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Saving par: an analysis of Tiger Woods’ image restoration efforts in response to allegations of marital infidelities

Wiens, Dustin Kyle Martin (Wichita State University, 2012-07)
SCADA security device: design and implementation

Rodrigues, Aniket (Wichita State University, 2011-12)

Securing SCADA systems is a critical aspect of Smart grid security. As sophisticated attacks continue to target industrial systems, the focus should be on planning and developing new security techniques that will adapt to ...
Scaling studies on the tensile strain rate sensitivity of laminated composites

Siddiqui, Md. Tareq (Wichita State University, 2011-12)

The stress-strain behavior and failure of composite materials are strain rate sensitive, and influenced by the dimensions of the structure. To elucidate the combined effects of scaling and strain rate on the strength of ...
Scourge of the Osage from the hand that held the quill: The economic survival of the Osage Indians concerning their transformation from warlords to landlords in the nineteenth century

Stephanopoulos, Athena Theodota (2007-05)

As the sun rose upon the Plains of the Midwest, dawning the nineteenth century, the Osage nation found itself embroiled in heavy trading and combat tactics with the French, Spanish, and even neighboring tribes. And while ...
The search for the good in garbage: a look at Wichita's own pyrolysis pilot plant and the history of the resource recovery movement in the United States from the Gilded Age to the 1990s

Gumm, Angela Shannon (2006-12)

Is there good in garbage? This thesis assumes that while it might not always be economical, safe or immediately worthwhile to get to it, that there is good in garbage. People in the United States have been trying—sometimes ...
A secure architecture for the management of Radio Frequency Identification at home

Rao, Shantanu (Wichita State University, 2007-07)

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an object identification technology that is being adopted rapidly by industry and government organizations, such as the United States Department of Defense, consumer products ...
Security in live Virtual Machine migration

Shah, Payal Hemchand (Wichita State University, 2011-12)

Virtualization has become an essential technology for organizations. With on-demand services from vendors, a substantial rise in the use of virtualization has been noticed. Today there are various kinds of virtualization ...
Sedidmentology and diagenesis of Mississippian (Kinderhookian and Osagean: Tournaisian and Visean) reefs in southwest Missouri, northwest Arkansas, and northeast Oklahoma

Morris, Beau Tyler (Wichita State University, 2011-12)

Carbonate buildups (reefs) are present in the Kinderhookian Compton and basal Osagean Pierson formations in SW Missouri and adjoining Arkansas and Oklahoma. Their depositional origin, biota, and diagenesis are key to ...
Sender cover traffic to counter an improved Statistical Disclosure Attack

Lu, Huabo (Wichita State University, 2011-07)

The statistical disclosure attack (SDA) is quite an effective method for attackers to go against an anonymity system and to reveal the information behind it. It targets at a particular anonymity system user, tries to ...
The sensation of Sherlock Holmes

Cook, Kimberlee S. (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

This thesis examines the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and how they relate to the late-Victorian Sensation Novel. First, a brief introduction to the Sensation novel is made. It makes a study ...
Service differentiation via cooperative MAC protocol (SD-MAC)

Tunc, Muharrem Ali (2005-12)

With the recent advances in wireless communications and networking area, it has been a great challenge for researchers to improve a medium access protocol for providing an efficient service differentiation in wireless ad ...
Setup approval and self starting schemes for short production runs

Jadhav, Sameer A. (2005-12)

A number of approaches have been proposed for applying statistical process control in short production runs. However little has been done to provide a methodology to compare and select from various statistical process ...
Seventy-eight pennies for your thoughts: An examination of income inequality between men and women in the United States

Dingler, Elizabeth Joann (Wichita State University, 2009-05)

In today’s society education credentials are more important than in the past; individuals increasingly need a higher educational degree to maintain employment and increase their future income. Education allows individuals ...
Sexual dimorphism in the 12th thoracic vertebra and its potential for sex estimation of human skeletal remains

Voisin, Meghan Dawn (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

The purpose of this study is to determine the presence/degree of sexual dimorphism of the 12th thoracic vertebra through a quantitative analysis and to further examine its potential and reliability in the sex estimation ...
Sexual dimorphism of the ilium and iliac crest: A quantitative approach

Vetter, Joy H. (Wichita State University, 2009-05)

This study examined indicators of male-female differences in the os Coxa, specifically in the shape of the ilium and iliac crest for the purpose of skeletal sex estimation. The iliac crest is a curved, or “S” shaped, ...
Shakespeare by any other word?: Shakespeare’s King Lear and Macbeth reinvented in the films of Akira Kurosawa

Zilleruelo, Erica Lee (2007-05)

Directors world-wide have made countless film adaptations of Shakespeare’s works, so a somewhat heated debate exists in terms of what deserves the label “Shakespearean film,” initiating conversation regarding what constitutes ...
Shock wave turbulent boundary layer interaction over a protrusion

Badr, Mohammad Ali (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

This research attempts to investigate an important and common phenomenon in aerodynamics called shock interaction in a turbulent flow’s boundary layer. Due to advancements in current computational units, more complex ...
Shop ‘til you drop: an empirical examination of theories of and gender differences in consumption

Treas, Jonathan (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

This study used the 2006 through 2008 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to empirically examine factors that influenced the consumption of men and women in the United States. Three sets of independent variables were used to ...
Silent all these years

Pameticky, April S. (2006-11-24)

Ankle to ankle -- Hair -- Wednesday in April -- The Garden -- Rosary -- Anywhere else but here -- Silent all these years
Simulation on filling pattern of vacuum assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) for sectional wind blade shells

Saw, Kee Hong (Wichita State University, 2012-12)

The Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding (VARTM) process is one of the most common and economical processes which has been adapted by many wind blade manufacturers. The significant advantages for this process primarily ...