Browsing 2014 MU theses - Access restricted to MU by Thesis Semester "2014 Spring"
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Adobe materials for structural walls
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Application-driven overlay network as a service for data-intensive science
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Campuses are increasingly adopting hybrid cloud architectures for supporting data-intensive science applications that require "on-demand" resources, ... -
A case of uncertainty in the vertical integration decision
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Since the 1970s, sugar beet processors in the United States have undergone a shift from investor-owned firms to producer-owned firms. In 1970, all nine ... -
A deeper sense of truth : William T. Vollmann's Seven Dreams Series and experiencing history
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Design and analysis of reconfigurable phased array antenna for wireless local area network applications
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A detection based sport player tracker
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Currently, the sliding windows framework dominates the object detection task for its good performance. But the computational cost of this approach is ... -
A distributed CPU-GPU framework for large-scale pairwise alignment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Several problems in computational biology require the all-against-all pairwise comparisons of tens of thousands of individual biological sequences. ... -
Engineering-based analysis of pre-development hydrology stormwater policy for transportation applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Ongoing concern over water quality impacts from development has prompted consideration of a return to pre-development hydrology as a possible solution ... -
Ensemble video object cut in highly dynamic scenes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] We consider video object cut as an ensemble of framelevel background-foreground object classifiers which fuses information across frames and refine ... -
Experience, awareness, and regulation of mixed emotions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Literature on relationships of emotions to psychological adjustment has mainly focused on unitarily valenced affect (i.e., positive or negative emotions). ... -
Exploring the career development of Latino English language learners in a rural midwest high school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The population of Latina/o foreign-born adolescents is significantly increasing in the United States, consequently populating schools, and diversifying ... -
Federal employee satisfaction : factors influencing the perception of the public servant experience
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Previous scholarship has identified employee job satisfaction as an important driver in executing organizational objectives and satisfied employees are ... -
How zenith angle of cross product affects NVP feature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Recent dramatic advance in visual recognition hardware has made some promising progress. For instance, the impact of the recent emerging low-cost depth ... -
Influence of Manganese and other micronutrients on soybean yield and seed quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Soybean (Gycine max [L.] Merr.) is the most popular oil seed crop in the United States and is the most widely planted row crop in the state of Missouri. ... -
Ion-induced graphite radiation damage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The fast particle radiation damage effect of graphite, a main material in current and future nuclear reactors, has significant influence on the utilization ... -
Katrina's other disaster : examining second disaster literature and placing post-Katrina New Orleans
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This thesis examines the literary treatment of the time period following major natural and manmade disasters known as the "second disaster," which this ... -
Longitudinal evaluation of effects of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells in a model of feline allergic asthma
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Asthma is characterized by airway inflammation, airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), and structural changes in the lungs. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) ... -
Microfabrication of variable range and multi-directionally sensitive thermal flow sensor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This investigation reports the design, computational simulation, fabrication and characterization of a variable range and multi-directionally sensitive ... -
Object detection and classification using shape feature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] We develop a set of methods to represent and detect shapes in images. We first develop new shape descriptors that are robust to deformation while being ... -
Object detection with Kinect sensor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.]