Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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The Emperors of Sport: Dominican Baseball during the US Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924
(North Dakota State University, 2017)While baseball is typically associated with the United States for most Western readers, the sport was already being played in Cuba, Japan, and the Dominican Republic before the United States fully realized its own Major ... -
Emphasis on Nature
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis “Emphasis on Nature” will attempt to create an atmosphere that provides better healing and a more vital quality of life for people dealing with cancer. The healing process is different for every person, and ... -
An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Foreign Direct Investment and Exports of Processed Food Industries
(North Dakota State University, 2006)This study examined the determinants of U.S. foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports of processed food. This study also examined the impact of U.S. FDI on U.S. exports on processed food. FDI and export models used for ... -
Empirical Comparison of Statistical Tests of Dense Subgraph in Network Data
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Network analysis is useful in modeling the structures of different phenomena. A fundamental question in the analysis of network data is whether a network contains community structure. One type of community structure of ... -
Empirical Study of Two Hypothesis Test Methods for Community Structure in Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Many real-world network data can be formulated as graphs, where a binary relation exists between nodes. One of the fundamental problems in network data analysis is community detection, clustering the nodes into different ... -
Emplacing New Economy Businesses in Small Metropolitan Areas: Examination of Role of Place Constructs
(North Dakota State University, 2017)It is often argued that only large metropolitan areas possess the preconditions for the origination of successful technology companies. However, smaller cities across the country have been successful in developing vibrant ... -
Employee Perspectives Regarding Responses to Toxic Leadership in the Modern Workplace: A Q Methodological Study
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Currently, in the United States, four generations with four very different cultural norms are working in the workplace simultaneously. These four generations include Baby Boomers, Generation Xers, Millennials, and Generation ... -
Empowering Native American Students: Approaches to Enhancing the Tribal College Writing Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2018)This research aims to address the writing methods and strategies used within the Tribal College Writing classroom by providing insight into best practices to improve writing at Tribal Colleges. While elaborating on classroom ... -
Empowering Spaces: A Student Initiative in Language Acquisition
(North Dakota State University, 2014)A major concern for many international students is improving their spoken English, which requires engaged interaction with other speakers in a comfortable environment. This exploratory study analyzes a student-run language ... -
Empowering Youth: The Potential of Athletics
(North Dakota State University, 2022)My thesis focuses on designing a sports complex geared towards mentoring and encouraging young kids in athletics and opening their eyes to future opportunities. Many children today enjoy participation in sports, but ... -
Empowerment through Architecture: Designing Refugee Habitats to Empower Rohingya Refugees in Kutupalong, Bangladesh
(North Dakota State University, 2019)According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 602,400 Rohingya refugees reside in the Kutupalong-Balukhali Expansion Site. Located along the coast of south eastern Bangladesh, the camp has become a haven ... -
Empty Spaces: Architecture Healing the Emptiness within Victims of Abuse and Sexual Exploitation
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Just as death is underrepresented in modern society, women who have been exploited in abuse, domestic violence, stalking, rape, and sex trafficking have also become underrepresented. A voice needs to be given to these ... -
Enability: How Architecture Can Enable the Disabled
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Enability is designing with empathy from the very beginning of a design. It incorporates design strategies for a variety of disabilities, as well as tackling the difficulties that are known to disproportionately affect ... -
Encoding Efficient Attributes Using Prime Modulo Method For Anonymous Credentials
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The thesis explains a new method of encoding binary and finite set attributes in the anonymous credential system. To encode each binary and finite set attribute, we used the Chinese remainder theorem instead of using prime ... -
Encompassing Spirituality : An Exercise In Formal Gathering
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis project is an exploration of the built environment and how it is affected by the way people of different religions gather together. Bound by a familiar belief in a higher power based in the certainty of a ... -
Enculturating Gender: Examining Bestselling Children's Picture Books
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This research examines gender depictions in 20 current bestselling children's picture books. I argue that children's picture books, specifically those aimed at children 0-5 years of age, portray gender in a way that ... -
The end of the Mill: A Forensic Interpretation of Swany White and Reconstruction of a Local Brewery
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The End of Mills; A Forensic Interpretation of Swany White and Reconstruction of a Local Brewery addresses the question, “How can the loss of the last Century old flour mill in Minnesota be commemorated?” For an architectural ... -
End-of-Life Issues for Native American and Alaska Natives: A Critical Literature Review
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This paper conducts a critical literature review on end of life issues relating to Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework was used to ... -
Energetic Space: The Affect of Literature in a Composition Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Rhetorical and critical theory have both prescribed and proscribed the way scholars view affect. With the exception of Reader Response Theory, literary and rhetorical theory tend to use a more long-term and permanent frame ... -
Energetics of Interrupted Development in Megachile rotundata
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Insects in temperate regions may experience temperature fluctuations during springtime development which can lead to low temperature stress. Previous research has shown that short artificial fluctuations in temperature ...