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Resilience: Cooperation of Social and Ecological Systems
(2011)
Within recent years there has been a monumental awareness put towards environmental sustainability and resilience in response to the effects of humankind's continued imposition on existent ecological processes. Whether ...
Reed Street Yards - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(2011)
This project is meant to explore the idea of low carbon development in cities post global peak oil. Milwaukee, like many other Rust Belt cities across the United States, has passed its industrial peak and today is left ...
Sustainable Lakeshore Development : Integrating Lakeshore Ecosystems into the Urban Environment
(2011)
This project is meant to explore sustainable lakeshore design ideas within private and public community property that share a common water body resource. A community surrounding a water body forms a social-ecological ...
Urban Endemics: Protecting Imperiled Species
(2011)
This thesis project will explore the requirements for a
botanical garden and associated grounds, within the city of Fargo, North Dakota. A key element includes the addition of micro-climates suitable for the introduction/ ...
Sustainable Growth and Redevelopment of Wadena: Evoking a Meaningful Change
(2011)
The general public often delude themselves into thinking that the landscapes we design are implicitly sustainable, though they frequently are not. We, as designers, must make known, and take responsibility for, the ...
Accounting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Toxic Air Pollutants in Trucking Efficiency and Productivity
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Air pollution is a threat to the environment and human health. Freight trucking in particular is the main source of freight transportation emissions. Heavy-duty trucks emit large amounts of toxic air pollutants that cause ...
Concussion Awareness & Recognition: Youth Sport Parent's Perceptions
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Youth sport concussion has recently become a topic of concern for health care professionals. Young athletes are at greater risk of sustaining a concussion because children have a greater head-to-body ratio and their cervical ...
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 ...
North Dakota Beef Cow Operators: Identifying Current Management Practices and Factors that Influence Adoption Rates of Best Management Practices Relating to Surface Water Pollution
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Best management practices are methods that have been determined to be the most effective and practical means of preventing or reducing pollution. Best Management Practices (BMPs) relating to surface water pollution abatement ...
Lipoic Acid Supplementation in the Ovariectomized Ewe
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Inadequate concentrations of progesterone during gestation can result in impaired embryonic growth and losses. These losses may be attributed to an overactive mechanism of progesterone catabolism or improper luteal function, ...