Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Does Discussing Problems Online Change the Nature of Co-rumination and Its Associated Effects on Negative Affect and Perceived Friendship Quality?
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Engagement in problem-focused discussions that direct attention to negative emotions predicts heightened depressive affect and feelings of closeness with friends (Rose, 2002). The goal of this study was to test whether the ... -
Does Domain Knowledge Increase Creativity During Requirements Development: An Empirical Investigation
(North Dakota State University, 2014)To design and build a system/software, we need to understand the business of the organization, so understanding the business is very important for requirement analysis of such system. This requires an effective and efficient ... -
Does Gender Influence the Patient-Clinician Relationship?
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Athletic trainers commonly work with athletes of the opposite gender yet it is not fully understood if gender may influence these interactions. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent that gender influences ... -
Does Mattering Really Matter to Graduate Students?
(North Dakota State University, 2021)As graduate student attrition hovers around 50%, scholars are beginning to study what is leading to these high attrition rates (Wao, 2010). As there has been little theoretical work done on graduate student retention, a ... -
Does Mom Know Best? The Influence of Baby-led Weaning on Picky Eating and Sweetener Use
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Baby-led weaning, the process of an infant feeding themselves at the introduction of solid foods as opposed to being spoon-fed by a caregiver, is an under-researched area of infant development. There is a significant gap ... -
Does Post-Secondary Coursework Predict Perceived Sales Success?
(North Dakota State University, 2019)A sales career is common for recent graduates of post-secondary institutions. Looking to see if post-secondary coursework completed predicts perceived sales success assists new and upcoming programs to determine the most ... -
Does Relative Energy in Sport Undermine Bone Health?
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) is a term expanded from the female athlete triad the is inclusive to males and females and the negative physiological symptoms impacting athlete health and performance from low ... -
Does Social Capital Always Affect Immigrant Employment? Analyzing the Mediating Effect of United States’ Cultural Context on the Relationship Between Social Capital and Immigrant Employment
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The paper investigates if culture mediates the relation between immigrants’ social capital and the likelihood of employment in a host country. It applies Social Capital Theory to predict potential effects of culture and ... -
Does Social Support Influence Bulimic Behaviors through its Impact on Cognitive Appraisal
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Social support is one of many interpersonal functions that is impaired among individuals with bulimia nervosa. The buffering hypothesis of social support posits that social support shields the deleterious impact of stress ... -
DOM Structure Based Web Pattern Mining
(North Dakota State University, 2011)A rapid expansion in the Web has motivated several studies to understand and recognize the implementation structure underlying the interface. Though the presentation of the Web pages looks different, those Web pages may ... -
Domain Ontology Based Detection Approach to Identify Effect Types of Security Requirements upon Functional Requirements
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Requirements engineering is a subfield of software engineering that is concerned with analyzing software requirements specifications. An important process of requirement engineering is tracing requirements to investigate ... -
A Domain-Knowledge Modeling of Hospital-Acquired Infection Risk in Healthcare Personnel From Retrospective Observational Data: A Case Study for Covid-19
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Healthcare personnel (HCP) is facing a consistent risk of viral infections. We proposed a domain-knowledge-driven infection risk model to quantify the individual HCP and the population-level risks. For individual-level ... -
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault That Impacts Women and Child Welfare
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Domestic violence is a global problem of immense proportions. At least one in every three women globally has been beaten, coerced into sex, or abused in some other way; most often by someone she knows, including by her ... -
Domus Dei: Diocese of Fargo Retreat Center
(North Dakota State University, 2005)In 2003 the Catholic Diocese of Fargo moved into a new building in south Fargo next to the new Shanley High School. They did this to get all of the offices into a single building which is call the Pastoral Center. The old ... -
Domus Dei: The House of God
(North Dakota State University, 2024)The architecture of Catholic church buildings has an intrinsic connection with the liturgy, theology, and tradition of the Church. Creating transcendent spaces to engage in the worship of God has been an essential part of ... -
Down to Earth
(North Dakota State University, 2021)My thesis project dives into the question, “Can subterranean architecture create a more sustainable design?” The idea is to submerge the architecture into the landscape for the purpose of creating designs that can be more ... -
Downtown Development: A Lifestyle Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis provides some answers to the question: how can the implementation by architects of minimal energy consumption and better material utilization in design begin to stop the wasteful ways so prevalent in our current ... -
Downtown Fargo: Stakeholder Struggles and the Crisis ofldentity
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This research sought to discover the social impact of demographic, aesthetic, and economic neighborhood restructuring in downtown Fargo, North Dakota. In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 cultural, economic, and ... -
Downy Mildew of Sunflowers: Establishment of Baseline Sensitivity to Azoxystrobin and Monitoring for the Development of Fungicide Resistance and Plasmopara Halstedii Virulence Phenotype Changes
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Downy mildew, caused by Plasmopara halstedii (Farl.) Berl. and de Toni, is an economically important disease in cultivated sunflowers, Helianthus annuus L. The objectives of this study were to determine disease pressure ... -
Drawing on Student Knowledge in Human Anatomy and Physiology
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Prior to instruction, students may have developed alternative conceptions about the mechanics behind human physiology. To help students re-shape these ideas into correct reasoning, the faulty characteristics reinforcing ...