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Oil Rush Urbanism: Planning For When the Landscape Is Quiet Again
(2013)
Williston, ND and surrounding counties are experiencing a tremendous influx of people
from all over the United States. Throughout the Williston basin the consequences of over production of infrastructure and housing ...
Conspicuous hydrology: The untapped potential of stormwater
(2013)
Freshwater only represents 1% of the total water supply on Earth and is an essential entity for
life to exist. Urban development has lead to the pollution and degradation of this essential
element. Due to the existing ...
The Pine Ridge Project: Revitalizing the Forgotten
(2013)
This project ventures to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in western South Dakota. The reservation is home to a rich culture of Lakota Sioux Native Americans that, unfortunately, are living in one of the most impoverished ...
Learning to Play in Nature; an Urban Playground for Adolescents
(2013)
This project examines the problems surrounding the increase in adverse health related issues directly relating to the decrease in society’s physical activity and exercise opportunities for adolescents in their immediate ...
Portside: Promoting Growth Through Urban Tourism
(2013)
Shifts in tourism over the last forty years have evolved and gone back to large urban cities, and as a result the practice of urban
tourism has grown and been moved to the forefront of many city planning efforts. Urban ...
New Productive Landscapes: Designing for Sustainable Urban Food
(2013)
As of 2008 over half of the world’s population is now living in cities, and the number is expected to swell to approximately five billion in the next twenty to thirty years. As the volume of people living in cities rises, ...
Effects of Environmental Estrogens on the Growth Hormone-Insulin-Like Growth Factor System in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss)
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The increasing production, use, and disposal of an expanding array of chemicals that enter the environment pose a serious threat to terrestrial and aquatic animals, as well as to humans. Fish in aquatic habitats are exposed ...
The Role of Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Receptor Signaling in Medulloblastoma Metastasis
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Medulloblastoma is the most common brain tumor in children and one third of the patients remain incurable. Tumor metastasis is one of the primary reasons for its high mortality rate. Despite evidence of overexpression of ...
Intermarket Trading Strategies and Risk
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The purpose of this thesis is to research methods that will be used to discover the profitability and risk of spatially arbitraging soybeans. A portfolio is used to analyze trading strategies, and the dependence measures ...
North Dakota Banking Efficiency: A DEA Application to Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Banks Pre- and Post-Financial Crisis 2002-2012
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The Great Recession of the late 2000s had negative impacts across the United States economies with unemployment rates rising, bank failures, and other numerous economic problems. However, North Dakota was able to fend off ...