Browsing University of Missouri-Kansas City by Thesis Semester "2010 Fall"
Now showing items 41-44 of 44
-
VirtualMindTrial: An Intelligent Questionnaire System for Clinical Trail Recruitment
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2010)The recruitment of human subjects for clinical trials research is a critically important step in the discovery of new cures for diseases. Volunteers are subjected to an elaborate questionnaire process in current recruitment ... -
Visual narratives and the portrait busts of Edmonia Lewis
(2011)This study considers the social and historical significance of the extant portrait busts sculpted by Edmonia Lewis. The Afro-Native American artist is best known for her thematic sculptures such as Forever Free (1867), ... -
Volatility-Aware Query Processing in Peer-to-Peer Systems
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2010)Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm has been recognized as a disruptive technology that can aggregate enormous storage and processing resources for information sharing and distributed computing. This paradigm has received significant ... -
The Work of Contemplation Then and Now: The Cloud of Unknowing and Present-Day Christian Mystical Practice
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous fourteenth-century Middle English mystical text that discusses what its author calls the “work” of contemplation. In the late twentieth century, the Cloud became an important resource ...