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 1959
An Investigation of the Relationships Among Various Language Skills of Freshman English Students at South Dakota State College, Paul A. Elsner
A Probability Sampling Design for the City of Brookings, South Dakota, Marian Egeberg Flesner
Diffusion of Oxygen Through Saturated Porous Media, Paul Fruen
A Study to Determine the Order in Which Major Tools are Desired by Industrial Arts Instructors in South Dakota, Dwight J. Gertsen
The Design and Evaluation of a Heat Pump Heating and Cooling System for a 1000 Bird Windowless Cage Layer Poultry House in South Dakota, Donald D. Hamann
Genetics of Resistance to Selenium Poisoning in the Fruit Fly, Drosophila Melangaster, Carl T. Hansen
A Linear Programming Approach to the Optimum Farm Organization for a Typical 480-Acre Farm Under Partially Irrigated Conditions in Central South Dakota, Clifford Dwaine Harmelink
An Analysis of Short Stories and Essays in the Atlantic Magazine: 1947-1957, Marjorie Holmes Harrison
A Comparison of the Effect of Two Programs of Weight Training on Explosive Force, James A. Hofmann
Comparing Physical Fitness in Selected Areas in Sioux Falls, South Dakota with the National Norms and LaPorte Score Card, James Roy Howlin
The Reorganization of the School Districts of Minnehaha County, South Dakota, Harold Frank Janneck
The Effects of Feeding a Ration Containing Erythromycin thoicyanate to growing-finishing, Eldon Walter Juhl
Variations in Physical Fitness Resulting from Participation in the Freshman Service Program at Augustana College, Kenneth Blair Kessinger
A Study of Failure Students in a Junior High School, De Rhaymer E. Kirschman
Analysis of Creep in Rotating Hollow Disks Based on the Maximum Shear Theory, Philip Lung-Mao Ko
United States Wheat Surpluses and the Role of the Farmer Organizations in Their Utilization, Gangadhar Kori
A Statistical Study of the Relationship of the California Test of Mental Maturity Scores of South Dakota High School Freshmen to Future Academic Success, Howard Alfred Kortmeyer
A Design for a Family-Centered Nursery School Affiliated With a College Home Economics Program, Ruth Klein Kranzler
A Study to Determine the Technical Abilities Needed in the Farm Mechanics Curriculum of Agriculture Education Majors in Pre-Service Training, Marvin E. Larson
Further Attempts to Isolate and Identify the Selenium Protective Factor of Linseed Oil Meal, Russell Lewis Larson
Determining Winter Hardy Apple Genotypes Prior to Seed Germination, Harry Eugene Lasn
Complement Fixation Reactions With Sphaerophorus Necrophorus Antigens, Thomas J. Law
An Investigation of Optimum Spacing of Fins for Maximum Heat Loss in Free Convection, Lloyd Duane Lee
A Search for Rules for International Wheat Surplus Disposal, James L. Liebfried