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Living Streets within Downtown Fargo: A Living Street that Focuses on the Pedestrian, Environmental, and Social Design Elements in Downtown Cores
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
With downtown Fargo continuing to change with new multi-use buildings and parking garages, the focus should now be on the streets. Over the past couple years there has been multiple parking garages built within a mile of ...
An Immersive Sensory Experience: Revitalizing Touchmark Senior Living Community
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
This thesis project focuses on providing a unique
sensory expereince for residents, employees, and
visitors at Touchmark at Harwood Groves, a
local senior living community. This is a large
complex that houses independent ...
Returning to Earth: Natural Design for a Cemetery in Otter Tail County, MN
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
As awareness of human impact on the environment grows, ethical concerns are raised over the exploitation of natural resources by traditional cemetery design, and burial practices come into question. America’s parks first ...
Bringing Nature Indoors: Tetris Landscaping
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average American spends
93% of their life indoors. Almost 70% of which is at home. By being indoors there is a greater
chance of being exposed to higher ...
Designing for Play in Island Park
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
‘Planning for Play in Island Park’ is a design thesis based meant to identify a realistic and
multifaceted response to the removal of Ash Trees (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) from Fargo
North Dakota’s downtown Island Park. ...
Revisiting Riverfronts: Creating Safe Urban Waterfronts That Can be Used Outside of Large Storm Events
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Blue Spaces - areas along rivers, lakes, oceans, etc ... - in Urban
Areas have shown to improve pedestrians physical and mental
health. Due to climate change these spaces are in danger of becoming
deserted and forgotten. ...
Marijuana Legalization Effect on Opioid Abuse: A Synthetic Control Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
The opioid epidemic constitutes one of the worst drug crises in the history of U.S. State-level policies, in general, have done little to prevent prescription opioid abuse. A noteworthy exception to other clinical efforts ...
Business Risk, Financial Risk, and Liquidity Management on U.S. Farms - Evidence From Selected States
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Risk management is pivotal to agribusiness decision-making, and researchers have developed various models to disentangle factors underlying farmers’ risk decisions. This thesis argues that an appropriate model should ...
Ethanol Policy, Commodity Revenue, and Import Quantity Demand: The United States and Brazil
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Brazil and the United States have been major players in the ethanol industry for over a decade. Both countries have a strong policy backing to push the production and use of the renewable fuel while other parts of the world ...
Ex-Ante Temporal Optimization in Soybean Origination: An Overdetermined Approach Through Deep Learning
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Digitization is influencing commodity trading and agricultural markets and as they transition towards extreme liquidity, agribusiness risk exposures increase, and traditional competitive advantages diminish. In commodity ...