Browsing 2016 Theses (MU) by Thesis Semester "2016 Spring"
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Collaboration and separation : how news companies find innovation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This research examines issues arising when employees at news media companies attempt to collaborate with each other to create, develop and execute strategies intended to enhance the organization's financial standing. The ... -
Conscious branding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this study is to define conscious branding and examine the visual features used by conscious versus traditional brands on Instagram ... -
Constraining the timing of graben initiation in the central Afar using fluvial knickpoint erosion and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Afar region constitutes the diffuse ridge-ridge-ridge triple junction adjoining the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Main Ethiopian Rifts. Extension in ... -
Convolutional Neural Network architectures for digit recognition system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Rapidly evolving of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) appeals and endeavors us to explore and discover various CNN model's robustness leading to ... -
Copland in pursuit of Neoclassicism : a speculative discourse on his "leftist" politics, his interpretation of Mahler, and their confrontation at the third symphony
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3 (1946) is widely agreed to be not only one of the composer's finest accomplishments, but also one of the greatest American achievements in the genre. From his roots as a modernist composer ... -
Courtly anger, beastly violence, and the animal-affective prosthetic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This project is an examination of four medieval romances that feature human-animal contact: Marie de France's Lai of Bisclavret, the Latin Narratio de Arthuro Rege Britanniae et Rege Gorlagon lycanthropo, Chretien de Troyes' ... -
Covariance methods in nonlinear model identification
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In many practical engineering and machine learning applications, it is necessary to identify an unknown transformation that maps a known or measured ... -
Crime in the city : understanding geospatial relationships among crime and the urban landscape
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The physical structure of the urban environment can have profound influence on the way space is used. Research in urban planning has indicated that ... -
Crisis communication : corporate social responsibility in Organizational Renewal Theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This study further develops Organizational Renewal Theory through the incorporation of corporate social responsibility as a feature of a post crisis response strategy. Internal publics (e.g., employees of an organization, ... -
Cross-cultural audience comprehension and engagement : a study of the effects of data visualization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)In recent years, data journalism and data visualization has become an emerging and trendy field in online journalism. It is an approach adopted by many news organizations in an attempt to fit for audiences' increasing ... -
Daily relationship interventions : an integrative review
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] For decades scholars have observed the individual and societal costs of relationship instability. Due to these costs, state and federal agencies have ... -
Damping and stiffening forces of a squeeze-film between two plates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Silicon microstructures, especially sensors and actuators, are characterized by squeeze film between the moving elements and the fixed substrates. The effect of the squeeze film has been represented by the damping effect ... -
A data acquisition system that uses signal scavenging to detect activity on floor pads
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] We designed a data acquisition system to scan data from four sensors on a pad using the smart carpet technology. We constructed and tested four data ... -
"The Dead, the dead, the dead" : encountering loss in Civil War poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This Master's thesis presents a detailed examination of the ways in which Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman struggled to incorporate ... -
The depiction of smell in fifteenth-century Netherlandish painting as cultural sense memory and odor-cued prayer context
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)In the region now known as Belgium, fifteenth-century painters began to exploit the new medium of oil paint to achieve greater realism. This was to remove the barrier between painting and viewer. Odors such as flowers, ... -
Design and analysis of super wideband microstrip antennas for parameter optimization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this work, two super wideband microstrip antennas have been proposed, studied, and analyzed through industry standard simulation suite. The first ... -
Design and implementation of orthopedic trauma surgery rehabilitation and health monitoring system (OTSRS)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] A very common problem relating to rehabilitation of orthopedic trauma surgery is that patients do not have access, whether for financial reasons or ... -
Diet shifts provoke complex and variable changes in the metabolic networks of the ruminal microbiome
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Grazing mammals rely on their ruminal microbial symbionts to convert plant structural biomass into metabolites they can assimilate. To explore how this complex metabolic system adapts to the host animal's diet, we inferred ... -
Effect of pre-ovulatory follicle size on oocyte transcript abundance in beef cows
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Inadequate oocyte competence is a potential explanation for reduced pregnancy rates and(or) increased late embryonic mortality when small dominant follicles are induced to ovulate prematurely with gonadotropin releasing ... -
Effects of menthol on swallowing function in a mouse model of presbyphagia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The goal of this study was to characterize the progression of presbyphagia in our recently established mouse model and investigate the treatment effect ...