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Linking wetland management decisions to secretive marsh bird habitat use during spring migration and summer breeding on public wetlands in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Dynamic occupancy modeling was used to determine how SMB occupancy and colonization and extinction probabilities were influenced by wetland management practices, including the duration and initiation date of spring water-level ... -
Atypical MVT, Zn-Cu-rich mineralization in the lower portion of the Bonneterre Dolomite, Viburnum Trend, southeast Missouri, U.S.A.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits of the Viburnum Trend are typically lead-dominant (Pb:Zn > 5) and occur mainly in the reef-grainstone facies of the upper Bonneterre Dolomite (Cambrian). Recent drilling has encountered ... -
Working hard or hardly working : career-related magazine headlines and their relation to anxiety in female readers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Career‐related headlines are making their way on to the covers of prominent women's magazines. Publications such as Cosmopolitan and Glamour are working to devote more cover space to the many sub-categories of the working ... -
Picture perfect : representing Argentina, Chile and Uruguay in AFAR, National Geographic Traveler and Travel + Leisure, 2011-2015
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)In a visually driven world, photographs are an imperative part of communication, especially in travel magazines. Over the past decade, only one qualitative study has been completed on images in leisure travel magazines. ... -
Does sex really matter? : the cognitive and emotional effects of sexual explicitness in video advertisements
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The purpose of this study was to examine how variations in explicitness of sexual visual imagery in video ads impact the way young adults cognitively and emotionally process advertising. Experimentation included a ... -
A climatological and contextual analysis of Roman water technologies in Cyprus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This thesis explores the trends of water usage in Cyprus during the Roman period. It seeks to challenge traditional ideas of water usage as a constant off-take system and apply the methods of Andrew Wilson and Zena Kamash ... -
Adding intelligence to a floor based array personnel detector
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)According to the World Health Organization-WHO, a fall is defined, as "inadvertently coming to rest on the ground, floor or other lower level, excluding intentional change in position to rest in furniture, wall or other ... -
Compiler-assisted workload consolidation to efficiently exploit dynamic parallelism for recursive applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)GPUs have been widely used to parallelize and accelerate applications for its high throughput. Traditionally, a GPU function can only be launched from the CPU side. This results in the fact that GPUs are preferable for ... -
The impacts of ion exchange on the volatile composition of wine and the characterization of Missouri wine aromas
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Viticulturists in Midwestern states face climatic challenges in winegrape production, most importantly fluctuating winter temperatures and high humidity throughout the growing season. Research has made significant advances ... -
Predicting surface water profiles in sand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Electromagnetic (EM) wave methods are used in many civil engineering applications for non-destructive investigations such as locating reinforcing steel and voids in concrete, sinkholes, buried utilities, the groundwater ... -
Uses and gratifications of wearable technology adoption
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This study applies the Uses and Gratifications (U and G) approach and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to determine key influencers of wearable technology adoption. Wearable technology (i.e., "wearables") is defined as ... -
Social norming through alcohol advertising and binge drinking on college campuses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Binge drinking is a problem on campuses with alcohol related deaths increasing from 1,440 in 1998 to 1,825 in 2005, a 3 percent increase per 100,000 students (Hingson, Zha, and Weitzman, 2009). It is difficult not to wonder ... -
Electrochemical imaging of quantal exocytosis in single cells
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Microelectrodes are widely used in detection of exocytosis events. In order to detect both the time and release location of quantal exocytosis from a single cell, four square microelectrodes located in a 20 um square ... -
A cinema of confrontation : using a material-semiotic approach to better account for the history and theorization of 1970s independent American horror
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)In The Films in My Life, Francois Truffaut describes how "cinematic success" results from a fragile, temporary confluence of elements: the director, the film itself, and its audience, but also critical reception, marketing, ... -
Reducing chip count with a programmable system on chip in personnel detection using signal scavenging
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Our laboratory has implemented a personnel detection system, Smart Carpet, which can detect the walking of older adults. The existing system consists of traditional individual components and chips, leading to a large system ... -
Software-defined measurement to support programmable networking for SoyKB
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Campuses are increasingly adopting hybrid cloud architectures for supporting big data science applications that require "on-demand" resources, which are not always available locally on-site. Policies at the campus edge for ... -
Indoor scene 3D modeling with single image
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)3D modeling is a fundamental and very important research area in computer vision and computer graphics. One specific category of this research field is indoor scene 3D modeling. Many efforts have been devoted to its ... -
Task driven extended functions of multiple instances (TD-eFUMI)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Dictionary learning techniques have proven to be a powerful method in the pattern recognition literature. Recently supervised dictionary learning has been used to achieve very good results on a number of different data ... -
A quantitative analysis of the effect of textile mill water quality labels on consumer purchace intention for apparel
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This research looks into what information consumers are interested in on hangtags in regards to what they would purchase. More specifically, it looks at the water treatment at the factory the apparel product that the hangtag ... -
Selection for parasite resistance in Kiko x Boer goats
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)In the United States, goat production has increased over the last three decades because of their economic value as efficient converters of low-quality forages in quality meat, milk, and hides for specialty markets. However, ...