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- ...

For understanding of biological processes, a spatiotemporal control over these processes is needed. Controlling these processes using light can give us the advantage of a precise control over spacing, timing and degree of ...

The poems that make up this collection tend to play with what is one of the oldest concepts to exist, transition. This collection attempts to demonstrate the experiences that generate the pressures required; such as light ...

With the increasing popularity and affordability of smartphones, there is a high demand to add machine-learning engines to smartphones. However, Machine Learning with smartphones is typically not feasible due to the heavy ...

In the era of big data, it is essential to explore the opportunities in discovering knowledge from big data. However, traditional machine learning approaches are not well fit to analyze the full value of big data. ...

This collection of short fiction and plays represents an exploration of twenty-first century gay culture, viewed from the vantage point of successive lifestages: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, maturity, and old ...

An anthology of creative nonfiction essays, this collection studies the inner workings of the author at her most vulnerable: whether as a child unaware of her parents’ crumbling marriage or as an adolescent struggling ...

This qualitative critical autoethnography represents a highly personalized account of the intricacies and reflections of a Black female educational leader engaging in courageous conversations about race with a predominately ...

Microbial biofilm formation can lead to a series of important safety problems in food industry because, once formed, the microbial cells are much harder to remove compared to plankton cells and can lead to circulating ...

The aim of this work is to address the development of experiential Protestantism in the nineteenth century, commonly called Pietism, through the theological contributions of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Søren Kierkegaard, ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Chapter One: How low might be the resource costliness of making signals credible? Using a job market as an example, I build a signaling model to determine ...

Biomedical image data have been growing quickly in volume, speed, and complexity, and there is an increasing reliance on the analysis of these data. Biomedical scientists are in need of efficient and accurate analyses of ...

This study examines how Black adolescent girls living at the intersection of race and poverty access social capital through involvement in a community-based pedagogical space known as "Auntie's Place." Employing a theoretical ...

Climate change refers to any significant change in the measures of climate lasting for a period of time, such as significant changes in temperature, precipitation, or wind patterns, among other effects, that occur over ...

The purpose of the research was to examine the relationship between perceptions with internal strategic communication and satisfaction with those communication efforts. Specifically, the purpose was twofold: 1) to determine ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Biochar has the potential to be a local and renewable resource produced from waste byproducts that can replenish soils and build fertility. The objective ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Cryopreservation utilizes very low temperatures to preserve living cells and tissues. Successfully cryopreservation protocols for a limited number of ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study discovers if and how newspapers portray Spanish-speaking presidential candidates differently than they do presidential candidates who choose ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Let [omega] be an open and connected subset of the complex plane. A real valued function u : [omega] [right arrow] R is said to be harmonic if it has ...