Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Molecular Mapping of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Two Adapted Spring Wheat Cultivars
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Releasing bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars with resistance to Fusarium head blight (FHB) disease can be endangered by narrowing the variation in genetic sources. However, resistance to FHB rely on five different ... -
Molecular Mapping of QTL for Genetic Transformation-Related Trait and CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing in Wheat
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Plant transformation is a valuable tool for gene characterization and crop improvement. However, wheat transformation is greatly impacted by genotype dependency for successful regeneration of the transgenic plants. For ... -
Money and Ill Fame: Interpreting a Prostitution Hierarchy in Fargo, North Dakota’s Historical Red-Light District
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Many inhabitants of early Fargo sought economic opportunities in the local sex trade, and the intersectionality of class, gender, sexuality, and race was central to their varying degrees of success. Police Magistrate Court ... -
Money, Well-Being, and Implications for Mental Health
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Literature has shown there is little or no correlation between money and increased well-being, that monetary pursuits and material possessions are extrinsic goals that can become detrimental to one’s psychological well-being, ... -
Monitoring the Effects of Surface Coal-Mine-Reclamation on Soil Biological Properties
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Surface coal mining is a large-scale disturbance that disrupts soil properties that requires reclamation. Reclamation monitoring and success typically focuses on vegetation communities, but soil monitoring may improve our ... -
The Monster-as-Slayer in Blade (1998): Blade and Posthuman Identity
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Blade (1998) features an African American half-vampire whose goals seem contradictory: save the humans that would fear and hate him. A new character trope, the monster-as-slayer, is introduced in the movie’s eponymous hero, ... -
Moorhead City Walk : a masterplan to reimage Moorhead, Minnesota's urban core
(2015)This project explores the dynamics of streetscapes seeking to understand why some projects are successful and others are not. The location of the project is in Moorhead, Minnesota which is a border city to Fargo, North ... -
Morphological Differences and Diversity of Small Mammal Species
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Small mammals play important roles in ecosystems, but are often overlooked due to their small size and plentiful abundance. Two studies evaluated the morphological differences and diversity of small mammal species based ... -
Mother and Daughter Chipping Potato Cultivar Responses to Sublethal Rates of Glyphosate and Dicamba
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The effects of sublethal drift rates and carryover of glyphosate and dicamba into the next generation of seed potato cultivars Atlantic and Dakota Pearl are unknown. The objective of this research is to determine the impact ... -
Mothers and Fathers, Churches and Schools: Formal and Informal Sources of Sexual Information as They Relate to Emerging Adult Women’s Safe Sex Practices and Sexual-esteem
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This study sought to explore which individuals and institutions 455 emerging adult women recalled as having provided them with sexual information. Independent-samples t tests were run to explore how these sources of ... -
Motivational and Adaptational Factors of Successful Women Engineers
(North Dakota State University, 2012)It is no surprise that there is a shortage of women engineers. The reasons for the shortage have been researched and discussed in myriad papers, and suggestions for improvement continue to evolve. However, there are few ... -
Motivational Climate in Physical Education and Youth Sport
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The purpose of this paper was to gain an understanding of how the motivational climate can affect children in the context of Physical Education (PE) and youth sport. In an effort to combat the increase in overweight and ... -
Motivational Needs of Secondary Family & Consumer Sciences Students
(North Dakota State University, 2018)This study examined North Dakota junior and senior high school FCS students’ perceptions of their motivational needs. The survey instrument used was created by Turner & Herren (1997). The questionnaire measured the ... -
Mottling the conversation: an evolving debate
(North Dakota State University, 2009)Online forums have often been considered a medium of equality. However, after studying Amazon.com communities taking part in the evolution/intelligent design debate, it became clear that these communities were substituting ... -
Movement and Accumulation of Candidatus Liberibacter Solanacearum in Potato Plants
(North Dakota State University, 2012)A new disease affecting potatoes was first detected in Mexico in 1993. Affected plants had aerial symptoms similar to those caused by potato purple top and psyllid yellows, but tubers had internal brown discoloration when ... -
Movie House: Fantasizing the Ideal, Saint Paul, Minnesota
(North Dakota State University, 2005)The focus for this thesis project is the need to represent the real or fantasize the ideal in an urban environment with the design of a multi screen movie house. Designing a structure which involves a transition from the ... -
A Moving City
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis will provide some answers to the question, “How can public transportation respond to the built environment to improve how we move within a city?” The typology for the examination of this problem is a light ... -
Moving to the Other Side of the Desk: Learning Experiences of Preservice Teachers as They Transition to Becoming Professional Teachers
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This study sought to understand learning through the lifeworlds of preservice teachers who are in the last semester of their elementary education program at a Midwest University. The research was an explorative study into ... -
MSCTC Redesign: Bringing Higher Education into the 21st Century
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Colleges and universities are uniquely important to our future as a society as they harbor and cultivate the minds of the future generations of leaders. It’s extremely important for these spaces to cater to learning and ... -
Mtns Edge Community Center: A Youth Interaction and Sports Facility for Kootenai County
(North Dakota State University, 2006)The designed thesis is a center for interaction in which to provide many opportunities, as well as encourage the participation in different activities. Built on the Rathdrum Prairie in Kootenai County, Idaho, the facility ...