Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Healing and Gathering Centers
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This thesis proposes to create a place of sanctuary and gathering for Native American individuals and communities - a place for memorial, healing, and prayer concerning loss and/or trauma as well as a hearth for families ... -
Healing Architecture: Lung Cancer Research and Treatment Center
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Emotional well-being is important for everyone. It can be hard to encompass a healthy mentality when cancer is a prevalent factor in your life. People affected by cancer spend a lot of time in a hospital, a place that ... -
Healing By The Sea: An Empirical Study Into Biophilic Design
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis will explore the question, to what extent can biomimicry benefit occupants of a tropical biophilic design? The typology under investigation is a tropical resort with design focus placed on biomimicry, positively ... -
Healing Dance
(North Dakota State University, 2010)How can cultivation through design become the next step forward in medicine and the arts by creating a homogeneous mixture between dance and physical therapy? The typology for this exploration is therapy through a performing ... -
Healing Garden for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The development and impacts of participation in a healing garden group for survivors of interpersonal violence were studied. The healing garden group focused on reconnection with self, others, and community as outlined in ... -
Healing Heights
(2014)This thesis examines reasons why the Children’s Hospital Minneapolis campus is a location that benefits from a therapeutic green roof. Healing Heights will bring meaning and life to an otherwise conventional roof that is ... -
Healing Life
(2012)This project aims to explore the design of healing gardens with plant materials and paths, as well as the role they play in the healing process. Landscape architects have the ability and knowledge to create usable spaces ... -
Healing Pathways: The Journey to Completely Healing
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Technology has impacted the human perception of health through monumental advancements, but the process of healing has been diminished to where the sole focus of health care has become “to resolve” instead of “to heal”. ... -
Healing the Invisible
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Every day, the environments that surround are constantly impacting who we are and how we feel. Unfortunately, the power that we hold as designers is often overlooked, especially in the fields of healthcare and healing. ... -
Healing Through Architecture: A Human-Centered Design Focused on Biophilia and the Connection to Nature
(North Dakota State University, 2024)At different points in our lives, we may find ourselves in a healthcare setting—supporting a loved one, undergoing treatment, or working within the healthcare profession. A thoughtfully designed space positively influences ... -
Healing Through Humanitarian Design: Understanding the Refugee Crisis and Designing for the Future
(North Dakota State University, 2024)This project is an exploration into understanding the qualities of the built environment to attain a level of dignity for refugees in their healing process. Architecture cannot solve these social issues but seeks to ... -
Healing with Colors
(North Dakota State University, 2020)This study focuses on the relationship between color frequency and healing the human body. There is evidence that color has been implemented as a healing process through therapy, dating back to thousands of years ago. I ... -
Health Risk Feedback: The Effects of ACE Insight on Stress Reactivity
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has lasting repercussions throughout an individual’s lifetime. An adult with a history of childhood trauma is at increased risk for excessive stress reactivity, which ... -
Health Risk Prediction Using Big Medical Data - a Collaborative Filtering-Enhanced Deep Learning Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Deep learning has yielded immense success on many different scenarios. With the success in other real world application, it has been applied into big medical data. However, discovering knowledge from these data can be very ... -
Healthcare & Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Healthcare facilities are often hostile and cold environments for individuals who are just looking for relief in a time of distress and worry. The unifying idea aims to focus on the environment and health. Specifically, ... -
Healthcare Provider Education for Recognizing and Assisting Victims of Human Trafficking
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Human trafficking has increasing prevalence in the United States (U.S.) with an estimated 1.6 million people trafficked at any time. Healthcare systems are one of the most critical access points for identifying and recognizing ... -
Healthier Homes: Integrating Emerging Design Strategies into Affordable Housing
(North Dakota State University, 2024)This research focuses on healthy building materials and sustainable practices and how to integrate those practices into an affordable housing development in Duluth, MN. I will be investigating new sustainable materials ... -
Healthy Architecture: Integration of Design Strategies to Promote Positive Mental Health in Hospitals
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Healthcare facilities are made for healing. Despite this they come with a negative stigma since people attend them for conditions that can potentially be fatal. These facilities should be viewed in a more positive light ... -
Healthy Building, Healthy Living
(North Dakota State University, 2022)In a world experiencing a pandemic with unhealthy global challenges; public spaces, businesses and people are struggling to stay ‘afloat’ as the world struggles to help. What most people do not realize is how much effect ... -
Heavy Vehicle Impact on Rural Two Lane Highway Segments Operating Under Various Levels of Service Conditions
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Oil boom in Western North Dakota State brings increasing number of oil trucks. The distinct characteristics of heavy vehicles such as oil trucks: low speed, large size, and slow accelerate and decelerate results in inaccuracy ...