Browsing by Thesis Semester "2021 Fall"
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A Narrative Analysis of Spiritual Coping in Individuals with Terminal Heart Failure
(2021)Approximately 6 million Americans have heart failure with treatment costs estimated at $30.7 billion annually. Those in late stages of the disease experience profound physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering. Spiritual ... -
A novel approach to embedding memory with crosstalk logic circuits for high performance applications
(2021)One of the essential elements of computing is the memory element. Flip-flops form an integral part of a System-on-Chip (SoC) and consume most of the area on the die. To meet the high-speed performance demands by data-intensive ... -
A study of carbon and iron charged point defects in gallium nitride: electronic structure implications for high-power photoconductive solid state switch applications
(2021)There is growing demand for high-performance electronics in high volt- age, high current, and high frequency efficiency requirements that current materials (e.g., Si) are not fulfilling. Within the last few years, the ... -
Accurate, fast, and robust 3D city-scale reconstruction using wide area motion imagery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Multi-view stereopsis (MVS) is a core problem in computer vision, which takes a set of scene views together with known camera poses, then produces a geometric representation of the underlying 3D model Using 3D reconstruction ... -
The adsorption of environmental pollutants in gas and aqueous media utilizing nano-scale materials
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)In this body of work, the synthesis and characterization of several nanoporous materials have been described, as well as the application of these materials towards environmentally positive means. Largely, this work involves ... -
Advanced Education Orthodontics Program Curricula Pre- and Post-COVID-19
(2021)A survey was conducted to investigate faculty numbers across advanced education orthodontic programs and its association with curriculum, didactic learning, utilization of distance education, and impact of the COVID-19 ... -
Agroforestry adoption: influential factors, land manager perceptions, and willingness-to-accept payments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The various environmental, economic, and social benefits of agroforestry have long been touted, but adoption remains minimal on the world's agricultural landscape. A metaanalysis of 69 global agroforestry adoption studies ... -
AI-based Edge Computing System for Event Based Analytics
(2021)In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has received lots of attention due to its promising applications. Along with IoT evolution, we have witnessed advanced research for edge computing and its potential benefits ... -
Aminoxyl Catalyzed Electrochemical Ethanol Detection: Development of a New Breathalyzer Using Molecular Catalysis
(2021)Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is the indicator of alcohol intoxication, and its measurement has emerged as the most common analytical procedure requested by law enforcement. Due to its volatility, ethanol vapor can be ... -
An Approach For Scalable First-Order Rule Learning On Twitter Data
(2021)Scalable Rule Learning (SRLearn) is a scalable divide-and-conquer approach with graph-based modeling of social media data, to scale up first-order rule learning through Markov Logic Networks on a commodity cluster on large ... -
Applied genomics toward targeted improvement of soybean
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The abundance of genomic data produced by the research community in the last decade has offered an unprecedented view into the variation present in the soybean genome and has been exploited to uncover the genetic architecture ... -
Assessment of genetic algorithm based assignment strategies for unmanned systems using the multiple traveling salesman problem with moving targets
(2021)The continuous and rapid advancements in autonomous unmanned systems technologies presents increasingly sophisticated threats to military operations. These threats necessitate the prioritization of improved strategies for ... -
Atypical planetary lavas: rheological evolution of cooling and crystallizing flows from lunar impact melts and cryovolcanic processes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Volcanism is common to many of the solid planets and moons throughout the solar system. On Earth, volcanic research is mainly targeted at hazard assessment and prediction but volcanism on other worlds helps us understand ... -
Background Artist
(2021)This thesis in creative writing is a novella that follows the pursuits of an aspiring actor in Los Angeles in the early 2010s. Aware of the varied traditions of the Hollywood novel, this work delivers its own version of ... -
The battle for the bonus: world war i veterans and the debate for adjusted-compensation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Following World War I, veterans returned home to a country that was reaping the economic benefits of mass producing for the war effort. It became apparent to those in Congress that some sort of compensation would need to ... -
Bayesian approach for the spectrum sensing mimo-cognitive radio network with presence of the uncertainty
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)A cognitive radio technique has the ability to learn. This system not only can observe the surrounding environment, adapt to environmental conditions, but also efficiently use the radio spectrum. This technique allows the ... -
Beautiful phantoms British literature, political economy, and biopolitics from 1780-1855
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This dissertation explores the literary engagement with economics from 1780-1855. These years are critical to the development of both the novel and the discipline of political economy. This dissertation builds on previous ... -
Bias filtered: internalized racial oppression, experiences of racism, and well-being and authenticity among black americans
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Internalized racial oppression and experiences with prejudice correlate negatively with psychological well-being. Authenticity is a well-established contributor to well-being, yet research has not addressed how racial ... -
Bugs, Drugs and Data: Antibiotic Resistance, Prevalence and Prediction of Bug-Drug Mismatch using Electronic Health Records (EHR) Data
(2021)Bug-Drug Mismatch (BDM) occurrences are an important and modifiable category of inappropriate antibiotic therapy (IAAT) that increases adverse outcomes for patients and drives overall antibiotic resistance (AR). Surveillance ... -
Building a reliable and secure management framework for software-defined networks
(2021)The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies promise to enhance the performance and cost of managing both wired and wireless network infrastructures, functions, controls, and services (i.e., Internet of Things). ...