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Molecularly imprinted polymers and their application as environmental sensors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Molecularly imprinted polymers are specialty polymers with ability of selectively capturing target molecules. They show great potential to be environmental sensors for the detection of specific contaminant. The overall ...
Examining the impact of design variables and media richness on responses to product design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This study makes examines the influence of product design cues, environment congruence, and media richness on users' cognitive and affective responses to product design. These three factors were systematically manipulated ...
Integrating nitrogen source and application timing into the management of large patch on zoysiagrass
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Large patch is the most limiting disease that affects zoysiagrass in the upper transition zone of the United States. Management of this disease requires two to four fungicide applications split between the fall and spring ...
Scintillating fiber arrays for in-vivo real-time patient quality assurance for medical linear accelerators
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The purpose of this research is to design real-time, in-vivo, transmission scintillating fiber detectors capable of identifying errors in external beam radiation therapy when a fraction of a treatment has been delivered. ...
Unpacking middle school achievement: how students perceive the effect of home, school, and community influences on their academic success
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This transcendental phenomenological study set out to determine the nature and extent of influence on student success, as perceived by selected rising seventh-grade students at a particular mid-West middle school (grades ...
Recent efforts on model-based simulation of engineering problems : multiphysics and multiphase interactions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Simulation-Based Engineering Science (SBES) is playing a more important role in gaining new knowledge and providing guidance for engineering activities, in particular, in the fields in which time scale and/or spatial scale ...
Condition-based monitoring system for diagnostics and prognostics of centrifugal pumps
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Centrifugal pumps are the most commonly used pumps in industry. Therefore, maintenance is a very important part of the pump's life cycle. This work presents a systematic robust conditionbased monitoring process for diagnostics ...
Development of a portable total-stress measurement instrument
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research explores the application of ultrasonic stress measurement (USM) technologies to assess stress levels in gusset plates with the development ...
Modification of polyamide thin film composite reverse osmosis membrane for water desalination
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] A novel thin film ZnO-Graphene quantum dots composite reverse osmosis (TFQ-RO) membrane was prepared by the interfacial polymerization of m-phenylenediamine ...
Fabrication and characterization of a plasmonic grating platform for enhanced fluorescence biosensor applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) research has grown substantially over the past several years and led to many substantial discoveries in nanotechnology. SPR is a phenomenon where light can be coupled to the interface between ...
No people like #showpeople : Broadway performers' ethnographic social media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The occupational folk group of Broadway musical theater performers uses folklore in public spaces as a kind of representational strategy for the group as a whole. This strategy is significant in representing the group’s ...
Value, Money, and Accounting for Pax Ecologica: Contouring a Price-Coordination System for Ecological-Economic Provisioning
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The objective of this dissertation is to conceptualize and contour an alternative
provisioning system (“Pax Ecologica,” “ecocentric provisioning”) to address, account for, and
coordinate humankind’s scientific-technological ...
9 to 5 feces on fart and crass : subverting society's segregative structures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In resistance to oligarchical structures, which deny access and influence nearly every aspect of our society, I've created an inventory of work, which ...
Design of runtime libraries to improve programmability and efficiency of heterogeneous CPU-GPU nodes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] As computers began to reach their limit on how fast a single processor could execute code, computer developers began to devise methods to process more ...
An in-vitro study of the effects of microwave-induced hyperthermia on the cytotoxicity and cellular uptake of resveratrol gold nanoparticles in prostate and pancreatic cancer cells
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Cancer has become the second leading cause of death in the United States over the past decade. While conventional methods of treatment such as ...
The use of ventilator-acquired pulmonary mechanics and computed tomography in the assessment of interventions for experimental feline asthma
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In an experimental model of feline asthma, computed tomography (CT) and ventilator-acquired pulmonary mechanics were used in the assessment of various ...
On-plane flexible and solid-state rechargeable lithium-MnO2 microbatteries from laser induced graphene
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The thesis presents a flexible and solid state Li-MnO2 microbattery based on laser induced graphene (LIG) produced from commercial polyimide. To achieve ...
Self Synchronization of Moving Vehicles
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015)
In this dissertation, we investigate and develop a novel scheduling scheme for conflict-free movement of vehicles at road intersections. We claim that our scheduling scheme not only guarantees conflict-free movement at any ...
First and Second Order Efficiency of Sequential Designs in a Nonlinear Situation with Applications
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
In many statistical problems, optimal designs may be infeasible with their dependence on the parameters, which are unknown a priori. In such circumstances, choosing the next design points adaptively by making good use of ...
Professional networks of U.S. foreign correspondents and the reshaping of journalistic norms and practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Foreign correspondence now holds a tenuous position in the journalism industry because in midst of financial struggles, news organizations have been ...