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Instrumental analysis, sensory analysis and consumer acceptance of strained yogurt in frozen desserts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
There is a surging demand from consumers for healthier products that are lower in calories but maintain their original flavor and texture. Many countries around the world have worked to develop new techniques to improve ...
A multiple case study of female students' academic self-efficacy while participating in a middle school robotics program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
An instructional focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) is a current popular educational due to the widespread need for skilled workers in these growing fields. Compounding this labor shortage is the ...
A transcriptomic approach to uncovering the molecular mechanisms of maize nodal root growth maintenance during drought stress in the field
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Drought is the most important factor limiting crop production across the globe. Therefore, understanding how plants adapt and survive drought conditions is critical for improving food production with lower water input. One ...
Three essays on the Conservation Reserve Program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Over 35 years, the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has provided a variety of envi-ronmental benefits, reducing run-off of sediment, nitrogen, ...
Savitar : UM Yearbook 1894-2006 : A Splendid Past Revived
(Om Shanti Mandiram, 2013-07)
but left Columbia for good, along with all of our original documents. The penultimate player was Nicole Garner. She was highly competent and made a very good beginning, especially in exploring the University Archives. A good deal of background material...
The instituionalization of the public school system in Missouri: 1865-1882
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
By the early 1870s, the public school system in Missouri became an embedded institution in the state's cultural and political fabric. This thesis provides an explanation of how and why Missouri powerholders solidified a ...
Helen Torr: navigating the woman's experience in American modernism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In 1971, scholar Linda Nochlin called for a feminist art history that not only sought to recover the work of women artists, but that examines ...
Computation of fission product deposition in aerosols
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] High-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) generate carbonaceous dust during both normal operations and accidents. The dust particles can be both ...
Regional mapping of the osteoarthritic joint
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Osteoarthritis (OA) progresses from a focal lesion of articular cartilage to whole-joint inflammation and degradation. The "focal spread" progresses ...
Physiological and pharmacological characterization of the N1303K mutant CFTR
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Background: N1303K, one of the common, severe disease-causing mutations in the CFTR gene, causes both defective biogenesis and gating abnormalities of the CFTR protein. The goals of the present study are to quantitatively ...
Selecting data for multilingual multi-domain neural machine translation on low resource languages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] While machine translation has achieved impressive results on the world's most widely spoken languages, thousands of languages do not have the quantity ...
An essay on the burden of proof
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This essay answers two questions: what is a burden of proof, and when is it reasonable to assign a burden of proof? After showing the importance of how we answer these questions, it uses the Western legal tradition as the ...
Museum Magazine, Number 72 (2018 Winter)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2018)
Template-based methods for protein model quality assessment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Protein structure prediction is an important open problem in the bioinformatics filed. One of the difficulties of solving this problem is to develop ...
NCC-EM: A hybrid framework for decision making with missing information
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Accounting for uncertainty is important in any data driven decision making. The
popular treatment of uncertainties is to employ classical probability theory by expressing
variables as random variables or processes in ...
Parametric ideal cycle analysis of a scramjet engine at a constant combustion mach number
(2016)
The 1920’s and 1930’s saw the development of the turbojet engine and turbofan engine,respectively. Supersonic combustion ramjet or scramjet engine development began in the United States the early 1950’s after the development ...
The Tale of Meleager in the Iliad
(2017-03)
Multi-Modal Topic Sentiment Analytics for Twitter
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Sentiment analysis has proven to be very successful in text applications. Social media
is also considered a quite rich source to get data regarding user’s behaviors and
preference. Identifying social context would make ...
Parallel SPARQL Query Execution using Apache Spark
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Semantic Web technologies such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) and
SPARQL are increasingly being adopted by applications on the Web, as well as in domains such
as healthcare, finance, and national security and ...
Relative depth estimation from single monocular images with deep convolutional network
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Depth estimation from single monocular images is a theoretical challenge in computer vision as well as a computational challenge in practice. This thesis addresses the problem of depth estimation from single monocular ...