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Processing Trade-offs in a Cellulosic Biorefinery
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Commercial scale cellulosic biorefineries face significant challenges to produce low-cost fermentable sugar from biomass. Biorefinery processing steps are interrelated and trade-offs between process parameters impact the ...
Ecological and Sociological Considerations of Wind Energy: A Multidisciplinary Study
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Wind energy is quickly becoming a critical technology for providing Americans with renewable energy, and rapid construction of wind facilities may have impacts on both wildlife and human communities. Understanding both the ...
From Bray-Curtis Ordination to Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation: Assessing Anthropogenically-Induced andor Climatically-Induced Changes in Arboreal Ecosystems
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Mapping forest resources is useful for identifying threat patterns and monitoring changes associated with landscapes. Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science techniques are effective tools used to identify and ...
Attenuation of Nitrate from Simulated Agricultural Wastewater Using an Immobilized Anaerobic Biofilm
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
A number of methods are currently in use for attenuating nitrates from wastewater with varying degrees of efficiency. Bioremediation using bacteria may be an efficient and cost effective method. In an anaerobic bioremediation ...
Habitat Use and Foraging Ecology of Bats in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Habitat use is a key component to understanding the conservation needs of species. While an array of quantitative analyses for studying fine-scale habitat use and selection have been developed, such methods have rarely ...
Development and Genetic Regulation of the Novel Abdominal Appendages in the Male Sepsid Fly, Themira Biloba
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Evolutionary novel structures are structures with no known homology. Novel structures often provide a novel function to the organism. Some species of sepsid flies (family Sepsidae) have evolved novel abdominal appendages ...
Characterization of Road Dust in Western North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Samples were collected during summer 2014, at three locations: along 15th St. SW near agricultural test plots, along an access road leading to a newly built oil drilling pad, and adjacent to the pad. MiniVol™ TAS Samplers ...
Micro-Pore Parametrics for Optimal Hyperfiltration of Conservative Contaminants
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
In compacted Na-montmorillonite membranes, the pore-size, and surface charge will influence filtration processes of solutes. A dead-end hyperfiltration setup was utilized to: (a) study the intrinsic retention, membrane ...
Developmental Changes in Fat Metabolism of Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca Sexta
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Insects fed high carbohydrate diets have increased fat storage, and excess fat storage in insects may have fitness costs. M. sexta larvae reared on 5.6% fat diet had lower body mass and growth rate compared to those on ...
The Effect of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Plants, and on Host-Pathogen Interactions
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) are a type of engineered nanomaterial that is currently being explored for use in different aspects of agriculture. So far, research on this area is limited to evaluating the phenotypical ...