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Fast Convergent and Secure Key Distribution Protocols Using a Dual-Quantum Channel
(2008)
This dissertation presents three new quantum key distribution protocols over a dual quantum-channel to enhance the convergence speed of the key distribution process. The proposed protocols effectively use a dual-quantum ...
PHYSICAL TOPOLOGY DESIGN AND ROUTING ALGORITHMS FOR DEGREE-CONSTRAINED FSO MESH NETWORKS
(2008)
Free-space optical (FSO) mesh networks are emerging as broadband communication networks because of their high bandwidth (up to Gbps), low cost, and easy installation. However, there are two existing problems in the deployment ...
An Examination of Capital Outlay Funding Mechanisms in Oklahoma
(2008)
This is an exploratory study designed to assist in understanding how funding mechanisms in Oklahoma influence school districts in pursuing capital outlay projects, including an emphasis on the differences between rural and ...
Using A Psychodynamic Approach to Leadership in the United States Army
(2008)
The US Army is a diverse and rapidly changing organization made up of people from different groups, ethnicities, and geographies. This increases the possibility for relationship uncertainties between the leader and their ...
A Balancing Act: Reconciling Organizational Change with a Tradition of Uniqueness in Countercultural Liberal Arts Colleges
(2008)
The current investigation explores the impact of societal shifts in commercialism and consumerism on lesser-known colleges with a tradition of liberal arts education. I present a descriptive case study that examines the ...
A systematic study of genus
(2008)
First, pollen grains of tribe Sanguisorbeae (Rosaceae, Rosoideae) were examined using scanning electron microscopy in order to identify useful characters in the tribe, test taxonomic and phylogenetic hypotheses among genera, ...
Discrimination of Tornadic and Non-Tornadic Severe Weather Outbreaks
(2008)
Outbreaks of severe weather affect the majority of the conterminous United States. An outbreak is characterized by multiple severe weather occurrences within a single synoptic system. Outbreaks can be categorized by ...
Constructing an Ethos in the Borderlands
(2008)
Since the 1960s, classical rhetoric has been a significant site for theorizing composition pedagogy in the United States, informing scholarly work in the field and generating textbooks and teaching practices for first-year ...
To Prove Who You Are: Freedmen Identities in Oklahoma
(2008)
Amidst political challenges to Freedmen citizenship in the Five Tribes, Freedmen communities in Oklahoma struggle to prove their identities. This ethnographic and ethnohistorical work examines Freedmen identities through ...
Relationship between perceptions of the environment and physical activity participation in community-dwelling women.
(2008)
Abstract not available.