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Inoculation and Spread of Dickeya in Potatoes
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Field experiments were conducted in two different growing environments to evaluate the spread and movement of Dickeya dadantii. A procedure to inoculate seed potatoes with Dickeya dadantii was developed to use during this ...
Integrating Faba Bean (Vicia faba Roth) into Cropping Systems as a Cover Crop, Intercrop, and Late-Season Forage Compared with Other Legume Cover Crops in the Upper Midwest
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Faba bean (Vicia faba Roth) is grown worldwide as a protein source for food, used for animal feed, and is a common cover crop in Europe, but is underutilized in Midwest farming systems. Faba bean, field pea (Pisum sativum ...
Type I Error Assessment and Power Comparison of ANOVA and Zero-Inflated Methods on Zero-Inflated Data
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Many tests for the analysis of continuous data have the underlying assumption that the data in question follows a normal distribution (ex. ANOVA, regression, etc.). Within certain research topics, it is common to end up ...
Rutin Extraction and Content in Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) Bran-Fortified Pasta
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The objectives of this study were to optimize extraction of rutin from buckwheat bran and buckwheat bran-fortified spaghetti and to determine the stability of rutin during spaghetti production and preparation. Aqueous ...
Conditional Random Field with Lasso and its Application to the Classification of Barley Genes Based on Expression Level Affected by Fungal Infection
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The classification problem of gene expression level, more specifically, gene expression analysis, is a major research area in statistics. There are several classical methods to solve the classification problem. To apply ...
Empirical Study of Two Hypothesis Test Methods for Community Structure in Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Many real-world network data can be formulated as graphs, where a binary relation exists between nodes. One of the fundamental problems in network data analysis is community detection, clustering the nodes into different ...
Optimizing Transportation Infrastructure and Global Supply Chain Integration for Nicaragua’s Autonomous Caribbean Regions through Network Modernization
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The autonomous regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast are resource rich, yet they are among the poorest regions of Latin America. To realize economic growth and potential, this research examined Nicaragua’s primary-sector ...
The Ship of Change: A Model for Organizational Diagnosis and Change Management
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Grounded in developmental theory, the Ship of Change provides a renewed look at diagnostic relationships between organizational elements, and their interactions through the lens of a metaphorical ship analogy. Elements are ...
Analyzing Supply Chain Networks for Blood Products
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The blood supply chain, starting from the donor until the blood is used to meet transfusion demands of patients, is a multi-echelon and complex system. The perishable and lifesaving characteristics of blood products, such ...
Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in F1 Hybrid Hard Red Spring Wheat
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Due to scientific advancement, hybrid wheat may be the future of wheat breeding, but many questions about the hybrid system remain. How hybrids will perform in terms of Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance is one of the ...