Browsing College of Engineering (MU) by Thesis Semester "2020 Spring"
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Accurate and robust animal species classification in the wild
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Wildlife monitoring with camera-traps allows us to collect data at large scales in space and time to study the impact of climate changes, ... -
Automatic oxygen controller design for premature infants with clinical evaluation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] For premature infants, the peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) level has significant effects on their health. Manual adjustment of fraction ... -
"Bring-your-own" plug-in management for next-generation science gateway applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Science gateways are web-portals that hide background complexities of underlying resources and expose easy-to-use capabilities of scientific ... -
Capturing and managing daily symptoms data in the treatment of autism spectrum disorder using mobile technology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Autism Symptom Disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by difficulties with social interaction and ... -
Challenges and opportunities in diabetes self-management education and support : the analyses of diabetes mobile applications and provider documentation patterns
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Diabetes mellitus is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in the United States. As a disease with long-term complications requiring changes in management, diabetes requires not only education at the time of diagnosis, ... -
Combining shamir and additive secret sharing to improve efficiency of SMC primitives against malicious adversaries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Secure multi-party computation provides a wide array of protocols for mutually distrustful parties be able to securely evaluate functions of private inputs. Within recent years, many such protocols have been proposed ... -
Computational protein structure prediction using deep learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Protein structure prediction is of great importance in bioinformatics and computational biology. Over the past 30 years, many machine learning methods have been developed for this problem in homology-based and ab-initio ... -
Curvilinear segmentation and classification of blood vessels using random forest and deep learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Curvilinear structures occur in many biomedical imagery, and reliable segmentation and classification is crucial for automatic image analysis. In this dissertation, we consider optimized filter bank (OFB) features with ... -
Data mining student activity patterns in an interactive activity-based STEM learning environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Jupyter Notebook is gaining in popularity for STEM instruction and activity-based learning. This platform for sharing interactive documents via a web interface allows instructors to combine a variety of media together with ... -
Deep learning based solutions to biomedical image analysis problems of the upper aerodigestive tract
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Clinical and scientific studies produce an abundance of image and video data. Clinical practice often relies on subjective, qualitative ... -
Dynamic spatio-temporal graph neural networks for hot topic prediction in scientific literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)With information explosion occurring in past decades, the rapid growth of papers published results in the rapid change of hot topics, especially in the biomedical domain. It turns out very hard for researchers who are ... -
The effect of visual inspection reliability on risk-based inspection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Bridge inspection has come a long way from its inception as a component level practice following the Silver Bridge collapse in 1967 to the most recent advancement enacted by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century ... -
Evaluation of process-structure-property relationships of carbon nanotube forests using simulation and deep learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)This work is aimed to explore process-structure-property relationships of carbon nanotube (CNT) forests. CNTs have superior mechanical, electrical and thermal properties that make them suitable for many applications. Yet, ... -
Fabrication of porous, skin-interfaced bioelectronic sensors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Soft on-skin electronics have broad applications in human healthcare, human- machine interface, robotics, and others. However, most current ... -
GIS-based, python modeling of the spatial and temporal distribution of water on the landscape for wetlands decision making
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Wetlands provide many benefits for humans and the natural environment, but land use changes have reduced their number and areal extent. Interest has grown in examining surface water distribution both spatially and temporally, ... -
Innovative immersion approach to retention of African-American 1st year chemical engineers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Students that identify as Black1, chemical engineers, and 1st-year undergraduates face unique circumstances along with perspectives that have not been assessed in depth. This pilot study aims to highlight the challenges ... -
Investigation of smart work zone technologies using mixed simulator and field studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Safety is the top concern in transportation, especially in work zones, as work zones deviate from regular driving environment and driver behavior is very different. In order to protect workers and create a safer work zone ... -
Monitoring of an urban level spreader as part of the collaborative adaptive management process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Irregular flows, such as the high flows caused by stormwater runoff after a rain event are a major cause of stream impairment in urbanized watersheds. The Hinkson Creek CAM (Collaborative Adaptive Management) approach is ... -
Multi-scale self-assembly of nanoenergetic materials utilizing functionalized graphene
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The work described here-in focuses on the synthesis and characterization of novel nanoenergetic materials and is driven by overcoming the disadvantages of traditional nanoenergetic composites, improving the energetic ... -
Multiscale phase change, heat and mass transfer in direct contact membrane distillation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The global water shortage has become a serious threat for the world and the most promising solution for the water issue is the desalination of seawater or brackish water. In this work, direct contact membrane distillation ...