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Intermarket Trading Strategies and Risk
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The purpose of this thesis is to research methods that will be used to discover the profitability and risk of spatially arbitraging soybeans. A portfolio is used to analyze trading strategies, and the dependence measures ...
Developing a Model to Value Germplasm Using Real Options
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
With many varieties of germplasm being developed, it is imperative to the industry that firms decide on a valuation method. This need to include looking at traits of the germplasm, the risk and uncertainty of expected ...
Risk Management Strategies for Commodity Processors
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Recent years have witnessed an increase in agricultural commodity price volatility. This thesis analyzes different models to derive optimal hedge strategies for commodity processors, with two components addressed. One is ...
Impacts of Beef Cow Nutrition on Conceptus Development
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of maternal nutrient restriction followed by realimentation during early to mid-gestation on uterine blood flow (BF), maternal performance, and conceptus development ...
Attempted Total Syntheses of a Novel Lycopodine-Class Alkaloid and (R)-Myricanol, Compounds for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a significant challenge to both the pharmaceutical world as well as the synthetic organic chemistry world. One of the most important problems in this field is the lack of a unified approach to ...
Stereospecific Photochemical Transformations Involving Axially Chiral Acrylanilides and a-Oxoamides
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Asymmetric photochemical transformations have been under-explored due to the ineffectiveness of conventional methodologies/reagents/catalysts (point chiral auxiliaries and inductors) that were generally employed for thermal ...
Developing Platform Chemicals from Renewable Resources
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The Department of Energy has listed 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) as two of the twelve building blocks derived from cellulosic biomass. HMF can serve as a renewable platform for the ...
Smart Grid Optimization Using a Capacitated Transshipment Problem Solver
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
A network flow model known as the capacitated transshipment problem, or CTP, can represent key aspects of a smart grid test network with the goal of finding minimum cost electric power flows using multiple different cost ...
Injecting Safety-Critical Certification Into Agile Software Methods
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Agility offers an adaptable and changeable environment within software development. The benefits that agile methods provide for software development are becoming an even greater possibility in safety-critical software ...
An Application of Association Rule Mining to Unit Test Selection
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Appropriate selection of unit tests during the software development process is vital when many unit tests exist. The developer may be unfamiliar with some tests and non-obvious relationships between application code and ...