NDSU Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Colorectal Cancer Education: Utilization of an Inflatable Colon and Small Media at a Health Fair in Central North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Colorectal cancer is a prevalent and deadly disease, claiming thousands of lives each year. In the United States alone, over 150,000 individuals were diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2022, and tragically, nearly 53,000 ... -
Initiation of an adolescent school-based electronic nicotine delivery system prevention program
(North Dakota State University, 2024)The leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States is tobacco product use. The 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey, which was completed in 2022, showed that the e-cigarette epidemic among ... -
Associations between human papillomavirus vaccine hesitancy and resistance and social media engagement
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections worldwide. More than 13 million Americans are infected each year. Typically, HPV infections will resolve without treatment, and many ... -
Advance care planning: implementing online education for rural primary care providers
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Advance care planning (ACP) can assist patients and their families in navigating personal and medical choices at the end-of-life; however, these conversations often transpire too late. Primary care providers (PCPs) frequently ... -
Dermoscopy education to improve provider confidence in skin cancer identification
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States and is becoming more prevalent each year. Patients often consult their primary care provider (PCP) for initial evaluation of skin lesions, and PCPs typically ... -
Sexual Harassment and Employee Identification in Radio Broadcasting
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Sexual harassment is often vaguely defined in policy and the purpose of this study was to learn if employees perceive sexual harassment in vague or specific terms. Exploring radio broadcasting employees was a new area of ... -
Beyond heteronormativity and the gender binary: inclusivity in rape myth acceptance scale design and sexual violence bystander intervention programming
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Sexual violence perpetuates inequalities based on a range of factors such as gender, race/ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, and ability status. However, the study of sexual violence in these areas has been limited leading ... -
Community detection in censored hypergraph
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Network, or graph, represent relationships between entities in various applications, such as social networks, biological systems, and communication networks. A common feature in network data is the presence of community ... -
Synthesis and Characterization of Thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine-Based Near-Infrared Material
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Since their first report in the 1800s, conjugated polymers have gained significant attention for their ability to exhibit the optical and electronic properties of inorganic semiconductors and the physical traits of organic ... -
Dietary Impacts on Mitochondrial Respiration of Gestating Heifers and Fetal Offspring
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Two projects were conducted to evaluate dietary impacts on mitochondrial respiration of gestating heifers and fetal offspring. Our first hypothesis was that maternal vitamin and mineral supplementation during gestation ... -
At the intersection of gender and sexuality: the role of a counselor in the co-transitioning process
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Transgender and gender-diverse people experience prejudice, invalidation, and minority stress. There have been strides towards counselor competency when working with this population, however research is limited in exploring ... -
Applying a modern situational measure to improve the reliability, validity, and outcome predictability of dream assessment
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Dreams are hallucinatory activity occurring during sleep that nearly everyone experiences. To understand and research dreams, the field needs a reliable and valid dream assessment tool. The current, most used, measure (Hall ... -
Trade disruption and commodity-program payments: a panel GARCH model
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Trade disruption has reduced the economic gains countries enjoy from great trade relationships. This disruption stems from trade wars, exchange rate volatility, and rare events. However, the gravity model, mainly used to ... -
Genetic variation in black gram and guar for phenology, physiology, growth, and yield under irrigated and rainfed conditions of Northern Great Plains
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Field trials were conducted in 2022 and 2023 to evaluate the feasibility of growing black gram (Vigna mungo) and guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) and to identify superior accessions for semiarid conditions of Northern Great ... -
Applications in Harnessing the Power of Behavioral Nudge Theory
(North Dakota State University, 2024)This research encompasses two experimental studies aimed at exploring the potential of behavioral nudges to instigate positive change. The first experiment evaluates the use of visual cues, such as posters and footprints, ... -
Heat-treated Soybean Meal in Beef Cattle Diets
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Two experiments were conducted to evaluate replacing dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) with heat-treated soybean (TSBM) at increasing rates in forage-based diets on steer growth performance, nutrient flow, and ... -
The Impact of Media on Price Paid for Thoroughbred Horses at Auction
(North Dakota State University, 2024)It has been said a picture is worth a thousand words, but the economic value of that picture for livestock sales transactions has not been quantified. The objective of this study aimed to evaluate the effect of the presence ... -
Automating the design of deep learning models using neural architecture search for medical image classification
(North Dakota State University, 2024)Designing Deep Learning (DL) models for medical image classification tasks poses significant challenges, demanding substantial expertise owing to the intricate nature and critical importance of the undertaking. Creating a ... -
Evaluation of fungicide sensitivity and forms of resistance of selected Diaporthe species in soybean (Glycine max L.)
(North Dakota State University, 2024)In U.S, Diaporthe species caused yield losses of 0.2 million metric tons in soybean in 2022. Quinone outside inhibitor fungicides carry high risk of fungicide resistance and may use for managing Diaporthe. In this study, ... -
Application of image based finite element analysis for mechanical characterization of materials processed by direct energy deposition technology
(North Dakota State University, 2024)The main focus of this study is to analyze the elastic properties of two different additively manufactured materials. To this end, a cobalt chromium (CoCr) metal alloy sample and a tungsten carbide-17% cobalt (WC-17Co) ...