This dissertation studies the problem of clustering objects represented by relational data. This is a pertinent problem as many real-world data sets can only be represented by relational data for which object-based clustering algorithms...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Due to the advancement of nanotechnology, understanding the heat transport mechanism in nano-scale devices has become a crucial factor in describing the operation of the device...

but also for in situ monitoring of cell dynamics. This research presents the design and fabrication of a MEMS based Coulter counter for monitoring cellular volumetric changes after an exposure to various media. The device is based on three important...

dead-band and saturation. Dead-band influences steering accuracy very much. To remove it, a nonlinear compensation algorithm is developed and implemented in this research. The developed electrohydraulic steering control system is installed on a John...

Vulnerable populations include groups of people with a higher risk of poor health as a result of the limitations due to illness or disability. The health issues of vulnerable populations include three categories: physical, psychological, and social...

The latest generation of commercial satellite imaging sensors have a number of characteristics (e.g. high spatial resolution, multispectral bands, and quick revisit time), that make them ideal data sources for a variety of urban area applications...

in a phased array radar system is the final power amplifier in each transmit-receive (TR) module. More recent final power amplifiers for TR modules have been configured in the Class AB or push-pull mode with a theoretical efficiency of 78...

obtained from TigerPlace, a senior living facility at Columbia, MO. The de-identification of this data was done using custom automated algorithms. The de-identified EHR data was used in several studies described in this dissertation. We then developed...

extraction respectively, multiple detectors were developed and the extraction performance was greatly improved using multi-detector fusion from different information sources. For vehicle detection, a GIS road vector layer was used to incorporate contextual...

This project studies the design of SLIM, which can be used to power capsules in a pneumatic capsule pipeline (PCP) system. The design equations of the SLIM and the equivalent circuit model are studied and discussed in detail. A SLIM of specified...

with an important issue on equivalent discrete-time channel modeling, as the basis for other topics. Based on the proper channel modeling, a practical Doppler spread estimation method is proposed for mobile orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems...

presented. A tapered slot antenna and a quad-ridge horn antenna are designed, simulated and tested, and a system for multistatic radar-based microwave tumor detection for both artifact removal and image reconstruction was proposed. The system can...

As part of the University Consortium for High Power Microwave (HPM) Integration, compact power conditioning and RF systems were investigated with a maximum diameter of 15.24 cm. A simulator of a flux compression generator (FCG) was built as a non...

The recent resurgence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically in the context of applications like healthcare, security and defense, IoT, and other areas that have a big impact on human life, has led to a demand for eXplainable AI (XAI...

are detected, and that new clusters are automatically formed as incoming data dictate. In this dissertation, we develop a streaming clustering algorithm, MU Streaming Clustering (MUSC), that is based on coupling a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) with possibilistic...

Precision or personalized medicine follows the idea that analyzing a patient's genome can help stratify patients into treatment groups. Patients with cancer, for example, are split into groups based on the genetic make-up, rather than the location...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Precision or personalized medicine follows the idea that analyzing a patient's genome can help stratify patients into treatment groups [1] [2]. Patients with cancer...