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Counterfeit Industry and the Link to Terrorism
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The purpose of this research study is to explore whether consumers would be complicit in the purchase of counterfeit goods once becoming aware of the counterfeit industry being linked to terrorism. Counterfeit goods are ...
Initiation and Maintenance of Breastfeeding—Issues Among High-Risk Populations of Mothers of African American Descent and Underage Mothers: A Critical Literature Review
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This paper is a critical literature review on issues and concerns of initiation and maintenance of breastfeeding amongst high-risk populations including mothers of African American descent and underage mothers. To guide ...
Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Recommendations and Safe Sleep Education: A Systematic Review
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This paper conducts a systematic literature review on nurses’ knowledge, attitudes and practice regarding safe infant sleep practices. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework ...
Investigation of Protein Composition in Historical and Modern Hard Red Spring Wheat Cultivars
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Many hard red spring (HRS) wheat cultivars have been released in North Dakota with improved traits. In this study, 30 HRS wheat cultivars released between 1910 and 2013 were investigated. The objectives of this study were ...
Phenolic Antioxidant-Linked Bioactive Enrichment in Black Beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) To Screen for Health Benefits and Enhancement of Salinity Resilience
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Dietary consumption of black bean has diverse human health benefits which can be targeted as part of dietary strategies for chronic disease management. A gap in knowledge currently exists regarding how to advance the ...
Women and the Environment of the Global South: Toward a Postcolonial Ecofeminism
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
In this study I claim that mainstream ecofeminism is inadequate to translate the experiences of the women of the Third World and propose postcolonial ecofeminism. The study focuses on the ecofeminist assumption of women’s ...
Reclaiming the Place of Translation in English Composition and Technical Communication: Toward Hospitable Writing
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The defining characteristic of a pedagogy informed by philosophical cosmopolitanism is
a focus on the dialogic imagination: the coexistence of rival ways of life in the individual
experience which incites us to interrogate ...
Historical and Modern Hard Red Spring Wheat Comparison: Analysis of Proximate, Enzyme Activity, Phenolic Acid, and Starch Properties
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Some claim modern wheat is biochemically different from historic wheat and contributes to chronic diseases. This research was necessary to determine if any significant differences existed between historic and modern hard ...
Subfractals Induced by Subshifts
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
In this thesis, a subfractal is the subset of points in the attractor of an iterated function
system in which every point in the subfractal is associated with an allowable word from a subshift
on the underlying symbolic ...
Optimization Problems Arising in Stability Analysis of Discrete Time Recurrent Neural Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
We consider the method of Reduction of Dissipativity Domain to prove global Lyapunov
stability of Discrete Time Recurrent Neural Networks. The standard and advanced criteria for
Absolute Stability of these essentially ...