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Mining for Significant Information from Unstructured and Structured Biological Data and Its Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Massive amounts of biological data are being accumulated in science. Searching for significant meaningful information and patterns from different types of data is necessary towards gaining knowledge from these large amounts ...
An Investigation of Mechanics of Collagen and Fibril in Bone and Interactions in Swelling Clays: A Molecular and Multiscale Modeling Study
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
A fundamental study of the mechanics at the molecular scale and bridging it to the continuum level through multiscale modeling is the focus of this work. This work investigates how the material properties of nanoscale ...
Genetic Characterization of Dormancy in Durum Wheat
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Two populations derived by crossing LDN x LDN Dic-3A (Population I) and LDN x LDN Dic-3B (Population II) were genetically characterized for the seed dormancy present on chromosome 3A and 3B of durum wheat. The genes for ...
But the Roots Remain: The Wisconsin Progressives in the Great Depression and Post-War Era
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This work is concerned with the development of the Progressives, a political faction of the Republican Party which was active in Wisconsin during the first half of the 20th century, throughout the Great Depression, and the ...
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 ...
The Upper Musselshell Valley: A Grassroots and Bioregional History
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
The Upper Musselshell Valley: A Grassroots and Bioregional History chronicles the history of central Montana's Upper Musselshell Valley in an attempt to craft a viable history of region. As a corrective measure or alternate ...
The Development of Works for Choir and Brass: A Study of Four Representative Works
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
As brass instruments evolved from crude instruments limited to only a few notes into instruments that could play melodic passages within the vocal range, they began to be paired with the voice. The development traced in ...
Tracing the Development of Japanese Choral Tradition, and the Influence of Buddhism and Western Music
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This research deals with the origin and development of Japanese choral music emphasizing Japanese folk tunes. The process of how modern styles of Japanese choral music evolved is rather complicated, and has been greatly ...
Movement and Accumulation of Candidatus Liberibacter Solanacearum in Potato Plants
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
A new disease affecting potatoes was first detected in Mexico in 1993. Affected plants had aerial symptoms similar to those caused by potato purple top and psyllid yellows, but tubers had internal brown discoloration when ...
Inoculation Techniques, Development of Brassica Napus Breeding Lines and Identification of Markers Associated with Resistance to Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum (Lib.) De Bary
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Sclerotinia stem rot caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary is an economic disease affecting canola (Brassica napus L). Since expression of sclerotinia stem rot symptoms shows much variability and the trait is ...