Browsing by Thesis Semester "2020 Fall"
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A critical review of narrative coherence theory for use with Congolese refugee women who are resettling in the United States
(2020)Due to the extensive violence occurring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the past three decades (Cultural Orientation Resource Center, 2014), between 2008 and 2013 approximately 11,000 Congolese refugees have ... -
A Family Affected By Autosomal Dominant Non-Syndromic Tooth Agenesis - A Genetic Study
(2020)This study evaluated a family exhibiting the phenotype of non-syndromic tooth agenesis through whole exome sequencing to potentially identify pathogenic variants. Four family members, three with tooth agenesis and one ... -
A randomized feasibility and acceptability study comparing modes of parenting education delivery for young fathers
(2020)Limited research and reliance on maternal reports of father involvement in caregiving provides an inadequate understanding of adolescent fatherhood. Despite improved outcomes for infants and adolescent mothers when adolescent ... -
The adjunctification of United Methodist part-time local pastors : a case study of part-time local pastors in the Mountain Sky Conference of the United Methodist Church
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The issue this dissertation addresses is that the fastest growing population of clergy leaders in The United Methodist Church (UMC) are local pastors who are generally not seminary degreed, ordained, or guaranteed employment. ... -
Advances in transfer learning methods based on computational intelligence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Traditional machine learning and data mining have made tremendous progress in many knowledge-based areas, such as clustering, classification, and regression. However, the primary assumption in all of these areas is that ... -
Adversarial robustness of deep learning enabled industry 4.0 prognostics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The advent of Industry 4.0 in automation and data exchange leads us toward a constant evolution in smart manufacturing environments, including extensive utilization of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Deep Learning (DL). ... -
All of the doors are closed : a hermeneutic phenomenological study exploring Black gay male experiences of stigma in Black church organizing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The African American community has become a key site of resistance to accepting same-sex relations in the United States. Scholars have suggested that this resistance is most accurately explained by Black religious affiliations ... -
Analytical earth-aerocapture guidance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Aerocapture is a technique of employing a single atmospheric pass to inserts a spacecraft from a hyperbolic orbit, approaching from deep space, into an elliptical (captured) orbit around its destination planet. After ... -
Anchor team gender make-up and audience evaluation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)For decades, the man-woman anchor team has been the industry standard in both national and local news. Recently, high-profile national newscasts have used two anchors of the same gender to headline the broadcast. In local ... -
Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation for Image Segmentation based on Partial Differential Equations
(2020)As the resolution of digital images increases significantly, the processing of images becomes more challenging in terms of accuracy and efficiency. In this dissertation, we consider image segmentation by solving a partial ... -
Anisotropic shock response of 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene (TATB)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The thermo-mechanical response of shock-induced pore collapse has been studied using non-reactive all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) and Eulerian continuum simulations for the molecular crystal 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene ... -
Anisotropy and mantle flow of the Indo-Burma subduction zone from shear wave splitting and shear wave splitting tomography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The Indo-Burma subduction zone lies on the eastern boundary of the 1500 km long Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt. Despite highly oblique plate motion with limited arc development, convergence is still ongoing with the potential ... -
Application of electronic structure calculations to vibrational spectroscopy and gas encapsulation in zeolites
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Zeolites are an important class of aluminosilicate materials that have wide applications in heterogeneous catalysis, gas separations, and ion-exchange processes at industrial scales. The desire to continue doing research ... -
Applications of model systems to explore exchange-correlation effects in density-functional theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Density-functional theory (DFT), in its various forms, has become a near ubiquitous form of theoretical research used to benchmark and prototype solutions to many finite and extended state system. This is largely because ... -
APP∙CNTN Complex Architecture is Conserved Throughout the Vertebrate Lineage
(2020)Contactins (CNTNs) are a group of up to six cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) of the immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily found throughout the metazoan lineage. CNTN architecture is broadly conserved, and these proteins are composed ... -
Assessing mechanical properties of the cardiovascular system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The elasticity of wall of the arteries plays a significant role in cardiovascular system. Capacitance of the aorta is predicative of cardiovascular events[1]. To get better understanding the function of the cardiovascular ... -
Assessment of a voluntary nonlead ammunition outreach program on midwestern national wildlife refuges
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Lead exposure from spent hunting ammunition affects wildlife populations, human health, and poses challenges to natural resource management. In addition to existing data on this topic spanning [greater than] 100-years, ... -
Associations Between Benefit Finding, Disease Severity, Positive Affect, and Health Outcomes Among Patients in Cardiac Rehabilitation
(2020)Following a stressful event, individuals may attempt to create meaning or find benefit from the stressor. Benefit finding (BF) may act as a buffer to minimize the effects of stress on health outcomes. The literature is ... -
AudioCNN: Audio Event Classification With Deep Learning Based Multi-Channel Fusion Networks
(2020)In recent years, there is growing interest in environmental sound classification with a plethora of real-world applications, especially in audio fields like speech and music. Recent research works have proven spectral ... -
Automated End-to-End Management of the Deep Learning Lifecycle
(2020)Deep learning has improved the state-of-the-art results in an ever-growing number of domains. This success heavily relies on the development of deep learning models--an experimental, iterative process that produces tens ...