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The Milk Withholding Time of Salicylic Acid for Treatment of Digital Dermatitis in Dairy Cattle
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Digital dermatitis is a top cause of lameness in dairy cattle that results in ulcerative lesions on the feet. Topical salicylic acid has been shown to provide similar efficacy to the antibiotic drugs used previously, but ...
Plant-Parasitic Nematodes on Corn (Zea mays L.) and Soybean (Glycine max L.) in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Four studies were conducted to investigate plant-parasitic nematodes (PPN) of corn and soybean in ND. The first study investigated the incidence and abundance of vermiform PPN in ND corn fields in 2015 and 2016. Samples ...
Characterization of Genetic Resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Epidemiology of the Disease in Brassica napus L.
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
This dissertation contains three research chapters conducted on Sclerotinia stem rot (SSR) of canola (Brassica napus L.). This disease is caused by the fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and is considered endemic in ...
Altering Grapevine Crop-load and Canopy Architecture Through Cultural and Genetic Methods
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
North Dakota's extremely short growing season leads to premature harvest of unripe, high acid grapes with atypical fruit chemistry. To combat the short growing season, grape growers utilize labor intensive grapevine canopy ...
Pre-Breeding to Improve Yield and Disease Resistance of Hard Red Winter Wheat
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Challenges to growing winter wheat in North Dakota include winter temperature and disease pressure. Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a devastating disease that necessitates breeding for resistance. In the NDSU breeding program ...
Fitness and Management of Site-specific Fungicide Resistant Cercospora beticola Isolates from Sugar Beet
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Cercospora leaf spot (CLS), caused by the fungal pathogen Cercospora beticola, is one of the most destructive foliar diseases on sugar beet. It severely affects productivity and profitability of the sugar beet industry. ...
Two Applications of Combinatorial Branch-and-Bound in Complex Networks and Transportation
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
In this dissertation, we show two significant applications of combinatorial branch-and-bound as an exact solution methodology in combinatorial optimization problems. In the first problem, we propose a set of new group ...
Study of Organizational Transformation from Socio-Technical Perspective
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Organizations are constantly striving for effective and flexible means for managing challenges due to globalization and increasing customer expectations. Many in business community attempted to implement the Toyota Production ...
Trust and Anti-Autonomy Modelling of Autonomous Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Human trust in autonomous vehicles is built upon their safe and secure operability in the most ethical, law abiding manner possible. Despite the technological advancements that autonomous vehicles are equipped with, their ...
Identifying & Analyzing Security Vulnerabilities While Integration of Data from Cloud to SQL DBMS An Industrial Case Study
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Data integration defines propulsion of data from numerous sources into a database system in a way that yields the information representing powerful analytics. Various industries are always working towards keeping their ...