Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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T-Optimal Designs for Model Discrimination in Probit Models
(North Dakota State University, 2014)When dose-response functions have a downturn, one interesting feature to study is the significance of the downturn. The interesting feature can be studied using model discrimination between two rival models (model describing ... -
Taking Persephone: The Rhetoric of Consent in Rachel Smythe's Webtoon Lore Olympus (2018)
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Lore Olympus is a webtoon that reimagines the taking of Persephone in an animated, comic style. In this paper, I discuss the rhetoric of consent through a visual analysis using the intersecting fields of classical reception, ... -
Tale of the Mouse: a plan for downtown Minot's riverfront
(2014)This thesis explores the potential benefits a community can gain from a waterfront park as a downtown amenity. Currently, the city of Minot, ND is experiencing a growth in population due to the recent oilfield activity in ... -
Tan Son Nhat Intl Airport: Re-Designing Passenger Travel Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Think back to your last trip on a plane. Was it a nightmare of horror, anxiety, and stress? While aviation travel has brought unimaginable advancements to our lives, it’s far from perfect. And if you’ve ever been to ... -
Taphonomic, Taxonomic, and Behavioral Diversity of Wormworld Fossil Assemblages from Ediacaran Units of the Western United States
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The western United States Deep Spring and Wood Canyon formations contain a variety of late Ediacaran fossils, representing the enigmatic Ediacara biota and a metazoan worm-like fauna. The latter, dubbed “Wormworld”, is ... -
Targeted Stimuli-Responsive Carriers for Efficient Delivery of Chemotherapeutic Drugs
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Chemotherapeutic agents for treating various cancers show considerable side effects and toxicity. Often cancer relapses after initial response to the chemotherapy. Tumor cells are heterogeneous and have the progenitor stem ... -
Targeted Three-Way-Junction RNA Nanoparticle Reprogrammed Cyclooxygenase-2 Catalyzed Dihomo-ϒ-Linolenic Acid Peroxidation Pattern in Lung Cancer
(North Dakota State University, 2021)As the second most common cancer and the first leading cause of cancer deaths, lung cancer attracts much research attention. Since cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is overexpressing in nearly 80% of lung cancer patients, COX-2 ... -
Tattoo Subculture: Creating a Personal Identity in the Context of Social Stigma
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Tattooing is a growing and diversifying practice in the United States (Roberts, 2012), yet mainstream society maintains negative stigmas (Bell, 1999). Nevertheless, individuals attach personal meaning to tattooing (Atkinson, ... -
Taxonomy of Gestures in Human Computer Interaction
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Classification of gestures is important in the area of gestural interaction given the diversity, the complexity and the spontaneity of the gestures in different HCI application domains. Gesture designers for interactive ... -
Teacher Burnout in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The purpose of this mixed study dissertation was to determine if teachers in North Dakota public schools show signs of teacher burnout and the extent to which NCLB is a 111 major stress factor. The research questions ... -
Teacher Concerns and Perceptions about the Implementation of Professional Learning Communities at the High-School Level
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This study investigated concerns and perceptions about the implementation of a professional learning community at the high-school level. The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to be accountable for increasing the ... -
Teachers as Learners: Impacts of Graduate Teachers Education Programs’ Features on In-Service Teachers’ Practices
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Significant research efforts have addressed the need for pursuing graduate teacher education to improve in-service teachers’ teaching practices. On contrary, empirical knowledge about the impacts of structural and process ... -
Teaching Encryption: A Learning Theory Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Bloom's taxonomy for cognitive domain is an effective taxonomy for structured learning. The six levels in Bloom's taxonomy for cognitive domain are based on the levels of difficulty. This paper focuses on teaching ... -
Teaching Software Testing Concepts Using Learning Objects
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The ubiquitous nature of software, it is very important to prepare students for jobs in the software industry. There is a profound deficiency in testing skills in graduating students when beginning jobs in Information ... -
Teamwork During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitations at a Rural Minnesota Hospital
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Cardiac arrest is a major public health problem affecting thousands of individuals each year in both out-of-hospital and in-hospital settings (Sutton, Nadkarni, & Abella, 2012). In 2012 nearly 383,000 out-of-hospital ... -
Technical and Economic Assessments of Storage Techniques for Long-term Retention of Industrial-beet Sugar for Non-food Industrial Fermentations
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Industrial beets may compete against corn grain as an important source of sugars for non-food industrial fermentations. However, dependable and energy-efficient systems for beet sugar storage and processing are necessary ... -
A Technique to Detect a Black Hole in Ad Hoc Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are important because they are widely used in war zones, rescue missions and other civilian applications where it is almost impossible to use any other networks. MANETs are temporary ... -
Technology Past and Present: An Exploration In Agricultural Archaeology
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This book examines the history of technology specific to the area of agriculture. Technology exists as a product of culture, and can therefore be studied through the field of anthropology, even more specifically archaeology. ... -
Teens: Let's Give Them Some Space
(North Dakota State University, 2020)At a time when we can find numerous divisions between ourselves and the next person, there is one thing that every adult has in common: we were once a teenager. Like any experience, being a teenager comes with moments ... -
Telomere Correlations during Early Life in a Long Lived Seabird
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Telomere dynamics in blood cells have been linked to aging in a variety of organisms. However, whether blood telomeres correlated with telomeres in other parts of the body is not well known, especially during early life ...