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Implementation and Evaluation of a Compassion Satisfaction Program for Healthcare Providers of Children with Medical Complexity
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout are forms of exhaustion that often
take a toll on healthcare providers, evidenced by decreased performance, increased errors,
absenteeism, depersonalization, ...
The Effectiveness of Telephone Follow-Up for Diabetes Management
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States with 30.3 million Americans
having the disease and a cost of $327 billion. Approximately 300,000 people are affected in
Kansas, a cost of $ 2.6 billion, ...
Resilience and survivability of 5G networks
(2020)
5G is going to be the central force behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It is the next-generation wireless technology which is slated to provide a wide range of services. It is geared to provide greater capacity, ...
Learning to Walk the Walk: Narrative Exploration of Diversity Training for Higher Education Teaching
(2020)
Today’s higher education classrooms are made up of an increasingly wide variety of students with varying life and cultural influences, learning styles, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and spiritual beliefs. A large ...
Finding Your Pulse: Insidious Trauma, Psychological Distress, and Collective Action Among Sexual Minority Latinx
(2020)
Using an additive intersectional approach, the present study examined the relations among racism in LGBT communities (LGBT racism), heterosexism in racial/ethnic minority communities (POC heterosexism) and foreigner ...
The underlying genetic control of maize root system architecture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) is one of the most widely cultivated and highest yielding grain crops in the world. The genetic and phenotypic diversity ...
Topological mechanics and acoustics : theoretical and experimental demonstration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Topological insulators are new phases of matter whose properties are derived from a number of qualitative yet robust topological invariants rather ...
Voice in marketing interactions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Voice is an intrinsic feature of marketing interactions that varies among individual agents, across encounters, and throughout interactions. Despite ...
Towards an integrative transdisciplinary framework for understanding the etiopathogenesis of problematic drinking : insights from deep phenotyping and network modeling for personalized prevention
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Background and Significance. Decades of research have consistently suggested that persistent problematic drinking is an etiologically heterogeneous ...
Consequences of plant water limitation for aphids, their natural enemies, and insect communities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Climate change is causing an increase in drought events around the world. Water limitation affects the quality and quantity of plant resources for ...
Artificial intelligence driven framework for the structurization of free-text diagnostic reports
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Free-text sections of diagnostic reports contain a wealth of data on patients, diseases, and complex diagnostic processes. However, free-text data are ...
Material property prediction and structural inverse design with modern deep learning techniques
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] To manipulate the mechanical and physical properties of bulk materials, like metals, ceramics, and semiconductors, the introduction of structural ...
Improving Provider Comfort with the Assessment and Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Sexuality and optimal erectile function are essential aspects of holistic care. Healthcare
providers, however, do not routinely assess erectile function in male patients during the annual
wellness exam. Men are more ...
Investigation of CO2 capture systems, Lewis acid-base pairs, and oscillating reactions with electronic structure theory and kinetics-based approaches
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Equilibrium is a key theme in chemistry education. Starting in high school and continuing in freshman general chemistry courses, STEM students have to learn the foundations of equilibria. What is the key concept of an ...
Aptamers that bind filovirus GP : a new frontier for detection and neutralization of Ebola and Marburg virus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Aptamers are single chained, nucleic acid-based affinity probes that bind to their targets with strong affinity and specificity. They are made through an in vitro combinatorial selection method, wherein large libraries of ...
From the lab bench to the fuel tank : development and analysis of novel adsorbents for hydrogen and natural gas storage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Hydrogen and natural gas offer a promising avenue towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector; however, storage poses a non-trivial challenge, with current systems requiring prohibitively large ...
Human behavior understanding and intention prediction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Human motion, behaviors, and intention are governed by human perception, reasoning, common-sense rules, social conventions, and interactions with others and the surrounding environment. Humans can effectively predict ...
User experience and robustness in social virtual reality applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Cloud-based applications that rely on emerging technologies such as social virtual reality are increasingly being deployed at high-scale in e.g., remote-learning, public safety, and healthcare. These applications increasingly ...
Knowledge discovery with recommenders for big data management in science and engineering communities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Recent science and engineering research tasks are increasingly becoming dataintensive and use workflows to automate integration and analysis of voluminous data to test hypotheses. Particularly, bold scientific advances in ...
Fast and robust deep neural networks design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
In the past few years, we have witnessed a rapid development of deep neural networks in computer vision, from basic image classiffcation tasks to some more advanced applications e.g. object detection and semantic segmentation. ...