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Fostering Career Readiness Among Secondary Students: Teachers' Perceptions and Instructional Intentions
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teachers’ perceptions of career readiness as an outcome of secondary schools and their intentions to teach employability skills in their classrooms. ... -
Fostering Community
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Foster Care is an extremely prevalent thing in today’s society. On any given day, there are nearly 424,000 children in foster care in the United States. In 2019, over 672,000 children spent time in U.S. foster care. ... -
Fostering Responsible Behavior
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Educated children must comprehend what their duties towards the environment are and start fostering responsible behavior seriously. If children go to school with means to learn science, literature, etc. they might as well ... -
Fouling Release Marine Coatings: Effect of Surface Abrasions on Fouling Release Performance of Self-Stratified Siloxane-Polyurethane Coatings and Novel Isocyanate-Free Glycidyl Carbamate Technologies
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Video summarizing a Ph.D. dissertation for a non-specialist audience. -
Found in Translation: Language and the Built Reality
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Language acts as the primary way humans understand themselves and the world, and through the learning of languages, we are able to mediate and enrich this exchange. As humans reach for understanding of the world they ... -
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 ... -
Foundational Algorithms Underlying Horizontal Processing of Vertically Structured Big Data Using pTrees
(North Dakota State University, 2016)For Big Data, the time taken to process a data mining algorithm is a critical issue. Many reliable algorithms are unusable in the big data environment due to the fact that the processing takes an unacceptable amount of ... -
Fountain Plaza And Art Gardens
(2014)Redeveloping Fountain Hills, Arizona downtown district into an Urban Agricultural Greenway, Fountain Farms will provide commerce and produce to the city. Is it possible to use Urban Agriculture to mend a broken downtown ... -
The Four-Day versus the Five-Day School Week: A Comparative Study of South Dakota Schools
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The purpose of this study was to determine what impact the four-day school week had on the Dakota STEP test by comparing four-day schools to themselves three years before their switch to their Dakota STEP test scores in ... -
The Fourth Wall: Creative Arts Department Addition, San Francisco State University
(North Dakota State University, 2006)The project is an institute for the production and study of multi-dimensional media and the relationship it creates with its creators, inhabitants, and architecture. The thesis will examine the relationships between ... -
FPGA-Based Simulation and Implementation of Induction Motor Torque Control Systems Based on Direct Torque Control (DTC)
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Electric drives for induction machines are of great importance because of the popularity of this machine type. To design, simulate and implement such drives, fast, reliable digital signal processors are needed. Recently ... -
Fracture Initiating Mechanism in Additively Manufactured 17-4 Stainless Steel
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Additive manufacturing provides exceptional geometrical freedom to the designers and enables the production of parts that cannot be made through subtractive processes. Defects in additively manufactured (AM) metals are ... -
Fractures of Memory: Filmic Depth as a Method to Mourn
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The living and the dead are currently separated from each other within our American cities. This divide has pushed society to disassociate the living and the dead, making them appear as separate entities. This creates ... -
A Free and Flexible Poker Environment
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This paper introduces a framework and software that allows poker players to create and play original and custom poker games, through a TCP/IP connection, for free. This paper describes how the concept of playing ... -
The Free and Restricted Diffusion of Silicon Nanocrystal Clusters
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Biological applications for silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) have recently gained more attention because of silicon’s low toxicity. But, to be able to use SiNCs in applications such as biological sensors, labeling or drug ... -
Free Energy Minimization and Multicomponent, Multi-Phase Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Van Der Waals Fluid Mixtures
(North Dakota State University, 2018)In this thesis, we develop a general framework for the lattice Boltzmann method to simulate multiphase systems with an arbitrary number of components. Theoretical expectations are easily visualized for binary mixtures, so ... -
Freedom High
(North Dakota State University, 2022)In this paper, I am proposing an alternative education high school for youth involved in the juvenile justice system, Freedom High. Freedom High combines counseling, family involvement, positive youth development, and ... -
Frequency of Misconceptions About Evolution in Grade 7-12 Biology Textbooks Over Time
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Evolution is the unifying idea of biology. Yet it is also one of the most misunderstood ideas in biology. Misconceptions about evolution are common among students, teachers and the general public. However, because it is ... -
Frequent Substring-Based Sequence Classification Using Reduced Alphabets
(North Dakota State University, 2011)In recent years, various disciplines have generated large quantities of sequence data which has necessitated automated techniques for classifying these sequences into different categories of interest. Especially with the ... -
Fresh Place Market: A Permanent Farmer's Market Solution Supporting the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area
(2013)Current farmers and individual food producers are struggling for spatial identity and social legitimacy in a larger food network that currently exists in America. Much of the current research only focuses on consumer and ...