Naval Postgraduate School
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(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-06)
2018-March NPS Theses and Dissertations Metadata Spreadsheet
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-03)
Higher-order boundary and rough surface treatment of the MMPE model in the evaluation of scattering effects
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-03)
This research aims to improve the Monterey-Miami Parabolic Equation model (MMPE) by incorporating a higher-order hybrid boundary treatment and Fred D. Tappert’s field transformational model to add surface scattering to the ...
Remaining relevant: historical contributions, civil-military challenges, and anti-submarine warfare capabilities on Coast Guard cutters
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-03)
Since 1790, throughout both World Wars, Vietnam, and a majority of the Cold War, the Coast Guard’s major cutters relevantly contributed to United States naval warfare capacity. The post–Cold War global security environment ...
The impact of local smoking culture on the smoking behavior of U.S. soldiers
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-03)
Military members seemingly have a greater propensity for smoking than civilians. This observation has motivated many researchers to explore the military’s historic relationship with tobacco and to examine the ways in which ...
Optimizing training event schedules at Naval Air Station Fallon
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-03)
Naval Air Station (NAS) Fallon, located in Northwestern Nevada, is best known for one of its resident training schools, the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, popularly known as Topgun. Fallon training range airspace ...
The U.S.-Latin America space cooperation equation
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-03)
This thesis investigates why U.S. space cooperation efforts with Latin American countries have decreased over the past three decades. This thesis also addresses the following questions: Is the reduced number of U.S.–Latin ...
The identification of gender bias in the U.S. military
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-03)
Although females represent almost half of the U.S. civilian labor force, they account for less than 15 percent of the officers in the U.S. military. To account for this discrepancy, this thesis tests for gender bias within ...
Analysis of alternative recovery systems for the RQ-21A blackjack
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-03)
The RQ-21A unmanned aerial system must be able to launch and recover independent from any runway or leveled surface. The current RQ-21A STUAS recovery system (SRS) has been deemed deficient by Program Management Authority ...
A noise-masking physical layer security method for multiple-input, multiple-output digital communication systems
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-03)
In this thesis, we develop a method of using a noise-masking system to increase the security in a multiple-input, multiple-output communication system by using known channel-state information to calculate a specific masking ...