Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Salinity Tolerance of Tall Fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.)
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) is one of the commonly used cool-season turfgrass species. Despite the many advantages of tall fescue, there are some properties that restrict its use as turf grass. Recent efforts ... -
The Salmon Run: A Restoration & Recreation Plan for the Valley Creek Watershed in Port Angeles, WA
(2016)This thesis studies the life cycle needs of salmon and asks the question, how can we restore a river to be viable for salmon habitat as well as promote positive human interaction? As an indicator species, salmon are ... -
Saudade - rethinking deathcare
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis explores the manner in which architecture can more sympathetically respond to people in a time of loss and grievance. Through adaptively repurposing a historic structure in Minneapolis, MN, a crematory and ... -
Saudi Female Students’ Perceptions of their Democratic Empowerment in the Classroom at King Saud University
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The purpose of this quantitative study is to describe female graduate students’ perceptions about their democratic empowerment in the classroom at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. Their perceptions are compared based ... -
Scalable Algorithms for Mining Maximal Quasi Frequent Subnetworks
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Frequent graph mining has received considerable attention from researchers. Existing algorithms for frequent subgraph mining do not scale for large networks, and take hours to finish. Mining multiple gene coexpressions ... -
Scalable Particle Swarm Optimization and Differential Evolution Approaches Applied to Classification
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Applying the nature-inspired methods in the data mining area has been gaining more attention by researchers. Classification is one of the data mining tasks which aims to analyze historical data by discovering hidden ... -
Scanning Electron Microscope Examination of Sugarbeet Flowers and Fruits Infected with Phoma Betae
(North Dakota State University, 1980)There are three natural openings in a mature sugarbeet fruit which serve as avenues of entry for microorganisms: 1) the basal pore which contains dried parenchyma and vascular tissue and is the point where the flower was ... -
Scenario Development for Niger Environment Based on Risk and Effect Analysis With Drought, Drought Response, and Population Growth as Drivers
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Niger is a landlock country located within the Sahara Desert and Sahel region. The region is subject to extreme climate conditions including heat waves, droughts and floods. Rapid population growth together with institutional ... -
Scheduling of Appliances Based on Sensitivity to Dynamic Pricing in a Smart Grid
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The work described in this paper models the scheduling of smart home appliances of different types of consumers based on their sensitivity to dynamic price changes. The price sensitivity is established on a scale of 0 to ... -
Scheduling Smart Home Appliances using Goal Programming with Priority
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Driven by the advancement of smart electrical grid technologies, automated home energy management systems are being increasingly and extensively studied, developed, and widely accepted. A system like this is indispensable ... -
School Counseling Supervision: A Qualitative Summary from the Perspective of School Counseling Site-Supervisors
(North Dakota State University, 2012)School counseling supervision is an area of research that has limited information available to school counselors. As a result, a qualitative study from the perspective of school counseling site-supervisors was conducted ... -
School Counselors Promoting Self-Care: An Action Based Research Project
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Now, more than ever, teachers are experiencing many daily demands, sometimes with limited resources or support. Teachers and school staff are expected to play a significant role in modeling positive social and emotional ... -
School Integration in Arizona's White Mountains
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Due to Arizona’s mandated open enrollment policy for public schools, Blue Ridge Unified School District’s (BRUSD) population of Native American students has increased by 148% over the last 12 years as students migrate into ... -
School Reintegration for Students with Chronic Illnesses: A School Counseling Perspective
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The purpose of this study was to assess the level of perceived preparedness and the education/training needs of school counselors when working with students returning to school following hospitalization for chronic illnesses. ... -
Science Museum of Fargo: A Study of the Social Values of Cultural Buildings
(North Dakota State University, 2005)There are certain values that have been assigned throughout history to cultural buildings that are dedicated to the arts and sciences. The result of a search to further understand these values will lead to architectural form ... -
Scientific discovery + Designing the science museum of the future
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This thesis demonstrated the connection between how children and adults learn about science, as well as the connection between science and technology in modern building design. By looking at the scientific advancements of ... -
Screening Adolescent Females for Eating Disorders in Primary Care
(North Dakota State University, 2021)In recent decades, there has been an increased focus on the idealization of thinness and the pressure and expectancy to be thin, which contributes to a rising number of individuals that experience severe body dissatisfaction ... -
Screening and Brief Intervention for 12-15 Year Olds in Primary Care
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Alcohol is a widely enjoyed, misused, and abused legal substance consumed in the United States. Although alcohol is a legal substance in the United States, the consumptions does not come without risks. Alcohol is known to ... -
Screening and Brief Interventions for Alcohol Use in College Students
(North Dakota State University, 2013)College students are recognized as a high-risk group for alcohol problems in the United States. Annually approximately 500,000 college students are unintentionally injured, and more than 1,700 college students die from ... -
Screening for Adolescent Depression in a Rural Primary Care Clinic
(North Dakota State University, 2021)In the United States, 11.4% of adolescents between the ages of 12-17 are diagnosed with depression each year (Leslie & Chike-Harris, 2017). Unfortunately, research shows that as many as two in three youth with depression ...