NDSU Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Evaluating Financial, Social, and Waterbird Implications of Farming Within Wetlands Imbedded in Agricultural Fields
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Wetlands of the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) provide many ecosystem services to the region such as floodwater attenuation, maintenance of water quality, carbon sequestration, and wildlife habitat. The biophysical process ... -
Creation and Implementation of the Innovation-Based Learning Framework: A Learning Analytics Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2022)To meet the national and international call for creative and innovative engineers, many engineering departments and classrooms are striving to create more authentic learning spaces where students are actively engaging with ... -
Childhood Obesity Prevention: Infant Nutrition and Feeding Education
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Childhood obesity is a global concern, as of 2020 it affected 39 million children under the age of five. Obesity increases the risk of developing many health problems, including type-2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, ... -
Molecular Mapping of QTL for Genetic Transformation-Related Trait and CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing in Wheat
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Plant transformation is a valuable tool for gene characterization and crop improvement. However, wheat transformation is greatly impacted by genotype dependency for successful regeneration of the transgenic plants. For ... -
A Study on Deep Learning for Prognostics and Health Management Applications: An Evolutionary Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Deep Neural Network Data-Driven Model for Prognostics of Aircraft Gas Turbine
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The fundamental concept of prognostics and health management (PHM) within the scope of Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) is to find an approach to evaluate the system health and predict its remaining useful life (RUL). ... -
The Effects of Greater Dietary Protein Spread and Quality on Muscle Health in Healthy Adults
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Skeletal muscle is critically important, but is often overlooked, not getting the respect or attention the tissue demands. Muscle is responsible for locomotion and physical performance, uses large amount of energy preventing ... -
Identification of Genomic Regions Associated With Color-Related Traits in Durum Wheat
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. ssp. durum Desf.) is one of the main crops for human consumption, and it is an essential ingredient for pasta production. The color of pasta can range from bright yellow to dim brown. Pasta ... -
“It’s Like Bluetooth. I Felt Like I Was In Rhythm With Him:” An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of the Lived Experiences of Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth (CSEY) in a Residential Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) Program
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Human sex trafficking is a grave human rights violation that impacts the dignity of millions both globally and in the United States. The International Labor Organization estimates 4.5 million children are trafficked around ... -
Screening for Noise Induced Hearing Loss in Agricultural Workers and Farmers
(North Dakota State University, 2022)According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health hearing loss is the third most prevalent condition after high blood pressure and arthritis in the United States (U.S.) (NIOSH, 2019). An estimated 22 ... -
Design and Development of an Automatic Steering System for Agricultural Towed Implements
(North Dakota State University, 2022)While an auto steered tractor can improve the overall accuracy and efficiency of an operation, for operations that involve towing an implement, a significant portion of the efficiency reduction comes from uncontrolled ... -
Appraising Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Risk: Single-Legged Jump-Landing Dynamic Postural Stability
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Appraising anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury risk is of great interest to the orthopedic and sports medicine professional. Due to the high prevalence of non-contact ACL injuries, professionals have sought to identify ... -
Evaluating Carbon Sequestration in CRP and Restored Grasslands in the North Central U.S.
(North Dakota State University, 2009)The issue of global climate change raises a need for information on the management and mitigation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). The knowledge of carbon (C) characteristics within land resources can be useful for ... -
Genome-wide Association Study and Genomic Prediction for Pod Shatter Resistance in Brassica napus L.
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The release of seeds from a mature dry pod is known as shattering. Pod shattering results in significant yield losses in rapeseed/canola. An experiment was conducted in five environments in 2020 and 2021 under the field ... -
Sexual Dimorphisms in the Adipose Biology of Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide Deficient Mice
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Both VIP and PACAP deficient mice display impaired fat storage, but only the molecular adipose characteristics of PACAP KO mice are known. While mice deficient in these peptides are lean, supplementation could promote ... -
Systematic Intervention Component Analysis: Dose-Response for Therapeutic Ultrasound
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Therapeutic ultrasound has been well documented in the literature to affect human tissue. The four main parameters practitioners are able to influence are frequency, duty cycle, intensity, and treatment time. Alteration ... -
Understanding Consumer Acceptance of Multiple Red Meat Products and Perceptions of the American Meat Science Association’s Intercollegiate Meat Judging Program Benefits From Participants
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Per capita consumption of red meat products totaled 67 kg in 2017. Given the popularity of meat, it is important for meat scientists to monitor consumers acceptance of red meat products. Consumer acceptance of red meat ... -
Three Essays on Railroad Safety Analysis Using Non-Parametric Statistical Methods
(North Dakota State University, 2022)he FRA mandated railroad companies to install a new monitoring system known as Positive Train Control (PTC). This system overlays sensors, signals, and transponders over existing track and other wayside infrastructure. ... -
Advanced Numerical Modeling in Manufacturing Processes
(North Dakota State University, 2022)In manufacturing applications, a large number of data can be collected by experimental studies and/or sensors. This collected data is vital to improving process efficiency, scheduling maintenance activities, and predicting ... -
Intra- and Inter-Specific Variation in Plant Responses to Climate Change
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Plants are sensitive to changing climates and are vulnerable to environmental conditions. In many regions, climate change is shifting temperatures and precipitation patterns, both of which affect various traits in living ... -
New Perspectives on Promotion and Rowmotion: Generalizations and Translations
(North Dakota State University, 2022)We define P-strict labelings for a finite poset P as a generalization of semistandard Young tableaux and show that promotion on these objects is in equivariant bijection with a toggle action on B-bounded Q-partitions of ...