Browsing Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2021 Fall"
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A Narrative Analysis of Spiritual Coping in Individuals with Terminal Heart Failure
(2021)Approximately 6 million Americans have heart failure with treatment costs estimated at $30.7 billion annually. Those in late stages of the disease experience profound physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering. Spiritual ... -
A study of carbon and iron charged point defects in gallium nitride: electronic structure implications for high-power photoconductive solid state switch applications
(2021)There is growing demand for high-performance electronics in high volt- age, high current, and high frequency efficiency requirements that current materials (e.g., Si) are not fulfilling. Within the last few years, the ... -
AI-based Edge Computing System for Event Based Analytics
(2021)In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has received lots of attention due to its promising applications. Along with IoT evolution, we have witnessed advanced research for edge computing and its potential benefits ... -
An Approach For Scalable First-Order Rule Learning On Twitter Data
(2021)Scalable Rule Learning (SRLearn) is a scalable divide-and-conquer approach with graph-based modeling of social media data, to scale up first-order rule learning through Markov Logic Networks on a commodity cluster on large ... -
Bugs, Drugs and Data: Antibiotic Resistance, Prevalence and Prediction of Bug-Drug Mismatch using Electronic Health Records (EHR) Data
(2021)Bug-Drug Mismatch (BDM) occurrences are an important and modifiable category of inappropriate antibiotic therapy (IAAT) that increases adverse outcomes for patients and drives overall antibiotic resistance (AR). Surveillance ... -
Building a reliable and secure management framework for software-defined networks
(2021)The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies promise to enhance the performance and cost of managing both wired and wireless network infrastructures, functions, controls, and services (i.e., Internet of Things). ... -
CHamorus' Narratives and Perceptions of Historical Trauma and Contemporary Health in Guam
(2021)Historical trauma refers to the generationally transferred human consequences of cultural oppression in a population associated with colonization, slavery, and genocide. Historical trauma theory suggests that such trauma ... -
Deep learning-based artifacts removal in video compression
(2021)The block-based coding structure in the hybrid video coding framework inevitably introduces compression artifacts such as blocking, ringing, etc. To compensate for those artifacts, extensive filtering techniques were ... -
Design of Multi-modality Deep Fusion Architecture for Deep Acoustic Analytics
(2021)There is increasing attention for audio classification research to support various emerging applications, including environmental monitoring, health care, and smart city. Audio classification is an important area of research ... -
Enhanced Etoposide Solubility and Anticancer Activity using Complexation and Nanotechnology
(2021)Etoposide is a first line treatment for different cancer types that can be used either alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents. However, systemic toxicity, variable oral bioavailability, and high drug resistance ... -
FedSmarteum: Secure Federated Matrix Factorization Using Smart Contracts for Multi-Cloud Supply Chain
(2021)With increased awareness comes unprecedented expectations. We live in a digital, cloud era wherein the underlying information architectures are expected to be elastic, secure, resilient, and handle petabyte scaling. The ... -
Hydrolysis and aqueous corrosion of silicate and aluminosilicate glasses via ab initio molecular dynamics simulation
(2021)Hydrolysis and aqueous corrosion of glass is a complex and puzzling phenomenon. Although many endeavors have been made to investigate corrosion in glass, it is still an open question with many unanswered fundamental issues. ... -
Memories of My Hometown
(2021)My orchestral piece, Memories of My Hometown, has two movements: I. Pine Trees Standing on the Snowy Mountain; II. Passionate Land. After studying abroad for many years, I yearned for my hometown in China and hoped to ... -
Molecular mechanism, binding free energy, and sequence selectivity of intercalation of doxorubicin and DNA
(2021)Many drugs interact noncovalently with DNA either by groove binding or intercalation. Intercalation is a key process in drug discovery and biosensor development. Doxorubicin (DOX) is an intercalator drug that treats a wide ... -
Multiple-valued logic: technology and circuit implementation
(2021)Computing technologies are currently based on the binary logic/number system, which is dependent on the simple on and off switching mechanism of the prevailing transistors. With the exponential increase of data processing ... -
Novel nanocarriers to improve drug delivery for age-related macular degeneration
(2021)Visual impairment affecting the posterior segment of the eye is a significant health problem causing a deterioration of the quality of life of millions worldwide. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is ranked third on ... -
Nursing Faculty's Experience of Faculty Bullying and its Impacts: A Qualitative Study
(2021)Faculty bullying is an ongoing problem in United States’ nursing schools as it can negatively affect the physical and psychological well-being of the targeted individuals, their careers, and the workplace environment. ... -
Reliability management framework for softwarized networks
(2021)The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies promise to enhance the performance, reliability, and cost of managing both wired and wireless network infrastructures, functions, controls, and services (i.e., Internet ... -
RF coupling to realistic wire systems in complex environments
(2021)With the continuous emergence of new wireless technologies, the possibility of unintentional electromagnetic interference (EMI) increases significantly. EMI coupling pathways to any Device Under Test (DUT) can be classified ... -
Second chance competitive autoencoders for understanding textual data
(2021)Every day, an enormous amount of text data is produced. Sources of text data include news, social media, emails, text messages, medical reports, scientific publications, and fiction. To keep track of this data, there are ...