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Machine Learning Based Spectrum Fingerprinting of Drones for Defensive Cyber Operations
(2023-04-28)
The rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone capabilities in the past decade has significantly expanded the commercial, military, and consumer applications for these innovative airborne devices. Characterized ...
Mind the Gap: Investigating the Presence of Colonial Attitudes Among Global Development Workers
(2022-10-11)
Over the last couple of decades, there have been increased calls to confront the legacies of colonialism. Structures and systems that resulted from colonial-era policies and practices are being confronted through postcolonial ...
The Rogue Underground: Hidden Encryption Systems in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
(2023-04-28)
This thesis project investigates the existence and extent of coded language in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. By opening with the phrase “124 was spiteful,” the narrator not only thrusts the reader into a world filled with ...
Poisoned Lives
(2023-05-23)
Anna Edwacer has been arrested for poisoning her neighbors, including several children, at a block party. Her husband, a one-star general, is battling for their marriage, while Anna seems to be outshining him for the first ...
Lost in a Sandstorm: The U.S. attempt to win the war in Afghanistan
(2023-04-03)
Abstract
Why did the U.S. lose the war in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021? Why did the U.S. fail there, after we poured hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign aid into the country, and had tens of thousands of ...
Defining the Silk Road Borders: Central Asia Regional Dynamics and the Soviet Legacy in Sino-Kazakh Bilateral Relations in the Belt and Road Era
(2023-09-27)
Despite being the setting for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s 2013 announcement
of the country’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a project of monumental economic and
geopolitical consequence—Kazakhstan did not officially ...
Liberalizing Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia: Powered by the Kingdom’s Economic Will
(2023-10-10)
Since 2017, women’s rights have increased significantly in Saudi Arabia, from being allowed to drive cars to no longer having to wear head coverings. Saudi women now have greater mobility, not only to travel freely, but ...
Generation of Lymph-Node-on-a-Chip Device Utilizing 3D Cell Culture Bioprinting of Conduit Mimicking Towers
(2023-10-11)
In the modern immune oncology field, currently there are challenges for allowing for effective immunotherapeutic drug screening systems for immune cell populations in a biologically relevant design for process development ...
Analysis of Impacts and Trade-offs from Changes to Short-Haul Business Travel Policies in Europe to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
(2023-10-11)
This research contributes to the identification and understanding of key criteria
important for business travel decision-making and policy implementation, as well as
improved understanding of the potential effectiveness ...
Acting Political: How do Performers Utilize Their Acting Background in Politics from Reagan to Trump
(2023-10-10)
The objective of this thesis is to analyze how politicians with backgrounds in performance can use their previous acting training in politics. While doing so, the goal will also be to find out if it is really to the actor’s ...