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ETDS from 1994
A Community's Assessment of the "Year of Reconciliation" Indian and Non-Indian Views, Donna M. Osment-Epp
Swath Dimension and Stubble Height Effects on Field Curing of Alfalfa Hay, Ananthaiah Peddagolla
Co-Disposal of Sioux Falls Water and Wastewater Sludges, Eric Paul Peters
Relationship between Self-esteem and Alcohol Use in Low Income Pregnant Women, Ann M. Pick
Effect of Fiber Reinforced Plastic on Plywood and Plywood Sandwich Panels Using Finite Element Analysis, Iyyanki V. Pradyumna
Utilization of High Milk-Protein Powder in Bulk Starter Production and Manufacture of Gouda Cheese, Javier B. Pulgar-Vidal
Processing and Testing of Corn Based Foamed Plastics, Sampath Raghavachari
The Effects of Freeze-Thaw Cycles on the Hydraulic Conductivity of Compacted Glacial Till Soils, Sridhar Dulipeta Rama
Feasibility of Subsurface Irrigation/Drainage Systems in Eastern South Dakota, Mark D. Rath
Numerical Solute Transport Model for Analysis and Prediction of Artificial Recharge to a Glacial Aquifer, Girish V. Reddy
Effect of Corn Grain Processing and Reconstitution on the Utilization of High Grain Diets for Cattle, Mark A. Robbins
Fiction as Subversion: The Angel in the House Versus the Victorian Gentleman in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Sara Running Danger
Production of Ethanol From Municipal Solid Waste, William G. Saunders
Predictability of the Burns' Wean Assessment Program Tool: A Replication Study, Constance K. Schmidt
Risk-Income Tradeoffs in Alternative Cattle Marketing Strategies, Jack Andrew Schulte
Performance Evaluation of a Ground Source Heat Pump System in South Dakota: Winter of 1993-1994, Stephen C. Schultz
Violating the "Novel of Manners": Unmothered Females in the Novels of Edith Wharton, Debra J. Seivert
An Evaluation of South Dakota Pheasant Preserve Habitat and Hunter Clientele, Kenneth G. Shay
Dynamic Response of Layered Medium, Ming-Her Shen
Evaluation of Atmospheric Aerosol Properties by Inversion Techniques (From Spectra to Properties), Weixing Shen
Anther Culture of Selected South Dakota Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Breeding Stock, Hong-Kyun Shin
Evidence of a Two Step Apoptosis Mechanism in Mature Bovine Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Treated With Dexamethasone, Karen Lyn Simon-Stoos
Commercial Manufacturing of Omega-3 Enriched Pork Products and the Effects of Flaxseed on d,1 [Alpha]-Tocopherol Acetate in Swine Diets on Lipid and Pigment Stability and Various Pork Quality Characteristics, Susan M. Specht-Overholt
An Evaluation of Irrigated and Dryland Corn in Brookings County Using a Crop Simulation Model, Eric Scott Stebbins
Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Selected High School Students in South Dakota, Barry Steever
Modeling and Simulation of a Chemical Injection System, Brian L. Steward
Relationships in Neonatal Glucose Values Among Four Measurement Methods, Gayle Stroschein
Family Resources and the School-Aged Child With Special Needs, Marlene R. Sturdevant
Family Resources and the School-aged Child with Special Needs, Marlene R. Sturdevant
Evaluation of Thermal Stability of Soils for Ground Source Heat Pump Application, Suichu Sun
Role of Conserved and Variable Domains of Escherichia coli K88 Adhesins in Porcine Colibacillosis, Shaema Mohammedi Talib
"Silent, Lone, as Grows a Flower": The Ideal Heroine in Byron's Don Juan, Darla R. Talsma
Economic Feasibility of Enzymatic Conversion of Cellulosic Municipal Solid Waste (CMSW) Into Ethanol Fuel, Samantha S. Tan
The Relationship between Social Support and Impact of Family Support Group, Gloria S. Thompson
Energy Consumption Characteristics of Light Manufacturing Facilities in the Northern Plains, Michael P. Twedt
Re-Establishing Bald Eagle and Osprey Breeding Populations in South Dakota Through Hacking: A Feasibility Study, Robert E. Usgaard
Investigation of Fluid Elastic Excitation in Heat Exchanger Tube Bundles, Bhaskar R. Varanasi
Elucidation of Preferential Flow Paths in Soils, Stephen George Wangemann
Performance Tests of a Benesh Wind Turbine Rotor and a Savonius Rotor, Yan Weng
The Simultaneous Determination of Thirteen Herbicides in Plants by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, Yongkang Wen
Pediatric Nurses' and Parental Assessments of the Level of Pain in Preverbal Children, Diana Lynn Wilson-Kirby
Experiential Analysis of Heuristic Search Algorithms, Steve Wolterstorff
Singing Over the Bones: Sharon Olds and the Female Consciousness, Melanie Wood
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