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The Rehearsal Plan and the Preparation of Brazilian Art Songs: An Autoethnographic Study in Collaborative Piano
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
The objective of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of the rehearsal plan in the preparation of Brazilian art songs. This disquisition proposes a rehearsal plan model based on the concept of the class plan ...
Aging, Object-Based Inhibition, and Online Data Collection
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Visual selective attention operates in space- and object-based frames of reference. Stimulus salience and task demands influence whether a space- or object-based frame of reference guides attention. I conducted two experiments ...
The Investigation of Restoration Techniques for Two Degraded Rangeland Sites in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Vast areas of rangeland have been degraded or lost to row crop agriculture and urban development in the United States since European colonization. Two projects were undertaken to investigate strategies to improve diversity ...
Enzyme Behavior in Synthetic Materials and Structural Implications for Rational Design
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Combining enzymes with synthetic materials is the new frontier of biocatalysis, materials science, and protein engineering. Enzymes are biological macromolecule catalysts with incredible efficiency and specificity that are ...
Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction of Aromatic Esters and Aromatic Diesters with Arylboronic Acids
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions for the functionalization of the ester bond provides a significant overall improvement in the catalytic system as compared to aryl halides/pseudo-halides electrophilic ...
Propensity Score and Survival Analysis for Lung Cancer
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Propensity scores were used to assess covariate balance between black and white groups in each lung cancer stage of a large data set. Pairwise log rank tests were used to test the equality of survival distribution for ...
Investigating the Role of BECN1 Conformationally Flexible Regions and Invariant Cys-x-x-Cys Motifs in Autophagy
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Autophagy is an essential catabolic cellular homeostasis process conserved in all eukaryotes. BECN1, a key autophagy protein involved in autophagosome nucleation, comprises of a large, poorly conserved, N-terminal intrinsically ...
Designing Ru Catalysts for Selective C-H Bond Oxidation Reactions
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Typically, C-H bond oxidation proceeds via formation of high-valent metal oxo species. Attaining a high oxidation state of the metal complex is critical as it is the key step for many catalytic processes. Understanding ...
Farming Democracy: American Agricultural Policy from the Great War to the Great Society
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
In the days of the early republic, agriculture provided more than just an economic foundation; it shaped the country socially, and politically, too. Thomas Jefferson and others wrote at length of the role farming played ...
Mapping Ur-6, a Bean Rust Resistance Gene in Common Bean
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Bean rust, caused by the fungus Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers.:Pers) Unger, is a disease of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) prevalent in the Americas and Africa. The most cost-effective countermeasure to bean rust is ...