Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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The B-Cell Role in Autoimmunity
(North Dakota State University, 2023)This review is focused on B-cell’s role in autoimmunity and was conducted by reading current papers across a variety of journals and compiling the information learned in this process. Specifically, this review paper ... -
Badlands Agriculture and Environmental Research Center
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This project, titled Badlands Agriculture and Environmental Research Center, is an examination of local agriculture and how it can be reconnected to a larger community. This project fits into a research/living/learning ... -
Balancing Motherhood Experiences and Academic Science: What Makes Some Women Persist in Their Professions?
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Women both enter and leave science fields in numbers disproportionate to men (Long, Valian). Although many researchers have studied the reasons women leave the workplace in general, and STEM professions specifically, ... -
Bankruptcy Model Application to Missouri River Water Allocation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Growing demand for water and improper resource management over the years have led conflicts among states and countries. This research applies cooperative game theory. The bankruptcy model, where claims for resources exceed ... -
Barriers and Strategies to Optimize Diabetes Management in Emerging Adults with Type 1 Diabetes
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Emerging adults aged 18 – 30 years with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) make unique lifestyle choices that can create complications for disease management. The objective of this study was to identify barriers and strategies for ... -
Barriers to New Nurse Practitioner Job Satisfaction
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Novice Nurse Practitioners (NPs) face many challenges in the first few years of practice. A novice NP was defined as a NP who has practiced for two years or less. The focus of this practice improvement project was to ... -
Barriers to Seeking Preventative Care for Men Living in Rural North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The purpose of this evidence-based practice improvement project (PIP) was to identify perceived barriers to seeking primary and preventative healthcare by males living in a rural North Dakota community. Research has shown ... -
Basic Cybersecurity Awareness Through Gaming
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The goal of this paper is to bring the basic awareness of cybersecurity among students so that they do not become a victim of cybercrime. Studies show that cybersecurity serious games support multiple well-established ... -
Bat Population Monitoring in National Parks of The Great Lakes Region and Evaluation of Bat Acoustic Analysis Software
(North Dakota State University, 2019)North American bats face multiple threats, prompting an increase in bat research and conservation efforts in recent decades. Researchers often use acoustic monitoring, which entails recording bats’ echolocation calls and ... -
The Battleground for the American Past: The Influence of the Vietnam War in Contemporary Memory
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Commemorative programming for historic anniversaries reveals an interpretive and narrative evolution between public memory and history. The divisiveness of the war and the public’s ambivalence about its meaning allowed for ... -
The Bay Course at Superior Shores Resort: A Mixed-Use Commercial and Residential Development
(North Dakota State University, 2005)The serene north shore of Lake Superior has unparalleled wilderness beauty. The soothing atmosphere of this great lake provides the perfect setting for enjoying outdoor activities. Attracting more players than any other ... -
Bayesian Approach for Detection Classification
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The objective of this paper is to develop and test a software system that uses incomplete information from a collection of sensors to classify different objects present in a particular area with a pre-specified probability. ... -
Bayesian Lasso Models – With Application to Sports Data
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Several statistical models were proposed by researchers to fulfill the objective of correctly predicting the winners of sports game, for example, the generalized linear model (Magel & Unruh, 2013) and the probability ... -
Bayesian Sparse Factor Analysis of High Dimensional Gene Expression Data
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This work closely studied fundamental techniques of Bayesian sparse Factor Analysis model - constrained Least Square regression, Bayesian Lasso regression, and some popular sparsity-inducing priors. In Appendix A, we ... -
Bear Den Landing: Creating Resilient Environments & Tribal Communities through Ecological Planning & Public Participation on Fort Berthold Reservation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Over half of the 135,000 miles of oil and gasoline pipelines in the U.S. were installed before 1969, with implementation of pipes occurring before maturation of steel or coating technology. Leaks and spills are becoming ... -
Beatrice and Francis Business Plan
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Beatrice and Francis (B&F) is a fashion design house envisioned by fashion designer Rosemary Mlekwa (RM). This business plan serves as the framework for the development of B&F. The plan highlights how the fashion house ... -
Beautiful Boy Soldiers: Kaoru Shintani’s Area 88 and the Negotiation of Japanese Postwar Masculinity
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This paper will examine the war manga Area 88 and its recent anime adaption. Area 88 depicts a fictional middle-eastern civil war in which a Japanese protagonist finds himself fighting as an unwilling mercenary. Area 88 ... -
Beauty of Becoming : Architecture as a Teleology
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This thesis is an attempt to clearly and simply recourse the history and the activity of architecture to the fundamental "natural order" with which one comprehends the world, and which forms the individual's enduring ... -
Because Comics: Comics Literacy and Multimodal Pedagogy
(North Dakota State University, 2020)How and what we teach in the post-secondary English classroom has tremendous power, both regarding individual students and larger contexts in which they function. As post-secondary instructors, our pedagogical approach to ... -
Becoming the Land: The Synthesis of Architecture and Nature
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Can the creation of natural elements be replicated through our built environment? Can the architecture become an extension of its landscape? Humans have been building and creating architecture for centuries using methods ...