Division of Food Systems and Bioengineering (MU): Recent submissions
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The impact of YouTube travel vlogs on destination image and viewer's travel intention : the difference between high and low trip involvement groups
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Travel related YouTube vlogs have significantly grown in today's tourism industry, creating a new trend among social media users. The purpose of this ... -
Multi-scale self-assembly of nanoenergetic materials utilizing functionalized graphene
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The work described here-in focuses on the synthesis and characterization of novel nanoenergetic materials and is driven by overcoming the disadvantages of traditional nanoenergetic composites, improving the energetic ... -
Imaging structural and mechanical properties of articular cartilage using optical polarization tractography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Osteoarthritis (OA) is an extremely common joint disease, which affects more than one-third of all adults in the USA. Although the entire joint ... -
Engineering target nanomaterials for stable and efficient delivery of siRNA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Lung cancer has the highest cancer-related mortality rate in the United States. The most common form of lung cancer is non-small cell lung ... -
Design and synthesis of targeted NIR fluorescent nanoparticles for bio-imaging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Breast cancer is the second most common cancer, and the chance that a woman will die from breast cancer is 2.6%. One in 8 women develop ... -
Prediction of knee loading in native knee and total knee arthroplasty : a forward dynamics computational study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)"The goal of this dissertation is to develop a musculoskeletal model and corroborate model predictions to experimentally measured in vivo knee contact forces, in order to study the biomechanical consequences of two different ... -
A study of individuals' satisfaction of destination attributes during incentive travel with a moderating role of travel group composition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] While incentive travel has existed for decades, it is a highly under researched sector of the hospitality and tourism industry with absent literature ... -
The design of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy for single molecule techniques
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)The ribosome is responsible for protein synthesis--a critical process in creating essential proteins for cell survival. Though bulk techniques yield valuable results about the structure of the ribosome, bulk techniques are ... -
Development of active food packaging materials incorporated with nanocellulose and investigation of their toxicity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Nanocellulose is a renewable, lightweight, and biodegradable biomaterial that has potential applications in the food packaging industry. Nanocellulose ... -
Direct from sample phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility testing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)To transition from broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy to a more effective "targeted" therapy, i.e. in order to determine whether the infecting strain is resistant or susceptible to individual candidate antibiotics, clinicians ... -
Direct-from-sputum rapid phenotypic drug susceptibility test for mycobacteria
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)The spread of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a leading global public-health challenge. Because not all biological-mechanisms of resistance are known, culture-based (phenotypic) drug-susceptibility testing ... -
Porous silicates for applications in smart water treatment systems and antimicrobial biomedical coatings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Porous silicates, particularly ordered ones, may find novel and wide-ranging applications in the bioengineering arena in the near future. For instance, ... -
Exploring the relationship between professionalism and perceived organizational performance in small to medium restaurants
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The key to success in the hospitality industry depends on the professionalism of the workforce (Lee, 2014). In the restaurant sector, the characteristics ... -
Exploring factors that affect customer satisfaction and dining intention in hotel restaurants compared to stand-alone restaurants
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] With the change of time, more and more hotels have chosen to operate food and beverage departments as separate revenue sectors from room departments, ... -
The efects of psychological ownership on loyal customers' perceptions : applying brand tourism effect and conspicuous consumption to luxury hotel marketing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This study aims to examine the conflict between loyal customers and non-loyal customers in the luxury hotel environment. This research mainly applied the concept of brand tourism effect and employed a 2 (two types of ... -
Climate and land use effects on hydrologic processes and water allocation in a primarily rain-fed, agricultural watershed
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] There is a need to raise our understanding of the impact of climate variability and change on hydrologic processes at the watershed scale. This is ... -
Mothers' cooking stress and family dining out : examining psychological influences and family dining out benefits on mothers' life satisfaction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This study aimed to (1) to examine whether the constructs of dining out constraints (i.e., interpersonal constraint, structural constraint, and intrapersonal constraint) influence the frequency of mothers dining out with ... -
Climate change impacts on hydrologic components and occurrence of drought in an agricultural watershed
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)The study on potential acceleration of future hydrologic cycle due to change in precipitation and increase in temperature are essential for managing natural resources and setting policy. The impact of future climate change ... -
Green solvent-enabled biomass conversion for renewable chemicals and lignin upgrading
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Lignocellulosic biomass, which is mainly composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, is a promising feedstock for producing renewable chemicals and fuels. To make lignocellulosic biomass-based refinery (biorefinery) ... -
Methods of imaging articular cartilage under shear
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)Characterizing both the structure of articular cartilage, and its biomechanical properties is key to gaining a full understanding of how the tissue functions. Articular cartilage is an inhomogeneous tissue with a depth ...