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Q-enhanced tunable filter design with applications in receiver architectures

Kovala, Chelsi (Kansas State University, 2012-07-24)

Q-enhanced Filters have been researched extensively, but have not been often implemented into receiver architectures due to inherent challenges in the design and stability of these filters. However, recent works have ...
Q-space analysis of the orientationally averaged light scattering by particles of various shapes

Maughan, Justin Birdwell (2020-12-01)

The scaling approach for determining the orientationally averaged light scattering in the 3d Rayleigh-Debye-Gans diffraction limit is reviewed and extended, and applied to spheroids, cylinders, hexagonal prisms, rectangular ...
QTL mapping for Caenorhabditis elegans survivorship in response to Escherichia coli and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Wang, Ziyi (Kansas State University, 2016-05-01)

Caenorhabditis elegans are free-living bacterivorous nematodes that naturally consume bacteria as food source. As an excellent genetic model, C. elegans has proven to be a successful system to study innate immune responses ...
QTL mapping of pre-harvest sprouting and stripe rust resistance in wheat cultivars Danby and Tiger

Shao, Mingqin (Kansas State University, 2017-12-01)

Wheat yield and quality is influenced by many abiotic and biotic environmental factors. Pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) occurs when physiologically matured spikes are exposed to wet field conditions before harvest, which results ...
Qualification and quantification of bacterial pathogen load in acute bovine respiratory disease cases.

Roof, Clinton (Kansas State University, 2011-08-08)

One hundred ninety four steers, bulls, and heifers weighing 182-318 kg were purchased at an Arkansas sale barn and shipped 12 hours to a northern Kansas feedlot. There was no previous history of treatment and the cattle ...
A qualitative case study identifying leadership roles that significantly impact the integration of technology in secondary schools

Kipp, Charles Andrew (2019-05-01)

This case study explored leadership behaviors that are perceived to have significant impact in the integration of technology at the secondary level in a Southwest Kansas school district. The study focused on the identification ...
A qualitative inquiry into the dynamics of family reintegration following a deployment

Colburn, Alayna Rose (2020-12-01)

There are over one million people currently serving in the United States military, with nearly one-half of that amount currently serving in an active duty capacity for the Army. Domestic violence, a hidden social problem, ...
Qualitative methods as tools for community health assessment

Mershon, Carrie

Children in the U.S. are not getting enough physical activity, which disproportionately affects the 20% of those growing up in rural communities (Troiano et. al., 2008, Brownson et al., 2000; Martin et al., 2005; Fan et ...
A qualitative study investigating the decision-making process of women’s participation in marital infidelity

Marchese Jeanfreau, Michelle (Kansas State University, 2009-11-20)

This study used a qualitative approach as a means of exploring the decision-making process of women's participation in marital infidelity. Due to the growing prevalence and negative effects of marital infidelity, it is ...
Quality attributes during 160 days refrigerated shelf life of a smoked, fully cooked sausage formulated with a nitrite containing pork preblend

Collins, Ashley (Kansas State University, 2015-12-01)

Pork preblends held for 0, 4 or 7 d were formulated into smoked sausages and analyzed for cook yield, instrumental external color, pH, salt content, proximate analysis, Warner-Bratzler shear force (WBSF), thiobarbituric ...
Quality attributes of ready-to-eat bison meat snacks during 40°C accelerated storage

Heitschmidt, James Daniel (Kansas State University, 2015-04-17)

The market for bison meat products is increasing as a result of consumer interest in meat from animals that are primarily grass fed. Quality attributes of a bison meat snack containing cranberry and apple pieces and formed ...
Quality by design: improving pre-stressed reinforcement for concrete railroad ties via geometrical dimensioning and tolerancing

Haynes, Mark Davis (Kansas State University, 2015-12-01)

Quality is a result of product design and production control. Product design must maximize the ability to function across variations in production and environment. Production control must monitor and maintain the key ...
Quality changes, dust generation, and commingling during grain elevator handling

Boac, Josephine Mina (Kansas State University, 2010-01-08)

The United States grain handling infrastructure is facing major challenges to meet worldwide customer demands for wholesome, quality, and safe grains and oilseeds for food and feed. Several challenges are maintaining grain ...
Quality engineering applications on single and multiple nonlinear profiles

Chou, Shih-Hsiung (Kansas State University, 2014-03-12)

Profile analysis has drawn attention in quality engineering applications due to the growing use of sensors and information technologies. Unlike the conventional quality characteristics of interest, a profile is formed ...
A quality health and physical education program making a difference for African American teenagers

Curren, Hattie Yvonne (Kansas State University, 2011-01-18)

A growing concern for the United States and the World Health Organization is that Americans are getting fatter. The obesity rates continue to rise in 23 states (Science & Technology, 2009). There is also a high incidence ...
Quality of heart rate variability features obtained from ballistocardiograms

Suliman, Ahmad (2019-08-01)

Heartbeat intervals (HBIs) vary over time, and that variance can be quantified as heart rate variability (HRV). HRV has several health-related applications including long-term health monitoring and sleep quality ...
Quality of yogurt supplemented with whey protein concentrate and effects of whey protein denaturation

Landge, Virendra Laxman (Kansas State University, 2009-12-17)

Yogurt is a good source of whey proteins, which have been reported to provide positive health benefits. During yogurt manufacture, the yogurt mix receives a heat treatment which pasteurizes the product, denatures the whey ...
Quality perception in a meat department of a retail store

Garza Quiroga, Juan Gilberto (Kansas State University, 2014-07-24)

HEB is a privately-held grocery retailer founded in 1905 in Kerrville, TX. Since then, HEB has grown to 399 stores in 155 communities. Although the majority of its operations have been in southern Texas, nearly 10 percent ...
Quantification of vector and host competence for Japanese Encephalitis Virus: a systematic review and meta-analyses of the literature

da Silva Oliveira, Ana Rute (Kansas State University, 2017-05-01)

Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a virus of the Flavivirus genus that may result in encephalitis in vertebrate hosts. This vector-borne zoonosis occurs in Eastern and Southeastern Asia and an intentional or inadvertent ...
Quantifying and mitigating decentralized decision making in humanitarian logistics systems

Muggy, Timothy Luke (Kansas State University, 2015-12-01)

Humanitarian and public health logistics systems are often characterized by decentralized decision makers in the form of response agencies who establish supply chains and the beneficiaries who access them. While classical ...