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Dashboard design and usability study for geospatially enabled information seeking to assist pandemic response and resilience
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Counties in Missouri are primarily rural. Rural communities often consist of individuals with poor health, lower economic status, and lack of public health infrastructure. During the COVID- 19 pandemic, most research was ... -
Location prediction and trajectory optimization in multi-UAV application missions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Unmanned aerial vehicles (a.k.a. drones) have a wide range of applications in e.g., aerial surveillance, mapping, imaging, monitoring, maritime operations, parcel delivery, and disaster response management. Their operations ... -
E-scooter simulator development and applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Although electric scooters have brought a lot of convenience to people's lives, the laws and regulations related to it are just being developed, and the number of people injured by electric scooters is increasing every ... -
Migrations of love and circumstance: a history of intimacy and policy in the migration of Italian war brides, 1943-1954
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)In the spring of 1946, the foreign brides and children of American soldiers from the Second World War migrated to the United States through mass migrations coordinated by the War Department. This project contextualizes the ... -
Neotectonic assessment of the southern Wassuk Range, western Nevada
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Active deformation across western North America is distributed across a broad zone spanning from the San Andreas fault system to the Basin and Range Province. The Wassuk Range fault zone (WRFZ), located within the Walker ... -
Cytoprotection and neural regeneration in peripheral nerve injury
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Neural injuries are some of the most common ailments presented in the clinic, affecting up to 20 million Americans. While a number of treatments have been studied, many of their drawbacks outweigh their advantages, so new ... -
Direct laser scribed MoO2-based materials and their applications in bioelectronics and soft robotics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Overcoming the disadvantages of rigid traditional electronic materials, flexible epidermal electronics with soft, elastic and mechanically conformable characteristics are capturing wide attention. In order to meet the ... -
Comparison of measured resistance for drilled shafts socketed in weak rock in Oklahoma to previously established SPT and TCP-based predictive design relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The design of drilled shafts socketed in shale and other weak rock is challenging for a multitude of reasons. Sites may be difficult to characterize because the materials may quickly degrade upon sampling. The materials ... -
ClaimChain: secure Blockchain platform for handling insurance claims processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Insurance claims processing involves multi-domain entities and multi-source data, along with a number of human-agent interactions. Consequently, this processing is traditionally manually-intensive and time-consuming. ... -
Understanding acceptance of Autonomous Mobility Services using statistical and deep learning approaches
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The emergence of vehicle automation and its subsequent growth has led to new transport service offerings, generally known as Autonomous Mobility Services (AMS), that have the potential to facilitate or even replace ... -
Securing cloud-hosted applications using active defense with rule-based adaptations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Security cloud-based applications is a dynamic problem since modern attacks are always evolving in their sophistication and disruption impact. Active defense is a state-of-the-art paradigm where proactive or reactive ... -
Evaluating effects of neonicotinoid seed treatments and agroecosystem land management practices on solitary bees in Midwestern agroecosystems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Bees are declining due to multiple factors including habitat loss and non-target exposure to pesticides resulting from agricultural intensification. Solitary bees are often overlooked as important pollinators, but they are ... -
From biomass to wearable devices: laser-induced graphene derived from lignin for ultrasensitive sensing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Laser-indued graphene (LIG) is 3D porous structure with many promising properties. Lignin-based precursor has shown its unique properties in generating high quality LIG among various organic carbon-based substrates. In ... -
Evaluating the effects of choice across varying levels of preferred items
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The current study compared the differential effects of choice and no-choice conditions on skill acquisition, when provided as a consequence and when choice conditions involved the opportunity to choose from an array of ... -
Bacterial culture and susceptibility of samples taken from septic foot lesions of adult beef cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Lameness is an economically important and common disease of cattle. Foot disease is the most common cause of cattle lameness; however, there are few publications regarding lameness in cow-calf operations. The objectives ... -
Associations between genetic risk for trait aggression and alcohol use predicting alcohol-related aggression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)A propensity for aggression and/or alcohol use may be associated with alcoholrelated aggression. Previous research has shown genetic overlap between alcohol use and aggression, but has not looked at how alcohol-related ... -
Taxonomy, taphonomy, and ecology of Silurian (late Telychian) conulariids from the Waukesha Lagerstatte, Wisconsin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The Silurian (late Telychian Stage) Brandon Bridge Formation, Wisconsin, USA, hosts a diverse biota including arthropods, annelids, graptolites, brachiopods, corals, sponges, and algae, some of which exhibit exceptional ... -
Remodeling the narrative of women and the built environment in the Middle Ages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Scholarship on the design, construction, decoration, and reception of the built environment during the medieval era has tended to focus on men as the primary makers and default users of this environment. However, recent ... -
The influence of menstrual cycle and oral contraceptive pill phases on the vascular response to hypoxia and sympathetic activation in healthy young women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)INTRODUCTION: Hypoxia elicits peripheral vasodilation to preserve blood flow to metabolically active tissue and is accompanied by an increase in muscle sympathetic nervous system activity (MSNA). Prior data predominantly ... -
The instituionalization of the public school system in Missouri: 1865-1882
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)By the early 1870s, the public school system in Missouri became an embedded institution in the state's cultural and political fabric. This thesis provides an explanation of how and why Missouri powerholders solidified a ...