NDSU Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Impacts of A-76 on the Personnel of Air Force Civil Engineering Squadrons
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The Office ofM:magement and Budget Circular A-76, revised 2003, is changing the manning of civil engineering squadrons throughout Air Force Air Education and Training Command. Although the circular is attempting to make ... -
Factors Influencing the Current Residential Energy Related Building Practices in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The aim of the present study is twofold, develop a quantitative understanding of the current residential building practices related to energy efficiency in North Dakota and combine that understanding with an exploratory ... -
Voter Disenfranchisement
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This paper examines the policy of voter disenfranchisement and how it disproportionately affects minorities. Voter disenfranchisement is the denial of voting rights to the criminally convicted. The research indicates ... -
Social Perceptions of Adolescents Based on Height and Facial Maturity
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This study explored the influence of adolescent height and facial maturity on adult social perceptions of their competence. A sample of95 college students completed questionnaires rating the competence level of target ... -
The Lost Environmentalists: The Struggle Between Conservative Christianity and the Environment in the 1970s
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This study examined the history of the relationship between conservative Christians and environmentalism during the 1970s. It illuminated how conservative Christians met environmental concerns in response to the Earth ... -
The Impact of Plant Age, Fungicide Application Methodology and Timing, and Depth of Soil Inoculation on Infection by Rhizoctonia solani on Sugarbeet.
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Rhizoctonia root rot caused by Rhizoctonia solani (Kuhn), is the most important problem faced by sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) grm.vers in North Dakota and Minnesota. Research was conducted that may be used to manage the ... -
A Plan to Reduce Water Poverty in the Fertile Crescent: Getting from Science to Solutions.
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Water scarcity is an ever-growing worldwide problem. In particular, most Fertile Crescent (FC) countries (i.e., Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Israel) face severe problems related to water scarcity. Growing ... -
Latin America Mission: An Exploration of Evangelical Growth in a Catholic Continent
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis strives to explore Evangelical Protestant growth in Latin America during the twentieth century through the example of Latin America Mission, a nondenominational, evangelical mission organization founded in ... -
XGraphML-A Tool for Transforming UML to GraphML
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This paper proposes and implements XGraphML, a tool which transforms a file from a UML format to a GraphML using XSLT and JAXP technologies. The tool connects ArgoUML with VEGGIE through this transformation. ArgoUML is ... -
The Historic Fargo Theatre: A Symbol of Collective Memory and Community Consciousness
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The Fargo Theatre has been the gem of the Fargo, North Dakota, area for eightytwo years and is at the epicenter of the community's collective history. The theatre has hosted independent films, musical productions, vaudeville, ... -
Anonymity and Hostile Node Identification in Wireless Sensor Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2010)In many secure wireless network attack scenarios, the source of a data packet is as sensitive as the data it contains. Existing work to provide source anonymity in wireless sensor networks (WSN) are not frugal in terms ... -
An Examination of the Relationship Between Individual Risk Factors and Drug Court Success: An Application of the Risk, Needs, Responsivity Model
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Research has documented that drug courts can and do work; however, recent attention has focused on how individual characteristics may be related to program success and post program recidivism. It was the purpose of this ... -
Methods for Ethanol Production from the Enzymatic Hydrolysis and Fermentation of Sugar Beet Pulp
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Sugar beet pulp (SBP), the residue remaining after sucrose extraction, is currently sold as an animal feed. Humans cannot digest the cellulose in the pulp unlike ruminant animals. The pulp is primarily comprised of ... -
Design of the Photo Album Ontology
(North Dakota State University, 2010)At present, growing demand of the management of huge volume of web contents, especially photos, require the software tools, which can store, index and retrieve the photos from the repository more efficiently. In this ... -
Lord of the Living Souls: Dominion and the Spiritual Lives of Animals in Milton's Paradise Lost
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This paper examines Milton's views of the spiritual status of animals as presented in Paradise lost. It discusses how Milton enters into discussion with the discourses of 111 theology, philosophy, and both antique and ... -
Chevron's Power of Human Energy: A Case for Corporate Social Responsibility as Identification Inducement
(North Dakota State University, 2010)With corporate social responsibility (CSR) emerging as an inescapable business priority around the world, organizations are developing elaborate CSR campaigns to highlight their good deeds and influence important ... -
An Exploration of the Relationship Among Community Norms, Identification with Community, and Prosocial Behavior
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Proponents of social identity theory assert that individuals are motivated to behave in ways consistent with the norms of the social groups in which they belong. The goal of the study was to test the relationship between ... -
The Effects of Arginine on Reproductive Performance in Ewes
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Reproductive performance is the largest determinant of income in the livestock industry. In the U.S. sheep industry, embryonic and fetal deaths during pregnancy account for almost half of the total number of fertilized ... -
A Network Optimization Solver for Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Many wireless sensor network applications require energy efficient communication between nodes in the network. Sensor networks are of limited resources. Due to this limitation, the routing between the nodes is one of the ... -
Comparisons of Energy Dissipation in Structural Devices with Foundation Soil During Seismic Loading
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The effectiveness of structural energy dissipation mechanisms such as passive energy dissipation devices and base isolation methods used in seismic design depends on their capacity, ductility, energy dissipation, isolation, ...