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Skills, Knowledge and Values of Community Health Needs Assessment Managers
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Nonprofit hospital systems must complete a community health needs assessment (CHNA). In healthcare there is a lack of consensus on what skills, knowledge and values are important for the person managing CHNA departments, ...
Aging and Object-Based Inhibition of Return
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Inhibition of return (IOR) is a cognitive mechanism to bias attention from returning to previously engaged items. While aging models have proposed deficits within select inhibitory domains, older adults have demonstrated ...
Nature Versus Technology: Which is More Appealing to Youth Ages 11-14?
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Recent studies show playtime for youth has shifted from playing outdoors to being connected to a screen-based device. This study examines the amount of time youth ages 11-14 are spending in nature versus the amount of time ...
Proposed Nonparametric Tests for the Umbrella Alternative in a Mixed Design for Both Known and Unknown Peak
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
In several situations, and among various treatment effects, researchers might test for an umbrella alternative. The need for an umbrella alternative arises in the evaluation of the reaction to drug dosage. For instance, ...
A Comparison of False Discovery Rate Method and Dunnett's Test for a Large Number of Treatments
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
It has become quite common nowadays to perform multiple tests simultaneously in order to detect differences of a certain trait among groups. This often leads to an inflated probability of at least one Type I Error, a ...
Model Validation and Diagnostis in Right Censored Regression
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
When censored data are present in the linear regression setting, the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm and the Buckley and James (BJ) method are two algorithms that can be implemented to fit the regression model. We ...
Modeling the Winners of NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Tournament Games
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This thesis first presents a least squares regression model to identify the in-game statistics that help explain the variation in point spread for NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Tournament games. Then a logistic ...
The Impact of Automated Requisitioning Systems on the Effectiveness of Emergency Supply Chains
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This research examines the relevance of an automated requisitioning system on an emergency supply chain's performance. In this context, "automated requisitioning" refers to the ability to transmit requisitions through an ...
Medical Respite Care for Fargo-Moorhead Homeless Population: A Needs Assessment
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Homelessness continues to increase in the Fargo-Moorhead community, and little is known about the health needs of its chronically homeless population. An informal needs assessment completed in 2010 gathered feedback from ...
Form and Functionality of Additively Manufactured Parts with Internal Structure
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The tool-less additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing processes (3DP) use incremental consolidation of feed-stock materials to construct part. The layer by layer AM processes can achieve spatial material distribution ...