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Enabling Large-Scale Storage and Retrieval of Whole Slide Images: A Big Data Approach
(2016)
Telepathology has the potential to transform the practice of pathology and be a game
changer for patients and pathologists. It can lead to wider, rapid access to expert pathologists
across hospitals in the US, improve ...
Becoming a Healthier Guitarist: Understanding and Addressing Injuries
(2016)
The field of performance arts medicine is supplying musicians with alarming
statistics regarding their health. Authors give statistics as high as 93% when
discussing the injury rate among instrumentalists. As guitar ...
Acute Fetal Behavioral Response to Prenatal Yoga: A Single Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial
(2016)
Yoga is becoming a popular exercise to perform in pregnancy. A recent literature
review on prenatal yoga noted a reduction in some pregnancy complications in those who
practiced yoga; to date there is no evidence on ...
Examining gender equality in media technology companies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
The research study examined how women and men perceive and experience web professional positions in a media technology company and how those similarities and differences reflect or challenge liberal, radical and/or cultural ...
Utilizing graphics and supers to frame local news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] There are two sides of a television newsroom; a side for those who work on-camera and a side for those who work off-camera. The following ...
Competitor and ally: the Texas Tribune's impact on a depleted Austin press corps
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
By allowing for-profit media companies to run its content for free, the Texas Tribune positioned itself as a polarizing figure. On one hand, it is a fierce competitor to the state's largest newspapers, wielding a deep and ...
"Immortal Harps": Milton and musical morality in Handel's Samson
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraphs: "If Handel's contemporary James Harris is correct in observing that music and poetry "can never be so powerful singly, as when they are properly united," (152) and that Handel's "Genius ... being ...
Successful digital strategies of five large- and small-circulation city magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Evidence shows there is no "one size fits all" approach to the digital strategies of city and regional magazine websites. With small budgets and few online-only staff members, editors must consider how and when they want ...
Strain Gauge Utilization for Aerial Vehicle Dynamic Load Measurement
(2016)
The strain gauge is a commonly used tool for dynamic load and strain measurement of a system. The work presented in this thesis describes the development and evaluation of strain gauges applied to both an aerodynamic ...
The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
Study of the Medieval English romance has burgeoned in recent years, with a focus on the world outside of the texts being central to the resurgence. I offer in this dissertation a reading of four of these works (Athelston, ...
The use of Self as a tool for culturally responsive change agency in social work practice: a qualitative phenomenological case study
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
Many social service and healthcare professionals are often challenged in engaging in
culturally appropriate practice, particularly when working with diverse populations that differ
from their own (Rothman, 2008; Sue, ...
Choosing the Best Course: Cultural and Social Influences on the Female Mathematics Graduate Students at the University of Kansas in the 1890s
(2016)
The interpretive plan for the exhibit, “Choosing the Best Course: Cultural and Social Influences on Female Mathematics Graduate Students at the University of Kansas in the 1890s” covers women’s education and women in STEM ...
DBHAaaS – Database High Availability As A Service For Cloud Computing
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
On conventional database systems, the recovery manager applies transaction Undo or Redo
operation or a combination of them to recover the last consistent state of the database from a
system failure. Transaction redo, ...
Predictors of performance-based measures of instrumental activities of daily living in stroke survivors
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
The aim of this dissertation was to investigate the relationship between cognitive domains/executive functions and performance on measures of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) in stroke survivors. Fifty-two ...
Online media as gatekeepers in the 2016 presidential debate
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
The third Republican presidential debate on CNBC attracted lots of coverage because of controversial performance of both moderators and candidates. I studied the coverage of the debate from the New York Times, USA Today, ...
VELOCITY : A NetFlow Based Optimized Geo-IP Lookup Tool
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
It is a challenging task for network administrators to monitor their institution's
network against undesirable behavior. While NetFlow is useful to gather flow-level data
for any Internet connection, its feature is limited ...
Conformational and Structural Investigation of Substituted Hydrocarbons and Ring Compounds by Vibrational and Microwave Spectroscopy
(2016)
The physiochemical properties of a molecule of interest are usually obtained from
its molecular structure, and it involves the orientation of one part of the molecule about a
particular bond with respect to the rest ...
The Cold War and Agency Panic in The Bell Jar and "Three Women"
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraph: "Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and "Three Women" show that politics influenced Plath's writing process in both direct and subtle ways. Combining the personal with the political in these works, Plath ...
Ideologies of American oppression: tracing capitalist discourses in 20th century protest literature
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraph: "Twentieth century America was a period of rapid expansion and change, and this is represented in the above-analyzed novels. By definition, protest literature exists with the intention to stimulate ...
Biopsychosocial Comparison of Adherent and Nonadherent Multiple Sclerosis Patients
(2016)
OBJECTIVE: Between 30-50% of patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS)
prematurely discontinue disease modifying therapies (DMTs). Despite this, relatively little is known
about clinical factors that ...