• Potential agricultural insecticide exposure of Indiana bats (Myotis Sodalis) in Missouri 

  McFarland, Craig A. (1998)

  The type and distribution of agrochemical insecticides routinely applied to the major field crops in northern Missouri were described and shown to be coincident with the summer/maternity range of the endangered Indiana bat ...

• Experimental assessment of advanced thermal imaging for detecting voids in ducts 

  Dawson, James (2017)

  This research will evaluate the ability of a transient based Infrared Thermography (IRT) technology called the Infrared Ultra Time Domain (IR-UTD) system to detect defects in Post Tensioned (PT) ducts. In recent years, ...

• Dynamic response of cold-formed steel roof trusses subject to blast load 

  Clayton, Gabriela Alexandria (2017)

  The popularity of cold-formed steel building components has seen rapid growth in recent years due to its low cost, high strength, and ability to accommodate restrictive design constraints. Despite its extensive use, blast ...

• Analysis of the information needs of primary care physicians in an electronic health record (EHR) 

  Clarke, Martina A. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)

  BACKGROUND: With the increase in the adoption of electronic health records (EHR) across the US, clinicians are experiencing information overload. In order to address the problem of information overload, an assessment of ...

• Oxidized mesoporous ZrO2/carbon composites for arsenic removal 

  Zhang, Lingxuan (2017)

  This study is mainly focused on the synthesis and characterization of oxidized mesoporous ZrO2/Carbon composites, determining the best air oxidation time, and comparing the adsorption performances of arsenate on oxidized ...

• Biochar and compost application effects on grapevine growth and physiology 

  Weber, Timothy D. (2017)

  Biochar has the potential to be a local and renewable resource produced from waste byproducts that can replenish soils and build fertility. The objective of this research was to determine if biochar is a useful soil amendment ...

• The Panama Papers : collaboration and the data/story searching mechanisms In the international investigative journalism project 

  Naskidashvili, Nana (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  The Panama Papers was a global project that united approximately 400 journalists worldwide. Their investigations are based on 11.5 million leaked files. This research studied how journalists collaborated with each other ...

• Biochemical characteristics of different subtypes of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase and its interactions with the host factor : apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like 3g 

  Kim, Seongmi (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is divided into type 1 (HIV-1) and type 2 (HIV-2). Whereas HIV-2 accounts for 5% of global infections, HIV-1 is responsible for 95% of the global pandemic. HIV-1 is classified into four ...

• Stimulus specific adaptation in the hearing system of Neoconocephalus katydids (insecta : orthoptera) 

  Johnson, Luesoni D. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Stimulus Specific Adaptation (SSA) is a fundamental response that identifies novel signals within a repetitive background noise. It is well characterized in the vertebrate auditory system, but has been studied only in a ...

• Using Facebook for queering Islam 

  Iftekhar, Anadil (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  This study addresses the discourses surrounding queer Muslims by Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV). MPV, a non-profit rights organization based out of the US, advocates for LGBTQ rights within Islam and has used theological ...

• Kinematic analysis of the Debeque Landslide using radar interferometry and change-detection photogrammetry, Mesa County, CO 

  Hickcox, Kelly (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  The Debeque Landslide is an active landslide impacting I-70 in Western Colorado that is the result of displacement along the southern wall of an approximately 150m deep canyon incised into the Mesa Verde Group by the ...

• Synthesis of ethylene glycol polymerized MIL-125 and their application in arsenic adsorption 

  He, Huanchen (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Arsenic in drinking water poses a great threat to human health. While many methods have been examined for arsenic treatment such as coagulation/filtration, reverse osmosis, ion exchange and adsorption, the efficiency of ...

• Study of nuclear transmutation using Cyclotron for post-CMOS activation of Beta emitters 

  Barnhart, Benjamin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  A study of post-CMOS fabrication process for radioisotope activation produced by nuclear transmutation is presented. Activation of the precursor occurs by nuclear transmutation and results in the desired beta emitting ...

• Mobile banking : what drives consumer adoption 

  Zirk, Elizabeth M. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  There’s an app for that! Thanks to smartphone penetration, one technological revolution has spawned the creation of countless mobile innovations, including mobile banking which allows users to manage their finances from ...

• Effects of expressing emotion and altering loco color in organizational crisis responses 

  Won, Jiyoung (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  A crisis is inevitable. Any organization needs crisis communication plans and response strategies to protect themselves from reputational damage. This study examines whether employing sadness-expressive words and black-and-white ...

• Energy-aware mobile edge computing for low-latency visual data processing 

  Trinh, Huy (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  New paradigms such as Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) are becoming feasible for use in e.g., real-time decision-making during disaster incident response to handle the data deluge occurring in the network edge. However, MEC ...

• Performance/accuracy trade-offs of floating-point arithmetic on NVidia GPUs : from a characterization to an auto-tuner 

  Surineni, Sruthikesh (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Floating-point computations produce approximate results, possibly leading to inaccuracy and reproducibility problems. Existing work addresses two issues: first, the design of high precision floating-point representations, ...

• Acoustic feature-based sentiment analysis of call center data 

  Peng, Zeshan (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  With the advancement of machine learning methods, audio sentiment analysis has become an active research area in recent years. For example, business organizations are interested in persuasion tactics from vocal cues and ...

• Development of predictive models for the coalescence of fused deposition modeling fibers 

  Nguyen, Quan Hong (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is the prominent manufacturing method for fabricating end-use parts due to the ability to build complicated structures. In order to be used confidentially in the industry requires a thorough ...

• Dolus : cyber defense using pretense against DDoS attacks in cloud platforms 

  Neupane, Roshan Lal (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Cloud-hosted services are being increasingly used in online businesses in e.g., retail, healthcare, manufacturing, entertainment due to benefits such as scalability and reliability. These benefits are fueled by innovations ...

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