Browsing ETD: Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Jacobian based power flow model for distribution network
(Wichita State University, 2017-12)With the increase penetration of renewable energy sources (RES) at the distribution level, the possibility of having voltage abnormalities is high. The reason being is because of the intermittent nature of the renewable ... -
James R. Mead, an early pioneer
(Wichita State University, 1930-05)This work is to tell of one of the pathfinders and pioneers who blased the path of civilization through the region called the "great American Desert" . Mr. James R. Mead was one of the outstanding leaders in the opening ... -
Jane's no virgin to gender equality: a feminist critique of Jane the virgin
(Wichita State University, 2017-05)Jane the Virgin, a television show airing on The CW, tells the story of a devout, Catholic virgin who finds out she is pregnant after being accidentally artificially inseminated during a routine gynecologist checkup. ... -
John Adams' "I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky": Examination of an earthquake/romance
(Wichita State University, 2013-05)In 1995, John Adams, Peter Sellars, and June Jordan collaborated on the contemporary opera/musical I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. Based around the 1994 Los Angeles, California earthquake, the work ... -
Journalistic gender stereotyping of first ladies Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton
(2005-12)This study investigates media stereotyping of American First Ladies Laura Welch Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton principally using quantitative and qualitative content analysis. The research explores the amount and qualities ... -
Judging Moriah: gendered narratives of sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible
(2006-05)This study examines the function of a patriarchal ideology in the episodes of human sacrifice narrated in Genesis 22 and Judges 11 and 19. The Akedah, or "the binding of Isaac" story, is discussed in terms of the midrastic ... -
K-differenced vector random fields
(Wichita State University, 2015-05)There is a great demand for analyzing multivariate measurements observed across space and over time, due to an increasing wealth of multivariate spatial, temporal, or spatio-temporal data, which may be treated as the ... -
Kalman filter design for large-scale systems by using unified approach
(Wichita State University, 2013-05)In this thesis, a method of designing a Kalman filter for a linear, discrete-time, singularly perturbed stochastic system using the delta operator was introduced. This unified approach, which is based on the delta operator, ... -
Kinematic analysis of a motorcycle and rider impact on a concrete barrier under different impact and road conditions
(Wichita State University, 2007-12)In many countries, motorcycle crashes constitutes a significant proportion of all road crash fatalities and injuries and safety measures can be successful only if much more attention is devoted to this issue. Several ... -
Kipling, Woolf, and Orwell: literary ethnographers
(Wichita State University, 2011-12)The beginning of the 20th century was marked by a need for a departure, for Britain, from the Victorian sentiments of a bygone era, foremost among which were the soon-to-be antiquated thoughts about her colonies and ... -
Kiwi, Kereru, and Kapu: The culture of community conservation in rural New Zealand-with a comparison to Hawai`i
(Wichita State University, 2008-05)The Māori and Pākehā (non-Māori New Zealander-European descent) bicultural society in a rural community around Mount Maungatautari, New Zealand, seems to have overcome some significant culturally-embedded differences as ... -
Kraus operator formalism using a reduced Hamiltonian approach on controlled-unitary operations
(Wichita State University, 2017-12)Quantum systems are extremely fragile, and as such, are difficult to isolate from interactions with their environment. Such "open" quantum systems that interact with their environment do not follow the unitary dynamics of ... -
Kwame Nkrumah’s quest for Pan Africanism: from independence leader to deposed despot
(Wichita State University, 2010-12)On February 12, 1951, Francis Nwia-Kofi “Kwame” Nkrumah walked out of James Fort Prison to become the first Prime Minister of the Gold Coast. After a landslide election, Nkrumah and his Convention People’s Party (CPP) ... -
Label-free electrical immunoassay biosensors for early disease diagnosis
(Wichita State University, 2012-05)This thesis focused on developing an inexpensive and user friendly “point- of- care” (POC) device for early disease diagnosis. Proteomics research has elucidated many new proteins as biomarkers that have the potential to ... -
Labeled individuals: The influence of stereotypes on interpersonal communication between American and Non-American students
(Wichita State University, 2013-05)This study aims to dig the negative influences of stereotypes on interpersonal communication, and to give public awareness to reduce the number of the victims of isms, labels and negative stereotypes. The arguments are ... -
Langdon, Kansas: the aging of a rural town
(Wichita State University, 1978-05)A historical analysis of the development of Langdon, a rural Kansas town, from its beginnings in early XX century to the time of its highest degree of prosperity from 1912 through 1920, and its decline from 1920 until 1950. ... -
Large-scale online environmental mapping: from theory to implementation
(Wichita State University, 2017-12)Within the context of environmental studies, environmental mapping addresses the monitoring and analysis of physical processes appearing in the nature, such as atmospheric or oceanic transformations. In such studies, ... -
Laser ablation based on-orbit debris removal
(Wichita State University, 2019-07)Space debris are defunct man-made satellites orbiting in the low-earth orbit (LEO) and Geo-synchronous orbit (GEO) orbiting around earth with high velocities posing a serious threat for current and future missions. ... -
Late Atokan siliciclastic cave-fill deposits within preAbsarokan paleokarst in the Burlington-Keokuk limestone, Dade county, Missouri
(Wichita State University, 2011-12)Two siliciclastic-filled paleocaverns within the Mississippian (Osagean) Burlington- Keokuk Limestone, which were formed in pre-Desmoinesian (Middle Pennsylvanian) time, are described from exposures in Dade County, ... -
LDPC encoded pilots for iterative receiver improvement
(2005-12)Turbo and low density parity check (LDPC) codes show performances approaching Shannon capacity. This thesis proposes a novel iterative channel estimation and LDPC decoding scheme where the pilot symbols are encoded and can ...