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.
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ETDS from 1967
Investigation of Combine Header Losses During Grain Sorghum Harvest, Vern Earl Matter
An Economic Analysis of the Effect of Commercial Bank Credit on Economic Growth in South Dakota, Robert W. McKellips
The Effect of Physical, Mental-physical, and Mental Practice on the Learning of the Modified Triple Jump, Barry Clifton Mckeown
Planned Educational Progress in the Mitchell Public School System, Donald Jesse McLean
A Group Theoretical Method of Treating Polyhedral Molecules with Spin State Eigenfunctions, Richard C. Mullaney
A Follow-up Study of Guidance and Counseling Graduates from South Dakota State University 1957-1966, Terry Grant Nelson
A Comparison of the Anxiety Measures and Match Performance Evaluations of High School Wrestlers, Richard Edward Newman
An Investigation of the Ability of an Individual to Perceive the Needs of Others in a Group Setting, Herbert L. Notch
Feedlot Performance of Heifers as Affected by Spaying and Hormone Treatment, Lowell James Nygaard
Interaction of Shear and Bending on Light Gage Steel Diaphragms, Chandrakant D. Patel
Incomplete Neurological Development as a Root of Reading Problems: A Classroom Teacher's Approach, Helen B. Prokes
A Comparison of the Social Criticism in Melville's Typee and Thoreau's Walden, Mary Riedy
An Analysis of the Production Output Difference Between an 11-pica and a 15-pica Line Width When Type is Set by the TTS Method, Larry E. Rolufs
Lipid Mobilization in Beef and Rabbits as Affected by Marketing-induced Stress or ACTH-induced Stress, John R. Romans
The Effect of Interval Running in Water on leg Strength and Circulorespiratory Efficiency, Ronald J. Schlekeway
Turbulent Velocity and Temperature in the Mixing Region of Two Parallel Airstreams, Olin Thomas Sessions
A Study of the Equalization Formula of South Dakota's Minimum Foundation Program, Arthur K. Shaver
Mist Irrigation for the Improvement of the Climate for Cool Season Crops, Jerry Lee Spears
The Effect of an Interval Running Program on Circulorespiratory Efficiency, Body Adipose Tissue, and Body Weight of College Freshman Women, Nona Marie Stamp
A Study of Selected Demographic Factors Associated with Population Change in Incorporated Rural Communities of South Dakota, James R. Stewart
Experimental Analysis of Free Convection Heat Transfer From a Nonisothermal Plate, Lloyd Edwin Stoebner
A Survey of School Districts in Boyd County, Nebraska, 1965-1966, Robert Stuerman
Effects of Orally Administered Sodium D-thyroxine upon Pregnancy Progression in Euthyroid Rabbits and its Effect Upon the Newborn, Gary A. Thibodeau
Acetylene inhibition of Nitrogen Fixation by Klebsiella pneumoniae M5al, Robert L. Todd