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Infiltration and Unsaturated Flow under the Influence of Surface Microtopography: Model Simulations and Experimental Observations
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Surface microtopography affects fundamental hydrologic processes including infiltration and soil-water percolation at different scales. By means of studying the unsaturated flow, this thesis research is aimed to evaluate ...
Are Public American High Schools Void of Values? The Teacher Perspective of Moral Education in Public School
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The American public school system's immense influence on culture and politics makes its critical inquiry vital for social awareness and prosperity. There is a wide body of literature that speculates on the presence of moral ...
Crisis at the Finish Line: A Thematic Analysis of Instructing Information via Twitter
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This study expands current crisis communication research by exploring the communication of instructing information via Twitter. Drawing from the internalization, explanation, and action components of Sellnow & Sellnow's ...
Learning to Speak Effectively in Business Settings: The Importance of Delivery
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This project explores the integral role of delivery in public speaking and recommends a training curriculum in vocalics and kinesics in order to become an effective public speaker. Business professionals are the key ...
Work Group Identification and Communication Competence in the Use of E-mail
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Among the various communication technologies that are used in organizations, e-mail has been a dominant communication medium in the modern workplace. The purpose of the current study is to examine how individuals' work ...
A Dual Examination of Content and Effects: News Media Representations of Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Effects of Attributions on Community Members’ Supportive or Discriminatory Feelings, Behavioral Intentions, and Behaviors Toward the Disability
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The media has the ability to influence societal perceptions about important issues. This study involved a dual examination of content and effects of news media representations of a prominent health issue—autism spectrum ...
“I Signed up for Twitter. Reason? Flood News.”: An Analysis of Pre-Crisis Tweets Made by Decision-Makers, Media, and the Public
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This study examines the use of Twitter by decision-makers, the media, and the public during the pre-crisis stage of the 2013 Fargo-Moorhead flood. Three research questions guide this study in order to gain understanding ...
Measurement of Non-Technical Skills of Software Development Teams
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Software Development managers recognize that project team dynamics is a key component of the success of any project. Managers can have a project with well-defined goals, an adequate schedule, technically skilled people and ...
Mining Frequent Coherent Patterns from Weighted Graphs
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Current research on network analysis; such as community detection, pattern mining and many other graph mining application mostly focus on large social or biological networks. Such experiments may find interesting patterns ...
Applied Nonparametric Statistical Tests to Compare Evolutionary and Swarm Intelligence Approaches
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Recently, in many experimental studies, the statistical analysis of nonparametric comparisons has grown in the area of computational intelligence. The research refers to application of different techniques that are used ...