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Unsettling Settlements: Examining Police Misconduct Lawsuits in the City of Chicago
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
There is limited empirical research related to lawsuits involving the police due in part to limited accessibility to relevant data sources. This study aims to examine the relationship between citizen, situational, and ...
Development and Validation of Feedback-Based Testing Tutor Tool to Support Software Testing Pedagogy
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Current testing education tools provide coverage deficiency feedback that either mimics industry code coverage tools or enumerates through the associated instructor tests that were absent from the student’s test suite. ...
Utilizing the Concerns Based Adoption Model to Support Teachers in Implementing the MTSS Behavior Pathway
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Schools and educators are faced with the tremendous task of preparing students to be successful in school and beyond in a fast-paced, ever changing world. Behavioral skills, just as academic skills are critical for student ...
Psychological Stress, Stress Reactivity and Blood Glucose Metabolization During Pregnancy
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Gestational diabetes mellitus impacts between 3-10% of pregnancies, and increases the risk of pregnancy complications and lifelong health effects for mother and child (Bellamy, Casas, Hingorani, & Williams, 2009; Ross, ...
Factors Affecting Metabolism During Non-Feeding Stages in Insects
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Although feeding is important for optimal development and growth in insects, there are several points during the insect life cycle that are non-feeding: metamorphosis, pupation, and overwintering. Non-feeding periods also ...
Bit Optimized Reconfigurable Network (BORN): A New Pathway Towards Implementing a Fully Integrated Band-Switchable CMOS Power Amplifier
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
The ultimate goal of the modern wireless communication industry is the full integration of digital, analog, and radio frequency (RF) functions. The most successful solution for such demands has been complementary metal ...
Analyses, Mitigation and Applications of Secure Hash Algorithms
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Cryptographic hash functions are one of the widely used cryptographic primitives with a purpose to ensure the integrity of the system or data. Hash functions are also utilized in conjunction with digital signatures to ...
Validating the Mindset Scale for Use with International Students Attending College in the United States
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Institutions of higher education continue to try and find new ways to help students persist in college (Kinzie & Kuh, 2017). One compelling tool to help students succeed comes from Dweck’s (1999) Mindset model. The model ...
Modifications of Recombinant Spider Silk Protein for Various Biomedical Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Silk is a natural protein produced by members of the class Arachnida (over 30,000 species of spiders) and by several worms. Silk-based materials have been investigated for medical and biotechnological applications for many ...
Computational Simulations of Flow Past a Rotating Arrangement of Three Cylinders Using Hybrid Turbulence Models
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Over the past 25 years, advances in the field of turbulence modeling have been made in an effort to resolve more scales, preserving unsteadiness within a flow. In this research two hybrid models, Scale-Adaptive Simulation ...