Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Live Mpls
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Today we have the luxury of hindsight; this allows for the truth of past actions to reveal itself to us. We can look back on our shared human history and recognize the repercussions of certain actions, and it is with ... -
The Lived Experience of Nationally Certified Counselors who Attended an Eight-Day Cultural Immersion Institute
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Video summarizing a Ph.D. dissertation for a non-specialist audience. -
The Lived Experience of Nationally Certified Counselors who Attended an Eight-Day Native American Cultural Immersion Institute
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The purpose of this research was to understand how Nationally Certified Counselors experienced an eight-day cultural immersion experience on a Native American reservation. This phenomenological study was designed to capture ... -
Lived Experiences of Stigma: Nurses Who Work in Abortion Clinics
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The profession of nursing is respected and trustworthy, but certain nursing specialty fields are looked at less favorably than others. Abortion nursing can be highly stigmatized because of society’s ethical, religious, and ... -
Lived Experiences: Exploring the Impact of Trauma on Educator Experiences and Classroom Practices
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore teachers’ experiences working with children impacted by adverse childhood experiences. As a dissertation in practice, this qualitative study was intended to examine ... -
Lives at Risk: High School Dropouts in the Northern Plains Region
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Education is essential to personal welfare. As educational levels increase, personal income rises, the quality of life improves, and society benefits as criminality declines, tax income increases, and the cost of social ... -
Living a Healthier Life: A Connection Between Mind, Body and Spirit
(North Dakota State University, 2005)This thesis project is a wellness center for the city of Moorhead, MN. The site is located on Main Avenue next to the Red River. The site features easy access to both Fargo and Moorhead’s downtown areas and the bike ... -
Living Lightly on Earth: The Urban Eco Village
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Imaging living a low-impact lifestyle surrounded by nature, food, freshwater and air, wildlife, and a community with a common desire. An eco village is a community with shared land that promotes positive values including ... -
Living Streets within Downtown Fargo: A Living Street that Focuses on the Pedestrian, Environmental, and Social Design Elements in Downtown Cores
(North Dakota State University, 2021)With downtown Fargo continuing to change with new multi-use buildings and parking garages, the focus should now be on the streets. Over the past couple years there has been multiple parking garages built within a mile of ... -
Living utopia : challenging education as a machine through the design of architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Philosopher Jonathan Powers argues that current culture and society are engaging a utopian ideology. This model began in the 16th century when the educational system sought to reduce all knowledge to eidetic (visual) ... -
lntraspecific Variation In Pathogenic Cryptosporidium parvum
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Cryptosporidium causes cryptosporidiosis, an infectious diarrheal disease, which can become chronic and life-threatening in immunocompromised individuals. Cryptosporidium parvum and C. hominis are the primary causes of ... -
Local Nonprofit and Government Organization Conceptualizations of Disaster Response Effectiveness
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This study attempted to explore how nonprofit and government organizations conceptualize disaster response effectiveness using an internet survey. Unfortunately, the data collected through this method was insufficient for ... -
Local Risk Minimization Under Time-Varying Transaction Costs
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Closely following the results of Lamberton, Pham, and Schweizer [5] we construct a locally risk-minimizing strategy in a general incomplete market including transactiou costs. This is done in dbcrete time under the ... -
Logistic Strategies for an Herbaceous Crop Residue-Based Ethanol Production Industry : An Application to Northeastern North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2008)A mixed integer programming model is developed to determine a logistical design for maximizing rates of return to harvest, storage, transportation, and bioreflning of herbaceous crop residue for production of biofuels and ... -
Logistics of North Dakota State Local Food System: An Empirical Study to Measure Local Food Supply and Demand for Regional Food Hub Feasibility Study
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Because North Dakota (ND) is one of only four states that do not have a food hub, the purpose of the regional food hub feasibility study was to empirically evaluate whether the ND local food system needs a food hub from a ... -
Lolo Peak Resort
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Architecture in the mountains of Montana. Resorts in the alpine climate seem to only have one season. This is because more people see mountain resorts as a winter, rather than a four season, getaway. The need is out there ... -
Long-Term Monitoring of Bat Populations in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Throughout the past few decades, North American bat species have experienced population declines due to White-Nose Syndrome, wind energy, climate change, and other factors. In North Dakota, the presence of wind energy, and ... -
Longdistance Romantic Relationships: Connections Among Conflict, Uncertainty, Maintenance, and Mediated Communication Use
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Conflict, uncertainty, and relational maintenance have been frequent topics of study in long-distance relationships (LDRs); however, these concepts have not been studied concurrently. Interviews with 22 college students ... -
Longevtiy: Urban Retirement Living
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis, Longevity, studies the ability to create a place to dwell that improves the quality, longevity, and ability to heal those that inhabit its walls all the while residing within and urban setting. The typology ... -
Longitudinal Analyses of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge and Parent-Adolescent Communication of At-Risk Adolescents
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Despite declining rates, unintended adolescent pregnancy remains a considerable public health challenge in the United States (Hamilton, Martin, & Osterman, 2015). Unintended pregnancy leads to a host of negative outcomes ...