Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Optimization Modeling for Wireless Sensor Scheduling
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Wireless sensor networks, consisting of sensing devices which sense the environment and communicate information among each other, is an emergent field in wireless networking with many potential applications. The efficiency ... -
Optimization Models for Scheduling and Rescheduling Elective Surgery Patients Under the Constraint of Downstream Units
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Healthcare is a unique industry in terms of the associated requirements and services provided to patients. Currently, healthcare industry is facing challenges of reducing the cost and improving the quality and accessibility ... -
Optimization of Benchmark Functions using Chemical Reaction Optimization
(North Dakota State University, 2013)In recent past, many new nature-inspired optimization techniques have been emerged in the field of science and engineering that have proven to be efficient to solve optimization problems. One such method that makes use of ... -
Optimization of Coverage Ratios for Basis and Freight Trading Portfolios
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Changing commodity prices create opportunities for traders to profit or experience substantial losses if risk is not managed. Extensive research has been presented regarding optimal hedging strategies using futures markets ... -
Optimization of Deployments for Service Oriented Clouds
(North Dakota State University, 2015)In cloud-computing environments, every service in an application is deployed as a different service instance. All service instances are deployed at a different level of end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS), which are described ... -
Optimization of Large-Scale Sustainable Renewable Energy Supply Chains in a Stochastic Environment
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Due to the increasing demand of energy and environmental concern of fossil fuels, it is becoming increasingly important to find alternative renewable energy sources. Biofuels produced from lignocellulosic biomass feedstock's ... -
Optimization of Methane Yield in Solid-State Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Dairy Manure and Corn Stover
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Sole dependence on fossil fuel and the concomitant environmental concerns could be minimized through the optimization of green energy generation from the growing volume of onfarm organic wastes. In this mesophilic study, ... -
Optimization of Mobile Sensor Movement in Self-Healing Sensor Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This paper moves forward the key idea as proposed in past research works - a self-healing deployment approach for sensor networks, where a small percentage of mobile sensors are deployed along with the static sensors into ... -
Optimization of Regional Empty Container Supply Chains to Support Future Investment Decisions for Developing Inland Container Terminals
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Containerized grain shipping has been increasingly used as a shipment option by U.S. exporters. Continued evolution and investment decisions in optimizing multimodal operations is a key in continued growth for the container ... -
Optimization of Soybean Buying Strategies Using Derivatives
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The portfolio model of hedging framework, based off Markowitz (1952), is used to determine the best mix of futures, basis, and option contracts to hedge a soybean purchase from PNW 28 weeks in to the future. Eighteen options ... -
The Optimization of Whole Genome Amplification and Molecular Crowding for Use in Forensic Low Copy Number Samples
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Whole genome amplification has been used as a powerful tool to increase the amount of DNA template used for microarrays, STR and SNP assays in clinical and forensic settings. Our laboratory observed that multiple displacement ... -
Optimization Problems Arising in Stability Analysis of Discrete Time Recurrent Neural Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2016)We consider the method of Reduction of Dissipativity Domain to prove global Lyapunov stability of Discrete Time Recurrent Neural Networks. The standard and advanced criteria for Absolute Stability of these essentially ... -
Optimized Evaluation of Bone Tissue Material Properties by Inverse Finite Element Analysis and Femur Fracture Testing
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The main objective of this research is to characterize bone inhomogeneous elastic, yield, and post-yield behaviors, using a computational-experimental approach. The current study uses the force-displacement results of one ... -
Optimizing Glufosinate for Weed Control in Agricultural Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Weed management is an essential component of production agriculture. While many weed management methods exist today, chemical practices have proven to be the most efficient and are the most widely adopted methods. The ... -
Optimizing Incident Management Strategies Using Simulation
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Incidents, pre-programmed or random, are major sources of congestion on urban freeways. With many of urban freeways in the US operating close to capacity, the need to reduce the impact of incident-related congestion has ... -
Optimizing Prediction Power of RNA-seq on Intrinsic Characteristics in Breast Cancer
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, and accurate and early detection of breast cancer is vital in characterizing the disease. Transcriptomic expression is embedded abundant tumor and cell state ... -
Optimizing Selection and Implementation Protocols of Lean Construction Tools and Techniques for Rapid Initial Successes
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Lean construction (LC) has been considered as one of the most promising project management philosophies to overcome low productivity and excessive waste issues impacting the construction industry. Despite strong philosophies ... -
Optimizing Silk Protein Production Using an Engineering Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The acquisition of spider silk is a complex and costly process that restricts its availability. Increasing applications stemming from the biomedical and pharmaceutical sectors is driving the demand higher, necessitating ... -
Optimizing Transportation Infrastructure and Global Supply Chain Integration for Nicaragua’s Autonomous Caribbean Regions through Network Modernization
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The autonomous regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast are resource rich, yet they are among the poorest regions of Latin America. To realize economic growth and potential, this research examined Nicaragua’s primary-sector ... -
Optimizing Winter Camelina Production as a Cover Crop In North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Winter camelina [Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz] has gained particular interested from producers and researchers in the northern Great Plains and local production information is critical. Without a correct sowing date plant ...