Browsing Proceedings 2011: 7th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects by Issue Date
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White teacher's challenge: racial and cultural differences between White teachers and students of Color
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Across the United States, students of color, make up approximately 69% of the urban school population. More than 85% of the classroom teachers are white, predominately female, and 40% of the urban schools do not have ... -
Woody plant expansion in the Chautauqua Hills, KS: a regional assessment of historical change
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Woody plant expansion into grasslands and savannas is a globally occurring phenomenon that has considerable economic and socio-cultural impacts. I use a multi-site historical study to quantify age structures of Quercus ... -
Ceramic Art: The Ability to Transgress Time
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Being comprised of specific minerals and earthen materials, clay has been used throughout history to create art. What distinguishes clay from any other material is its resistance to decay. Through the ceramic firing process, ... -
Nanomonitors: a miniature electronic biosensor for early disease diagnosis -- restricted access to full text
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)The primary purpose of this research is to develop an inexpensive and user friendly "point- of- care" (POC) device also known as Nanomonitor, for early disease diagnosis. Proteomics research has elucidated many new proteins ... -
Study and Analysis of Cognitive Radio Channel Scanning Technology for Wi-Fi Networks
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Wi-Fi has become a ubiquitous wireless technology in a short period of time. Each one of us has wireless gadgets competing for the Wi-Fi bandwidth. In contrast to this, studies show that the legacy technologies' spectrum ... -
Multi-Sensor Health Diagnosis Using Deep Belief Network Based State Classification
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Effective health diagnosis provides multifarious benefits such as improved safety, reliability and economical maintenance of complex engineered systems. This paper presents a novel multi-sensor health diagnosis method using ... -
Self-Organizing Map (SOM) in Wind Speed Forecasting: A New Approach in Computational Intelligence (CI) Forecasting Methods
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Two critical issues in renewable energy are how to make wind energy cost effective and how to integrate wind energy into electricity grids. Within many approaches to cost reduction, wind speed forecasting was mentioned as ... -
Adaptive Response Surface Method for Efficient Bayesian Reliability Based Design Optimization
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)To tackle engineering design problems engaging both aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, Reliability-Based Design Optimization (RBDO) has been integrated with Bayes Theorem, referred to as Bayesian RBDO. However, Bayesian ... -
Emerging Communities of Practice in the Global System Era
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)This study focuses on developing a facilitative model of building and sustaining a community of practice (CoP) as well as the preservation of its domain knowledge within a complex system of systems. It examines complex ... -
Traumatic Hypopharyngeal Perforation from Football Helmet Chinstrap: A Case Report -- restricted access to full text
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Hypopharyngeal perforations are a rare but potentially serious injury. These injuries typically present with significant superficial trauma or are often seen in very violent injuries such as motor vehicle accidents. Due ... -
The Effects of taking Structured Movement Breaks on the Algebra Achievement of Gifted Fifth Graders
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Students experiencing mental fatigue while pursuing high levels of achievement may refocus attention, gain cognitive benefits, and increase achievement by taking breaks from class work. In this quantitative study, two types ... -
A Preliminary Investigation of Performances on Phonological Awareness Tests by Beginning Readers
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Phonological Awareness (PA) and Letter Knowledge skills in kindergarten are the two best predictors of literacy. A growing concern in this country regarding poor literacy skills has led to the publication of a number of ... -
A Sugary Mess: A Rhetorical Study of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's 2009 Anti-Smoking and Empty Calorie Beverage Public Service Advertisments
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Throughout the last decade, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYDOH) have launched numerous Public Service Advertisements (PSA) to curb the use of tobacco and consumption of "empty calorie" beverages. ... -
In search of resistance: Interactions between pathogenic fungus Macrophomina Phaseolina and its host Medicago truncatula
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Macrophomina phaseolina, an internationally distributed fungus, causes a disease known as "charcoal rot" (also known as dry-weather wilt and summer wilt) which clogs vascular tissue and produces yellow, wilted plants with ... -
Perceptions of U.S. Physician Assistants (PAs) regarding implementation of a specialty certification
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)The purpose of this study was to obtain opinions from practicing PAs concerning their knowledge about specialty certification and perceptions about its impact on their practice. This cross-sectional study involved a survey ... -
Water Soluble Porphyrin based Solar Cell
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Porphyrins are organic chromophores with structure very close to naturally occurring pigment in leaves Chlorophyll. In addition, blood cells are red due to iron porphyrins. These versatile porphyrins are simple to synthesize ... -
Kansas vs. Roeder: Christian Identity, Juridical Discourses and American Exceptionalism
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)The US Evangelical movement's use of media and the court system since the 1980s to litigate morality issues, such as abortion, has gained global attention with the state of Kansas at the center of this awareness. On May ... -
Mother-neonate interactions: reliability of measures
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of coding mother-neonate interactions. Two coders independently examined videos of two mother-neonate dyads and coded five interactions: mother looking at neonate's ... -
A comparison of pregabalin and gabapentin in the treatment of peripheral neuropathy
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Background: Peripheral neuropathy is a condition involving the nerves that carry information to and from the central nervous system. It is characterized by numbness, tingling, burning in the limbs, pain, and loss of sensation ... -
Competition and Allelopathy in Invasive Lespedeza cuneata
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Invasive species such as Lespedeza cuneata (sericea) can have detrimental effects on invaded ecosystems. One proposed explanation for invasive success such as sericea is production of allelopathic chemicals that suppress ...