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A general method for sizing battery energy storage systems for use in mitigating photovoltaic flicker
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
A method for sizing battery energy storage (BES) systems for use in mitigating voltage flicker caused by solar intermittency in photovoltaic generation was developed. The method creates a "design day" from existing solar ...
Instability in a palladium hydride system due to a fast electrical perturbation caused by a pulsed power system /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Nanoporous palladium with a specific surface area of 29.12 m2g-1 was created using highly loaded palladium hydride wires subjected to a fast electrical pulse of energy. The delivered energy of approximately 0.5 J was ...
MEMS impedance biosensor for accurate and rapid detection of E. coli O157:H7 in food products
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Escherichia coli O157:H7 is one of the public foodborne bacterial pathogens and results in severe illness such as diarrhea, urinary tract infections, ...
Image search with LSH and shape context
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Partial-duplicate image search is a problem of searching the query image cropped from the same original image from a large database. Kd-tree have a ...
Nonlinear electroelastic resonators /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In broad terms, this dissertation concerns the physics of electroelastic continua and its application to piezoelectric plate resonators, with a specific ...
Developing semiautonomous system for robust performance of centrifugal pumping system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Centrifugal pumps are considered as one of the most common types of pumps in industry today. They are widely-used because their design is simple, they ...
The histogram of partitioned localized image textures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
In the field of machine learning and pattern recognition, texture has been a prominent area of research. Humans are uniquely equipped to distinguish texture; however, computers are more equipped to automate the process. ...
GBIR SLC and interferometric simulation of Blue Springs Dam, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The limitations in current commercial satellite-based Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) datasets are being partially emphasized by a specialized (dual-frequency, polarimetric, and interferometric) ground-based real-aperture ...
Modeling and simulation of a segmented thermoelectric generator
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Interest in thermoelectric generators for waste heat recovery has flourished in recent years. Typically, the efficiency of thermoelectric generators (TEGs) is quite low. Investigations are conducted in this thesis to get ...
Controlled loading of cryoprotectants (CPAS) with cell volume constraints
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Oocyte cryopreservation techniques are considered very important aspects in biomedical research for oocyte and embryo cryopreservation to be used in ...
Mobile image analysis for seed phenotyping
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[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 ...
MEMS parallel plate variable capacitor for energy harvesting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In recent years, there is a dramatic increase in use of portable, wireless sensors and actuators which are widely powered by batteries. However, these ...
Electrochemical imaging of quantal exocytosis in single cells
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Microelectrodes are widely used in detection of exocytosis events. In order to detect both the time and release location of quantal exocytosis from a single cell, four square microelectrodes located in a 20 um square ...
Compiler-assisted workload consolidation to efficiently exploit dynamic parallelism for recursive applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
GPUs have been widely used to parallelize and accelerate applications for its high throughput. Traditionally, a GPU function can only be launched from the CPU side. This results in the fact that GPUs are preferable for ...
Microscale liquid dielectrophoresis for multiphase fluids manipulation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Microfluidics has a bright future in the biomedical and biology fields. A system level integration that can provide efficient communications among ...
Target concept learning from ambiguously labeled data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The multiple instance learning problem addresses the case where training data comes with label ambiguity, i.e., the learner has access only to inaccurately labeled data. For example, in target detection from remotely sensed ...
Graphical user interface for interactive image measurement applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In today's research world, a lot of image measurement work are still being done in labor intensive and time consuming manual methods. Automate or ...
A temporal analysis system for early detection of health changes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
To make it possible for elders to live independently at home and yet get help from health care providers when small changes in health conditions take place, smart home technologies are developed to enhance safety and monitor ...
Data processing techniques of hydraulic bed sensor and doppler radar for elder care
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Population aging is a common phenomenon in a society. The developed country like the United States, eldercare is becoming an important issue nowadays. ...
Alternative materials for radiovoltaics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This work explores alternative materials for the improvement of radiovoltaic devices. First, lithium fluoride is explored as an effective material for ...