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 present.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1994
The Role of Platelet-Derived Growth Factor (PDGF) in Turkey Skeletal Muscle Development, Wenying Ye
Genetic Study of Aureobasidium pullulans Using Mutagenesis and Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Analysis, Yong Zhang
The Wine Metaphor in Li Bo and Omar Khayyam, Yuqing Zhang
ETDS from 1993
Forage Yield and Quality of Cowpea and Millets Under Three Harvest Regimes in South Dakota, Manzoor Akbar
Modeling the Progress of Tan Spot on Wheat Using Weather Variables, Shaukat Ali
An Assessment of Factors Related to the Continued Criminal Behavior of Female Felons, Thomas Allen
Production and Utilization of Nisin for Controlling Bacterial Contamination in Ethanol Production, Marsha C. Behrens
Circumstances Surrounding Contaminated Needlestick and other Sharp Object Injuries in the Acute Health Care Setting, Gwen M. Beiningen
Toward a New Masculinist Critical Approach to Willa Cather's Treatment of Male Protagonists in One of Ours: The Limits of Empathy, William Bruce Benham
Why 22% for Ross Perot? A Political Sociological Analysis of the 1992 Presidential Election, Mary Anne Bennett
Factors Affecting Attendance of Continuing Education Programs by Registered Nurses in South Dakota, Zita Billings
Use of a Mail Survey to Determine Present Mammal Distributions by County in South Dakota, Carmen A. Blumberg
Development of a Low Cost, Industrially Suitable Medium for Production of Acetic Acid From Glucose by Clostridium Thermoaceticum, Steven A. Bock
Adolescent HIV Health Knowledge Application of the Health Belief Model, Julie A. Bostic
The Influence of Habitat Structure and Environmental Variability on Habitat Use By Fish in the Vermillion River, South Dakota, Patrick J. Braaten
Pre-Recharge Ground Water Characteristics of the Huron Ground Water Recharge Demonstration Project Site, Darin Lee Brickman
A Technique for the High-Speed Characterization of Electromechanical Properties of Lossy Piezoelectric Materials, Phillip C. Brugger
Design Capacity and Stiffness of Pro-Panel II Sheeting Diaphragm, Shangrong Cai
Isolation and Identification of Cold-Regulated cDNA Clones From Barley Primary Leaf Tissue, Li-Yun Chang
Image Noise Filtering by Using a Local Median and Median Variance Estimator, Qiong Chen
Filtering With the Wavelet Transform, Mike Choate
Active Control of Damped Sandwiched Beams, Laxminarayana Chovdavarapu
Wildlife Use of Wastewater Ponds at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Karen L. Cieminski
Effects of Phorate on Ducklings, Macroinvertebrates, and Microtox in Northern Prairie Wetlands, Charles D. Dieter
Editorial Colon Revision and the Dilution of Narrative Design in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, Joyce Elizabeth Dooley Stavick
A Stylistic Analysis of Robert Anson Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Andrew Grover Edeburn
Dwell Time of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters and Incidence of Phlebitis: A Randomized Controlled Study, Diana V. Edwards
The Contribution of Completion of a Study Skills Course to Grade Point Average and Achievement in Sociology 100, Kathleen Marie Eickman
Toward an Appropriate Fetal Growth Curve for South Dakota, Linda M. W. Erlenbusch
Management of a Subsurface Irrigation/Drainage System in Central South Dakota, Scott A. Finnern
A Critical Analysis of the Use of Metaphor in the Rhetoric of Senator Paul D. Wellstone During his First Year in Office, Mark A. Fokken
Nurses Perspective of Factors Influencing Pain Management Regimen in the Elderly, Ruth Galbraith
Big Game Habitat Utilization in Noncommercially Thinned Ponderosa Pine in Custer State Park, Mary C. Gibbs
A New Approach to Traction Prediction in Agricultural Soils, Ravindra Godbole
Analysis of the Differences in Average Wages in South Dakota, Dawn Gustafson
Structure, Dynamics, and Movement Patterns for Crappies in South Dakota Waters, Christopher S. Guy
Death Anxiety and Clinical Experience in Generic Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Carol D. Hanson
Effects of Huron Water Treatment Plant Operations on the Injectate Quality of the Huron Groundwater Recharge Demonstration Project, Mark Alan Hardie
Level of Self-esteem of Rural Staff Nurses, Arlene M. Herberden
Permeability of Bentonite and Bentonite Based Backfills, Mark Alan Herman
The Impact of Band Nitrogen Fertilization on Soil Profile Inorganic Nitrogen Distributions and Sampling Procedures, P. W. Holman
Academic Job Trends in American Geography 1980-1992, David Eric Holm
Detection of Physical Abuse Barriers to Nurses' Detection of Physical Abuse in Adult Female Clients, Maureen R. Horsley
Impact of Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment on Groundwater at Huron, South Dakota, James Price Housiaux
A Model for a Municipal Wastewater Nitrification Process, Osabuogbe Christopher Igbinedion
Morphological and Carbon Isotope Discrimination Variation Within Creeping Foxtail Genotypes, Natalie Ann Jackson
Predictors of At-Risk Behaviors in Adolescents, Linda L. Johnson
A Descriptive Correlational Study of Relationship Between Adult Postoperative Patient's Pain Ratings and Nurse's Ratings of Patient's Pain, Julie A. Jones
Psychopathic Agents: Use and Implications for Rural Caregivers of Dementia Patients, Debra Juffer
An Evaluation of Pre-Harvest Marketing Strategies for Corn and Spring Wheat in South Dakota, Lynn D. Jurrens
Marketing Strategies for Corn and Spring Wheat in South Dakota, Lynn D. Jurrens
History of State University Theatre 1972 Through 1992, Louis "Trey" W. Karlen
Analysis and Forecasting of Seasonal Changes in Cash Prices for Corn, Wheat, and Oats Grown in South Dakota, Prashobh Karunakaran
Physical Abuse During Pregnancy: A Prevalence Study, Colleen N. Kellar
Cognitive Dissonance in Theatre Audience: Using Kenneth Burke's Identification Theory to Rhetorically Analyze The Runner Stumbles and Mass Appeal, Kristin Kendall-Hilderbrand
The Effect of Wet-Pressure on the Acoustic Emissions and Fracture Toughness Characteristics of Paper, Taewoo Kim
The Attitudes of South Dakota Judges, State's Attorneys and Bar Attorneys Toward Cameras in Courtrooms in 1993, Holly Hemmingson Kleinsasser
Functional Decline in the Hospitalized Elderly: A Retrospective Descriptive Study, Janice M. Kortemeyer
Psychotropic and Social Drug Use in the Rural Community Elderly, Mary Kovarna
Influence of Predation on Least Tern and Piping Plover Productivity Along the Missouri River in South Dakota, Casey D. Kruse
Characterization of Proteins for Soybean Raceme Tissues Associated With Floral Set and Abortion, Jennifer Erin Larson
The Use of Seepage Meters to Measure Seepage Entering a Gravel Pit, Chris Alan Lemke
Factors Influencing Cyanobacteria Abundances in the Oakwood Lakes, Mark Thomas Lesinski
An Examination of the Relationship Between Commitment Patterns of Dual-Earner Couples to Work and Family Role-Sets and Role Strain, Melodie Lynne Lichty
Visionaries of the American West : Mari Sandoz and Her Four Plains Protagonists, Lisa R. Lindell
Selection of Mushrooms for Harvest Using Machine Vision, Yueming Li
Pain Management: A Comparison of Cancer Patients', Nurses', and Physicians' Perspectives Based on Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment, Susan Jane Long
Thermal Performance Evaluation of Six Soils of Different Texture Classes, Xiaorui Lou
Thermal Performance of Bentonite Based Grout Mixtures for Vertical Ground-Source Heat Pump Systems, James Timothy Lund
Frontier Nurses' Attitudes and Knowledge in Caring for People Living With AIDS, Robin Peterson Lund
Rural Women and Health Status Appraisal, Martha Lystad
Field Verification of the Barber-Cushman Nutrient Uptake Model for Corn (Zea Mays L.), Nora Rebano Macariola
Chemotaxis in Campylobacter Species, Steven Dennis Mahlen
Surface and Interfacial Investigations With Alumina/Aluminum Nitride Materials, Gilberto Piedra Marin
Critical Characteristics of Effective Clinical Instruction, Patricia A. Melcher
Modal Identification of Thick Visco-Elastic Cylinders, Gary Roger Minor
Fish and Amphibian Occurrence in Waterfowl Production Area Wetlands in Minnesota During 1992, Kevin L. Mixon
The Development of a Solar Radiation Extinction Correction for Satellite Data, Widad I. Mohamed
Acute Metabolic Responses to Water Aerobics and Land Aerobics, Kari K. Moser-Hoff
An Analysis of the Metaphorical Qualifiers in Garrison Keillor's News From Lake Wobegon, Eileen Murray-Roybal
Effects of Level of Concentrate on Utilization of Mature Prairie Hay by Steers and Performance of Beef Cows Grazing Native Winter Pastures of Differing Forage Availabilities, Mark Christian Namminga
Knowledge Deficits of Radation Therapy Patients in a Rural Setting: A Pilot Study, Kim H. Nearhood
Characterization of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) Virus, Eric Agaard Nelson
The Rural Nonfarm Population of Three South Dakota Townships: A Geographic Analysis, Terry A. Nelson
Reevaluation of the Molecular Weight of Fulvic Acid, Frank John Novotny
The Effectiveness of School-Age Child Care Programs in Meeting the Needs of Parents, Karen K. Olson
Differential Gene Expression in Raceme Tissue of Setting and Aborting Soybean Flowers, Scott Matthew Page
Fertility Behavior of Married Couples in Peninsular Malaysia, Sundramoorthy Pathmanathan
"I've Stopped Being Theirs --": Roles of Women in Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Beth L. Paulson
Experimental and Computerized Simulation of Water Quality Changes Due to Injectate-Ground Water Intermixing During Artificial Recharge of the Warren Aquifer Near Huron, SD, Delron Vaughn Peters
Alaskan Native Suicide, Karl T. Pfeiffer
Numerical Ground Water Flow Model for Analysis and Prediction of Artificial Recharge to a Glacial Aquifer, Larry D. Putnam
A Geographic Analysis of the Sioux Quartzite, Jacob L. Ritzen
Annual Food Habits of Northern Pike in an Eastern South Dakota Natural Lake, Steven M. Sammons
Relationship between Critical Thinking and Grade Point Averages of Baccalaureate Degree Nursing Students, Diane W. Sandhoff