Browsing ETD: Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Game theory based demand response algorithm for economical house load scheduling
(Wichita State University, 2019-12)Power system demand variation is a challenging job that needs to be done by power system operators. There have been many studies and research to reduce the peak hour load reduction and reduce the load demand. Most of the ... -
Gamified low-prevalence vigils
(Wichita State University, 2015-12)The vigilance decrement has been a well-studied human factors problem since World War II (Mackworth, 1948). A more recently discovered and fundamentally similar problem is the low-prevalence effect in visual search (e.g., ... -
GCNF as a growth regulator in normal and neoplastic cells
(2007-05)Germ cell nuclear factor (GCNF/NCNF/RTR, NR6A1) is an orphan member of the nuclear receptor super family that exhibits repressive transcriptional activity and is expressed in the embryonic stem cells, embryonic carcinoma ... -
Gender and media: Exploring the relationship between television and adolescent well-being
(Wichita State University, 2016-05)Previous research suggests that media use negatively affects well-being for girls and boys. This study uses secondary data from a nationally representative sample of adolescents (often referred to as Generation X) who were ... -
Gender and the wage gap: still not equal
(2007-05)Individual, structural, and gender perspectives were applied to examine the wage gap between men and women. This study uses data from the American Time Use Survey of 2006, a supplement to the Current Population Survey. The ... -
Gender differences in family relationships and school delinquency
(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 ... -
General logical linear nearest neighbor (LLNN) architecture for fault-tolerant quantum computation
(Wichita State University, 2008-12)We present a general scheme for implementing fault-tolerant quantum computation. We discuss a general two-dimensional architecture of qubits involving only linear nearest neighbor interactions. Between the qubits by using ... -
Generalized gas turbine engine performance
(Wichita State University, 1969-05)This thesis develops methods of generalizing the performance of specific engine components for use in a generalized gas turbine engine performance computer program. This method produces inexpensive engine performance ... -
Generation Y physical activity: the physiologic effects of exergaming
(Wichita State University, 2012-05)Childhood obesity is on the rise, and many critics claim that environmental factors, such as screen-based media, are a contributing factor to this epidemic. Video games have gained popularity among this age group, especially ... -
Generation z: A study of its workplace communication behaviors and future preferences
(Wichita State University, 2020-05)Research shows that Generation Z is the largest generation in the U.S. and will soon represent the majority of America’s economy and its workplace. Generation Z is joining the staffs of more and more companies each year ... -
Geoarchaeology of ceramics out of Xaltocan
(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 ... -
Geometry of horizontal bundles and connections
(Wichita State University, 2014-05)An Ehresmann connection on a fiber bundle pi: E --> M is defined by prescribing a suitable horizontal subbundle H of the tangent bundle piT: TE --> E. For a horizontal bundle to be suitable, it must have a property called ... -
George M. Hoover, Dodge City pioneer
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Gerald Burton Winrod: Defender of Christianity and democracy in the United States
(Wichita State University, 1994-05)This research attempted to uncover the effects, if any, that the pronouncements of Gerald Burton Winrod, an evangelist from Wichita, Kansas, had upon President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the American ... -
Getting the gist of websites: Exploring the effects of display duration, size, and resolution
(Wichita State University, 2013-05)Users can make judgments about web pages in a glance. Outside of a few studies, no known research has examined what semantic information can be extracted from a web page within a single fixation, but the scene perception ... -
Getting to know you: using music to gain awareness of intercultural perspectives through technology
(Wichita State University, 2010-05)Access to mobile communication technology is a characteristic that makes today’s learners different and presents challenges and opportunities to develop twenty-first century skills in a globalized society. This qualitative ... -
Gideon, Escobedo and Miranda: How three Supreme Court Justices waged the ideological battle against communism
(Wichita State University, 2007-12)The United States Supreme Court was at the center of criticism in the 1960s. Unpopular Court decisions, such as expanding the rights of the criminally accused, brought the Court a lot of attention. The Court is the most ... -
Girls like you, girls like me: an analysis of domestic minor sex trafficking and the development of a risk and resiliency assessment for sexually exploited youth
(Wichita State University, 2012-05)The goal of this study was to further develop a data-driven, theoretically based, tool that illuminates the risks and resiliencies of young people at-risk of and/or subjugated to domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST). The ... -
Going home: exploring the social networks of federal offenders in Kansas re-entering communities after prison
(Wichita State University, 2018-05)Mass incarceration in the United States takes a significant toll both socially and economically. It is estimated that approximately 450 in every 100,000 Americans were incarcerated by the end of 2016, and people of color ... -
Good saloon, bad saloon: Saloons in Wichita, Kansas 1865-1881
(Wichita State University, 2014-05)This research evaluates the purpose, use, and public view of drinking establishments in Wichita and the surrounding area during one of the most iconic eras in American popular culture: the years following the Civil War in ...