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Something Wicked This Way Comes: How the Horror Genre Revitalizes Macbeth
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
This project examines Rupert Goold’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in terms of the horror genre. Using filmic elements of the horror genre, touchstone horror texts, and Carol Clover’s Men, Women, and Chainsaws, this ...
Characterizing the Aging-Driven Degradation Rate of Electrical Contact Resistance and Mechanical Integrity of Plastic-Encapsulated Au/Al Wire Bonds
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Gold-aluminum interconnect is an integral part of conventional chip packaging. The gold-aluminum interface deteriorates during the operation of a device due to the formation of gold-aluminum intermetallic compounds. Spatial ...
A Foundation for Factors that Explain Volunteer Engagement in Response and Recovery: The Case of Flooding in East Texas 2016
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Volunteers are important contributors to response and recovery. Little is known about their engagement, particularly in terms of comparing the engagement of response volunteers to recovery volunteers. This study sought to ...
Coordination in Disaster Recovery: Implications for Policy and Practice
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Disaster scholarship and recent disaster policy in the United States have suggested that coordination of efforts in the disaster recovery process will allow impacted jurisdictions to maximize positive recovery outcomes. ...
Developing Higher Education Programs in Emergency Management: Ghana's Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Ghana is highly vulnerable and threatened by several hazards and has sought ways of minimizing impacts of hazards events over time including demonstrating an interest in developing an emergency management training and an ...
Formation and Lifespans of Emergent Recovery Groups in Post-Katrina New Orleans
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, numerous groups emerged to address recovery related needs in Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes. The phenomenon of emergent groups is widely noted in the disaster literature, but there ...
Red River Flooding in Fargo: Organizational Learning Through Repeated Events
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This research is a case study of the spring flooding from the Red River in Fargo, North Dakota. The 1997 record flood level broke a long standing record. However, in the last 7 years there have been three additional major ...
Factors Explaining the Risk Perception of County Emergency Managers
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This thesis attempted to explore how county emergency managers understand the risks most likely to manifest in their jurisdiction using an internet survey. This study addressed the following research questions: 1) What ...
Case Study of the Gold King Mine Spill
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
The Gold King Mine spill happened on August 5, 2015 near Silverton, Colorado when the abandoned mine was damaged during maintenance. This single, holistic exploratory case study uses document review and analysis to answer ...
An Evaluation of the Protective Action Decision Model using Data from a Train Derailment in Casselton, North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This study was designed to answer the questions: a) What factors affected peoples' decision to evacuate or not evacuate after a train derailment and explosion in Casselton, ND; and b) What factors affected the amount of ...