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Perceptions of Negative Attributes of Never-Married Custodial Mothers and Fathers: A Comparison Study
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
The present study examined the differences in the perceptions of the negative attributes of
never-married custodial single mothers and fathers. The existing literature indicated that
never-married single mothers and ...
Head Start Parents: Preferred Learning Methods, Nutrition Interests, and the Barriers to Participating in Nutrition Education Classes
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
Background: Obesity rates in low-income populations continue to rise. Several
federal nutrition programs have been established to increase the nutrition
knowledge of individuals in these populations and improve their ...
"Putting on My Feminist Pants": How Academic Feminists Use Clothing to Construct Professional Identity
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
Feminism has traditionally been concerned with issues of women's bodies;
however, an examination of women's bodies in clothing has been largely overlooked,
especially in relation to feminists themselves. Constructing ...
NDSU's Back on TRAC Program: Policy Recommendations
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
Alcohol and other drug use by college students has been considered by
college administrators to be problematic for many years, but strategies in place were
not effective or were being under-utilized. Data taken from both ...
Joint Compression and Encryption
(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 ...
Alternative Clustering Algorithms in Sensor Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
A wireless sensor network is composed of a large number of tiny sensor
nodes that can be deployed in a variety of environments like battle fields, water,
large fields, and the like, and can transmit data to a Base station ...
Developing a Framework for Sustainable Design/Build/Own Buildings
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
The objective of the research paper was to investigate the development of a
workable framework for Sustainable Design/Build/Own buildings. Research from case
studies, a literature review, and a design exercise was completed ...
Development of Real-Time PCR Method for Detection, Identification and Quantification of Five Different Fusarium Species
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a fungal disease affecting cereal crops worldwide. FHB
involves multiple Fusarium species that create food safety concerns by producing
mycotoxins such as trichothecenes, zearalenone and ...
Enhancing Bread Using High Temperature Extruded Lentil Flours
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
Wheat proteins play a major role in determination of dough rheological properties and
quality of baked bread. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of
extrusion speeds and lentil flour concentration ...
Differential Modulation of the Structural and Functional Characteristics of Human Matrix Metalloproteinase Isozymes upon Binding to Different Ligands
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of Zn2
+ -dependent, Ca2
+ -containing
endoproteinases involved in tissue remodeling and degradation of the extracellular matrix
(ECM). Human MMP isozymes are known to be ...