Browsing NDSU Faculty/Staff Research & Scholarship by Issue Date
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At Lightning Speed? The Recent Surge of Long-Needed Changes to LCSH
(2023)In the past few years, changes to longstanding problematic (dehumanizing, pejorative, marginalizing) Library of Congress Subject Headings are being made at an unprecedented rate. Particularly since the "lightning rod" of ... -
Search Terms Up for Debate: The Politics and Purpose of Library Subject Headings
(2022)The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) are used by most libraries in the United States to help users find resources in their collections. For the last century, librarians have worked to make LCSH more inclusive ... -
Historical Sex Work: New Contributions from History and Archaeology
(`)Vice districts, saloons, and prostitution are things of HBO series set in the West. And yet, the actual people who inhabited these roles and places had real effects on their communities. Melvina Massey, an African American ... -
Disability Inclusion in Service Provision and Web Accessibility
(10/13/2022)This research examined the effect of human elements of service inclusion at a service encounter on the consumers’ perception and behavioral intentions. The results from an experiential design model indicate that an inclusive ... -
Inclusion or Exclusion? Varieties of Americanization in the Early 20th Century
(10/20/2021)At the turn of the twentieth century, millions of southern Italians and Eastern Europeans entered the United States. Their presence alarmed most Americans, not least their Catholic and Jewish co-religionists. By the late ... -
2015 NDSU Bean Breeding Program Genotyping Snapshot
The dataset consists of genotyping and common bacterial blight phenotyping information from genotypes within the NDSU Dry Bean Breeding Program. The Middle American data set consists of 713 genotypes and the Andean dataset ... -
Health Insurance in Rural America: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis
(11/19/2022)The cost of rural health continues to be high in the United States despite an overall improvement in national health insurance enrolment. Stakeholder’s perception of adverse selection remains a culprit in the challenges ... -
Social Justice: Identifying Attributes, Antecedents and Consequences Through a Multidisciplinary Literature Review
(12/7/2021)"Social justice is a matter of life and death" (WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health). How do you define and describe social justice? Is social justice a process, a product, or both? Is it easier to describe ... -
Health Effects on the #MeToo Movement by Gender: Public Health Implications of a Social Movement
(2/23/2022)In October 2017, those who had experienced sexual harassment and assault commanded attention by posting their experiences with the hashtag “#metoo.” This movement built off Tarana Burke’s advocacy efforts beginning in 2007, ... -
Life and Politics on the US-Mexico Border
(2/25/2020)Although national borders elicit geopolitical notions, in the 21st century borders are about people—their movements and migrations. In today’s terms, borders mark the point where politics and life converge, and are, ... -
Assessing Nitrogen Contamination Potential via Remote Sensing
(North Dakota State University, 2002)A remote sensing-based cropland layer (CDL) was included in a group of natural and anthropogenic factors to assess the potential for nitrogen contamination of groundwater in Dickey County, North Dakota. The CDL, produced ... -
Work Makes Life Sweet, or Does It?
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Enabling Mobile Commerce through Pervasive Communications with Ubiquitous RF Tags
(2003)For many years we’ve heard of the existence of a wonderful new technology called radio frequency identification (RFID) that allows supermarket items to be checked out without human intervention. Advertisements claim ... -
Estimating Potential for Nutrient Delivery to Surface Water Resources in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2003)The relationship between nutrients and water resources may be described in terms of availability, mobility, and accessibility. There are many factors that influence nutrient behavior in the environment and their ... -
Energy Efficiency of CSMA Protocols for Wireless Packet Switched Networks
(2004)The finite battery power in wireless portable computing devices is a motivating factor for developing energy efficient wireless network technologies. This paper investigates energy efficiency, relating it to throughput and ... -
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Capstone Course Evolution at North Dakota State University
(American Society of Agricultural and Biological EngineersAmerican Society of Agricultural EngineersNorth Dakota State University, 2005)The approach to the department's capstone design course has changed considerably since the 1960s. The general evolution of the course has proceeded from extended laboratory exercises to individuals working on self-defined ... -
Introducing a Micro-Wireless Architecture for Business Activity Sensing
(2008)RFID performance deficiencies discovered in recent high profile applications have highlighted the danger of selecting only passive tags for an application because of their lowest cost relative to other types of RFID ... -
E-portfolios: Wordpress and Scribd
(North Dakota State University, 2009)This presentation provides a brief overview of the value of portfolios (collections of student writings, in this case) in general, and electronic portfolios specifically. It then walks attendees through an approach to ... -
Simple cell response properties imply receptive field structure: balanced Gabor and/or bandlimited field functions [Supplement]
(North Dakota State University, 2009)The classical receptive fields of simple cells in mammalian primary visual cortex demonstrate three cardinal response properties: 1) they do not respond to stimuli which are spatially homogeneous; 2) they respond best to ... -
Vibration Energy Harvesting for Disaster Asset Monitoring Using Active RFID Tags
(2010)This paper highlights the importance of energy harvesting in high-value asset monitoring applications involving use of active RFID tags. The paper begins by highlighting advantages of active tags including improved range ...