Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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A Decision Model for Emergency Response
(North Dakota State University, 2013)In the real world, emergencies occur at different places. The emergencies fall into three categories: a fire emergency, a medical emergency, and a police emergency. Different emergencies occur at different places at different ... -
Decision Tree and Real Options to Value Agtech Startup Growth
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Agtech startups face multiple uncertainties and have limited flexibility when it comes to growing their business. Companies that are growing ultimately need to take on new capital. This new capital can be from many different ... -
Decision-Making for Self-Replicating 3D Printed Robot Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2021)This work addresses decision-making for robot systems that can self-replicate. With the advent of 3D printing technology, the development of self-replicating robot systems is more feasible to implement than it was previously. ... -
Decolonizing Instructional Design through Auto/Ethnography
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Instructional design is the systematic process of planning and developing learning environments. In contemporary educational contexts, this has come to include also the intentional integration of digital and Internet ... -
The Decomposition Ecology and Microbial Forensics of the Postmortem Microbiome
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Every living organism dies and is decomposed into nutrients and by-products. This is lead initially by the normal flora of the newly deceased host. The postmortem microbiome, so-called “necrobiome”, undergoes temporal ... -
Decreasing Dementia Caregiver Burden: A Quality Improvement Intervention
(North Dakota State University, 2018)A caregiver is defined as someone who offers care to another individual who is not capable of carrying out activities essential for daily living. The role of caregivers is often overlooked, but their contributions are ... -
Deep Learning Applied to Public Company Valuation for Value Investing
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Value investing is an investing approach that seeks to discover and take advantage of price discrepancies between the market price and the actual value of a company (intrinsic value). The purpose of this work is to measure ... -
A Deeper Understanding of Female Athlete Body Image
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of how body image can impact the self-esteem and confidence of female athletes. As the media and public image of professional female athletes becomes increasingly ... -
Defining Economic Success as it Pertains to Native American Owned Businesses Located on/or Adjacent to North Dakota Reservations
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Successful economic development is essential in building and sustaining a healthy community. The purpose of this study was to identify indicators of successful economic development as it pertained to Native American owned ... -
Defining Feminism: A Phenomenological Exploration of the Meaning Women Assign to their Feminist Identities
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This study explored the meaning that women assign to their feminist identities. In particular, the study examined the lived experiences of fourteen women who were active in the women's movement during the 1970s. The ... -
Delayed Harvest Affects Quality of Durum Wheat
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Harvest can be delayed for many reasons. This research was conducted to determine the effect of delayed harvest on grain and semolina quality of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. ssp. durum [Desf.] Husn.). Twelve durum ... -
Delight in Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This project explores delight in buildings and how we experience them. It states that the personality of a building as exhibited in individual traits is what we find delight in, as humans tend to personify things they ... -
Delineating Root System Architecture in Rapeseed/Canola (Brassica napus L.) through Molecular and Transcriptomic Approaches
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Root system architecture of plant plays a key role in water and nutrient uptake from the soil, provides anchorage and acts as a storage organ. In this current research, we have focused on the molecular and physiological ... -
Delineating Signaling Mechanisms Involved in Lymphocyte Chemotaxis, Immune Homeostasis and Allergic Asthma
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) signaling axis constitutes VIP and its two G protein coupled receptors (GPCR) termed vasoactive intestinal/pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (VPAC) 1 and 2. This ... -
Demographic Analysis of Student Evaluations
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Data was collected from North Dakota State University’s student rating of instructor’s forms during the fall of 2013 and the spring of 2014. This thesis investigates differences between male and female instructor’s ... -
Demonstrating Bid Rigging with a Shopping Agent Application Using JADE
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This paper presents the implementation of a shopping-cart agent that demonstrated collusion in online bidding. Collusion is an agreement between two or more persons, sometimes illegal and therefore secretive, to limit open ... -
Density and Movement of Soybean Aphid, Aphis Glycines (Hemiptra: Aphididae) in Response to Temperature and Resistant Soybean Plants
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Movement is one way herbivores respond to their host plant, yet the movement of relatively immobile insects has received little attention. We studied how the movement and density of apterous soybean aphids responds to a ... -
A Density Functional Theory and Many Body Perturbation Theory Based Study of Photo-Excited Charge Separation in Doped Silicon Nanowires with Gold Leads: Toy Models for the Photovoltaic Effect
(North Dakota State University, 2020)We analyze a toy model for p-n junction photovoltaic devices by simulating photoexcited state dynamics in silicon nanowires. One nanowire is approximately circular in cross section with a diameter of d = 1.17 nm. The other ... -
Denver Union Station Multimodal Public Transportation Facility & Mixed-Use Development
(North Dakota State University, 2005)Denver is quickly becoming the “Grand Central Station” for transportation for the Western United States. Since the turn of the century Union Station, located on the edge of downtown Denver, has been used as the railroad ... -
The Depth of Rivers and the Restorative Power of the Fragment: Architecture as Fluid Filmic Narrative
(North Dakota State University, 2018)In 1948, Ralph Ellison wrote an article about the experience of living in Harlem and explained a common feeling of placelessness and uncertainty of self. This placelessness persists today as the neighborhood undergoes ...