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Molecular dynamics simulations of the shock response of the energetic materials pentaerythritol tetranitrate and hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-s-triazine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Energetic materials are the key active ingredients in explosive formulations. Understanding the response of energetic materials is vital for the design of safe and reliable explosives. It is a challenge to experimentally ...
Bullying the resource-rich : the effect of natural resource wealth on coercive diplomacy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Natural resource wealth has been shown to have a significant impact the on the domestic politics of states. However, the current literature has failed to provide a complete picture of the influence it has on the interactions ...
Task-based image quality assessment in radiation therapy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Medical imaging is an integral part of radiation therapy, therefore image quality assessment (IQA) is important for improving patient treatments. Current IQA methods for radiation therapy do not directly consider the task ...
Family and life stressors predict adolescents' social behaviors via parenting and moral identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
The goal of the current studies was to examine the associations between family-level stressors and low income adolescents' social behaviors. Previous theory and research has suggested that stress can be emotionally and ...
Of course I'm going to have rose with lunch : an examination of alcohol consumption among food journalists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Food journalists and restaurant critics are presented with ample opportunities and reasons to drink alcohol, both on the job and off. These myriad motivations for alcohol consumption could lead to excessive drinking. Do ...
Examination of the Relationship between Startle Eyeblink Modulation and Perceived Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disorder from which fatigue is one of the most commonly reported symptoms. Recently, research into the underlying neural mechanisms of fatigue has focused largely on the ...
DMLA: A Dynamic Model-Based Lambda Architecture for Learning and Recognition of Features in Big Data
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Real-time event modeling and recognition is one of the major research areas that is yet to reach its fullest potential. In the exploration of a system to fit in the tremendous challenges posed by data growth, several big ...
BOOM!!! ...for Real!
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
BOOM!!! ...for Real! is a fifteen-minute chamber concerto for alto saxophone
(doubling tenor) and mixed chamber ensemble. The paintings and techniques of three
American expressionist painters—Cy Twombly, Franz Kline, ...
Does school-level use of exclusionary discipline mediate the relation between school segregation and academic achievement?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study evaluated the relation between ethnic/racial and economic school segregation and math achievement in public school students participating ...
Narratives of the presidential nominating conventions : branding the parties and candidates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
After the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, both parties altered the manner in which the party nominees were chosen. This change resulted in a shift for the conventions away from choosing the party nominee ...
What about the parents? : a focus on parent perceptions regarding parent involvement in the middle school setting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this phenomenological bounded case study was to understand parent perceptions regarding their involvement at the middle school level. ...
DL-DI: A Deep Learning Framework for Distributed, Incremental Image Classification
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Deep Learning technologies show promise for dramatic advances in fields such as image
classification and speech recognition. Deep Learning (DL) is a class of Machine Learning algorithms
that involves learning of multiple ...
Dee-jay drop that deadbeat : hip-hop's remix of fatherhood narratives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This dissertation examines hip-hop fatherhood narratives from 2010-2015 influenced by drug addiction, mass incarceration, underground economies, trauma, and dysfunctional co-parenting. Explicitly, the paper explores how ...
Taphonomic characteristics of fossils on the burgessshale-type spectrum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"Study of exceptional fossil preservation tends to yield exciting results. Since soft-bodied organisms and the soft tissues of biomineralizing organisms are usually not preserved in the fossil record, instances of soft-tissue ...
Case study of the impact of professional high school internships on college and career readiness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the impact that professional high school internships have on college and career readiness. Educational systems, both public and private, continue to search for ways ...
Microrna regulation of bursicon in drosophila melanogaster
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Bursicon is a heterodimeric neuropeptide hormone composed of two cystine knot subunits, bursicon α (burs α) and its partner, bursicon β (burs β). In Drosophila melanogaster, the heterodimer regulates wing expansion and the ...
Reduction of Power and Virtual Machine Migration Inside a Cloud Datacenter
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Today’s datacenter consumes high amount of electrical energy for its operation. It
increases day by day, thus increasing the operation cost and carbon dioxide emission. To
reduce the power consumption at a datacenter, a ...
The Anthropocene as kairos : the rhetorical invention of ecological consensus /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Anthropocene is a geological and temporal designation that represents the end of an 11,000 yearlong geological time period and marks the beginning ...
Evaluation of heat-processed sorghum, high-oleic and low-trypsin inhibitor soybean cultivars as alternatives for corn and conventional soybeans for broilers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Four 21-d experiments were conducted to compare soybean meal (SBM) from high oleic to parent soybean cultivars on growth performance, energy and ileal AA (IAA). Soybean meal was prepared by laboratory-scale mechanical ...
A multifaceted approach to improving transgenic technology in maize
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Due to a rising world population, scientists must develop new techniques to produce more food. One of these techniques, transgenics, has been around for over two decades however has not been improved at the rate required ...