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Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Response to Shifts in Hydroclimatic Variability and Ecohydrological Conditions in Prairie-Pothole Wetlands: Implications for Biodiversity Conservation
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Ecosystem degradation and subsequent biodiversity loss has plagued freshwater environments globally. Wetland ecosystems, such as the depressional wetlands found in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America, have been ...
Holocene Postglacial Fluvial Processes and Landforms in Low Relief Landscapes
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Postglacial rivers are part of the relatively young low-relief landscape system left behind by glaciers. Over time, postglacial rivers are susceptible to both minor and major channel planform changes as the Earth and its ...
Advancing Gender Equity in STEM: Antenarratives and Feminist Leadership Practices in Policy Work
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
While the field technical and professional communication (TPC) has long been concerned with workplace writing and policy writing, few studies have addressed the process of policy writing within an academic context. Using ...
Because Comics: Comics Literacy and Multimodal Pedagogy
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
How and what we teach in the post-secondary English classroom has tremendous power, both regarding individual students and larger contexts in which they function. As post-secondary instructors, our pedagogical approach to ...
Social Dialect Features of Military Speech: A Sociolinguistic Study of Fargo Veterans
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
This mixed-methods study examines the potential existence of a military dialect separate from regional or social dialects experienced by civilians. In particular, how similar is the military-related storytelling lexicon ...
Mathematical Modeling of Epidemics: Parametric Heterogeneity and Pathogen Coexistence
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
No two species can indefinitely occupy the same ecological niche according to the competitive exclusion principle. When competing strains of the same pathogen invade a homogeneous population, the strain with the largest ...
Knot Groups and Bi-Orderable HNN Extensions of Free Groups
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Suppose K is a fibered knot with bi-orderable knot group. We perform a topological winding operation to half-twist bands in a free incompressible Seifert surface Σ of K. This results in a Seifert surface Σ' with boundary ...
The Evolution of Wonder Through History: Reopening the Realm in Seven Mythic Experiments of Technological Interconnection
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
As Henri Frankfort suggests, the sense of interconnection between
ancient people, nature, and the cosmos, was perceived as a living
“Thou”. As humanity has advanced this emphasis on interconnection
has faded from something ...
Designing for Outsiders: Building a Sustainble Future for Keaau
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
How tolerant are we of people outside our community? Our ingrained instincts drive us
as humans to seek positive interactions, to feel accepted and appreciated, to find
purpose to help us thrive as individuals and as a ...
Architecture that Transforms History: Reframing the Birth Place of the Atomic Bomb for a More Critical Future
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Can architecture serve as a critical reminder to our present and future societies of
the horrific potential of mass destruction?
Throughout history human beings have consistently engaged themselves in the
act of ...