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 2019
Perceptions of Health Coaching and its Associations with Personality Style and Weight Loss in Meal Replacement Program Participants, Bailey Judith Larson
Undoing Gender: An Analysis of How Women Communicate Within the Agricultural Industry, Shala R. Larson
Some Studies on Leaf Spot of Oats and Triticale, Mohammed Abdullah Lashram
Evaluation of Feeding Alternative Feedstuffs Including Hydroponic Barley Sprouts and Carinata Meal to Dairy Cattle, Rhea D. Lawrence
The Relationship between Campus Wellness Center Usage and Symptoms of Depression in College Freshmen, Allison Leonard
Mean Nutrition and Physical Activity Knowledge Score of Children Ages 3-5 years in the iGrow Readers Intervention, Mollie Loes
Younger Millennials and Outdoor Recreation: Understanding Outdoor Recreational Pursuits of Millennial College Students, Jason Mehlhaf
Static Load Bolted Joint Elastic Resilience Testing Methodology, Paul Melino
Quality Evaluations of Hard Red Spring Wheat Grown in South Dakota, Lance Merrick
Understanding Emotional Intelligence and Its Relationship to Clinical Reasoning in Nursing Students: A Mixed Methods Study, Heidi M. Meyer
Characterizing Spatiotemporal Patterns of White Mold in Soybean across South Dakota Using Remote Sensing, Confiance L. Mfuka
Changes in Vertical Jump Components Utilizing the Myvert Device in Female Collegiate D-1 Volleyball Players, Samantha Modrick
Effect of Water Velocity and Temperature on Energy Use, Behavior, and Mortality of Pallid Sturgeon Scaphirhynchus albus Larvae, Joseph Thomas Mrnak
Coordinated Smart Home Thermal and Energy Management System Using a Co-simulation Framework, Prateek Munankarmi
Effects of Resistant Starch Type 4 on Gut Microbiota Derived Medium and Long Chain Fatty Acids and Bile Acids, Elizabeth Nagel
Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of GUNW-3 as a Brain Targeting Agent, Asim Najmi
Understanding the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Health: Mediational Effects Drug Use, Sarah Nelsen
Identification and Characterization of Stress Responsive Genes in Soybean and Sunflower, Surendra Neupane
Pilot Scale Evaluation of E. Coli Filtration Removal From Stormwater Using Recycled Steel, Jason Neville
The Influence of Preovulatory Estradiol on Uterine Transcriptomics and Proteomics Around Maternal Recognition of Pregnancy in Beef Cattle, Emmalee J. Northrop