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Scoggins, David Russell. "International Islamic daʻwah and jihad a qualitative and quantitative assessment /". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0578.

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Starke, Alexander. "Untersuchung der In-vivo-Kinetik von ApoB3543 (ApoBMarburg) mittels stabiler Isotopentechnik." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2003. http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/diss/z2003/0578/.

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Schneider, James D. "The English Diplomatic Corps, 1649-1660: a comparison of the diplomats of the Commonwealth and Protectorate and of Charles II." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8454.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>Marsha L. Frey<br>The diplomatic corps employed by Oliver Cromwell and Charles II from 1649 to 1660 differed greatly. This study will focus on the top three diplomatic ranks: ambassador, envoys and residents and will exclude agents and chargé d′affaires. The lesser ranks have been excluded for several reasons primarily because biographical information does not exist for many of them and as lesser diplomats their missions were not significant and often lasted only a matter of days. This prosopographical examination of the twenty-four diplomats emplo

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Marsh, Hannah. "Memory in World War I American museum exhibits." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18813.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>Sue Zschoche<br>As the world enters the centennial of World War I, interest in this war is reviving. Books, television shows, and movies are bringing the war into popular culture. Now that all the participants of the war have passed away a change is occurring in in American memory. The transition from living to non-living memory is clearly visible in museums, one of the main ways history is communicated to the public. Four museums are studied in this paper. Two exhibits built in the 1990s are in the 1st Infantry Division Museum at Fort Riley, Kansas,

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Leydold, Josef, and Peter F. Stadler. "Minimal Cycle Bases of Outerplanar Graphs." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, Abt. f. Angewandte Statistik u. Datenverarbeitung, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1998. http://epub.wu.ac.at/528/1/document.pdf.

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2-connected outerplanar graphs have a unique minimal cycle basis with length 2|E|-|V|. They are the only Hamiltonian graphs with a cycle basis of this length. (author's abstract)<br>Series: Preprint Series / Department of Applied Statistics and Data Processing

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Knepper, Brendan Andrew. "The cost of national unity: the impact of memory on American history." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18941.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>Charles Sanders<br>The power of historical memory is readily apparent in the United States of America. Ask any descendent of veterans that served in war, and a plethora of reasons behind their willingness to fight will follow. As with any conflict, the enduring legacies of the war‘s aftermath are not always clear until years after the fact. Memory of the American Civil War took several different routes before finally settling on the "spirit of reconciliation" that came to dominate American society in the post-war era. In the South, the "Lost Cause" be

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Mo, Yuet-Ha. "Interpersonal trust and business relationships." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1004afdd-05c8-48ca-b6ac-c9bfa671640b.

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The research was multi-method as it combined qualitative semi-structured interviews with quantitative surveys. The thesis concludes by discussing cultural implications for the formation of trust among business people in the UK and China, and future research directions.

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Gleiss, Petra M., Josef Leydold, and Peter F. Stadler. "Interchangeability of Relevant Cycles in Graphs." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, Abt. f. Angewandte Statistik u. Datenverarbeitung, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1999. http://epub.wu.ac.at/898/1/document.pdf.

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The set R of relevant cycles of a graph G is the union of its minimum cycle bases. We introduce a partition of R such that each cycle in a class W can be expressed as a sum of other cycles in W and shorter cycles. It is shown that each minimum cycle basis contains the same number of representatives of a given class W. This result is used to derive upper and lower bounds on the number of distinct minimum cycle bases. Finally, we give a polynomial-time algorithm to compute this partition. (author's abstract)<br>Series: Preprint Series / Department of Applied Statistics and Data Processing

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Bankietienė, Giedrė. ""Motinos kalbos" metodo taikymas mokant groti gitara." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100906_111058-05578.

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Darbe aptariamas Sh. Suzuki „Motinos kalbos“ metodas, jo taikymo galimybės mokant groti gitara, siekiant atskleisti metodo išskirtinumą, praktiškumą ugdyme, humaniškumo svarbą ugdant.<br>The Sh. Suzuki “Mother Tongue” method and its application possibilities in teaching to play the guitar, are discussed in the final paper.

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Miasojedovas, Arūnas. "Organinės optoelektronikos medžiagų fluorescencijos savybių valdymas formuojant molekulinius agregatus." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130930_092139-05678.

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Organinė elektronika pastaruoju metu yra viena sparčiausiai besiplėtojančių puslaidininkių prietaisų krypčių. Ši kryptis labai sparčiai vystoma dėl nuolat kuriamų naujų organinių junginių ir tobulėjančių inžinerijos galimybių. Šiuo metu organinės medžiagos naudojamos organiniuose šviestukuose (OLED), plonasluoksniuose tranzistoriuose, saulės celėse, jutikliuose ir kt. Organinės medžiagos įgalina gaminti didelio ploto bei lanksčius elektronikos prietaisus, gamybai pasitelkiant pigias gaminimo technologijas. Modernios organinės elektronikos medžiagos yra daugiafunkcinės – tai leidžia ne tik page

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LaCombe, Kent. "Entangled Eden: ecological change and the Lake Huron Commercial Fisheries, 1835-1978." Diss., Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/7056.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of History<br>James E. Sherow<br>This project examines ecological change in Lake Huron during the nineteenth and twentieth century and investigates the causative role of the commercial fisheries in that change. The repeated failures of various regional and international efforts designed to improve management of the lake’s fisheries are also examined. The fundamental argument is that economic considerations were the primary motivations for policy development related to the Great Lakes fisheries. Historically management programs and legislation were shaped b

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Prosser, Michelle. "Memories of combat: how World War II veterans construct their memory over time." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18709.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>Mark P. Parillo<br>Throughout the 1990s and into the twenty-first century, American society sought to record the stories of World War II veterans before they passed on. The United States Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2000 in order to collect stories not only from World War II veterans, but also from veterans of all wars. Although many similar programs existed before this one, this initiative stimulated the interest of communities all over the country to conduct oral history projects of their own. As a result, the availability of

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Willey, Amanda Mae. "Fashioning femininity for war: material culture and gender performance in the WAC and WAVES during World War II." Diss., Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/20556.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of History<br>Sue Zschoche<br>In 1942, the U.S. Army and Navy announced the creation of their respective women’s military services: the WAAC/WAC and the WAVES. Although American women had served alongside the military in past conflicts, the creation of women’s military corps caused uproar in American society. Placing women directly into the armed services called into question cultural expectations about “masculinity” and “femininity.” Thus, the women’s corps had to be justified to the public in accordance with American cultural assumptions regarding proper

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Withers, Kristine. "Detachment 101: a microcosm of the evolutionary nature of warfare." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8854.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>Mark P. Parillo<br>Detachment 101's experiences provide a microcosm view of the evolutionary nature of warfare, and also demonstrates the understanding of Fourth Generational Warfare concepts by the Detachment.

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Biyikoglu, Türker, and Josef Leydold. "Semiregular Trees with Minimal Index." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2009. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1338/1/document.pdf.

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A semiregular tree is a tree where all non-pendant vertices have the same degree. Belardo et al. (MATCH Commun. Math. Chem. 61(2), pp. 503-515, 2009) have shown that among all semiregular trees with a fixed order and degree, a graph with index is caterpillar. In this technical report we provide a different proof for this theorem. Furthermore, we give counter examples that show that this result cannot be generalized to the class of trees with a given (non-constant) degree sequence.<br>Series: Research Report Series / Department of Statistics and Mathematics

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Gleiss, Petra M., Josef Leydold, and Peter F. Stadler. "Minimum Path Bases and Relevant Paths." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, Abt. f. Angewandte Statistik u. Datenverarbeitung, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2001. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1214/1/document.pdf.

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Given an undirected graph G(V,E) and a vertex subset U\subseteq V the U-space is the vector space over GF(2) spanned by the paths with end-points in U and the cycles in G(V,E). We extend Vismara's algorithm to the computation of the union of all minimum length bases of the U-space. (author's abstract)<br>Series: Preprint Series / Department of Applied Statistics and Data Processing

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Laslie, Brian Daniel. "Red flag: how the rise of “realistic training” after Vietnam changed the Air Force’s way of war, 1975-1999." Diss., Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15506.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of History<br>Donald J. Mrozek<br>This dissertation examines how changes in training after Vietnam altered the Air Force’s way of war. Specifically, the rise of realistic training exercises in the U.S. Air Force, particularly in the Tactical Air Command, after the end of the Vietnam conflict in 1975 ushered in a drastic increase in the use of tactical fighter aircraft to accomplish Air Force missions. Many scholars, including Benjamin Lambeth and Richard Hallion, have emphasized the primacy of technological developments in the renaissance of air power between

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Hutchison, Van William. "Greater Kansas City and the urban crisis, 1830-1968." Diss., Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/16896.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of History<br>Sue Zschoche<br>In the last two decades, the study of postwar American cities has gone through a significant revisionist reinterpretation that overturned an older story of urban decay and decline beginning with the tumultuous 1960s and the notion that a conservative white suburban backlash politics against civil rights and liberalism appeared only after 1966. These new studies have shown that, in fact, American cities had been in jeopardy as far back as the 1940s and that white right-wing backlash against civil rights was also much older than pr

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Messer, Rick Jay. "The influence of Hannibal of Carthage on the art of war and how his legacy has been interpreted." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1503.

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Gleiss, Petra M., Josef Leydold, and Peter F. Stadler. "Circuit Bases of Strongly Connected Digraphs." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, Abt. f. Angewandte Statistik u. Datenverarbeitung, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2001. http://epub.wu.ac.at/178/1/document.pdf.

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The cycle space of a strongly connected graph has a basis consisting of directed circuits. The concept of relevant circuits is introduced as a generalization of the relevant cycles in undirected graphs. A polynomial time algorithm for the computation of a minimum weight directed circuit basis is outlined. (author's abstract)<br>Series: Preprint Series / Department of Applied Statistics and Data Processing

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Biyikoglu, Türker, and Josef Leydold. "Graphs with given degree sequence and maximal spectral radius." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2008. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1160/1/document.pdf.

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We describe the structure of those graphs that have largest spectral radius in the class of all connected graphs with a given degree sequence. We show that in such a graph the degree sequence is non-increasing with respect to an ordering of the vertices induced by breadth-first search. For trees the resulting structure is uniquely determined up to isomorphism. We also show that the largest spectral radius in such classes of trees is strictly monotone with respect to majorization. This paper is the revised final version of the preprint no. 35 of this research report series. (author´s abstract)<

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Biyikoglu, Türker, and Josef Leydold. "Semiregular Trees with Minimal Laplacian Spectral Radius." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2009. http://epub.wu.ac.at/986/1/document.pdf.

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A semiregular tree is a tree where all non-pendant vertices have the same degree. Among all semiregular trees with fixed order and degree, a graph with minimal (adjacency / Laplacian) spectral radius is a caterpillar. Counter examples show that the result cannot be generalized to the class of trees with a given (non-constant) degree sequence.<br>Series: Research Report Series / Department of Statistics and Mathematics

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Biyikoglu, Türker, and Josef Leydold. "Algebraic Connectivity and Degree Sequences of Trees." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2008. http://epub.wu.ac.at/782/1/document.pdf.

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We investigate the structure of trees that have minimal algebraic connectivity among all trees with a given degree sequence. We show that such trees are caterpillars and that the vertex degrees are non-decreasing on every path on non-pendant vertices starting at the characteristic set of the Fiedler vector. (author´s abstract)<br>Series: Research Report Series / Department of Statistics and Mathematics

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Biyikoglu, Türker, Marc Hellmuth, and Josef Leydold. "Largest Laplacian Eigenvalue and Degree Sequences of Trees." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2008. http://epub.wu.ac.at/350/1/document.pdf.

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We investigate the structure of trees that have greatest maximum eigenvalue among all trees with a given degree sequence. We show that in such an extremal tree the degree sequence is non-increasing with respect to an ordering of the vertices that is obtained by breadth-first search. This structure is uniquely determined up to isomorphism. We also show that the maximum eigenvalue in such classes of trees is strictly monotone with respect to majorization. (author´s abstract)<br>Series: Research Report Series / Department of Statistics and Mathematics

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Bach, Ryan Martin. "“One government, one flag, one destiny:” Union soldiers’ ideological support of Lincoln’s reelection." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18954.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>Charles W. Sanders, Jr.<br>This thesis examines the reasons Union soldiers voted overwhelmingly for Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864. This thesis bridges the gap between the emerging disagreements within the historiography of the soldier vote in 1864. The disagreements thus far deal with the role of emancipation in the Union soldier’s decision-making process versus the role of other issues, particularly whether or not the war effort should have been continued on to ultimate victory. By extension, the argument also deals with whethe

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Martin, Jason C. "Regressing forward: army adaptability and animal power during World War II." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/14984.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of History<br>Mark Parillo<br>America forged a successful way of war that relied on adaptation, and this trait was not simply an adjunct to industrial might as a reason why the Allies won World War II. An American penchant for organization and corporate management allowed for mass production of war material, which clearly contributed to Axis defeat. However, to claim that the Axis Powers were merely overwhelmed by an avalanche of weapons and supply is reductionist. This dissertation contends that adaptability was as much an American way of war as mass product

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Wells, James Edward II. "Western landscapes, western images: a rephotography of U.S. Highway 89." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13524.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of Geography<br>Kevin Blake<br>The American West is a land of great diversity and stark contrast. It is also a landscape marked by rapid change as a result of such forces as globalization, population growth, and heightened interest in natural resources (either for recreation or extraction). This dissertation investigates these changes to the region through a repeat photography analysis. Between 1982 and 1984, Thomas and Geraldine Vale traveled along U.S. Highway 89 from Glacier National Park, Montana to Nogales, Arizona. Their subsequent work, Western Images,

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Pickard, Scott D. "Co-workers in the field of souls: the Civil War partnership between Union chaplains and the U.S. Christian Commission, 1861-1865." Diss., Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15271.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of History<br>Robert D. Linder<br>A religious revival movement occurred in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865). The revivals began to appear with some regularity at the end of 1862 and continued until the end of the conflict. Union soldiers also widely adopted Protestant evangelical values during this time of religious enthusiasm. Two groups in particular played a pivotal, yet often unheralded, role in the substantial growth of religious fervor among northern soldiers during the Civil War: Union military chaplains and the United States Ch

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Clauson, Loryn. "A missed opportunity: United States v Hall and the battle over the Fourteenth Amendment." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/20530.

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Master of Arts<br>History<br>Lou F. Williams<br>During the course of Reconstruction both the Supreme Court and the lower level federal courts faced the task of interpreting Reconstruction legislation, including the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the Enforcement Acts. By the end of Reconstruction the Supreme Court had defined these groundbreaking pieces of legislation in a conservative manner that negatively impacted the former slaves. The lower-level courts, however, had embraced earlier opportunities to broaden the nationalistic meaning of these Amendments. One such opp

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Biyikoglu, Türker, and Josef Leydold. "Faber-Krahn Type Inequalities for Trees." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, Abt. f. Angewandte Statistik u. Datenverarbeitung, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2003. http://epub.wu.ac.at/826/1/document.pdf.

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The Faber-Krahn theorem states that among all bounded domains with the same volume in Rn (with the standard Euclidean metric), a ball that has lowest first Dirichlet eigenvalue. Recently it has been shown that a similar result holds for (semi-)regular trees. In this article we show that such a theorem also hold for other classes of (not necessarily non-regular) trees. However, for these new results no couterparts in the world of the Laplace-Beltrami-operator on manifolds are known.<br>Series: Preprint Series / Department of Applied Statistics and Data Processing

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Holgerson, Timothy W. "To the “serious reader”: the influence of John Wesley’s a christian library on methodism, 1752-1778." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13165.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>Robert D. Linder<br>After years of selecting, editing, omitting, reducing and correcting what would become printed as over fourteen thousand pages of devotional literature for a young Methodist movement in the wake of the English Evangelical Revival, John Wesley pronounced his A Christian library: consisting of extracts from, and abridgments of, the choicest Pieces of practical divinity which have been published in the English tongue in fifty volumes (1749-1755) an underappreciated treasure and an overtaxing expenditure. Taking their lead from Wesle

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Alsubaie, Saad Ali. "The impact of regional political developments on the evolution of transnational terrorism in Saudi Arabia." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15169.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Security Studies<br>Dale R. Herspring<br>Since the late 1970s Saudi Arabia has experienced transnational terrorism in sporadic waves whose character has evolved over time. While most of the literature on these waves of terrorism focuses on religious extremism this dissertation argues that terrorism in Saudi Arabia, although framed in religious terms, is not the result of religious factors alone, but more importantly a function of external variables. Taking the role of religious extremism into consideration, this dissertation underlines the importance of external factors

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Cohn, Ury Saul Hersch. "Illegal aliens out! : making sociological sense of the new restrictionist frame." Diss., Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/16696.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work<br>Robert K. Schaeffer<br>In a 2005 op-ed piece, Wall St. Journal columnist Peggy Noonan queried, "What does it mean that your first act on entering a country is breaking its laws?" Unauthorized noncitizen populations have increased rapidly, from 3 million in 1990 to over 11 million in 2009. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the Minuteman Project and the Tea Party generated renewed interest in restrictionist social movements (RSMs). Sociological social movement theories focused primarily on oppressed

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Fuemmeler, Chadd Randall. "Enhancing urban centers: connecting grey with green in Kansas City's downtown loop." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8616.

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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Department of Landscape Architecture<br>Dennis L. Law<br>In the late 1800s George Kessler and the Board of Parks and Boulevard Commissioners (BPBC) developed a Parks and Boulevard system for Kansas City, MO laying the foundation for the city to grow. Development of the system is the result of the combination of Kessler’s ideology, as well as his planning and design practices. The parks and boulevard system established a framework giving due weight to existing conditions, adapting itself to topography, avoiding forced routes and forced constructi

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Cohen, Matthew F. "“Bring security to the people and not the people to security”: security, refugee, and ethnic minority policies and implementation in Vietnam’s central highlands, 1968-1975." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/12438.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>David A. Graff<br>The central highlands of Vietnam were of vital strategic importance during the Second Indochina War (1955-1975); the collapse of South Vietnamese forces in this region in March 1975 led to the fall of Saigon just one month later. Despite this area’s importance, most central highlands historiography addresses large military campaigns, such as the 1972 Nguyen Hue “Easter Offensive” and the 1975 Ho Chi Minh Offensive. Micro-histories are of great value in examining the implementation of national programs, yet all province case studies

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McDonough, Matthew Davitian. "Manifestly uncertain destiny: the debate over American expansionism, 1803-1848." Diss., Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13108.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of History<br>Charles W. Sanders<br>Americans during the first half of the nineteenth-century were obsessed with expansion. God had bestowed upon them an innate superiority in nearly all things. American settlers were culturally, economically, racially and politically superior to all others. But how accurate are such statements? Did a majority of Americans support such declarations? The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how Americans wrote and read about expansion. Doing so reveals that for every citizen extolling the unique greatness of America

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Vail, David Douglas. "Guardians of abundance: aerial application, agricultural chemicals, and toxicity in the postwar prairie west." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13673.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of History<br>James E. Sherow<br>This dissertation contributes to the environmental, agricultural, and technological history of the modern United States by examining pesticide use and the debates surrounding them in the Great Plains from the 1940s to the 1980s. Specifically, it addresses the relationships among aerial sprayers, farmers, agriculturalists, and grassroots concepts of toxicity that emerged from mid-century technological and environmental changes. It argues that pesticides as well as a variety of weeds and insects actively transformed the tools, a

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Dredger, John Anthony. "Offensive spending: tactics and procurement in the Habsburg military, 1866-1918." Diss., Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15684.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of History<br>David Stone<br>This manuscript reveals the primary causes of Habsburg defeat both in 1866 and in 1914-1918. The choice of offensive strategy and tactics against an enemy possessing superior weaponry in the Austro-Prussian War and opponents with superior numbers and weapons in the First World War resulted in catastrophe. The inferiority of the Habsburg forces in both wars stemmed from imprudent spending decisions during peacetime rather than conservatism or parliamentary stinginess. The desire to restore the sunken prestige of Austria-Hungary

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Elkins, Troy R. "A creditable position James Carson Breckinridge and the development of the Marine Corps Schools." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13160.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>Michael A. Ramsay<br>Immediately after World War I, the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps implemented an officer education program. Called the Marine Corps Schools (MCS), the Commandant, Major General John A. Lejeune, gave the schools the mission of educating officers throughout their career. MCS struggled during its first decade of existence due to operational tempo and a poor curriculum. The direction of MCS changed greatly with the assignment of James Carson Breckinridge as the commanding officer in 1928. The purpose of this thesis is to

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Blake, Daron. "Poetry on the plains: J.S. Penny and the environmental history of Fort Scott." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/14768.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>Bonnie Lynn-Sherow<br>This thesis recreates the relationship between humans and their physical environment in Fort Scott, Kansas between 1850 and 1920 and uses the poetry of J.S. Penny, a contemporary amateur poet living and writing in Fort Scott, as an essential primary resource. Settlers came to this area in southeastern Kansas in the 19th century for its timber-lined streams, high precipitation, and rich soil. The Missouri River, Fort Scott, and Gulf Railroad was extended through Fort Scott in December of 1869. The arrival of the railroad transform

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Dogan, Gazi. "The establishment of Kemalist autocracy and its reform policies in Turkey." Diss., Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32147.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of History<br>Michael Krysko<br>David Stone<br>Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who was a nationalist leader and founder and first president of the republic of Turkey, still remains an important figure in the Turkish political and social landscape. Kemalist historiography, which is based on Mustafa Kemal’s six-day speech (Nutuk) in October 1927, emphasizes the foundation of the Republic as central to Turkish history. While this historiography emphasizes that Mustafa Kemal had an explicit plan during his modernization efforts, this dissertation will cover how Mustafa Ke

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Padavich, Andrew J. "Perceptions of an Air Campaign : the 1991 Persian Gulf War as portrayed by major American print media sources." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/468.

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Young, Theresa L. "Living tools: an environmental history of afforestation and the shifting image of trees." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15674.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>Bonnie Lynn-Sherow<br>In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Timber Culture Act (1873) and the development of the field of scientific forestry shifted the social conception of trees from a cultural icon, into living technological tools. Beginning with the antebellum publications of George Perkins Marsh, who argued for the preservation and restoration of forests for the benefit of all, scientists, railroad developers, and plains settlers advocated for the cultural importance of trees as a living tool. Assured by railroad-boosters, the buddin

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Tracy, Jared M. "Perception management in the United States from the great war to the great crash." Diss., Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13246.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Department of History<br>Donald J. Mrozek<br>This study argues that after World War I, corporate executives continued a strategy of perception management (PM) to control Americans’ choices in the commercial sphere and to shape the economic and cultural landscape of the 1920s. The state used PM on an unprecedented scale in 1917 and 1918 to promote a model of loyal American behavior (as part its effort to manage the mobilized U.S. society), but the use of PM did not end after the Armistice. While many historians have seen wartime propaganda measures as the result of spe

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Young, James L. Jr. "United States Air Force Defense Suppression Doctrine, 1968-1972." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/901.

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Stork, Lisa. "Effectiveness of interpretive exhibits at Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site." Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15645.

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Master of Science<br>Department of Horticulture, Forestry, and Recreation Resources<br>Ted Cable<br>National parks reach out to millions of people each year by offering a number of recreational and educational experiences. People are exposed to new ideas and experiences in a national park that they may not get anywhere else. At Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas, the National Park Service (NPS) compels visitors to step into the shoes of African American students in a segregated elementary school through the use of interpretive exhibits. This study was conducte

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Biyikoglu, Türker, Marc Hellmuth, and Josef Leydold. "Largest Eigenvalues of the Discrete p-Laplacian of Trees with Degree Sequences." Department of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2009. http://epub.wu.ac.at/390/1/document.pdf.

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We characterize trees that have greatest maximum p-Laplacian eigenvalue among all trees with a given degree sequence. We show that such extremal trees can be obtained by breadth-first search where the vertex degrees are non-increasing. These trees are uniquely determined up to isomorphism. Moreover, their structure does not depend on p.<br>Series: Research Report Series / Department of Statistics and Mathematics

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Jud, Michael. "The Long March of Village Democracy: A Survey of the Progress toward Democratic Village Self-governance in China." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33259.

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Over the past 30 years, the Chinese policy of village self-governance has promoted a system of democratically elected autonomous committees to wield authority at the village level. Particularly in the period since 1998, the village committee system has made impressive achievements in most areas of electoral rules and procedures. Relatively free and fair elections have become commonplace throughout much of the Chinese countryside, and the level of competition and openness has gradually increased. Nonetheless, village self-governance has had only a modest impact on the actual political configura

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Watters, Westbrook Danielle. ""The Picturesque Playground of Canada": Landscaping the Geographical and Social Identity of Muskoka, 1850-1914." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18096.

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This thesis explores the complexities of Muskoka’s past between 1850 and 1914. Through the lenses of class-consciousness and popular notions of ethnicity and race, Muskoka’s geographical and social landscape were redefined during this period by the government, the area’s industries, visitors, and local inhabitants. It was not until the early twentieth century that the nature-tourism industry was able to standardize a regional identity for the district; this identity has remained prevalent through to the twenty-first century. As the title of Edward Roper’s 1883 booklet "Muskoka; the Picturesque

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Galer, Dustin. ""Hire the Handicapped!": Disability Rights, Economic Integration and Working Lives in Toronto, Ontario, 1962-2005." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/65661.

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This dissertation, “‘Hire the Handicapped!’: Disability Rights, Economic Integration and Working Lives in Toronto, Ontario, 1962-2005,” argues that work significantly shaped the experience of disability during this period. Barriers to mainstream employment opportunities gave rise to multiple disability movements that challenged the social and economic framework which marginalized generations of people with disabilities. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, I demonstrate how demands for greater acc

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