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Development of Ice Releasing Epoxy-Siloxane Marine Coatings
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
In this study, epoxy-siloxane coatings were prepared and modified using various polysiloxane oil additives with the goal of developing an ice releasing epoxy-siloxane coating. Contact angle, surface energy, and ice adhesion ...
Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation Using Teacher's Domain Expertise
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
Large BERT models cannot be used with low computing power and storage capacity. Knowledge Distillation solves this problem by distilling knowledge into a smaller BERT model while retaining much of the teacher’s accuracy ...
Effects of Intensive Agricultural Management Practices on Soil Microbial Assembly and Recruitment
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
Soil microbial communities play an important role in ecosystems in various ways to promote healthy and fertile soil. However, intensive agricultural practices with excessive tillage and fertilizer applications can affect ...
Comparing Prediction Accuracies of Cancer Survival Using Machine Learning Techniques and Statistical Methods in Combination with Data Reduction Methods
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
This comparative study of five-year survival prediction for breast, lung, colon, and leukemia cancers using a large SEER dataset along with 10-fold cross-validation provided us with an insight into the relative prediction ...
How Female Fans Make Sense of Gender, Power, and Gendered Violence in HBO’S Game of Thrones
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
Violence and abuse towards women are common themes in media today. HBO’s television series, Game of Thrones, is filled with scenes of women being tortured, raped, and abused. Yet, Game of Thrones was one of the most watched ...
Evaluation of Beef Cattle Temperament Using Infrared Thermography and Computer Vison Imaging Technologies
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
The aim of these studies are two-fold. The first, was to evaluate the use of infrared thermography (IRT) maximum, average, and minimum eye temperature (IRTMIN, IRTAVG, and IRTMAX, respectively) and percentage of eye white ...
The Effect of Hemp Byproduct Supplementation on Beef Quality
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
The supplementation of hempseed cake (hemp byproduct) could be considered an alternative protein and fiber source for ruminants such as cattle. Hempseed cake might be a successful alternative feed source due to cattle’s ...
Understanding the Patterns of Microservice Intercommunication From A Developer Perspective
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
Microservices Architecture is the modern paradigm for designing software. Based on the divide-and-conquer strategy, microservices architecture organizes the application by furnishing it with a fine-level granularity. Each ...
Economic Benefits of Precision Agricultural Technologies
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
The purpose of this research was to build a model of profitability that can be used by individual farmers to calculate the net benefits of using precision agricultural technologies on their farms. Three case farms were ...
Analysis of SDR to Detect Long Range RFID Badge Cloners
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
This thesis proposes a way of detecting when radio frequency identification (RFID) badge credentials are being captured through the use of software defined radio (SDR). A method
for using SDR to detect when badge cloning ...