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Literature Review of the Aerodynamics of Flapping Flight in Micro Air Vehicle Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Biological flapping wing flyers achieve flight maneuverability and efficiency in low speed flight environments that has not been replicated by man-made flyers. Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) design goals are to develop flyers ...
Goal Congruity within Copreneurial Partners: An Exploration of Family Business Continuance
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This study utilized data from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business
Survey to explore goal processes of 320 copreneurial and noncopreneurial family business
households. Ecological systems theory (Deacon ...
Age and Gender Differences in Attitudes and Knowledge about Alzheimer's Disease
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The purpose of this study was to examine possible age and gender discrepancies in knowledge and attitudes towards individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Data were taken from a Midwestern survey study of community-dwelling ...
Confronting Prejudice: Identifying Factors of Nontarget Confrontation
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The research question for this project sought to identify factors that encouraged people to stand up to people who were discriminating against others. Seventeen students who had previously stood up against other people ...
Promoting Positive Youth Development: A Crash Course for Youth Ministers
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This paper explores the role religion can play in the Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach to youth development. The relevant literature suggests there is a missing link between youth workers in religious institutions ...
Parents’ Impact on Pregender Children’s Toy Preferences
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Societal messages of what it means to be a boy or a girl influence children at an early age, shaping their developing identities into adulthood. Parents, for example, offer children toys and other objects that are ...
Assessing Child Care Standards and Rates of Expulsion for Problem Behaviors in Preschool Children
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Quality in child care programs has been studied often and researchers search to find correlations between quality measures and positive child outcomes. Some studies also show that problem behaviors result in large numbers ...
Multicomponent Doped Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Films for Tunable Microwave Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
In recent years there has been enormous progress in the development of barium strontium titanate (BST) films for tunable microwave applications. However, the properties of BST films still remain inferior compared to bulk ...
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Hierarchically Functionalized Carbon Nanofibers for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Among various energy conversion and storage devices available in the market, supercapacitors are deemed as an effective, competitive solution to the increasing demand for high-power density energy-storage devices. Yet, ...
Historiographies of World War II, The Cold War, and Wounded Knee
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This historiographical essay discusses three events in recent history— Germany in World War II, the beginnings of the Cold War, and the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee. The purpose of these essays is to show what the authors ...