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Plant-Stand Count and Weed Identification Mapping Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Images
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Modern agriculture encounters several challenges these days. There is a vital need for spatial data about plant and weed distributions. Obtaining accurate knowledge of the plants and weeds distribution in the field with ...
Ex Situ Analyses of Non-Native Species Impacts on Imperiled Desert Fishes
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
This thesis focuses on interactions between two invasive species, the western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) and the red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), and two desert fishes, the Amargosa pupfish (Cyprinodon ...
Municipal Water Use and Dust Impacts on Soybeans
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
As human extraction of earth’s natural resources continue to impact the surrounding environment, such effects are compounding and may affect the quantity and quality of other natural resources. Natural resources in ...
Analyses, Mitigation and Applications of Secure Hash Algorithms
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Cryptographic hash functions are one of the widely used cryptographic primitives with a purpose to ensure the integrity of the system or data. Hash functions are also utilized in conjunction with digital signatures to ...
Scrutinizing the Role of Ambipolar Units in the Donor-Acceptor Framework
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Conjugated polymers (CPs) are a class of materials that contradict what is commonly considered when people hear the terms plastics and electronics. While these two phrases are generally considered exclusive, CPs combine ...
Validating the Mindset Scale for Use with International Students Attending College in the United States
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Institutions of higher education continue to try and find new ways to help students persist in college (Kinzie & Kuh, 2017). One compelling tool to help students succeed comes from Dweck’s (1999) Mindset model. The model ...
Modifications of Recombinant Spider Silk Protein for Various Biomedical Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Silk is a natural protein produced by members of the class Arachnida (over 30,000 species of spiders) and by several worms. Silk-based materials have been investigated for medical and biotechnological applications for many ...
Computational Simulations of Flow Past a Rotating Arrangement of Three Cylinders Using Hybrid Turbulence Models
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Over the past 25 years, advances in the field of turbulence modeling have been made in an effort to resolve more scales, preserving unsteadiness within a flow. In this research two hybrid models, Scale-Adaptive Simulation ...
Label-Free CD8+ T-cell Purification and Electroporation in Relation to CAR T-cell Therapy
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Immunotherapy is becoming recognized as a superior treatment for cancer. In recent years, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy is among the immunotherapies that has had growing success rates. CAR T-cell therapy takes ...
Functional Bioactive Compounds from Sweet Potatoes for Human Health Benefits
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Global food and nutritional insecurities, public health challenges of diet-linked non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs), and rapid climate change-linked agricultural production challenges are interconnected and require ...