Browsing by Thesis Semester "2015 Spring"
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Accessibility and inclusion in health professions education : perceptions and experiences of disabled college students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The number of disabled students enrolling in college is steadily increasing in the United States (U.S.). At the same time, there is a trend in this country of efforts to increase diversity and inclusion in postsecondary ... -
Achieving Optimal Schedule by Network Flow Techniques
(2015-08-11)Scheduling plays an important role in protocol design and performance optimizations for wireless or wired networks. This dissertation studies how to achieve optimal performance for two fundamental scheduling problems ... -
Aerosol evolution : explorations in DSMC and sectional techniques
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Understanding and improved modeling of aerosol evolution in nuclear reactor accidents is important in estimations of the nuclear source term as it is greatly affected by the formation and presence of aerosols in the reactor ... -
After sales services for repairable parts with service level agreements
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)In this study, inventory systems for repairable-parts with service level consideration are studied. The first study develops a multi-parts inventory system and transportation decisions. A failed part might be repairable ... -
Age-dependent branching processes and applications to the Luria-Delbrck experiment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Microbial populations adapt to their environment by acquiring advantageous mutations, but in the early twentieth century, questions about how these organisms acquire mutations arose. The experiment of Salvador Luria and ... -
Agriculture during the Reagan years
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The Farm Crisis of the 1980s occurred during the Reagan Presidency. To date virtually nothing has been written concerning the approach taken by the Reagan administration to combat the crisis. To fill that gap, this study ... -
Agro-pastoral Landuse Transformation: Implications and Perspectives in the Northwest Region of Cameroon
(2015-08-11)This dissertation centers on the human-environmental problem of agro-pastoral landuse transformation in Northwest Cameroon, identifying population pressure, climate change, environmental degradation, land grabbing, change ... -
Alignment of Do-Not-Resuscitate Status with Patients’ Likelihood of Favorable Neurological Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)After patients survive an in-hospital cardiac arrest, discussions should occur about preferences for future resuscitative efforts. Given the value patients generally place on possessing normal neurological function, these ... -
Analysis of host-pathogen interactions via clustering, statistical analysis, and data visualization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Infectious diseases are caused by a variety of agents: viruses, bacteria, parasites, or even proteins. Using existing state-of-the-art methods and tools I developed myself, I studied aspects of infectious agents. To find ... -
Analysis of the potential for flow-induced deflection of nuclear reactor fuel plates under high velocity flows
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) is one of five High Performance Research Reactors(HPRRs) in the U.S. that still utilizes high enriched uranium (HEU) fuel. Currently, a novel LEU fuel is under consideration ... -
Analysis of transcript abundance of uterine genes after application of bovine pregnancy associated glycoproteins to endometrial explants
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) belong to the aspartic protease family and are expressed exclusively by trophoblasts of even-toed ungulates. ... -
And the wood doll arose and told, I'm a real
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] "Sphinx Eyes Antiphon," one of the poems in my collection, And the Wood Doll Arose and Told, I'm a Real, refers to a blank or unreciprocal social gaze. ... -
App chaining software-as-a-service for an advanced manufacturing marketplace
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Advances in the field of cloud computing and networking have led to development of Marketplaces (e.g., Awesim) that support Advanced Manufacturing enterprises consisting of Apps. These Marketplaces host Apps that perform ... -
Application of real-time PCR for detection of antibiotic resistant pathogens and Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Salmonella and Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are among the most important food pathogens. Increasing use of antibiotics for treatment and as a therapeutic agent on food animals has been proposed as a reason ... -
Applications of activated carbon to reduce disinfection byproducts in small drinking water systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The addition of chlorine disinfectant to drinking water during the treatment process results in the formation of disinfection by-products (DBPs). The ... -
Arsenic for potential diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Targeted agents hold promise for non-invasive in vivo imaging, therapy, and monitoring of diseases. Foundational work focused on imaging and therapy of cancer has centered primarily on the use of 18F, 90Y, 99mTc, and 131I ... -
Assembling the Fragments: A Collection of Essays
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)Grief and grieving hovers around this essay collection, both the author's grief over losing her mother and also what that loss meant to the other people in her life. An essay about the tragic death of the author's uncle- ... -
Association of force plate and body-mounted inertial sensor measures for determination of hind limb lameness in horses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between inertial sensor and stationary force plate measures of hind limb lameness. 21 ... -
Asymmetric Positron Annihilation in Chiral Tartrate and Tartaric Acid Crystals
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) has been used to study the interactions of positrons with chiral tartaric acids and tartrates. Differences in lifetimes of and its intensity I2 were compared between large ... -
Atypical MVT, Zn-Cu-rich mineralization in the lower portion of the Bonneterre Dolomite, Viburnum Trend, southeast Missouri, U.S.A.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits of the Viburnum Trend are typically lead-dominant (Pb:Zn > 5) and occur mainly in the reef-grainstone facies of the upper Bonneterre Dolomite (Cambrian). Recent drilling has encountered ...