• Age-dependent branching processes and applications to the Luria-Delbrck experiment 

    Oveys, Hesam (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    Microbial populations adapt to their environment by acquiring advantageous mutations, but in the early twentieth century, questions about how these organisms acquire mutations arose. The experiment of Salvador Luria and ...
  • Effective numerical methods to model dynamic behavior of springs with torsion 

    Fernando, E. Dilan (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    The purpose of this thesis is to find effective algorithms to numerically solve certain systems of differential equations that arise from standard Newtonian mechanics. Numerical models of elastica has already been well ...
  • Expectation of p-norm of random matrices with heavy tails 

    Vaidyanathan, Chandrasekar, 1975- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
    The p-norm (p > 2) of a random matrix whose entries are gaussian, subgaussian and log concave have been studied previously. We conjecture the following generalization of the above results for heavy tailed random matrices: ...
  • Incorporation of directionally dependent diffusion with polymer composite flow theory 

    Jack, David Abram, 1977- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
    The extensive industrial use of short-fiber reinforced polymer composites demands an accurate understanding of fiber orientation kinematics. There is a growing concern in recent literature with the popular Folgar and Tucker ...
  • Sequences of rank-1 projections and Gabor tight fusion frames 

    Tuomanen, Brian (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
    This dissertation provides new results in two areas. The first part concerns the particular properties that are inherited by a sequence of rank-1 projections from the inducing sequence of unit-norm vectors. The second part ...
  • Shapley-like values without symmetry 

    Clark, Jacob North (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
    Following the work of Shapley on the Shapley value [16], and further work of Owen [14], we offer an alternative formulation of and path to and through the work of Weber in his paper on efficient but not symmetric cooperative ...