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Essays on Biomass Supply Chain Network Design
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
This dissertation is about the biomass supply chain network design considering the incentives as a financial support for entities in the supply chain such as the growers (farm) and biorefinery (plant) to produce energy ...
Economic Modeling of Agricultural Production in North Dakota Using Transportation Analysis and Forecasting
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Agricultural industry is crucial for the economy; agricultural transportation is an integrated part of that industry. Optimization of the transportation and logistics costs is an important part of the transportation ...
An Investigation of the Impact of Social Media Platforms on Supply Chain Performance through Competitive Intelligence using AHP Model
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
This study investigates the use of social media platforms (SMPs) for acquiring supply chain intelligence (SCI) to improve supply chain performance. Given the growth of social media use, there is an urgency for increased ...
Interseeding Cereal Rye and Winter Camelina into Corn in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Limited photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) can reduce interseeded cover crop growth in corn (Zea mays L.). Two experiments in North Dakota evaluated the effect that hybrid relative maturity (RM), row width, and cover ...
A Comparison of Methods Taking into Account Asymmetry when Evaluating Differential Expression in Gene Expression Experiments
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Gene expression technologies allow expression levels to be compared across treatments for thousands of genes simultaneously. Asymmetry in the empirical distribution of the test statistics from the analysis of a gene ...
Adaptive Two-Stage Optimal Design for Estimating Multiple EDps under the 4-Parameter Logistic Model
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
In dose-finding studies, c-optimal designs provide the most efficient design to study an interesting target dose. However, there is no guarantee that a c-optimal design that works best for estimating one specific target ...
Exploring Associations between Lifestyles and Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Age Chinese Population
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Nowadays the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) affects many middle-age people in China. MetS is associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Identifying the potential risk factors contribute ...
A Visualization Technique for Course Evaluations and Other Likert Scale Data
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Course evaluation is one of the primary ways of collecting feedback from students at NDSU. Since almost every student in every course submits one at the end of the semester, it generates a lot of data. The data is summarized ...
Integrative Data Analysis of Microarray and RNA-seq
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Background: Microarray and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) are two commonly used high-throughput technologies for gene expression profiling for the past decades. For global gene expression studies, both techniques are expensive, ...
Robust D-Optimal Design for Multiple Nominal Parameter Values under the 5PL-1P Model
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
A robust D-optimal design that works well for multiple nominal parameter values is presented in this paper. In general, D-optimal design works very well for estimating the model parameters, but it is very sensitive to ...