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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ETDS from 1959
A Study of Factors Influencing Weaning Weights of Beef Calves, Joe Allen Minyard
Physiological Studies on Bloat, Clarence Leonard Moore
Effect of Time of Fertilizer Application on Yield and Quality of Oats and Barley, John J. Mortvedt
Development and Application of Wind Data to Wind Erosion Control Measures in South Dakota, John Walter Neuberger
A Study of Selected Factors Related To Differential Participation of Members in a Sample of South Dakota Purchasing Cooperatives in 1958, Donald F. Novey
Nesting of Mourning Doves in Eastern South Dakota, Lloyd E. Oldenburg
The Barnes and Houdek Soils Their Morphology and Classification, Ordell Pendor Olson
Student Activity Participation as Affecting Scholarship, Jane Joy Panzer
Estimating Output and Operating Expenses of Municipally-Owned Public Utilities in Brookings, South Dakota, 1959 to 1970, Rodney Delos Peterson
A Survey of the Financing and Extensiveness of Drama Programs in State Colleges and Universities, Burris Edwards Pope
A Study of Selected Factors Related To Attitudes Toward the Hutterites of South Dakota, David T. Priestley
Attitudes and Opinions of South Dakota State College Faculty Toward Physical Education and Athletics, Duane C. Quail
The Relationship Between Televiewing and Grammar Grades, Janice Kay Roggenkamp
Some Bacteriological and Biochemical Aspects of Alfalfa Silage Prepared At Different Moisture Levels, Gene W. Ronald
Livestock Auctions in South Dakota, Dale Eldon Roth
Evaluation of The Use of Mathematical Expressions for Determining Yield from a Horizontal Well in a Thin, Shallow Aquifer, Kenneth A. Rowen
Industrial Arts Teacher Preparation and Curriculum Content in the Public Secondary Schools of South Dakota, Wayne Leroy Salmen
The Effect of a Wrestling Program on Balance in College Physical Education Classes and Amongst Members of a College Wrestling Squad, Alden Edwin Schultz
A Study of the Manufacture of Cultured Butter and Retail Store Sales in Brookings, South Dakota, Shirley W. Seas
The effects of 17-α-ethyl-19-nortestosterone on extraction wound healing, Stanley Miner Shaw
The Size of High Schools in South Dakota as a Variable in Developmental Ability, Barbara Denbow Sinclair
A Physiological Study of Nitrogen Fixation, Norval Arthur Sinclair
Indexes of Seasonal Variation for South Dakota Egg Production: A Method, Iva Lee Marie Skov
The Attitudes of Men Students Toward the Required Physical Education Program at South Dakota State College, Floyd V. Sluiter
Grain Merchandising at the Country Elevator, Arthur B. Sogn
Wildlife Utilization of Stock Ponds in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, James D. Swanson
A Study of the Factors Associated with Establishment in Farming, Donald T. Tupper
Changes in Body Fat as Computed from the Skinfold Measurement of College Track and Field Athletes During a Season of Competition and Training, Richard Arnold Walker
Leafy Spurge Studies of Vegetative Weed Activity and Seed Development, Gail A. Wicks
The Classification, Morphology, and Genesis of Sinai Soils, Lawrence Paul Wilding
Respiration Rate as a Measure of Performance in Adaptation Studies in Oats, Norman E. Williams
Supplemental Milkroom Heating Using the Heat Extracted by the Bulk Milk Cooling System, Harvey Gordon Young
A History of Intercollegiate Athletics at South Dakota State College, Arthur Peter Zahorsky
ETDS from 1958
Raw Sewage Stabilization Ponds as a Means of Sewage Treatment, John Robert Anderson
Some Factors Influeneced by Honey Bees on Alfalfa Seed Production in South Dakota, Paul William Bergman
Results Obtained from New and Remodeled Poultry Houses in South Dakota, Boyd J. Bonzer
An Evaluation of the Minnesota Pupils Cumulative Record Form 10 and Other Cumulative Records Used in Minnesota Schools, Wallace M. Brunswold
An Organism Resembling Sphaerophorus necrophorus Isolated From a Beef Liver Abscess, James C. Canada
Steam Condensate Corrosion Study of Return Line Deterioration at South Dakota State College Power Plant, Kenneth Duane Christianson
The Physiology and Some Nutritional Aspects of a Rumen Bacterium, Norma P. Christopherson
An Appraisal by Superintendents and Homemaking Teachers of the Attitudes of High School Students Toward Home Economics and Their Effect Upon the Choice of a Major in College, Eleanor D. Cochrane
Illusion and Reality: Analytic Teaching Materials for Eight Contemporary Short Stories, Sara Jeanine Deyling
Construction and Evaluation of the Performance of a Horizontal Well in a Shallow, Thin Aquifer, Eugene J. Doering
A Comparative Analysis of the Kraus-Weber Test and the AAHPER Test of Physical Fitness, Dalvin E. Eisenbraun
An Electronic Fluid Flow Analyzer for Pipeline Networks, Harold Charles Falk
Genetic Analysis of Colchicine-induced Diploid Mutants in Sorghum, A. Earl Foster
Financing Future Farmers of America Activities in Vocational Agriculture Departments in South Dakota, Harold B. Garry
A Bibliography of Studies in Oral Reading, with Annotations of Studies in the Teaching of Artistic Oral Reading in College, Jeanne Phyllis Grove
Studies of Colchicine Treated Maize and Sorghum Seedlings, George P. Hanson
Status, Past and Present, of Physical Education Graduates of South Dakota State College, Duane Collins Hill
Safety Programs in the High School Farm Shops in South Dakota, L. R. Hohbach
The Changing Traditional Value System of the Dakota Indian: A Study of the Conflicting Value Systems of the Dakota Indian and Western Civilization, Clinton J. Jesser
Mysticism in Selected Early Novels of John Steinbeck, Tom E. Kakonis
An Evaluation of the Benefits Received by the Participants in the South Dakota FFA Public Speaking Contest and Methods of Preparation of Contestants, Loren G. Kasten
The Moral Order of William Faulkner, Shirley Lease Kay
An Experimental Study to Determine the Effect of a Speech of introduction Upon the Persuasive Speech that Followed, Barbara Kersten
The Development and Present Status of the Intramural Sports Program for Men in the Schools of the North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the South Dakota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Clayton Paul Ketterling
Estimating Commercial Expansion in Brookings Resulting from the Anticipated Increases in South Dakota State College Enrollments, Norma Ruth Koch
The Amino Acid Composition of Four Varieties of Rice from India, Devaki B. Kripalani
Acreage Response of South Dakota Wheat Producers to Expected Price Changes, 1955, Richard Hoyt Kruse
Comparison of Cellulose Digestion In vivo and In vitro, Charles Frederick LeFevre
The Effect of Horseradish Peroxidase on Some Organic Peroxides, Dennis Lietz
Physical Fitness and Physical Education Programs in Selected Schools of South Dakota, Joe Lockwood
The Effects of Colchicine on an Inbred Line of Corn, Raymond A. Moore
The Relationships of Selected Factors to the Personal Adjustment of a South Dakota Rural-nonfarm Community's Older Population, Denton E. Morrison
The Effects of Relaxin on The Composition of Bovine Milk, Chris H. Nissen
An Attempt to Develop Resistance in the Udder Against Streptococcus Dysgalactiae and Escherichia Coli, Donald E. Otterby
Pondermotive Forces of Electrical Origin in Liquid Dielectrics, Norma Allan Peppers
A Study of the Principles of Technical Direction and Their Application to the Production of Sophocles' Play Oedipus Rex, Sherill Sandra Price
Student Automobiles on the College Campus, Lois Elaine Qualben
Stilbestrol for Growing-fattening Cattle, Dean Vinton Radabaugh
A Rhetorical Analysis of Clarence Darrow's Invention and Disposition in Two Court Summation Pleas, George Reilly
A Teaching Approach to Selected Works of Ernest Hemingway, Helen E. Rezatto
A Follow-up Study of the Graduates of the Flandreau Indian School for the Years 1955, 1956, and 1957, John J. Riley
Local Financing of Small Watershed Projects, Gordon D. Rose
Some Effects of Environment on Laying Hens, Lawrence U. Rubida
Frost Action in Soils, Mustata Sevket Safak
A Historical Analysis of the Development of Track and Field at South Dakota State College 1889-1958, James Elmer Schlender
Age and Growth Determination of the Black Bullhead From Soft Fin Rays, James W. Sprague
The Feasibility of Organizing a Federation of Egg Marketing Cooperatives in Eastern South Dakota, Walter R. Swanson
A Study on Turkish Highways, Orhan Tasangil
Yield and Maturity of Populations of Drilled Corn Hybrids on the Northern Great Plains, Darrold E. Termunde
Locker and Shower Room Facilities Used for Physical Education at South Dakota State College, Peter Dominic Torino
An Investigation of Costs for Heating and Power Generation at South Dakota State College, Julius William Ulmer
Evaluation of Walleye Fingerling Plants in Lake Darling, North Dakota, George L. Van Wyhe
A Study of the Aspects of Vocational Agriculture Teacher Travel in South Dakota, Sylvan D. Vigness
A Survey of the Aspects of Teaching Rural Electrification in Vocational Agriculture in South Dakota, George L. Wells
Report of Progress Toward the Experimental Development of an Elementary Evaluative Listening Test, Dorothy Ardythe West
An Evaluation of Parliamentary Procedure Programs in South Dakota Future Farmers of America Chaptersouth Dakota, Calvin E. Willemssen
Consumer Preferences and Attitudes Toward Butter and Advertising in Brookings and Madison, South Dakota, Paul M. Williamson
On the Electric Field of Moving Magnets, Ronald Harvey Wilson
Some Effects of Antibiotics on a Candida Albicans Population in the Intestinal Tracts of Chickens, Roger E. Winans
Studies on the Analysis and Esterification of Cholesterol, Marvin Lee Withrow
A Study of the Spotted Alfalfa Aphid and the Potato leafhopper and Their Abundance in Relation to Certain Climatic Condition in Five Specific Areas in South Dakota, Mitchell J. Wrich