and kills) policemen, and even a hail of bullets cannot stop him. He just shifts himself and the bullets pass through him. Scott finds out that Tony is trying to build another amplifier, so returns to the lab. Tony, Linda and the police try to kill Scott by turning on the reactor while he's inside it. (this is where Scott hid the amplifier) This fails because he is invincible when shifted. Everyone but Linda flees. Scott tries to talk her into running away with him. While in an embrace, she shoots him with the gun the detective left behind. Unshifted Scott is mortally wounded, but defiantly shouts his invincibility. To prove it, he throws himself into the Carbonite reactor, slowly disappearing into it's walls. The End (?)
The premise and human-interest angle are interesting and well done. The A-level actors do a good job making their characters believable. Robert Lansing does an excellent job with Dr. Scott Nelson -- both his frustrated awkward "before" self and the tormented-yet-maniacal "after" self. Given how many later movies (or TV shows) would take up the idea of people being able to pass through walls, etc., it's fun to see an early version.
This movie isn't an allegory of the Cold War. There is an oblique connection to the dangers-of-science sub-genre. A background element of the Cold War years, is the research lab working on improved materials for the military. Nelson's work isn't with any nuclear weaponry, but how it goes dreadfully is still an understated cautionary tale about how even innocent research can create a killer.
The quasi-science behind the premise, is that Scott can (at will) shift the "time" of his body relative to objects, permitting him to pass through them. The more he does this, the faster it ages him. While fanciful, this has a plausibility. The portrayal of "time" as a life force which he can then absorb from others has no plausibility, but it makes for a good plot device.
An interesting plot device is how Scott Nelson must drain the life from people in order reverse his own rapid aging. He does this by simply "touching" (merging) with them. The trope of the living sacrificed to prolong another's life, is not unique. It got (and gets) used in low-B movies like She Demons ('58) in which a mad scientist extracts hormones from young women (turning them into ugly demons) in order to keep his sick wife alive. In 4D, however, the "monster" drains life from them by a mere touch. This is a fascinating preview of the Wraith in the Stargate TV series (2005) -- race of beings who must "feed" on living humans in order to survive. The idea still has legs.
Another plot aspect which is not unique to 4D is how the man who acquires some amazing power can't handle it. For the sci-fi world, this appeared in H.G. Wells' novel "The Invisible Man." His special feature tempted him into tyranny. Once a man feels immune to the hand of justice, he commits crimes with impunity. Scott Nelson is no different in 4D. We see his morality drop away and his total human selfishness take control. He gets professional revenge on his credit-stealing boss. He robs a bank and tries to induce LInda to run away with him. At the end, he shouts, "I'm invincible! Nothing can hurt me!" with a well acted mixture of defiance, denial (he'd just been shot) and pleading. An interesting little human psych study of how man might behave if he no longer fears punishment.
An intriguing little twist amid the plot was how Scott's power was not totally under his control. By force of will, he could "turn on" his time-shift to pass through walls, but when he stopped willing it, objects were solid to him. At one point, he's trying to grab the door knob to a bar, but keeps passing his hand through it. At that moment, he wanted to be "normal" but his power was not so completely under his control. A little while later, when he wanted some companionship and kissed the B-girl, she screams in pain and turns into an old woman, then dies. Scott was becoming a sort of King Midas who ruins everything he touches. This adds a degree of pity to the character. With the "cool" power, he could never be normal again.
4D's producer, Jack Harris, and director, Irvin Yeaworth brought us The Blob in late 1958. 4D has some family resemblance. Color, big-name stars, and brassy jazz score. 4D and The Blob may have been shot together in '57. Young Patty Duke plays a bit part of a landlady's daughter, but she looks maybe ten years old -- noticeably younger than she was in 1959. Universal may have intended to release The Blob and 4D Man together, but opted to spread out the releases for better revenue.
The score in 4D is heavy-handed brass jazz band fodder. Such jazz was pretty typical stuff of 50s movies which held the Rat Pack and Las Vegas show scene as the pinnacle of cool. The score of 4D seems like a cross between a 007-wanabe movie and the Pink Panther -- but without any of Mancini's style. Given the rather dark story line, the loudly perky jazz seems out of place. Instead of enhancing the story, it intrudes, like someone talking loudly in the theater while you try to watch the flick. Unless the viewer is a fan of such brassy nightclub jazz, it's more likely to be annoying than admired.
Bottom line? 4D is worth the time. It's a modern Midas tale reasonably well done. The science is weak or a tough stretch, but the story can be enjoyed anyway.
A Geographic Information Systems research team lead by Dr. Steve DiNaso from Eastern Illinois University digs in search of the remains of the Herrin massacre victims in the Herrin Public Cemetery in Herrin, Illinois on August 13, 2014. (Jay Grabiec)
iss072e308299 (Dec. 2, 2024) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore shows off research hardware supporting a study that explores 3D printing on-demand medical devices on the International Space Station to treat Earthbound and space-caused health conditions.
The flats and shark team join forces to capture and tag lemonsharks and bonefish. Students also took data on the abundance of other species that were caught in the seine net.
Akashiwo sanguinea is a single-celled organism belonging to a group of algae called dinoflagellates. Akashiwo sanguinea is cosmopolitan (found worldwide) in estuarine and temperate coastal marine waters. Large concentrations of A. sanguinea, called blooms, can discolor water red. Akashiwo sanguinea is harmful to molluscs, and high concentrations called blooms can discolor water red and cause massive fish kills by depleting oxygen in the surrounding water. There have been no reports of illness or other harmful effects from an A. sanguinea bloom in Florida waters.
Andrew Gonzalez, Professor; Canada Research Chair in Biodiversity Science; Director, Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, McGill University, Canada speaking during the session "Shaping a Sustainable World with McGill University" at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek
Almirante Brown is an Argentine Antarctic research station that was originally constructed in 1951 on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Pre-cooked beans are to be launched in Kenya, making beans more easily available to consumers in only 15 minutes. The product is part of a US$2.5 million, three-year project through Cultivate Africa’s Future Fund, set up by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). The project is led by the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and NARO in partnership with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Kenya.
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SFU science professor Peter Ruben's latest research may aid in the development of new drug therapies to treat the after-effects of heart attack and stroke.
l-r: Peter Ruben, Mena Abdelsayed, Colin Peters and Joyce Ching.
ORNL researchers are planning a large-scale, long-term ecosystem experiment. See www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/get_press_release.cfm?Re... for details. (Photo provided by researcher Stan Wullschleger).
Molly O'Neill, a master's student at the University of Oregon at the time, samples water in Coos Bay as part of a study on hypoxia. Her research was partially funded by Oregon Sea Grant. O'Neill, who graduated in 2014, did not find evidence of hypoxia in the bay. (photo by Dave Sutherland) FULL STORY: seagrant.oregonstate.edu/feature/study-discovers-why-hypo...
The CAFNR Bonfire was held on Sunday, September 21st, 2014 at Bradford Research Center. | © 2014 - Curators of the University of Missouri
Investing in research: New evidence showing how a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program improves children’s nutritional status, a policy seminar hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), was held in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2017. Beth Dunford, Assistant to USAID Administrator & Deputy Coordinator for Feed the Future, USAID, addresses the audience.
This is the main BC Cancer Agency & Research Centre building-an agency of the BC Provincial health services authority in British Columbia, Canada. This building's address is 675 West 10th Avenue in the City of Vancouver, Canada. This building also houses the Terry Fox Laboratories centre for cancer research.
Scientific name: Diospyros virginiana
Common name: Common Persimmon
Family:Ebenaceae
Photo by: Robert Mayer
Arnold Arboretum Senior Research Scientist Cam Webb is collecting plants and studying the evolution and ecology of tropical trees in Indonesian forests. The genus Diospyros is well-represented in the tropics with over 500 species; however, there are only a few species present in the temperate regions such as Boston, including the species Diospyros virginiana. This genus is an excellent example of how the evolution of cold tolerance allowed some members of the genus to either invade frost zones or to adapt to a changing climate, as happened during the shrinking of the tropical zone (its traditional habitat) and the expansion of temperate zones during the Tertiary Period (65 million to 2.6 million years ago).
For more information: xmalesia.info/doc/diospyros.html
Karenia selliformis is a single-celled organism belonging to a group of algae called dinoflagellates. This species name comes from the word selliform, meaning having a saddle, describing the saddlelike shape of the bottom of the cell. Karenia selliformis has two whiplike appendages called flagella that aid its movement through the water column. This species has been identified in the marine waters of the Gulf, the Pacific Ocean near New Zealand, the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf near Kuwait. Karenia selliformis is part of the genus that contains K. brevis, which is known as the Florida red tide organism. It is not uncommon for K. selliformis to occur in conjunction with K. brevis blooms. There is no evidence that K. selliformis produces brevetoxins; however, it does produce gymnodimine, a toxin that can concentrate in shellfish but is considered to be of low risk to humans. There have been no reports of illness or other harmful effects from K. selliformis in Florida waters.