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 2020
The Impact of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Ruptures on Subchondral Bone Density in Collegiate Populations, Zach Harbaugh
Rural NPO Leadership in Time of Volatility: A Study of Nonprofit Organizations in South Dakota, Mellissa Heermann
Evaluating the Effects of Yeast Cell Wall Component, Phytochemical Oil, and Vitamin E on Sow Antioxidant Status and Growth Performance of Dam and Offspring, Lily P. Hernandez
Examining Biodiversity Metrics and the Utility of DNA Barcoding in the Northern Great Plains, Sarah Herzog
Implementing and Assessing the Use of a New Strategy for Training Chemistry Graduate Teaching Assistants, Amanda Hyett
Investigation of Influenza B Virus Replication Potential in Swine Primary Respiratory Epithelial Cells and Phylodynamic Analysis of Equine Influenza A H3N8 Viruses, Sunayana Shyam Jandhyala
Characterization of Bison Finishing and Harvest Systems: Effects on Carcass and Meat Quality Characteristics, Jessica Janssen
Student-Faculty Interactions as Predictors of Retention and Satisfaction among Generation Z College Students, Stephani Jarecke
Optimization of Conditions for Heat Pretreatment and Enzymatic Predigestion of DDGS for Pigs, Kevin Jerez-Bogota
Reverse Genetic Analysis of Ehd1 for an Association between Flowering Time and Seed Dormancy in Rice (Oryza sativa L.), Yeter Karakoc
Understanding How Agricultural Intensification Impacts Ring-Necked Pheasant Distribution and Survival in Eastern South Dakota, Hilary R. Kauth
In Planta Evaluation of Gene Regulation by Soybean Auxin Response Factors, Pratiksha K C
Volcanic Impact on Stratospheric Chlorine Chemistry and Perchlorate Formation: Evidence from Ice Cores, Joshua Andrew Kennedy
Kernel-Controlled DQN Based CNN Pruning for Model Compression and Acceleration, Romancha Khatri
Cold-Water Prey Fish Monitoring and Ecology in Lake Oahe, Nicholas B. Kludt
"It's None of Your Damn Business" : Communication Among Newlyweds Regarding Family Expansion Preferences, Kiersten Koehler
Profiling Transcription and Retrotransposition of Mouse L1 Subfamilies, Lingqi Kong
Enhanced Charge carrier Dynamics and Defects Passivation in Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cell Using a Novel Organic Halide Salt, Md Ashuqur Rahman Laskar
Seismic Performance of Mechanically Spliced Bridge Columns through Analytical Studies, Mathew Ray LaVoy
Pig Pose Estimation Based on Extracted Data of Mask R-CNN with VGG Neural Network for Classifications, Sang Kwan Lee
Winter Patch Grazing, Patch Burn Grazing, and Bird Communities in Western South Dakota, Jennifer Lutze
Enhanced Beta (β) Glucan Beverages – Evaluation of Satiety, Nutrition, and Shelf Stability, Beatrice Serwaa Manu