This community houses work produced by South Dakota State University graduate students. The collection includes both born digital ETDs, and digitized versions of printed theses and dissertations from 1883 to 2012.
Due to copyright restrictions, the collection contains both open access and university access theses and dissertations. University access items are only available to SDSU users, and on-campus visitors. Non-SDSU users wishing to access restricted materials may request items through their institution’s interlibrary loan services.
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ETDS from 1974
Ammonia Levels in Maternal and Fetal Tissues and Blood of Urea-Treated Sheep, Charles C. Yelverton
ETDS from 1973
Groundwater Quality Variation in the Vicinity of Dying Terraces Designed to Dispose of Runoff from a Cattle Feedlot, Thomas Burton Andersen
A Monetarist Model of Equity Valuation., James Clifford Barnes
Reflectance Measurements for the Detection and Mapping of soil Limitations, Lawrence A. Benson
Evaluation of Methods of Reducing Seed Dormancy in Switchgrass, Indiangrass, and Big Bluestem, Keith L. Byers
Selected Physiological Changes in College Distance Runners as Affected by a Year-round Competitive, Lyle L. Claussen
South Dakota Counties Delineated into Economic Subregions by an Application of Cluster Analysis to Selected Variables for the Periods 1940-1950, 1950-1960, and 1960-1970, Robert Alan Coplan
Inheritance of Protein Content and Rust Resistance and Their Associations with Selected Agronomic Traits in Wheat Crosses Involving SD69103 (Hand, CI15921), a Hard Red Winter Wheat, Craig Richard Cowley
An Implantable Transmitter and a Complete Telemetry System for Body Temperature Measurement, Delbert D. Dais
Pathogenicity, Synergism, and Control of Xanthomonas Translucens and Septoria Avenae f. sp. Triticea on Spring Wheat in South Dakota, Bruce Lloyd Davidson
The Effects of Livestock Waste on Some Soil Strength Characteristics and Selected Tillage Operations, Rodney Joseph Devine
Atherosclerosis in Rabbits as Affected by Varying Diet Treatments and D-thyroxine, Sharon Kay Dinkel
The Vitamin E Status of Lactating Dairy Cows after Receiving Stored Feeds for 15 Months, Marc Dellhime Eckhart
Ritual Patterns in Shakespeare's Comedies, Margaret M. Eno
Seasonal Movements and Habitat Selection of Pheasant Cocks in South Dakota, Robert A. Fedeler
Political Preference and Economic Rationality: An Interdisciplinary Study on the 1972 presidential, Roger A. Ferris
The Effects of Irrigation Application Depth on Corn Yield and Soil Moisture, Ronald L. Frankenstein
Ridge Vent Influence on Airflow Characteristics in a Model Open Front Beef Confinement Building, Donald P. Froehlich
The Creative Direction of Jean Anouilh's Becket, Bette J. Gerberding
Opinions of Graduated Majors in Physical Education Concerning the Professional Preparation Program at Western State College, Brent Ralph Getchel
Graphical Comparison of Theoretical and Actual Settlement for Axially Loaded Piles, William Howard Hagedorn
The Forms of Language in the Plays of Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, and Harold Pinter, Charles A. Haggerty
Evaluation of Cattle Use of A Deer Winter Range in the Black Hills, David C. Hamm
Chaucer and the Church, Michael Haug
Morphological Abnormalities of the t¹²/t¹² Preimplantation Mouse Lethal as Revealed by Electron Microscopy, Curtis J. Hesla Jr.