this problem when data dimension is low, but not good enough for high dimension. In our paper, we present locality sensitive hashing for image search, it is a randomized algorithms, which does not guarantee an exact answer but instead provides a high...

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(harvest) wasted energy from undesired mechanical vibrations. This makes it possible to have devices perpetual self-powered. The design, fabrication and characterization of this MEMS parallel plate variable capacitor is presented in details in this thesis...

The Robotics and Assistive Technology (RAT) Team is a research collaboration between the University of Missouri-Columbia's Adaptive Computing Technology (ACT) Center and the College of Engineering's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering...

and solar power, yet the sporadic nature of these energy sources limits practical implementation on a large scale. In this study, batteries are proposed as a means of storing electrical grid energy during periods of low demand, to be used during periods...

collection process will tremendously help the research process. This thesis describes my effort on utilizing computer vision technology to develop GUI software tools to achieve this goal. It covers the realization of such applications on both computers...

-density capacitors. This work presents the theory behind, methods of preparation and evaluation, modeling and properties of MU100. MU100’s dielectric properties are explored in high energy-density pulsed power applications, compact high voltage capacitors. Small...

of the pins, resulting in thermionic or thermofield emission. This paper presents measured electron emission data from nano-forest materials and compares them to theoretical estimates of electron emission....

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] A study of post-CMOS fabrication process for radioisotope activation produced by nuclear transmutation is presented. Activation of the precursor occurs by nuclear transmutation...

The effects of Pulsed Electric Fields have been a period of study since past few decades, which was mainly on the electroporation, bacterial decontamination and biofouling. But the development of technology to produce nanosecond duration pulsed...

imaging project. A number of initial-processed GBIR image products are presented from four dams: Longview, Blue Springs, Tuttle Creek, and Milford. Excellent imaging performance of the MU GBIR has been observed for various target types such as riprap...

of data using Linguistic Protoform Summaries (LPS). We start by studying the existing techniques present in the literature to produce LPS, propose a new method and demonstrate its robustness with a mathematical proof. The usefulness of LPS...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Shape and size are among the most important seed characteristics measurements. This work presents an Android-based smartphone and tablet application named MUSeed that utilizes...

is presented in the training with many images representing various lighting conditions, so that a probe image (testing image) of certain illumination conditions can be represented by a sparse linear combination of the training samples. In this project, three...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation presents a detailed characterization of amorphous Silicon Germanium Oxide (Si-Ge-O) thin films for uncooled infrared (IR) microbolometers. Every object, whose...

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is a technique that measures and samples voltage and current from an electrical power source in order to infer what devices or appliances are being used at a given time. A NILM system can monitor a single phase...

on the compact structure. Presented are the modeling results of the electromagnetic parameters in the compact structure, in the near, and in the far field regions....

of vocal dysfunction using sEMG signals, and root phenotyping using terahertz (THz) signals. The experimental results presented in this thesis demonstrate the advantages of the improved GUSSS method by expanding it to new applications while achieving better...