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Nonlinear Compensation in Optical Communications Systems using the Nonlinear Fourier Transform
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Nonlinear effects in optical fibers impose a capacity limit for optical communication systems. In this dissertation, the nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT) is investigated as a method to mitigate and compensate for those ...
Avoiding the Windshield Wiper Effect: A Survey of Operational Meteorologists on the Uncertainty in Hurricane Track Forecasts and Communication
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
The first line of defense for the threat of an oncoming hurricane are meteorologists. From their guidance, warnings are drafted and evacuation plans are made ready. This study explores uncertainty that operational ...
Examining NGO Performance: A Case of the Cluster Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
The need for coordinated efforts to respond to emerging crises, disasters, and conflicts has become ever-more apparent in the past decade. As events occur more frequently, at a larger scale, and the 24 hour news cycle ...
A Foundation for Factors that Explain Volunteer Engagement in Response and Recovery: The Case of Flooding in East Texas 2016
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Volunteers are important contributors to response and recovery. Little is known about their engagement, particularly in terms of comparing the engagement of response volunteers to recovery volunteers. This study sought to ...
East Lynne’s Transatlantic Course: From British Serialization to American Theatre
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, a popular sensation fiction, began because of its original and insatiable British readership; however, the texts immediate and drastic reception into American theater confirms that this narrative ...
Usury as a Human Problem in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Shakespeare’s Shylock from the Merchant of Venice is a complex character who not only defies simple definition but also takes over a play in which he is not the titular character. How Shakespeare arrived at Shylock in the ...
Identity Theory and the Lunar Chronicles: Expanding the Study of Identity in Young Adult Literature
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
This Master’s Thesis applies Identity Theory from Social Psychology to The Lunar Chronicles, a young adult novel series by Marissa Meyer. In this thesis, I explain the theory in detail, apply it to the text, and discuss ...
Dancing through Issues of Class and Race in the Composition Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Within the writing classroom, teachers (and students) tend to understand writing and rhetoric as a mental activity, rarely considering the body’s role in effective communication—even more rarely do they incorporate the ...
Reprinting Russia: Anti-Imperial Discourse in Elias Boudinot’s Cherokee Phoenix
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
While much work has explored American Indian print resistance to the encroaching United States, little scholarship has explored reprinting as a method of resistance. Building on Meredith McGill’s argument that reprinting ...
Literacy Narratives of Pre-Literate and Non-Literate Adult Refugee Women
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
This study focuses on the Literacy Narratives of Pre-Literate and Non-Literate Adult Refugee Women in the Fargo-Moorhead community. Personal interviews were conducted to gather data. The recorded interviews were then ...