NDSU Faculty/Staff Research & Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Architectural Research@NDSU
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Architectural research is different from basic or applied research, in that design processes are involved as part of the research. Architectural research attempts to solve a research problem, answer a research question, ... -
Catalog of Change: Partnering with Subject Librarians to Improve ILS Discovery
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The cataloging environment in libraries has undergone extensive changes in recent years, including wider acceptance of alternative metadata standards, automation tools, and enhanced ILS features. This sea change in metadata ... -
Research Support through Repository Access at NDSU
(North Dakota State University, 2019)In order to enhance the digital content and descriptive metadata of an institutional repository, library staff must foster partnerships with researchers and university departments responsible for generating digital content. ... -
Teaching Anxious Students : Reimagining Library Pedagogy for the Age of Anxiety
(North Dakota State UniversityAssociation of College and Research Libraries, 2019)In the face of increasing rates of anxiety among college students, how should instruction librarians respond? This paper aims to raise awareness about the prevalence of anxiety among the college student population, discuss ... -
Primo VE Migration @ NDSU
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Presented at the 6th Upper MidWest User Group for ExLibris Conference (UMWUG) held in Coralville, IA on October 16, 2018. -
Academic Research Landscape: A Setting for Developing Partnerships
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Presented at the ARC18 OCLC Americas Regional Council Conference held in Chicago, Illinois on October 25-26, 2018. -
Mining Connected Vehicle Data for Beneficial Patterns in Dubai Taxi Operations
(2018)On-demand shared mobility services such as Uber and micro-transit are steadily penetrating the worldwide market for traditional dispatched taxi services. Hence, taxi companies are seeking ways to compete. This study mined ... -
Performance of Hyperspectral Imaging with Drone Swarms
(2018)The ongoing proliferation and diversification of remote sensing platforms offers greater flexibility to select from a range of hyperspectral imagers as payloads. The emergence of low-cost unmanned aircraft systems (drones) ... -
Making the Most of Student Employment: Revising Onboarding, Evaluation, and Student Projects
(North Dakota State University, 2018)We undertook three initiatives related to student workers this past year: improving and spreading out the onboarding process, revising student worker evaluations to connect their work to competencies valued by employers, ... -
What Did They Say and Why Did They Say It?: Scholarship as Conversation in the Science Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Scholarly articles in the sciences come in different formats, with purposes which students may not fully appreciate. In this chapter, we discuss a lesson plan in which students discuss the relationships between an original ... -
Beyond "Is It Peer-Reviewed?": Exploring Information Creation in the Sciences
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Undergraduate students tend to rely on simplistic criteria for choosing sources for their research, such as whether a particular source is peer-reviewed or not. This one-shot instruction session is designed to expand ... -
State of State Documents
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Article in "Against the Grain" (December 2017 - January 2018) -
Strategic Global Logistics Management for Sourcing Road Oil in the U.S.
(2017)The demand for asphalt and road oil heavily leverages local supply because the product is a hot binder of aggregates that form the final mix needed to pave roads. This paper discusses the supply chain characteristics of ... -
Pavement Performance Evaluations Using Connected Vehicles
(2016)The ability of any nation to support economic growth and commerce relies on their capacity to preserve and to sustain the performance of pavement assets. The ever-widening funding gap to maintain pavements challenges the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Rolling-Stock Automatic In-Situ Line Deterioration and Operating Condition Sensing
(2013)Track and equipment failures dominate railroad accident causes. Railroads must visually inspect most tracks in service as often as twice weekly to comply with the Federal Track Safety Standards. They augment visual ... -
A Participatory Sensing Approach to Characterize Ride Quality
(2014)Rough roads increase vehicle operation and road maintenance costs. Consequently, transportation agencies spend a significant portion of their budgets on ride-quality characterization to forecast maintenance needs. The ...