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Increasing Provider Awareness and Knowledge about Preconception Care to Women of Reproductive Age
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Infant morbidity and mortality are important indicators of the overall health of a nation. The United States ranks 26th among 29 developed countries, with an infant mortality rate of 6.1 per 1,000 live births (MacDorman, ...
Increasing Awareness and Knowledge About Ovarian Cancer to Enhance Health Outcomes of Women
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women in the U.S. and kills approximately 14,000 women each year (Nezhat et al., 2015). Survival increases with early diagnosis; the five-year survival rate ...
Perception of Nursing Empowerment and Intent to Stay
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Nursing turnover and the evolving nursing shortage has continued to receive much attention from health care organizations. It is predicted that there will be 1.2 million job openings in nursing by 2020. Work empowerment ...
CFD Heat Transfer Simulation of the Human Upper Respiratory Tract for Oronasal Breathing Condition
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
In this thesis. a three dimensional heat transfer model of heated airflow through the upper human respiratory tract consisting of nasal, oral, trachea, and the first two generations of bronchi is developed using computational ...
Improving Resident Assistants Knowledge about Eating Disorders on a College Campus
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
As many as 30 million people in the United States have struggled with an eating disorder (National Eating Disorder Association [NEDA], n.d.). Anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge eating disorder (BED) ...
Solder Joint Reliability: A Unified Thermo-Mechanical Model Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Due to an unprecedented pervasiveness of electronics in high performance applications, the dependability of mission critical equipment and systems, often solely depends on the reliability of underlying embedded electronic ...
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 ...
Increasing LARC Utilization through Standardized Contraception Education
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Reducing unintended pregnancy is an important goal for any woman of childbearing age and optimizing contraceptive effectiveness should be a priority for healthcare providers serving this population. One subset of this ...
Prairie Restoration outcomes in the Northern Tallgrass and Mixed Grass Prairie Eco-Region
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Prairie restorations have been implemented using a variety of seeding methods and techniques. The outcomes of these prairie restorations have not been surveyed on United States Fish and Wildlife Service lands in eastern ...
Rematerializing the Contact Zone : Discovery and Exploration in the First Year Writing Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This study investigates Mary Louise Pratt's "contact zone" theory and argues that the contact zone has undergone a dematerializing process from a place with clear geographical and material connections to an imagined ...