• Behind human faces : how exemplars experience the news process 

  Allison, Alexis (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  Journalists often seek to put a "human face" on a systemic issue. The resulting source is an exemplar, or person whose story serves to illustrate a greater phenomenon. Journalism scholarship has examined why and how ...

• The use of writing strategies to increase organ donation intentions 

  Tang, Jinwen (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  Organ shortage has been a big problem for a relatively long time. A variety of interventions from the policy level to the individual level have been used to expand the organ donation pool. The goal of this project is to ...

• Detection of phythium spp. in gold course irrigation systems 

  Rushford, Clayton A. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  Many Pythium spp. are causal agents of disease on creeping bentgrass putting greens. Phytopathogenic Pythium spp. are known to disseminate through irrigation systems in agricultural settings, and this study provides evidence ...

• Consortium blockchain management with a peer reputation system for critical information sharing 

  Purohit, Soumya (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  Blockchain technology based applications are emerging to establish distributed trust amongst organizations who want to share critical information for mutual benefit amongst their peers. There is a growing need for consortium ...

• Effects of the bovine slick mutation on heat stress responses and hair growth in mice 

  Perry, Shelbi Danielle (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  The bovine slick mutations result from more than one allele variant causing a slick hair phenotype and improved thermotolerance to elevated ambient temperatures in cattle. These mutations result in the truncation of the ...

• Adversarial robustness of deep learning enabled industry 4.0 prognostics 

  Mode, Gautam Raj (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  The advent of Industry 4.0 in automation and data exchange leads us toward a constant evolution in smart manufacturing environments, including extensive utilization of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Deep Learning (DL). ...

• Clinical interventions for HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (hand) : a systematic review 

  Mitchell, Hannah Marie (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  Despite the widespread use of antiretroviral therapy, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND) continues to be one of the most common central nervous system (CNS) complications of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), ...

• Ballistocardiography : physically-based modeling to bridge physiology and technology 

  Marazzi, Nicholas Mattia (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  The ballistocardiogram (BCG) captures the motion of the center of mass (CoM) of the human body resulting from the blood motion within the circulatory system. The BCG signal reflects the status of the cardiovascular system ...

• Exploring factors associated with free and reduced-price lunch participation in missouri school districts 

  Mangoni, Gloria Ndindir (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  Participation in school meal programs is critical for meeting the most vulnerable children's daily food requirements while allowing School Food Authorities to get reimbursed for the meal provided and thus continue to run ...

• Rapid detection of pesticide residues in foods using surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy coupled with gold nanostars 

  Lin, Min-Hui (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  Constant monitoring pesticide residues in foods is an essential part of food safety. In recent years, there is a growing concern about food issues in agricultural products. Tradition testing methods such as high-performance ...

• Lignin dissolution in deep eutectic solvents : a molecular dynamics study 

  Li, Qianwei (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have shown great potential on lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment. Many DESs are capable of extracting lignin from biomass and dissolving hemicellulose while preserving most of cellulose in ...

• Experimental evaluation of laminated glass interlayer polymers at various strain rates and temperatures 

  Knight, Jonathan Taylor (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  The use of blast-resistant glazing, such as laminated glass in buildings can greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the hazard of flying glass shards. In a failure event, fractured glass shards adhere to the polymer interlayer, ...

• Anisotropy and mantle flow of the Indo-Burma subduction zone from shear wave splitting and shear wave splitting tomography 

  Islam, Md Mohimanul (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  The Indo-Burma subduction zone lies on the eastern boundary of the 1500 km long Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt. Despite highly oblique plate motion with limited arc development, convergence is still ongoing with the potential ...

• Body-worn accelerometer-based health assessment algorithms for independent living older adults 

  Howe, Lia (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  The mainstream smart wearable products used for activity trackers have experienced significant growth recently. Among the older population, collecting long periods of activity data in a real-life setting is challenging ...

• Evaluation of vmpfc-amygdala resting state functional connectivity as a transdiagnostic moderator of momentary sadness and rumination 

  Fleming, Megan N. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  Rumination has been identified as a transdiagnostic feature of emotional distress disorders that exacerbates symptoms of anxiety and depression. It is thought that rumination may be due in part to heightened resting state ...

• Polynomial system identification modeling and adaptive model predictive control of arterial oxygen saturation in premature infants 

  Dutton, Richard H. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  The automation of the regulation of the fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) in neonatal mechanical ventilation to treat respiratory distress syndrome has proven challenging due to competing objectives: maintaining arterial ...

• An evaluation of waste plastic in asphalt pavement towards a circular economy 

  Chen, Shishi (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  Incorporating waste plastic into asphalt pavement is an evolving recycling strategy based on a circular economy approach. Dow has cooperated with MU to use optimal recycle plastic to target better pavement performance with ...

• "Slaves to rum" : alcohol, temperance, and race in America, 1800-1920 

  Tor, Mackenzie (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Black men and women heralded the cause of the temperance movement, the organized push to ...

• Application of deep reinforcement learning for battery design 

  Liu, Dongpeng (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The conventional material research and development are mainly driven by human intuition, labor, and manual decision. It is ineffective and inefficient. ...

• Development of a four-wheeled robotic platform for autonomous inspection 

  Gao, Wenxin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] There is a significant need of developing advanced robots to mitigate the time-consuming and labor-intensive maintenance and examination of the heat ...

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