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    • Jacques Lacan and Mary Shelley: Repressed Abandonment in Frankenstein 

      Garey 111, Kyle Rasmussen (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Mary Shelley's early life was fraught with developmental problems. Like Victor Frankenstein's Creation, she lacked a genuine chance to experience what Jacques Lacan calls the Real with her mother. While some readings ...

    • A Java Class Analysis Program Development By ASM Library 

      Qiu, Chengxiang (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      Class analysis is useful technique that can be used in many situations, from the syntaxes parsing, potential bugs finding, and unused code detecting to reverse engineer coding. In this paper, I write a small program classasm ...

    • JC Penney Strategic Marketing Plan 2012: Product Strategy 

      Ostlund, Alisha Liane (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      The JCPenney Company has undergone a transition from a value retailer to a streamlined,customer-driven retailer in order to set itself apart from its biggest competitors, Macy’s and Kohl’s. Previously, JCP was focused on ...

    • Job Aggregation Search Engine 

      Sundaram, Anita (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a Job Aggregation Search Engine (JASE) that acts as a one-stop-shop for listing recently posted jobs across top multiple job search engines. There are multiple job ...

    • Job Scheduling with Genetic Algorithm 

      Barat, Debarshi (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      In this paper, we have used a Genetic Algorithm (GA) approach for providing a solution to the Job Scheduling Problem (JSP) of placing 5000 jobs on 806 machines. The GA starts off with a randomly generated population of 100 ...

    • Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy Takach: An Introduction to their Choral Music and a Study of their Positions within a Lineage of Minnesota-Based Composers 

      Culloton, Michael Patrick (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This study serves as an introduction to the choral music of Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy Takach. It also examines their positions within a lineage that includes three generations of successful Minnesota-based composers. It ...

    • John Field's Piano Concerto No. 1 

      Walker, Mary Ermel (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      While there are recordings of all seven of John Field’s piano concertos, there are no two-piano versions published that include the transcribed orchestra in the second piano part, with the exception of the second concerto. ...

    • Johnson Boat Works [revisited] 

      Gamelin, Kevin (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      The intention of this thesis is the regeneration of the Johnson Boat Works small boat manufacturing site in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. The regeneration of the historic and underutilized waterfront is essential for the ...

    • Joining Man and Cosmos: A Pinnacle Observatory in South Fork, Colorado 

      Schuman, Taylor (North Dakota State University, 2016)
      A fascination with the Cosmos can be traced to time immemorial. It has captured the imagination and inspired both art and science. Ancient man weaved self and cosmos in correspondence between the microcosm and macrocosm ...

    • Joint Compression and Encryption 

      Ghosh, Ahana (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This research work proposes two techniques of joint compression and encryption using Shanon Fano Elias coding and Arithmetic coding respectively. The first scheme proposed is called Adaptive Shannon-Fano-Elias code where ...

    • Journalists' Framing of Terrorist Attacks and Audience Reaction: A Longitudinal Case Study of The Boston Globe 

      Mou-Danha, Seseer Prudence (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      This study aimed to elaborate on the presentation of news about the Boston Marathon bombing on The Boston Globe’s Facebook page and people’s reaction to it. A social crisis such as this invites people’s attention to online ...

    • Jumping Through Sacred Hoops: Multi-Ethnic Indigenous Identity & Approaches in Health & Wellness Education 

      Johnson, Caitlin Ann (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      As a result of historical trauma, it is paramount for Indigenous communities to take control of their health and wellness today in order to maintain the survival of Indigenous people. This study examines the perceptions ...

    • Juneberry (Amelanchier Alnifolia) Micropropagation and Cultivar Evaluation in North Dakota 

      Ardayfio, Naa Korkoi (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      A growth chamber experiment was carried out for ten weeks to reduce post-rooting dormancy in juneberry micropropagation. An RCBD with a split plot arrangement and three replicates were used. Plantlets subjected to 750 mg/L ...

    • Jurisdictional Leaders' Perception of Factors that Contribute to Hazard Mitigation Planning 

      Abe, Daiko Nephi (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Recent disasters have demonstrated the importance of mitigating their potential impact to not only protect human lives, but to also reduce the seemingly unending cycle of repeated damages. The Disaster Mitigation Act of ...

    • Juvenile Perceptions of the Police and Police Services 

      Sanden, Michael Brian (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This study examined the impact of four categories of variables (demographics, neighborhood context variables, contact with the police, and vicarious influence variables) on juvenile perceptions of the police and police ...

    • K-Anonymization Implementation Using Apache Spark 

      Tortikar, Pratik (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      This experiment attempts on data which can reveal a person’s identity to anonymize with k-1 anonymity principle. "Given person-specific field-structured data, produce a release of the data with scientific guarantees that ...

    • Kakuro Solver Application 

      Takahashi, Naomi (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      In this paper, the application called KakuroSolver is presented that solves Kakuro, the popular logical puzzle that combines Sudoku and crossword. The application accepts a Kakuro puzzle with any size; it then either ...

    • Kansas City, Kansas: A Center for Community & Culture 

      Dahl, Elizabeth (2013)
      Community spaces play an important role in the success of a city and it’s inhabitants. They become the foundation to which those living and visiting in the area come together and communicate. They offer opportunities to ...

    • Katharina Schütz Zell: The Religious Vocation of a Female Reformer in Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg 

      Howard, Samantha (North Dakota State University, 2018)
      Katharina Schütz Zell lived in the free imperial city of Strasbourg during the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century. Commitment to a lifelong faith led Katharina to embrace early protestant beliefs: salvation ...

    • Kentucky Bluegrass Establishment Under Saline, Waterlogging, and Saline-Waterlogging Conditions 

      Rue, Kevin (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) (KBG) is commonly used for golf fairways, however, it is sensitive to salinity and waterlogging. The objectives of this research were to determine (1) KBG growth response to saline, ...