Browsing ETD: Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Race, extracurricular participation, and academic success among high school girls: the role of teacher perceptions
(Wichita State University, 2019-05)Previous literature has noted that an achievement gap exist for students of color. Girls of color are often subjected to higher rates of exclusionary discipline and are often perceived as being disruptive and promiscuous ... -
Radial feeder reliability evaluation in the presence of storage
(Wichita State University, 2015-05)Smart Grid demands changes to the existing distribution system. One of the ways to improve the operation of the distribution system is to use battery storage technology to aid the distribution network in minimizing the ... -
Ragged schools: Schools for Destitute Children
(Wichita State University, 2019-07)Throughout most of the 19th century, school was not mandatory for children living in the United Kingdom and only available to those who could afford the fees. Ragged schools were some of the very few institutions available ... -
Ranked selection indexes for linear preference queries
(Wichita State University, 2011-12)Data entities from various data sources could be ordered according to a variety of attributes associated with those entities. These orderings result in a ranking of entities in terms of the values in the attribute domains. ... -
Rate distortion analysis for conditional motion estimation
(Wichita State University, 2008-08)Rate Distortion analysis is a branch of information theory that predicts the tradeoffs between rate and distortion in source coding. In this thesis, we present the rate distortion analysis for conditional motion estimation, ... -
Rate sensitivity of the interlaminar fracture toughness of laminated composites
(Wichita State University, 2010-08)The rate sensitivities of mode-I and mode-II fracture toughness, in the form of GIc and GIIc of Toray T800S/3900 carbon unitape/epoxy, T700G/3900 Plain weave carbon fabric/epoxy, and Newport NB321/7781 fiberglass/epoxy ... -
RDMA based IP routing protocols and router architecture
(Wichita State University, 2008-08)The Ethernet technology has advanced from the era of fast Ethernet to the era of gigabit ethernet. The gigabit routers currently available in the market are employing expensive hardware based implementations for improving ... -
Re-presenting narratives of rape: examining constructions of the victim, voice and feminism under rape law reform
(Wichita State University, 2011-07)The research and critical readings in this study attempt to comment on changing constructions of the victim, voice and consent in popular representations of rape post rape law reform. The study draws on a wealth of ... -
Reaction mechanism for packet size-based misbehavior in wireless networks
(Wichita State University, 2011-05)Since the field of wireless technology is growing rapidly, security is becoming a major concern. A variety of security problems are being addressed, and much research work is taking place in order to provide adequate ... -
Reactive power control functions for distributed PV sources
(Wichita State University, 2013-05)The integration of distributed generation is one of the biggest changes facing the power industry, with greenhouse gas mitigation and the smart grid initiative. With result of the increasing penetration of grid-connected ... -
Reading comprehension in a child with auditory figure-ground difficulties and a language-literacy disorder
(Wichita State University, 2020-05)The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were differences in reading comprehension scores across various auditory and visual modalities in one participant with a diagnosis of a language-literacy disorder ... -
Reading poetry for improved adolescent oral fluency, comprehension, and self-perception
(Wichita State University, 2009-05)This study was designed to explore the effects of oral fluency instruction and strategies on struggling adolescent readers’ prosody, comprehension and self-perception as readers. Additionally, this study sought to determine ... -
Real-time optimal trajectory smoothing for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in three dimensions
(Wichita State University, 2011-07)This thesis presents a dynamically feasible and real-time trajectory path generation algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying through a sequence of a random N number of waypoints (WPs) in three dimensions. ... -
Real-time organ motion management in MRI-guided radiotherapy
(Wichita State University, 2019-12)Radiotherapy is one of the most commonly used modalities for cancer treatment. The goal of radiotherapy is to deliver a therapeutic dose of radiation to the clinical target volume while sparing the surrounding healthy ... -
Realtime line parameter estimation using synchrophasor measurements and impact of sampling rates
(Wichita State University, 2016-05)The installation of synchrophasor measurement units within the electrical grid system have provided utilities with the ability to monitor their transmission system in real time. These real time observations allow for better ... -
Reassessment of intra- and extra-ovarian expression of growth differentiation factor-9
(2006-05)Mammalian ovarian organogenesis is characterized temporally by oogonial mitosis, oogonial apoptosis, rescue of germ cells via interaction with somatic cells to form primordial follicles, and entrance into meiosis. Recent ... -
Reconciling pragmatism and literary theory: Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy and its ethics pragmatically considered
(Wichita State University, 2016-05)Seeking to find a way forward for literary theory in the face of the slow dissolution of the postmodern era, this research project draws from the philosophy of pragmatism and investigates a play with the purpose of ... -
Recovery of a prairie plant community following sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza Cuneata) removal: Testing for a soil legacy effect
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Recreating identity: Acts of transcendence and resistance in Native American literature
(Wichita State University, 2009-05)The Native American novel is inherently a “cross-cultural” device with roots both in the western written tradition and Indigenous oral tradition; a mix that oftentimes makes these novels difficult for readers, especially ... -
Reduced Hamiltonian technique for designing quantum logic gates and data channels
(Wichita State University, 2007-07)A scheme for realizing arbitrary controlled-unitary operations in a two qubit system is presented here. If the 2 × 2 unitary matrix is special unitary (has unit determinant), the controlled-unitary gate operation can be ...