Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Managing Upland Vegetation as a Mitigation Strategy for Climate-Change Effects on Prairie-Pothole Wetlands
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Prairie-pothole-wetland water budgets are largely dependent on atmospheric interactions. Modeling of prairie-pothole wetlands has suggested that climate change may cause significant decreases to a wetland’s hydroperiod and ... -
Manchester Tutoring Center
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The focus of this thesis is to analyze space and how it effects the mind in creative processes and learning. Looking specifically at the space’s acoustics, natural light, movement, and organization, one can create the ... -
Manipulating Cattle and Deer Foraging Behaviors for the Consumption of Leafy Spurge and Canada Thistle
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This study tested targeted grazing weeds with cattle and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Using forage manipulation techniques, we attempted to encourage cattle and white-tailed deer to graze weeds. Cattle were ... -
Manipulation and Isolation of Biomolecules Using Dielectrophoretic and Hydrodynamic Methods
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Novel particle manipulation techniques are developed to separate, isolate, and control a wide range biomolecules from DNA to cells in complex solution such as whole blood. First, we show that integrating an insulating tip ... -
Manufactured Quality of Life: Planning for Equity, Environment and Community in a Rural Mobile Home Park
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Over 20 million Americans reside in a mobile home park. The homes are hardly mobile and calling them a park is an exaggerated compliment. The automobile industry birthed the trailer that is now used as a permanent home. ... -
Manufacturing Low-Density Particleboards from Wheat Straw and Distiller's Dried Grains with Solubles
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Agricultural byproducts like wheat straw and distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) have not found a good market in the wood composite industry. Utilizing DDGS for particleboard in addition to using it as feed will ... -
Manufacturing Optimization of Non-Traditional Pasta Products
(North Dakota State University, 2015)A study was conducted to determine the effect of including non-traditional ingredients on the flow and agglomeration properties of flour formulations, the rheological behavior of pasta dough, and the physical and cooked ... -
Manufacturing: A New Way
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis project, titled Manufacturing: a new way, will examine manufacturing buildings, and the working conditions that exist there. The typology will be a brewery with a area of 60,000 square feet. The guiding idea ... -
A Map Reduce Approach of K-Means++ Algorithm with Initial Equidistant Centers
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Data clustering has been received considerable attention in many applications, such as data mining, document retrieval, image segmentation and pattern classification. The enlarging volumes of information emerging by the ... -
Mapping and Characterization of Yield Component Traits and Septoria Nodorum Blotch Susceptibility in Wheat
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Wheat, a major global economic crop and food source, is currently threatened by climate change and the cascading effects, including increased disease pressure. Additionally, wheat yields have not increased significantly ... -
Mapping the Unconventional Monetary Policy of the Fed with Financial Market
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The value of currency in circulation and the value of the assets side of the balance sheet has become a choice variable for implementing policy under the monetary policy framework introduced by Ben Bernanke during the 2008 ... -
Mapping the Ur-5 Gene Conferring Resistance to Common Bean Rust
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Bean rust (Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers) Unger), is a highly virulent pathogen that negatively affects bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) seed yield. Over time, bean rust has the capacity to generate new races that overcome the ... -
Mapping Ur-6, a Bean Rust Resistance Gene in Common Bean
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Bean rust, caused by the fungus Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers.:Pers) Unger, is a disease of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) prevalent in the Americas and Africa. The most cost-effective countermeasure to bean rust is ... -
Mapreduce-Enabled Scalable Nature-Inspired Approaches for Clustering
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The increasing volume of data to be analyzed imposes new challenges to the data mining methodologies. Traditional data mining such as clustering methods do not scale well with larger data sizes and are computationally ... -
Margin-at-Risk for Agricultural Processors: Flour Milling Scenarios
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Historic market volatility has made risk management decisions by firms in the agricultural supply chain more challenging. Market risk measurement methods, such as Value-at-Risk, were developed in the financial industry to ... -
Marijuana Legalization Effect on Opioid Abuse: A Synthetic Control Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2021)The opioid epidemic constitutes one of the worst drug crises in the history of U.S. State-level policies, in general, have done little to prevent prescription opioid abuse. A noteworthy exception to other clinical efforts ... -
Marine Resource Use and Distribution on Ofu Island, Manu’a, American Sāmoa
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Marine resources have played a vital role in the lives of the prehistoric populations that settled Oceania. While it is widely accepted that marine resources make up a considerable component of the diet of prehistoric ... -
Marker Assisted Backcross Selection for Virus Resistance in Pea (Pisum Sativum L.)
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Viruses are destructive plant pathogens, which cause significant yield loss and reduced grain quality. Pea Seed-borne Mosaic Virus (PSbMV) is an economically important viral disease in pea (Pisum sativum L.) and recently ... -
Marker Assisted Selection Increases the Efficiency of Breeding for Potato Virus Y Resistance in Potato
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Potato Virus Y (PVY) is an important virus of potato due to the non-persistent mode of transmission by aphids causing yield losses. Genetic resistance is the recommended control since insecticides cannot adequately control ... -
Market Basket Analysis Algorithm with MapReduce Using HDFS
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Market basket analysis techniques are substantially important to every day’s business decision. The traditional single processor and main memory based computing approach is not capable of handling ever increasing large ...