Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Crop and Prairie Grasses Serving as Hosts for the Hessian Fly
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Insect herbivores typically parasitize a relatively small number of plant species. Host specialization is presumed to be a result of evolutionary arms races, with insect adaptations ultimately restricting host range. Being ... -
Crop Price and Land Use Change: Forecasting Response of Major Crops Acreage to Price and Economic Variables in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The objective of this study is to examine land use change for cropping systems in North Dakota. Using Seemingly Unrelated Regression with full information maximum likelihood estimation method, acreage forecasting models ... -
Cross-Cultural Carpentry
(North Dakota State University, 2024)This thesis analyzes the proficiencies of light-frame wood construction and compares it to the craftsmanship of traditional Japanese carpentry. The goal of this research was to bridge the gap between these two construction ... -
Crossing Paths: Landscape Planning for Human-Wildlife Balance
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Design methods to reconnect the Salish and Kootenai people, as well as those permitted to visit, to their ancestral lands and historical/cultural sites as well as the safe and efficient movement of native animal species ... -
Crowdfunding for a Cause: Rhetorically Oriented Action Research with Christian Organizations
(North Dakota State University, 2018)When it comes to fundraising, many congregations and faith-related organizations struggle to keep up in the competitive charitable giving landscape. In recent years, online crowdfunding platforms (e.g. Kickstarter, GoFundMe, ... -
Cruel and Unusual: The Architecture of Oppression
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Currently over 2.4 million people are incarcerated in the state prison system in the United States. This figure is a result of dramatic spike in incarceration since 1980, in which the U.S. prison population has grown ... -
Culinary School for Healthy Eating: Healthy Choices Without Sacrificing Taste
(North Dakota State University, 2005)An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Food is a very important aspect that can make a big difference in our lives yet is very often neglected. The main research area of this project will be designing a culinary ... -
Cully Park remediating the Willamette Waterfront of Portland
(2015)This thesis is a remediation greenway project with an emphasis on waterfront revitalization and phytoremediation. Researched greenways focus on the conservation, recreation, and non-motorized transportation of a maintained ... -
Cultivate: A Vertical Solution
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis titled “Cultivate: a Vertical Solution” will address the question, “How can architects stop suburban sprawl?” The typology of this project will be a 535,234 sqft high-rise mixed-use vertical farm in Brooklyn ... -
Cultivating Content
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Cultivating Content aims to uncover truths about current social and environmental dilemmas, while revealing how mass transportation can be used to rectify them. It states that transportation via personal automobile has ... -
Cultivation to Supplement Residual Herbicides in Sugarbeet
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The migration of waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus) into northern sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris) growing regions has prompted sugarbeet producers to utilize inter-row cultivation in their weed management program as no currently ... -
Cultural Awareness and Provider Based Care for Refugee Women
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This disquisitional aimed to improve the cultural education of nurse practitioner's (NP's) related to female refugee populations. The ultimate goal was to improve health care outcomes and decrease disparities for refugee ... -
Cultural Confluence: A Spirited Learning Environment
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Education has been at the forefront of all cultures since the beginning of time. Success, often described and held to different standards throughout the world, has often relied on its instructors, setting, and facilities. ... -
Cultural District: Nexus of Cultures: How Can Architecture Be Utilized to Reshape Narratives of Nationalism and Foster a Sense of Global Unity Within a Responsive Sustainable Cultural District in Aden, Yemen?
(North Dakota State University, 2024)The world today is increasingly divided along nationalistic lines, with people often forgetting their shared humanity in favor of their national identities. It is disheartening to observe the rise of divisive nationalism, ... -
Cumulative-Anticipative Car-Following Model for Enhanced Safety in Autonomous Vehicles
(North Dakota State University, 2020)As the rapid development of smart cities, autonomous vehicles are considered to be the future ground transportation measure which provides many benefits over traditional human-driving vehicles. However, there will be decades ... -
Current Status of the Biology, Pathogenesis, and Impacts of Ebola Virus
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Ebola viruses (EV) are single-stranded negative-sense RNA viruses belonging to the Filoviridae family. There are 6 species of Ebola, and four of them can cause Ebola virus disease (EVD) in humans. Ebola viral hemorrhagic ... -
Current Supplementation Recommendations for Vitamin D Intake in Pregnancy; What Research Says after 2011
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Vitamin D (vit. D) deficiency is common during pregnancy (Holick, et al., 2011). Supplementation of vit. D has shown to protect against complications and adverse outcomes during pregnancy (De-Regil LM, 2016). A comprehensive ... -
Customer Experience Management: Does a More Focused Approach to the Customer Experience Lead to Store Performance Measure Increases?
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This project explored the principles of experiential retailing and how the retailer Lands’ End is using these principles to increase key performance indicators in their retail locations. The types of experiential retailing ... -
Cutting the Red Tape
(North Dakota State University, 2021)In a lot of cities, there seems to be districts that appeared to be struggling financially and there is a stigma around those areas that no one would want to live there. The housing usually looks subpar and does not fit ... -
Cyberbullying in World of Warcraft’s Looking for Raid Function
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis focuses on the effects that othering or cyberbullying within the Looking for Raid (LFR) function is having on the World of Warcraft (WoW) community in terms of their identity creation. I will look at the three ...