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Petroleum Exploration History in North Dakota to 1951
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The delayed discovery of oil in North Dakota resulted from remoteness, environment, and economic disadvantage, three of the six themes of Elwyn B. Robinson. Initially, lacking outside capital, the local explorers turned ...
Construction, Adaptation, and Preservation of Earth Homes on the Northern Plains
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
The earth home, in its many varieties and styles, played an important role in the development of the American Great Plains during the mid-nineteenth century. However, the lack of further study into the material culture of ...
Caretakers of the Community's Past Volunteers in North Dakota Museums
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
The bulk of museum studies research focuses on professionalized museums. Little research has been conducted on the challenges of small museums. This study looks at volunteers in small North Dakota museums. Sparsely populated ...
Transformations of the Red River Valley of the North: An Environmental History
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This environmental history of the Red River Valley from the mid 1850s – 2000 encompasses those who lived in this tallgrass prairie region and asks how did they live within this environment? In addition, it seeks to understand ...
“Read and Be Convinced”: The Image of the Nonpartisan League in Its Creative Production, the Early Histories, and Wider Popular Culture
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
In this thesis, I examine the image of the Nonpartisan League in several different contexts, arguing that the League carefully crafted their advocative political image and their opponents painted them as disloyal socialists. ...
The Emperors of Sport: Dominican Baseball during the US Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
While baseball is typically associated with the United States for most Western readers, the sport was already being played in Cuba, Japan, and the Dominican Republic before the United States fully realized its own Major ...
Drought, Depression, and Relief: The Agricultural Adjustment Wheat Reduction Program in North Dakota during the Great Depression
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the Agricultural Adjustment Wheat Reduction Program functioned in North Dakota from May of 1933 to January of 1936, why it ran so smoothly, and why it was such a success within ...
Silicon Nanocrystals: Optical Properties and Self Assembly
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Silicon nanocrystal’s (SiNCs) size dependent optical properties and nontoxic nature portend potential applications across a broad range of industries. With any of these applications, a thorough understanding of SiNC ...
Micromechanical Characterization of Brain White Matter with Bi-Directional Orientation of Axonal Fibers
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Axonal injury within the white matter of human brain and spinal cord has led to several diseases in the Central Nervous System (Karami and Shankar, [1]). Diffuse axonal injury, one of the forms of Traumatic Brain Injury ...
Computational Biomechanics of Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury: Role of Loading Directionality, Head Protection, and Blast Flow Mechanics
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
In this dissertation, blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) is studied with respect to
the blast wave directionality, mitigation capability of helmet/faceshield, and blast flow
mechanics using finite element (FE) ...