• A novel secure protocol for near field communication 

  Mazumder, Shanta (Wichita State University, 2016-05)

  In the recent years, the popularity and demand for the Near Field Communication (NFC) applications are skyrocketing. However, NFC is vulnerable to numerous networking attacks including relay attack. Current security protocols ...

• Enhancing and evaluating smart power distribution system reliability: a distributed sensor monitoring network approach 

  Balachandran, Thanatheepan (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  Reliability standards are followed in power system industries as a series of requirement from planning to operation and this necessitates evaluating, improving and reporting reliability indices of the power systems to the ...

• Developing QPCR assay to quantify disease severity in Medicago truncatula due to Macrophomina phaseolina infection 

  Bhandari, Prajwal (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  Macrophomina phaseolina (M. phaseolina) is a soil-borne necrotrophic fungus that causes charcoal rot disease. The pathogen has very wide host range (up to 500 plant species) and affects seed quality, plant growth and yield. ...

• Optimization of resource allocation and routing in political campaign problems 

  Akgun, Gokcen (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  In this thesis, we introduce the problem of a politician who has to allocate his limited budget among meeting and advertising campaigns in the most efficient way so that he can get the maximum number of votes. This problem, ...

• Making dad proud: daughters' perceptions of impression management and breadth and depth in communication with their fathers 

  Bowman, Shelby (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  Father-daughter communication is an understudied area of interpersonal communication research. Communication in this dyad is also reported significantly less by daughters than communication in mother-daughter relationships. ...

• Design of an adaptive flight controller for a bird-like flapping wing aircraft 

  Chandrasekaran, Balaji K. (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  In the present age of increased demand for unmanned aerial vehicles, flapping wing unmanned aerial vehicle applications have become of interest, primarily because of their ability to fly silently and at lower speeds. This ...

• A practical approach to project scheduling: considering multiple critical path scenarios in project network 

  Harikrishnakumar, Ramkumar (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  A well-managed project results in efficient scheduling of the interrelated components of work tasks, resources, stakeholders and budgets plans. The goal is for project managers to be able to generate an initial schedule ...

• Upgrading natural gas to value-added liquid products in aqueous systems under ambient conditions 

  Houtaham, Farshad (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  A novel method of upgrading natural gas into value-added liquid products is presented, in which the methane is activated by a decoupled oxidation approach with metal-surface facilitation in aqueous system under ambient ...

• Automotive side-impact simulations and comparison of dummy and human body model crash dynamic responses according to regulatory standards 

  Koppisetty, Durga Venkata Suresh (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), side-impact car accidents are the second leading cause of ...

• Characterizing bacterial growth in eutectic and saturated salt solutions relevant to mars 

  Wilks, Jonathan M. (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  Although Mars is a hyperarid environment that poses many challenges to any potential inhabitants, liquid water is available. Many believe this liquid water is formed by the deliquescence of hygroscopic salts. Upon absorbing ...

• Differential expression at the proteomic level of stem-cell markers and other gene markers in high-grade serous vs. other subtypes of ovarian cancer. 

  Mukherjee , Lipilekha (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  Ovarian carcinoma is the most lethal neoplasm and the fifth leading cause of death in women due to gynecological malignancies. It is estimated that there are 225,000 new cases diagnosed and 140,000 deaths occurring annually ...

• On automatically classifying software code review feedback in the context of internal quality 

  Raghunathan, Janani (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  Recent empirical studies show that the practice of peer-code-review improves soft- ware quality. Therein, the quality is examined from the external perspective of reducing the defects/failures, i.e., bugs, in reviewed ...

• From Shahrzad to Carrie Bradshaw: identity negotiation and impression management of an Iranian woman living in the United States 

  Parviz, Elnaz (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  This thesis is a qualitative autoethnography which analyzes the author's experiences as a female Iranian student in the American Midwest during a 3-year period, between 2014 to 2017. The author takes the readers through ...

• Design of multi-echelon supply chain systems to optimize cost and service levels 

  Maru, Vatsal K. (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  Primarily found basic uncertainties in the supply chain design are supply and demand, later there are many more uncertainties added in the literature of the field, e.g., control. For an organization there are many options ...

• Production scheduling applications to interruption-handling in healthcare 

  Nemalikanti, Shrirama Chandra Murthy (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  In this study, single machine scheduling concepts with uncertain processing times and interruptions were reviewed to model and analyze the inpatient care task sequencing problem. The task sequencing problem involves answering ...

• Geoarchaeology of ceramics out of Xaltocan 

  Jones, Emily C. (Wichita State University, 2017-07)

  Practicing archaeologists have numerous objectives when investigating a site, the main goal is learning and understanding about those who once lived there and reconstructing their lives through the materials they left ...

• Improving thermal decomposition process of recycled plastics for sustainable gas and liquid fuel production 

  Shoaib, Muhammad (Wichita State University, 2017-05)

  In the U.S.A., plastic waste is about 12.7 % of the total municipal waste which is approximately 32 million tons annually. Recovery of plastics is usually done through waste-toenergy or recycling options. Plastic-to-fuel ...

• Design and finite element analysis of coronary bifurcation stents 

  Thejeswini, Ujwala (Wichita State University, 2017-05)

• Gender differences in family relationships and school delinquency 

  Waldman, Brittany A. (Wichita State University, 2017-05)

  Adolescents spend most of their waking time in school or on school grounds, and as a result, many adolescents first encounter delinquency there. Research has found that youth who have strong family relationships develop ...

• Implementation of quantum gate operations using neural networks 

  Zabihi, Shahri A. (Wichita State University, 2017-05)

  All quantum circuits are designed using different quantum gates, which can be decomposed into elementary gates. The number of elementary gates in a quantum circuit is called the gate count. Typically, there is a direct ...

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