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Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Effects of a Behavior Change Project Implemented into Wellness 100, Amy Anderson
Out in the Country : American and French Rurality, Masculinity and Homosexuality, Alexis J. Annes
Effect of Oral Care and Health Professional Education on Ventilator Acquired Pneumonia: A Pilot Study, Robin Arends
Evaluation of a Simple Intervention to Increase Self- Efficacy for Independent Exercise in Cardiac Rehabilitation Participants, Sherry A. Barkley
"Each One a Pilgrim of Four Billion Years" : Religious Perspectives on Animals in the Prose of Annie Dillard and Gary Snyder, Benjamin Michael Barondeau
QTL Mapping for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in a 'Sumai-3' x 'Y1193-6' Spring Wheat Population, Bhoja Raj Basnet
Iron Status in Collegiate Female Athletes Over the Course of a Competitive Season, Barbara K. Baumberger
The Glycemic Response of Distillers Dried Grains as a Human Food Ingredient, Alyssa M. Bechen
Mid-oleic Quantitative Trait Loci in Two Soybean Crosses, Nabil Belbachir
Iron Status of Collegiate Male and Female Runners Over a Competitive Season, Kevin Bjerke
Public Performers Versus Non-performers and Their Ability to Self-monitor While Using Haptics and Proxemics, Carrie J. Brinker
Antibody Response to Non-Structural Proteins : Implications for Diagnostic Detection and Differentiation of Type 1 and Type 2 Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus, Elizabeth Marie Brown
Production and Processing of Selenium Rich Wheat in South Dakota, Smita Chandran
Lactation Response of Dairy Cows Fed Distillers Grains Versus Oilseed Meals, Keith Allan Christen
PRRSV Surveillance, Elimination and Immunity in Boars and Boar Semen, Travis Clement
The Lived Experience of Feeling Misunderstood for Persons Living with Vitiligo, Barbara Backer Condon
A Comparison of Patch-Burn Grazing and Continuous Grazing in the Northern Tallgrass Prairie, Tara Cook
Bacterial Subversion of Host Cells: A Study of The Type Three Secreted Effectors NleF and EspG, Frank Echtenkamp
Nurse Administrators' and Nurse Managers' Attitudes About Nurse-To-Patient Ratios, the Nurse Shortage, Job Satisfaction, and Patient Care, Shelley Erdahl-Wynia
Critical Thinking: Are We Educating the Nurse Educator?, Christina H. Erickson
The Effect of an Eight-Week Jump Training Program on Markers of Bone Turnover, Christina R. Erickson
The Dynamic Response of a Cannon Barrel to a Ballistic Event using Thermo-Structural Coupled Finite Element Analysis, John L. Feldhacker
Effects of an Injection of GnRH and Initiation of Standing Estrus on Initiation of LH Pulses, LH Release, and Subsequent Concentrations of Progesterone, Sarah Denise Fields
Nurse Practitioners' Knowledge and Use of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Tonya Froehlich
Social Responsibility: The Student Voice, Melanie R. Fuller
Study of Airflow and Thermal Distribution over a Compressor using CFD, Sunil R. Gaddam
The Role of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption on Bone Mineral Density, Marcella J. Gilbert
Elevated Temperature Fatigue for AISI 4340 Steel, Adam Stephen Goblish
Investigation of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen in Water from a Prairie Pothole in Eastern South Dakota, Jessica M. Goerdt
The Impact of Ethanol on Land Use in the Northwestern Corn Belt, Jordan Graesser
Macroinvertebrate Composition and Patterns of Prey Use By Juvenile Pallid Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) in the Missouri River, South Dakota, and Nebraska, Kristen Lee Grohs
Patients' Psychological Adjustment to an Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillator, Tera L. Gross
Eco-cultural Gardening, Rosemary Gutierrez-Coarite
High Performance Concrete in Bridge Applications, Zachary Dean Gutzmer
Reestablishing the Juneberry on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation: Cultural, horticultural, and educational connections, Kerry E. Hartman
What Influences the Decisions that Teachers Make Related to Their Environment: Philosophy, Light, Color, & Space, Erika Lynn Hauck
Exploring Mechanisms Involved in Grapevine Bud Paradormancy, Dong He
Evaluation of Deficit Irrigation Strategies for Corn, Derek M. Heeren
Asset-Based Community Development and Community Capitals: A Case Study of Development on an Isolated Indian Reservation, Joseph Ralph Hicks
Strength Evaluation of Polymer Composite Spur Gear by Finite Element Analysis, Mohammad Robiul Hossan
Parents Views of Quality Child Care in South Dakota, Laura L. Jewell Huddleston
Man Or Mouse?: Representations of Masculinity in American Television and Film, 1998-2008, Jose Iglesias-Urquizar
Interannual Variation in Larval Yellow Perch Abundance in Eastern South Dakota Glacial Lakes and Relation to Sympatric Walleye Populations, Andrew C. Jansen
The Rhetoric of Remediation: Metaphor and Context in SDSU Writing Center Discourse, Amber L. Jensen
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Promotes its Adherence to Intestinal Epithelial Cells through Heat-Labile Enterotoxin-Dependent and Independent Mechanisms, Amber M. Johnson
Nesting and Brood-Rearing Success and Resource Selection of Greater Sage-Grouse in Northwestern South Dakota, Nicholas W. Kaczor
The Load that will Elicit Maximum Power Output of the Lower Extremities on the Plyo-press 625lll using the 3PQ, Dallas Kendrick
Invasive Grasses Induce Bottom-Up Biodiversity Reductions by Insects in Northern Tallgrass Prairie, Daniel Kinicki
City of Sioux Falls Anaerobic Digester Mixing Study, Brian R. Knadle
Plant Succession on the Ruby Gulch Waste Rock Repository Cap in the Northern Black Hills of South Dakota, Andrew C. Korth
Analysis of WTO Related Domestic Farm Support Reductions and Counter-Cyclical Revenue Proposals in the US : Farm-Level Effects for South Dakota, Fordjour Y. Kyei
The Effects of Swine Manure or Biosolids Containing Antibiotics on Soil Microbial Communities in Eastern South Dakota, Kelly A. Lehnert
Dental Health and Socioeconomic Status: Their Relationship with Preterm Labor in Rural Western South Dakota A Pilot Study, Angela Lochridge
An Algorithm for Excel Storage Systems., Nathan McClanahan
Investigation and Characterization of Clay Mineral-Natural Organic Matter Complexes using Light Scattering Techniques, Ildiko K. McCloskey
A Study of Recent Hutterite Outmigration in South Dakota, Michael W. McCurry
Effects of Chitosan on The Efficacy of pH Indicating Dye, Bethany M. Melroe
Tillage Erosion Coefficients for Selected Tillage Tools, Javier Mollinendo
Infectivity and Pathogenesis of Encephalitozoon Intestinalis in an In Vivo and In Vitro Porcine Model, Gopakumar Moorkanat
Feeding Wet Corn Distillers Grains to Transition and Lactating Dairy Cows, Gaolebale Segametsi Mpapho
Canola Meal Replacing Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles in Diets for Lactating Dairy Cows, Colleen Nicole Mulrooney
Dormancy Mechanisms of Switch Grass (Panicum virgatum L.) Seeds, Brietta D. Murphy
Fluidized Bed Pellet Reactor Studies for Membrane Concentrate Treatment, Ryan D. Norman
Actions Speak Louder Than Words : An Ethnographic Study of Gendered Nonverbal Behavior in Children, Suzanne M. Olson
Factors Associated with Iron Status in a Hutterite Population, Jane M. Osowski
Development of Cheddar Cheese with Enhanced Conjugated Linoleic Acid by Lactic Acid Bacteria, Ashish Pandit
Histone H1 Studies : 1) In Vivo Evidence of Nuclear Protein Damage : 2) In Vitro Studies of Natural Product Glycation Inhibitors, Srinath Pashikanti
Efficient Parallelizable Algorithm for Computer Simulation Of Multibody Dynamical Systems, Yogesh Patel
Recovery and Characterization of Oil from Co-Products of Corn Ethanol Production, Avinash Reddy Pati
The Speculative Spirit of the American Businessman: The Stock Market in the Fiction of William Dean Howells, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser, Colleen S. Poindexter
Rheological, Sensorial and Chemopreventive Properties of Milk Fermented with Exopolysaccharide-Producing Lactic Cultures, Darshan Purohit
Crop Damage by Resident Canada Geese in Eastern South Dakota, Troy Radtke
Nursing Students' Practices Regarding Completion of Instructor Evaluations, Jason Raether
Replacement of Starch from Corn with Non-Forage Fiber from Distillers Grains in Diets of Lactating Dairy Cows, Sanjeewa Dilshan Ranathunga
Influence of Feeding History on Metabolic Rates in Fishes: Evidence for Metabolic Compensation in Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides), Steven H. Ranney
Intercultural Communication Courses: An Analysis of Syllabi, Jesyna J. Rausch
Learning Needs and Barriers to Continuing Education Among Rural Montana Nurses, Cheryl Richards
An Efficient O(N) Algorithm for Computer Simulation of Rigid Body Molecular Dynamics, Andy Ries
Photochemistry of N-butyl-4-butylamino-1, 8-naphthalimide and its Behavior in a Biological Environment, Brent A. Ristow
Disjunctive Rado Numbers for Some Cases of Sets of Generalized Linear Equations, Darren Row
Analysis of Physical, Chemical, and Functionality Properties of Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) for Use in Human Foods, Jessica A. Saunders
Ravaging the fruited plain : use and abuse of the land in Faulkner's Go down, Moses and DeLillo's Underworld, Howard Schaap
Optimization of a Calcium Carbonate Fluidized Pellet Bed Reactor for Iron and Manganese Removal, Jason J. Schaefer
The Influence of Materials on Inquiry Learning, Rachel Ruth Schumacher
Factors Affecting Mercury Accumulation in South Dakota Fishes, Trevor M. Selch
Analysis of Antiscalant Effects on RO Concentrate Behavior, Tejpal Singh
Modeling Spatial Distribution and Habitat Associations for Juvenile Pallid Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) in the Missouri River, Bryan D. Spindler
Structural Evaluation of Prestressed Self-Consolidating Concrete Bridge Girders Using Limestone Aggregates, Chad Joseph Stripling
Determining the Feasibility of Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Irrigation Water Use in South Dakota at the Field Scale, Seth A. Swanson
Student Perceptions: Immediacy and Affective Learning in a Foreign Language Classroom, Brooke Charity Sydow
The Influence of Livestock Watering Ponds (Dugouts) on Native Stream Fishes, Especially the Endangered Topeka Shiner (Notropis topeka), Sheila K. Thomson
The Effect of Maximal Sprint Training on Measures of Endurance Performance, Mary K. Thum
Theoretical Analysis of Up-Conversion Based Solar Cells, Santosh Tripathi
Invasion, Environmental Controls, and Ecosystem Feedbacks of Phragmites Australis in Coastal Wetlands, Mirela Gabriela Tulbure