NDSU Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions

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    • Evaluation of a Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program 

      Strang, Michelle Glee (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      The goal of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) on participants' fruit and vegetable behavior at school and at home. The evaluation addressed 2 questions: (1) Did the ...

    • Kakuro Solver Application 

      Takahashi, Naomi (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      In this paper, the application called KakuroSolver is presented that solves Kakuro, the popular logical puzzle that combines Sudoku and crossword. The application accepts a Kakuro puzzle with any size; it then either ...

    • Effects of Processing on Health-Promoting Attributes of Soymilk Phenolics 

      Tan, Yingying (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      This study was designed to investigate the effects of different processing methods on the antioxidant and anti-cancer properties of soymilk crude phenolic extract (CPE) using the human prostate cancer cell line DU 145 ...

    • Complex Relation Discovery from the Semantic Web 

      Tanha, Mousumi (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      The vision or the Semantic Web undertakes an extension or the current Web, in which machines can understand all the data. The nature of Semantic Web data is relationship-centric and is very complex. In this study we aimed ...

    • Graduate Student Progress Tracking System 

      Thalloji, Pramodh Kumar (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      In this paper, I propose and implement an application to track the graduate student progress in various Computer Science and Software Engineering graduate programs. This application will provide lists of students who in ...

    • Effects of Soybean Aphid Resistance on the Lady Beetle Harmonia axyridis Mediated by the Soybean Aphid Aphis glycines 

      Thurn, Anne Christine (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Plants can directly and indirectly influence the natural enemies of their herbivores. Such trophic level effects apply to plants in natural and agronomic settings as well as to plants bred for pest resistance and biological ...

    • The Power to (Re )Produce: Biological Determinism in McTeague. 

      Tobias, Stacey Jo (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      In McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, Frank Norris explores life among the working class of Polk Street. Through his unflattering portrayal of all the immigrant characters in the novel, Norris demonstrates his well-documented ...

    • A Pilot Study of Module Interconnectedness 

      Vanguru, Prasanth (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Complexity plays an important role in understanding and working with a program, and has been measured in many different ways for software applications. The use of statistical analysis is one of the ways to predict the ...

    • REND: Reliable and Energy-Efficient Node-Disjoint Paths in Wireless Sensor Networks 

      Yanteru, Siva (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      In wireless sensor networks, finding most reliable and most efficient paths between source node and destination node is considered NP hard problem. We can increase reliability by ability to find node-disjoint alternate ...

    • The Synthesis, Characterization, and Evaluation of a Polypyrrole/ Aluminum Flake Composite Pigment 

      Vetter, Christopher Alan (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      The goal of this study was to synthesize a polypyrrole/aluminum flake composite pigment to inhibit corrosion on aluminum alloy 2024 T3. This was done in order to remedy some of the problems associated with the application ...

    • Matrix Metalloproteinase Expression Varies Throughout Development and During the Innate Immune Response of Tobacco Hornworm. Manduca sexta 

      Vishnuvardhan, Smitha (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Matrix metalloproteinases (MI'v1Ps) are a family of conserved, proteolytic enzymes. MMPs can degrade most extracellular matrix proteins. As such, they are key enzymes in tissue remodeling processes. such as molting and ...

    • Outlier Identification in Sensor Network Clock Synchronization 

      Voorhees, William Davis (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      We first present a survey of clock synchronization research that describes the problem and various challenges to implementing an efficient protocol for clock synchronization in sensor networks. We then present several ...

    • In situ Quantification of Hydrogel Entrapped Microbial Cells 

      Wadhawan, Tanush (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Entrapped bacteria are used in several applications including food and beverage production, antibiotic production, and wastewater treatment. To date in order to determine the viability of entrapped bacteria, they have ...

    • A Residential Construction Management Cognitive Apprenticeship Program 

      Wagner, Heidi Em (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Background The U.S. Bureau of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook states that faster-thanaverage employment growth is expected in construction management with job openings projected to exceed qualified applicants (2008). ...

    • Souris River Dissolved Oxygen Study in Support of Total Maximum Daily Load Development 

      Super, Joseph James (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      The Souris River, a slow moving praire river, originates in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The Souris River enters into the United States near Sherwood, North Dakota. The upper portion of the Souris River, from ...

    • A Technique to Detect a Black Hole in Ad Hoc Networks 

      Suravarapu, Vijay Anand (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are important because they are widely used in war zones, rescue missions and other civilian applications where it is almost impossible to use any other networks. MANETs are temporary ...

    • Exploring Communication Used Between the Marginalized and the Hegemonic 

      Swain, Denise Brown (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      The underclass, the underprivileged, and the impoverished are in an ongoing fight to get their voice heard. To accomplish a vocal position in society, this group must overcome a dismantling by their privileged adversaries. ...

    • A Closed Form Optimization Model for The Conflict Neutralization Problem 

      Wang, Yan (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      In this study, we proposed a novel closed form optimization model for the Conflict Neutralization Problem (CKP) and implemented an efficient algorithm for solving the problem. A novel tableau representation of the CNP ...

    • Soil Chemical Properties of Sand-based C,olf Putting Green at Different Depths 

      Wang, Yichun (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      USGA-specified golf putting green rootzone is a highly managed. sand dominated turf system. As putting greens age. organic matter accumulation in the form or thatch and mat in the upper rootzone profile causes temporal and ...

    • Yield Comparison of Transplanted Tomato and Pepper Plants Grown in Different Sized Cell Packs 

      Weinmann, Todd Joseph (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      Field experiments were conducted at Fargo, North Dakota, in 2006 and repeated at Fargo, Oakes, North Dakota, and Absaraka, North Dakota, in 2007 to compare time to harvest and yields from tomatoes (Lycopersicon escu/entum ...