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The School of Graduate Studies is responsible for monitoring compliance to the campuswide minimum graduate academic regulations. Working with and through the Graduate Council and Graduate Officers Committee, the School also provides leadership and coordination of all graduate programs, offers programs to prepare graduate students for faculty positions in a variety of educational settings, and administers a number of competitive graduate fellowships.
The School also serves as the academic and administrative home for students admitted to the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program.
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A study of remote sensing based natural and built environment monitoring: from fully supervised to weakly supervised learning
(2024)Remote Sensing (RS) has been one of the pivotal technologies in the monitoring of natural and built environments and has been widely applied for disaster monitoring, damage detection for civil structures and infrastructure, ... -
The history of mindfulness in schools
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2024)This dissertation is about mindfulness in schools. In this dissertation, I define mindfulness and explore how mindfulness emerged from the east to the west and how it manifested in modern American life. I then explore ... -
Building trust in autonomous systems with an AI framework for privacy, safety, and reliability in data, software, and robotics
(2024)In this research, we propose an innovative framework designed to enhance privacy, safety, and reliability in data science, software development, and AI-empowered robotics, with a primary focus on building trust in autonomous ... -
Design and optimization of an ultra-compact thermal management system integrated with micro-fins for high power applications
(2024)High-power semiconductors require powerful and compact cooling systems in order to maintain operational capabilities. A key component that requires significant heat extraction (several hundreds of watts up to 1 kW) are ... -
A randomized controlled trial comparing a companion dog walking intervention to an attention control education intervention on the psychological health of adult intensive care unit survivors: the POOCH study
(2024)Intensive care unit (ICU) survivors are at risk for persistent anxiety and depression after hospital discharge that contribute to the psychological component of post intensive care syndrome (PICS). Quality evidence supporting ... -
The effect of one-to-one device initiatives on math and English language arts academic achievement in secondary schools
(2024)The purpose of this non-experimental, quantitative study was to determine the effectiveness of one-to-one device initiatives in a secondary school setting. Not only was this study focused on the academic achievement of all ... -
Clean intermittent catheterization determinants and caregiver adherence in pediatric patients with spinal dysraphism and spinal cord injury: a mixed methods study
(2024)Background: Clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) is the standard of care for treating neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction (NLUTD), the most common bladder dysfunction in children diagnosed with spinal dysraphism ... -
Weisfeiler-Leman graph kernels for the out-of-distribution characterization of graph structured data
(2024)This thesis presents a new metric named Graph Distributional Analytics (GDA). This approach uses Weisfeiler-Leman kernels, cosine similarity, and traditional statistical metrics to better characterize graph-structured data. ... -
Women get tough on crime: punitive populism in Argentina
(2024)In the 2023 presidential election in Argentina, political outsider Javier Milei shocked observers with his victory over the center-left career politician and sitting finance minister, Sergio Massa. Exceeding expectations, ... -
Multi-scale deep-learning approaches for visual coding and processing
(2024)Visual information can be captured in both 2D and 3D formats. For example, an image is a 2D representation while a point cloud is a 3D representation. A sequence of images captured to represent a certain duration of an ... -
Quantifying communication device vulnerabilities: assessing energy requirements through front door and back door coupling
(2024)In modern military operations, the disruption of enemy communication systems is crucial for mission success. High-Power Electromagnetic (HPEM) attacks offer a method to disable electronic communication devices by generating ... -
Regulation of the development and regeneration of the zebrafish posterior lateral line
(2024)Mechanosensory hair cells located in the inner ear mediate the sensations of hearing and balance. If damaged, mammalian inner ear hair cells are unable to regenerate, resulting in permanent sensory deficits. Damage to hair ... -
Performance optimization of low-to-moderate temperature thermal systems: a multi-pronged investigation
(2024)Solar energy plays a vital role for the future of clean energy production due to its availability all year round. To harvest solar energy, solar collectors are used, where they can be classified into categories of concentrating ... -
Software vulnerability detection via graph neural networks
(2024)Detecting vulnerabilities in source code is a critical task for software security assurance. Recent research underscores the efficacy of Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based techniques in the binary classification of code ... -
Effective testing of next-generation access control policies
(2024)The NGAC (Next Generation Access Control) standard for attribute-based access control (ABAC) allows for run-time changes of the permission and prohibition configurations through administrative obligations triggered by ... -
Social exclusion, internalizing/externalizing behaviors, and cooperation in middle childhood
(2024)Cooperation is a complex prosocial behavior shaped by social experiences and perceptions of others' cooperativeness. In adults, social exclusion and high levels of internalizing/externalizing (I/E) behaviors can reduce ... -
Examining changes in neurofilament light chain following a behavioral weight loss intervention for adults with multiple sclerosis and obesity
(2024)Background: Obesity is associated with higher relapse rates and faster disease progression in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). It is unknown if weight loss is associated with reduced MS disease activity. The present study examines ... -
The relation between abortion stigma and psychological functioning: exploring the roles of reproductive justice activism and abortion identity centrality
(2024)Studies have found a strong relation between abortion stigma and psychological functioning, suggesting that the more stigma someone assigns to their experience of an abortion, the poorer their mental health outcomes. Since ... -
“I can't. I just can't anymore!”: considering the impact of microaggressions and discrimination on binge eating behavior among black women
(2024)Extant research suggests that dietary restraint, emotion dysregulation, and stress are significant predictors of binge eating. Although Black women report the highest rates of binge eating behavior across all racial and ... -
The Lamb
(2024)The Lamb is a feature length screenplay about a teenage boy named Eddie Bluth who lives with his mother Janie Flores in a small Missouri town. He often visits his father Bobby Bluth who lives nearby and runs a small-time ...