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The Simultaneous Evacuation of a Midwestern Community's Multiple Healthcare Facilities during a Major Flood Event: A Study in Decision-Making and Implementation
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Natural disasters are a part of the ecological system, so they are beyond human control. To reduce devastating effects, researchers in Emergency Management seek to understand the causes and cycles of natural disasters so ...
Pre-Disaster Integration of Community Emergency Response Teams within Local Emergency Management Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This study explores how Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) were integrated within local emergency management systems pre-disaster. Semi-structured interviews were conducted following Rubin and Rubin’s (2005) ...
Evaluation of Response Plans in Two Counties: Implications for Response Planning in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This comprehensive paper sought to evaluate two county emergency response plans to determine the implications of their plan quality for Central Plains Ag Services, a North Dakota agricultural business, that handles hazardous ...
Are We Just Guessing? An Exploratory Study of Minnesota Emergency Managers' Perceptions of Citizen Preparedness
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Emergency management research suggests that citizen preparedness is paramount to household survival in disasters. Thus, having a citizenry that is well prepared is ideal for individuals who work directly in emergency ...
The World isn’t Split into Good People and Death Eaters: Exploring the Ambiguities of Alchemy, Immortality, Morality, and Choice in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
In this Master’s paper, I am exploring the ambiguous intersection between alchemy and immortality in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, especially where choice and morality complicate Rowling’s depiction of the means to ...
The Dangers of Power: Government Control in the Worlds of Condie’s Matched and Lowry’s The Giver
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
This paper considers the topic of government control through the context of young adult dystopian literature. The novels The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry and Matched (2011) by Ally Condie are specifically considered in their ...
Something Wicked This Way Comes: How the Horror Genre Revitalizes Macbeth
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
This project examines Rupert Goold’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in terms of the horror genre. Using filmic elements of the horror genre, touchstone horror texts, and Carol Clover’s Men, Women, and Chainsaws, this ...
Characterizing the Aging-Driven Degradation Rate of Electrical Contact Resistance and Mechanical Integrity of Plastic-Encapsulated Au/Al Wire Bonds
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Gold-aluminum interconnect is an integral part of conventional chip packaging. The gold-aluminum interface deteriorates during the operation of a device due to the formation of gold-aluminum intermetallic compounds. Spatial ...
A Foundation for Factors that Explain Volunteer Engagement in Response and Recovery: The Case of Flooding in East Texas 2016
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Volunteers are important contributors to response and recovery. Little is known about their engagement, particularly in terms of comparing the engagement of response volunteers to recovery volunteers. This study sought to ...
Coordination in Disaster Recovery: Implications for Policy and Practice
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Disaster scholarship and recent disaster policy in the United States have suggested that coordination of efforts in the disaster recovery process will allow impacted jurisdictions to maximize positive recovery outcomes. ...