Inconsistency in the sexual risk prevention literature indicated that there was a need for additional research identifying factors that will increase safe sex behaviors; particularly, condom use, in young adults. The present ...

In this work, we develop a license plate detection method using a SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier with HOG (Histogram of Oriented Gradients) features. The system performs window searching at different scales and ...

The North China Craton was formed around 1.8 Ga by collision and amalgamation of the Eastern and Western blocks. It remained tectonically stable since then until the Mesozoic, when its eastern part experienced widely ...

Hyperspectral imaging is widely used in the field of remote sensing (Goetz, et al., 1985; Green, et al., 1998). In a hyperspectral imaging system, sensors collect radiance/reflectance values over an area (or a scene) across ...

This study was conducted to explore whether a direct relationship could be found between the unique occurrence of academic disidentification and the disproportionately high rates of incarceration among African American ...

Recent breakthroughs in deep learning have made possible the learning of deep layered hierarchical representations of sensory input. Stacked restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs), also called deep belief networks (DBNs), ...

The Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) has been the backbone of the Internet since its inception. The growth and success of the Internet has accelerated the consumption of the IPv4 address space and hence its exhaustion ...

The lack of research including HBCUs, the responsibility for institutions to interpret FERPA and the risks for loss of funding are all concerns with FERPA. Although FERPA regulations are vague, there remains the expectation ...

Many Missouri land management agencies are restoring savannas and woodlands using prescribed fire and forest thinning, and information is needed on how wildlife species respond to these management activities. Our objectives ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Mixture Rasch models, which are often used to investigate response strategy difference, differential item functioning, and test speediness, have gained ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Crimes are a major public concern in cities. Every day, a tremendous amount of law enforcement and policemen have been assigned to patrol and protect ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Mental health recidivism in the Emergency Room (ER) ties into the revolving door phenomenon, as many patients with prior visits to the emergency room ...

The general understanding of corruption is that the corruption harms economic growth because it increases transaction costs and information uncertainty (Rose-Ackerman, 1997). However, there are studies showing that corruption ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The southeastern margin of the Archean Wyoming craton has undergone a complex history of Proterozoic deformation and metamorphism. The Archean rocks ...

The Shanxi Graben System has been the location of large, devastating intraplate earthquakes in the past, making it an ideal location for the study of the temporal recurrence of intracontinental earthquakes. This study ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In orthopedic clinical settings there are many well-designed and validated outcomes instruments that are commonly used. The "usability" of the current ...

Drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm, this dissertation examines the learning and searching processes in new ventures. This dissertation includes three essays, each focusing on one specific aspect of a search ...

Media representation of the Faroe Islands, like that of other small, little-known places, is vulnerable to being skewed by various frames, agendas and biases. The islanders are demonized by the anti-whalers and their world ...

I spent the spring 2013 semester serving as KOMU 8's Capitol Correspondent at the stations' Capitol Bureau. During that time, reported on political issues facing the state both for daily newscasts and for longer enterprise ...

My research question was: What messages do editors send through cover images and sell lines? The goal of my research was to explore three women's fitness magazines, Fitness, Shape and Women's Health, and highlight the ...