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 1964
The Influence of Carcass Maturity and Marbling on Beef Muscle Pigments and Color, John R. Romans
A Guide for the Performance Review of County Extension Agents, Cecil D. Sanderson
A Survey of the Girl Dropouts at the Port Angeles, Washington High School During 1960-61, 1961-62 and 1962-63 with Implications for Strengthening the Homemaking Program, Norma Swenson Sandison
A Study of the Basic Strength Components of Asphaltic Concrete, Jalal Sarsam
The Carbohydrate Composition and In Vitro Digestibility of Western Hheatgrass at Various Growth Stages as Determined by Leaf Number and Cutting Date, Dennis L. Schentzel
Application of Revised Flesch Reading Ease and Human Interest Formulas to Locally-written and Associated Press copy in three South Dakota Dailies, Helen Kakonis Schultz
The Effect of Frozen Storage on The Microflora of Raw Milk, Jaswant Singh
Weekly Newspaper Editors' Acceptance and Use of 1963 State 4-H Contest Pictures and Captions Supplied by State and Local Extension Service Sources, Leland L. Sudlow
Dietary Selenium and Arsenic Additions in the Life Cycle of Laying Hens, Nirwan Tilak Thapar
Molecular bonding in Rh6 (CO)16 Secular Determinants, Richard T. Thompson
Application of Group Theory to the Alpha Particle Model of the S32 Nucleus, Jerald Arden Tunheim
The Reactions of Selenium with Purines, Pyrimidines, and Certain Other Compounds, Sandor Laszlo Vander
An Eclectic Teaching Approach to William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun for Use in an Introduction to Literature Class, Wayne John Viitanen
Comparative Study of Milk Quality Tests on Manufacturing Grade Raw Milk, Donald L. Wallace
A Sociometric Study of Social Process and Structure with a Selected Sample of Rural Youth, Wendell D. Wessman
Characteristics of Chicken Wastes and Disposal by Lagooning, Charles Roger Wieting
Comparison of the Scope and Effectiveness of Soviet and United States Foreign Economic Aid Programs, Levon Yeganiantz
ETDS from 1963
A Column Chromatographic Analysis of Organic Acids in Silage, Roger Everett Bawdon
Investigations of Inhibitors, Dormancy, and Photoperiod in Common Ragweed, Veryl E. Becker
A More Quantitative Approach to Soil Morphology, George Jule Buntley
The Effect of Erythromycin on Feed Consumption, Rate of Gain, Feed Efficiency and Fecal Bacteria of Growing Swine, Lawrence Eugene Carson
Bonding in Octahedral Structures and Symmetric Organic Structures with Attached Phenyl Groups, Leon Duane Crossman
Root-shoot Transition of Ranunculus Septentrionalis Poir, Ronald Maurice Duehr
A Study of Physical Fitness of Selected Students in South Dakota and Iowa, Floyd Dean Farrand