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Oral versus Intravenous Antimicrobials for Serious Infections
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2020-07)
"There is a common belief among physicians and patients, that “intravenous (IV) antibiotics are better than oral antibiotics, they are stronger, they work faster”. However, for many infectious conditions, including serious ...
Troponin-Positive Chest Pain with Unobstructed Coronary Arteries
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2020-04)
We present a 29-year-old man who presented with crushing substernal chest pain with radiation to his jaw and associated diaphoresis. He was hemodynamically stable and electrocardiogram was unremarkable. Laboratory studies ...
Topological mechanics and acoustics : theoretical and experimental demonstration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
and numerically demonstrate the existence of topologically protected one-way edge states immune to scattering by sharp corners, defects, randomly disordered modulation phases, and dissipation effects. However, the physical realization of a temporally controlled...
A PVT tolerant voltage-controlled oscillator for automotive applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
.75MHz, 1MHz or 1.25MHz can be obtained. In order to compensate for the variations at PVT corners, the trimming technology is applied to increase the accuracy. The supply voltage is considered to be varying between 2.1V and 5.5V while the temperature...
The ties that bind
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Inspired by Alexander Chee's recent How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, a memoir-in-essays, "The Ties that Bind" is lyric, personal, and a coming-of-age collection of nonfiction. In "Swimming Lessons," Bryn Chambers ...
TMA (Truck Mounted Attenuators) alert system-development and testing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Truck Mounted Attenuators (TMAs) play a crucial role in safety of work zones as they decrease the impact of the crashes, reduce fatalities and injuries, and increase safety. However, there are almost no solid solutions to ...
Pathway curator: an online webserver extracting genes and interactions from figures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
In the biomedical literature, gene pathways are frequently included. Many high-quality gene pathways are illustrated in the form of visuals and text, making them valuable study tools for biological processes and precision ...
The conditions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The critical introduction to this dissertation examines Jericho Brown's 2019 Pulitzer Prize winning collection The Tradition as a work of eco-justice poetry. In this essay, I argue that the tenets of eco-justice poetics ...
The anxiety of authorship among women fantasy writers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This thesis applies Gilbert's and Gubar's feminist theory evident in The Madwoman in the Attic to the male-dominated, gender biased fantasy genre that works to support and embolden evidence of an existing "anxiety of ...
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 ...
Bathing on the edge of empire : local variation and regional adaptation in the late Roman military bathhouses of Arabia/Palaestina
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines the evidence for Roman military baths in the provinces of Arabia and Syria Palaestina dating from the late 2nd-5th ...
Using communicative patterns to predict Twitter users' social capital, likability, and popularity gains with natural language processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Social media constructs a computer-mediated public space where individuals' visibility and influence can be quantitatively measured by the number of likes, retweets, and followers they receive. These metrics serve as a ...
Composing aromanticism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The term "aromantic" describes those who experience little to no romantic attraction to other people, marking a queer identity hardly referenced in either scholarship or popular conversation. Aromanticism's obscurity doesn't ...
The freedoms of B. Kumasi
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
I have long been concerned with what the United States of America owes its citizens. My mind is preoccupied with identifying gaps between the violent disparities endured by Black and marginalized communities and the rhetoric ...
Identification of trends in racial/ethnic disparities of patients with diabtes mellitus using web-based tableau dashboard- a cross sectional study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Many ways of creating data visualizations using the Business Intelligence tools have been implemented and new ways are continuously evolving. In this project, I have used Tableau Public software to analyze the trends of ...
Augmenting biological pathway extraction with synthetic data and active learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The corpus of biomedical literature is growing rapidly as many papers are recorded in PubMed every day. These papers often contain high-quality biological pathways in their figures/text, which are great resources for ...
John Tinney McCutcheon Collection
(2020)
The majority of the items in this collection are original pen and ink cartoons drawn for the Chicago Tribune from 1903 to 1944. These editorial cartoons focus on social issues, economics, politics, and both World Wars. The ...
Taxonomy, taphonomy, and ecology of Silurian (late Telychian) conulariids from the Waukesha Lagerstatte, Wisconsin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The Silurian (late Telychian Stage) Brandon Bridge Formation, Wisconsin, USA, hosts a diverse biota including arthropods, annelids, graptolites, brachiopods, corals, sponges, and algae, some of which exhibit exceptional ...
When trying to return home : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation includes the critical introduction "My Mother is My Homeland: Subversive Representations of the Black Puerto Rican Matriarch" ...
Book of apparitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Book of Apparitions is an account of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, narrated by one of the assassins, Vaso ...