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Alcohol and Academia: A Study of the Association between Student Housing Type and Alcohol Abuse at North Dakota State University
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The purpose of this study was to determine if student housing gender-type is significantly related to student alcohol consumption at North Dakota State University. The researcher examined whether the residence of students ...
Emotional Intelligence Levels in Baccalaureate-Prepared Early Career Registered Nurses
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
The increasing complexity of the healthcare environment calls for increasing emotional intelligence (EI) competence in nurses so as to establish effective relationships that facilitate positive patient outcomes. Because ...
Intellectual and Experiential Knowing: An Exploratory Factor Analysis to Uncover the Underlying Structure of Knowing
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Knowledge and the acquisition thereof have long been debated throughout human history. Several authors have suggested that knowing and knowledge differ among people. However, there is consistency among these studies that ...
Mastery Learning Instruction versus Traditional Instructional Methods in Eighth Grade Language Arts
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of mastery learning on eighth grade language arts students primarily in terms of academic gains, but subsidiary research questions also focused on the impact of mastery ...
A Case Study of North Dakota Interactive Video Network at North Dakota State University
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
North Dakota State University (NDSU) has delivered courses utilizing the North Dakota Interactive Video Network (IVN) since 1989. The technology used an Integrated Services Digital Network but switched to Internet Protocol ...
Adaptive Beamforming for Antennas on General Wedge- and Cylindrical-Shaped Surfaces
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Adaptive beamforming antennas capable of accommodating the growing number of wireless subscribers throughout the world has become an essential part of modern wireless systems. In this work, the beamforming of a conformal ...
Weak Power Grid Analysis for Renewable Energy Sources Integration
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Weakness analysis based on grid strength assessment is useful for identifying potential weak grid issues. However, when taking into account the impact of the interactions among Renewable Energy Sources (RESs), the weakness ...
Perceptual Video Quality Model and its Application in Wireless Multimedia Communications
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
With the exponential growth of video traffic over wireless networked and embedded
devices such as mobile phones and sensors, mechanisms are needed to predict the perceptual
quality of video in real time and with low ...
Conformal Antennas and Arrays with Layers Consisting of Copper and Graphene-based Conductors for Redundancy Properties
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Graphene is a new promising material with unique electrical, mechanical, optical and thermal characteristics. The use of graphene in the design of an antenna and other electromagnetic passive devices would be beneficial ...
Characterization of a Structure Consisting of Magnetostatic Responsive Microscopic Particles and Its Applications In Antennas
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Wireless communication systems often require that a single antenna work
at different frequencies. Thus the recon gurable antennas are useful in frequency
agile environments to receive a signal over multiple bands. Research ...