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Drinking Water Treatment Waste as an Alternative for Internal Curing and Cement Replacement in Concrete
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Concrete can be a highly durable construction material when permeability is low. Hydrating cement paste shrinks through several mechanisms broadly grouped into autogenous and drying shrinkage. These mechanisms cause cracks ...
Reconstructing the 71 Gulch eruption: Implications for the Evolution of Phreatomagmatic Eruptions and their Products
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
71 Gulch is a basaltic fissure structure located in the western Snake River Plain,
southwestern, Idaho that erupted roughly 4 Ma. The entire volcanic field stretches 2 km west
to-east and produced 9 phreatomagmatic vents ...
Data-Driven Modeling of the Lake Chad Basin Hydrologic Systems
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
The drying of the Lake, located in Central Africa, is one example of a water crisis,
which requires more research and studies. The lake has been progressively shrinking since the
1960s due to climate change and anthropogenic ...
Urban Riparian Areas: Ecological And Streamside-Ordinance Assessments
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Streamside protection ordinances have been established in many urbanizing areas;
however, there has been a paucity of assessments of the effectiveness of such ordinances. A
quantitative assessment of the ecological ...
Entrained Air-Void System For Durable Highway Concrete
(2020)
In the US, the most commonly used F-T test method is AASHTO T 161 “A.” The equipment for variant A of the test is relatively low cost (~$22, 000) and compact. The relatively low cost stems from the basic construction of a ...
Practical Applications of Infrared, Raman and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Techniques for Qualitative, Quantitative and Structural Analysis of Pharmaceutical Drugs, Cementitious Material and Organic Molecules Containing Phosphorous
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
The study of the interaction between matter and electromagnetic radiation which procreated the wide branch named as Spectroscopy has gained tremendous attention since the last century. Atoms and molecules respond to ...
Simulating Urban Landscape Transformation: Implications for Urban Wetlands at Multiple Scales
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Urban landscape change simulation has received increasing attention in recent times.
As a result, many studies have focused on various aspects of land change simulation, ranging
from uncertainty of input data to model ...
Metals hosts in the Pennsylvanian Hushpuckney and Stark Black Shales from Selected Areas in Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The Hushpuckney Shale of the Swope Formation and the Stark Shale of the Dennis
Formation, two black shales in the Pennsylvanian Kansas City group, contain elevated
concentrations of transition and based metal elements, ...
Geo-information based model for assessing and monitoring forest fire risk in the state of Missouri, United States of America
(2020)
Despite the fact that a lot of resources has been invested in fire protection and suppression, the number of fires recurring in Missouri in recent decades has continued to markedly increase. Much of forest research has ...
Synthesis and Electrocatalytic Properties of Structure Engineered First-Row Transition Metal Derivatives
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Hydrogen is a green energy carrier, producing only water when combusted, and a
hydrogen economy has been considered the ideal green economy for human society. Water
electrolysis can produce high-purity hydrogen on a ...
Wetland landscape dynamics and its socio-ecological implications
(2021)
The dynamics on the earth landscape impact both the biotic and abiotic components. One of the abiotic components of the landscape are wetlands, whose terrestrial part is also serving as a habitat for many biotic components. ...
Performance of Steel Pipelines Backfilled with Controlled Low-Strength Material (CLSM) under Seismic Wave Propagation and Reverse-Slip Fault Rupture
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Seismic events may drastically damage buried pipelines affecting economy and
public safety. Traditionally, buried pipelines are bedded and backfilled with compacted
soils, which is labor intensive, time consuming, and ...
VELAS: a fully-distributed daily hydrologic feedback model with emphasis on vegetation, land cover, and soil water dynamics
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-15)
We present a daily hydrologic feedback model, VELAS (the VEgetation-
LAnd cover-Soil water dynamics), to simulate daily responses of hydrologic
processes including interception, runoff, evapotranspiration, infiltration, ...
Ab initio calculations of mechanical, thermodynamic and electronic structure properties of mullite, Iota-alumina and boron carbide
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-22)
The alumino-silicate solid solution series (Al₄₊₂xSi₂-2xO₁₀-x) is an important class of ceramics. Except for the end member (x=0), Al₂SiO₅ the crystal structures of the other phases, called mullite, have partially occupied ...
A multi-scale modeling study of the impact of land surface heterogeneity on the convective boundary layer in the U.S. Midwest
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-03)
Rain fed agricultural land is the predominant land cover class in the U.S. Midwest. The interannual and sub-seasonal climate variability of this region are determined by atmospheric oscillations on multiple temporal and ...
Conformational and Structural Determinations of Substituted Four and Five Membered Rings by Infrared, Raman, and Microwave Spectral Studies
(2014)
Studies of the structure and conformational stabilities of molecules have become
increasingly important due in part to advances in the fields of biochemistry and nanochemistry.
Specifically the conformation of organoamines ...
Paleoseismology and Archaeoseismology along the Southern Dead Sea Transform in Wadi 'Arabah Near the municipality of Aqaba, Jordan
(2013)
The southern Wadi ‘Arabah Valley in Jordan provides an ideal location to
investigate both the paleoseismology and archaeoseismology of the region because it is
situated directly along the active Dead Sea transform, and ...
An assessment of the impact of gentrification in the Crossroads Arts District of Kansas City, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-14)
The term gentrification can have many different meanings. One person
may think it stands for cleaning up a derelict part of a city while another may
expand the term to cover everything from rehabilitated structures to ...
Detection of diesel leakage from underground storage tank using time domain reflectometry
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-22)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established regulations concerning
the construction and maintenance of an underground storage tank (UST) system. These
regulations also define the means and methods required ...
Satellite-based assessment of invasive vegetation in Lake Chad Basin, West Africa
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-31)
Invasive plants are a huge threat not only to the biological integrity of the world's natural ecosystems but also the economies that are supported by those ecosystems. Today, governments worldwide are spending millions of ...