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Learning to Play in Nature; an Urban Playground for Adolescents
(2013)
This project examines the problems surrounding the increase in adverse health related issues directly relating to the decrease in society’s physical activity and exercise opportunities for adolescents in their immediate ...
Portside: Promoting Growth Through Urban Tourism
(2013)
Shifts in tourism over the last forty years have evolved and gone back to large urban cities, and as a result the practice of urban
tourism has grown and been moved to the forefront of many city planning efforts. Urban ...
Urbanscape Revitalization
(2012)
This thesis will seek to explore how Landscape Architecture, through strategic urban design and planning, can be instrumental to improving the unstable population within Urban communities. Such horrific decay of urban areas ...
Community (Make) Shift: Bringing urban communities together through the activation of underutilized spaces with social programming in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
(2017)
In current times society is gravitating towards urban communities. Although cities have higher amounts of people per proximity in these areas, it does not stop people from feeling lonely. Loneliness is defined as the ...
New Productive Landscapes: Designing for Sustainable Urban Food
(2013)
As of 2008 over half of the world’s population is now living in cities, and the number is expected to swell to approximately five billion in the next twenty to thirty years. As the volume of people living in cities rises, ...
Cemetery: Space For The Living
(2010)
The typical present-day cemetery is used primarily for burials,
however, cemeteries in the past were created to function as parks
as well as burial grounds. In order to change the functions of a
cemetery, a more important ...
Game Play: Promoting Park Retention, Physical Activity, and Social Interaction in Central Minneapolis through Pokemon GO
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
It’s become increasing obvious how technology has impacted and influenced our everyday lives. People are constantly on their phones, laptops, tablets, or gaming consoles for entertainment and staying connected with their ...
Regulation of Insulin- and Insulin Receptor-Encoding mRNAS in Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus Mykiss
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
In this work, rainbow trout were used as a model system to examine the regulation of insulin (INS)- and insulin receptor (IR)-encoding mRNA expression profiles. INS- and IR-encoding mRNAs were isolated, cloned, and sequenced; ...
Effects of Environmental Estrogens on the Growth Hormone-Insulin-Like Growth Factor System in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss)
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The increasing production, use, and disposal of an expanding array of chemicals that enter the environment pose a serious threat to terrestrial and aquatic animals, as well as to humans. Fish in aquatic habitats are exposed ...
Nos1-Adaptor Protein Dysfunction in the Nucleus Tractus Solitarii Contributes to the Neurogenic Heart Damage and Qt Interval Prolongation
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Variants of the Nitric Oxide Synthase 1 Adaptor Protein (NOS1AP) locus are strongly related to QT interval prolongation and sudden cardiac death (SCD) in human. Neurogenic cardiac damage due to subarachnoid hemorrhage, ...