Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Fresh Place Market: A Permanent Farmer's Market Solution Supporting the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area
(2013)Current farmers and individual food producers are struggling for spatial identity and social legitimacy in a larger food network that currently exists in America. Much of the current research only focuses on consumer and ... -
Freshwater Cyanotoxin Mixtures in Recurring Cyanobacterial Blooms in Voyageurs National Park
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Algal and cyanobacterial blooms can foul water systems, inhibit recreation, and produce cyanotoxins, which can be toxic to humans, domestic animals, and wildlife. Blooms that recur yearly present a special challenge, in ... -
From Alcelaphus to Zapus: Conservation of Modern Mammalian Populations
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Conservation priorities are increasingly important in the face of modern human activities. Anthropogenic activities such as deforestation, pollution, and climate change have negative impacts on all vertebrates. In chapter ... -
From Bioinformatics to Identifying R-genes, Enhancers, Signaling Pathways and Pathogen Elicitors in the Barley-Stem Rust Pathosystem
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) is a threat to wheat and barley. Rpg1 is the only deployed stem rust resistance gene in barley that provides resistance to the predominant races in North America, ... -
From Bray-Curtis Ordination to Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation: Assessing Anthropogenically-Induced andor Climatically-Induced Changes in Arboreal Ecosystems
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Mapping forest resources is useful for identifying threat patterns and monitoring changes associated with landscapes. Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science techniques are effective tools used to identify and ... -
From Brownfield to Permaculture City: Converting a Brownfield Site by Creating a New Community Through Increased Density and Sustainable Permaculture.
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Sustainable, permaculture living is a recurring trend in residential design. Society is becoming more aware of the impact humans have on the environment, along with learning ways to minimize an ecological footprint while ... -
From Chaos to the Dinner Table: Transforming the Relationship of Production and Consumption in the Mill District of Minneapolis, MN
(North Dakota State University, 2016)How can the rituals surrounding the dinner table inform our customs of production and consumption to create architectural space that resides in the transformative gap where consumer is producer and producer is consumer? ... -
From Homo stupidus to Homo sapiens: Changing and Reaffirming the Paradigm of Human Uniqueness Through Neandertal Descriptions
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Neandertal interpretation is changing the paradigm of human uniqueness, but exactly how needs to be examined. This paper provides a qualitative analysis of how Neandertal descriptions embed long-held cultural attitudes and ... -
From Nanocontainer to Nanocatalyst: Mechanistic Studies of [2+2] Photodimerization of Coumarin Derivatives within Cucubit[8]URIL
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Controlling photoreactions remains a formidable challenge to chemists who have developed several approaches with varying degrees of success to achieve high reactivity/selectivity. Following nature's footprints, chemists ... -
From Paintings to Opera: Discovering the Reimagination of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress in Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The Rake’s Progress (1951) is a well-known satirical opera in three acts with an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), with a libretto written by Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) and Chester Kallman (1921-1975). This opera ... -
From Preparation to Practice: An Applied Sports Broadcasting Course
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This project establishes the immense popularity of sports and explores the connection between sports and society, while establishing past weaknesses of broadcast education. It provides evidence of previous philosophical ... -
The Front: Re-imagining Main Avenue in Downtown Fargo as a Multi-modal Transit Corridor
(2016)As cities strive to become more walkable, considerate of bicyclists, and more accommodating of mass transit, one has to ask how current arterial roadways can be retrofitted to allow for all modes of transportation. Downtown ... -
Frontenac' Response to Leaf Removal and Training Systems and a Microvinification and Deacidification Bioassay of Interspecific Hybrids (Vitis SPP.)
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Vineyard production and acid reduction microvinification experiments were conducted on interspecific hybrid grape cultivars in North Dakota. Training system and leaf removal effects on yield and quality for ‘Frontenac’ ... -
Frost Depth Prediction
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The purpose of this research project is to develop a model that is able to accurately predict frost depth on a particular date, using available information. Frost depth prediction is useful in many applications in several ... -
The Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Problem
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Fruit and vegetable consumption is an essential component of a healthy diet and one of the most modifiable risk factors for chronic disease. Only a small percentage of the world’s population consumes the recommended amount ... -
Functional Bioactive Compounds from Sweet Potatoes for Human Health Benefits
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Global food and nutritional insecurities, public health challenges of diet-linked non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs), and rapid climate change-linked agricultural production challenges are interconnected and require ... -
Functional Colloids from Amphiphilic Polymer Assemblies and Peptides/Polypeptides
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The use of responsive polymers, where even minor changes in one of the macromolecular characteristics triggered by the external stimuli can cause drastic changes in the material function or performance, is widely studying ... -
Functionality of a Damaged Steel Truss Bridge Strengthened with Post-Tensioned CFRP Tendons
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This research program investigates the performance of a steel truss bridge when subjected to both localized web damage and a subsequent post-tensioned strengthening approach. The investigation utilizes a combined approach ... -
Functionalization of Heterocycles: A Metal Catalyzed Approach via Allylation and C-H Activation
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The central core of many biologically active natural products and pharmaceuticals contain N-heterocycles, the installation of simple/complex functional groups using C-H/N-H functionalization methodologies has the potential ... -
Fundamental Studies of Interfacial Forces Acting on Thin Films
(North Dakota State University, 2021)A thin film is a material that is many orders of magnitude thinner than it is long or wide. They are commonly found in many forms and have been adapted to a wide variety of uses. The art of origami uses thin films(sheets ...