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H2 control of singularly perturbed aircraft system

Zaveri, Viral Shailesh (Wichita State University, 2011-07)

The objective of this research is to develop an analytical approach to control two-time-scale systems operating under certain noise parameters. This approach addresses two important design criteria: augmentation of large-scale ...
The handmaidens’ plight: an investigation of survivor ideologies of marginalized Asian women

Kwa, Gladys Siok-Hian (Wichita State University, 2012-05)

Many subjugated Asian women have been overwhelmed and expunged by their traumatic ordeals, and yet many have emerged triumphant despite inconceivable odds to proclaim their tragic narratives, even as they undergo great ...
Have delayed independence and poor initial institutions been economically costly for Latin Americans?

Saloga, Clinton W. (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

This paper tests the hypothesis that the timing of independence in Latin America and the institutions in place at the time of independence had a joint effect on the developmental paths of the countries. A new variable ...
Head and neck injury analysis due to fall at the aircraft entry door

Dhillon, Kyle (Wichita State University, 2007-05)

Falls are one of the most common causes of injury among young children and have been recognized as a major cause of death and disability worldwide among children 1-3 years old. A characteristic of injuries among very young ...
Health care occupations: road to success or path to dead end?

Tiemeyer, Stacy (Wichita State University, 2010-05)

Health care provides an attractive career choice for individuals seeking employment in a growing field with livable wages and quality benefits. Jobs in health care services are projected to increase significantly in the ...
Heuristics for energy efficient vehicle routing problem

Talaei, Majid (Wichita State University, 2012-12)

US logistics cost of 1.397 trillion dollars in 2007, which stands for more that 10 percent of the total GDP of the country justifies any attempt of reducing it. Transportation followed by inventory-carrying and logistics ...
Highly hydrophilic electrospun fibers for the filtration of micro and nanosize particles treated with coagulants

Muppalla, Harish (Wichita State University, 2011-12)

Electrospinning has been widely used in the last decade for research in the field of nanotechnology because of its ability to create sub-micron to nanoscale fibers. In this research work, hydrophilic nanofiber membranes ...
High Rayleigh number flows in a cubical enclosure

Bende, Balaraju (Wichita State University, 2010-12)

The current study was undertaken with an intention to verify and extend the boundaries of the work produced by Xia & Murthy [24] and Vargas [23] on natural convective flows inside a cubical enclosure to observe the transition ...
A historical overview of connections in geometry

Freeman, Kamielle (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

This thesis is an attempt to untangle/clarify the modern theory of connections in Geometry. Towards this end a historical approach was taken and original as well as secondary sources were used. An overview of the most ...
The histories of each: a collection of short fiction

Bernard, David Benjamin (2006-05)

The used couch -- Indian graveyard -- Heart disease -- Tree house -- Cravings -- Henderson’s grocery.
The history of the Wichita Community Theater

Crawley, James J. (Wichita State University, 2009-12)

When the members of the First Unitarian Church in Wichita Kansas met in the autumn evening of 1946 to set up a performance group, they had no idea that they were starting an organization that would change the landscape of ...
Home and abroad: Elizabeth Bishop’s poetics of placement in Questions of Travel

Fortman, Brandon (Wichita State University, 2010-05)

Who is Elizabeth Bishop? In spite of the vast number of studies done on Bishop and her work over the last twenty-five years, cohering Bishop the poet with Bishop the person is hardly any less difficult than it was upon the ...
Household division of labor and pay inequaltiy between men and women

Lyon, Robyn Marie (Wichita State University, 2008-05)

The household division of labor and pay inequality between men and women is examined using the 2006 American Time Use Survey. There are three main theoretical perspectives to examine when discussing household division of ...
How do negative evaluation sensitivity, anxiety sensitivity, and expectancy combine to determine fear in people who stutter and people who do not stutter?

Robinson, John D. (Wichita State University, 2010-08)

There has been a long history of research into the possible relationship between anxiety and stuttering. Despite this history, however, relatively little research has focused on components of anxiety and how these ...
Human follicle-stimulating hormone glycoform abundance during the normal menstrual cycle in women

Rueda Santos, Monica A. (Wichita State University, 2009-05)

Human FSH exists as two major glycoforms, tetra-glycosylated and di-glycosylated hFSH. Tetra-glycosylated FSH possesses both α and β subunit carbohydrates while di-glycosylated hFSH possesses only α subunit carbohydrates. ...
A hybrid approach to forecasting wind power using Artificial Neural Networks and Numeric Weather Prediction

Pfeifer, Mark B. (Wichita State University, 2011-07)

A methodology to forecast wind power production 24 hours ahead is developed using a hybrid approach of an artificial neural network (ANN) and numerical weather prediction (NWP). The methodology is simple and designed to ...
I-ALOHA: intelligent ALOHA protocol for efficient RFID tag reading

Alavi, Khubaib Ahmad (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) has made a revolutionary mark in identifying and tracking number of different industry objects, which has reduced the manual tracking to much higher extent. The key problem which is ...
I-broadcast: broadcasting scheme for vehicular ad-hoc networks

Srikumar, Aravind (Wichita State University, 2010-05)

With the rapid development of wireless technology and the wide availability of low cost wireless devices, the domain of mobile computer networks has expanded in the recent past. Mobile ad-hoc networks promise to be the ...
Ice particle trajectory simulation

Suares, Ian Greg (Wichita State University, 2005-12)

Large ice particles shed from an airframe can cause damage to downstream aerodynamic surfaces and aft mounted engines. A simulation tool was developed to compute the trajectories of shed ice particles and determine the ...
An IDEF0 model for a terrorist resistant Global Supply Chain (GSC)

Tay, Choon Ling (Bobby) (Wichita State University, 2009-05)

After the infamous terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001 in the United States, the world has become increasingly vulnerable to terrorist activities. International businesses that function through Global Supply Chain ...