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Creator:: Smith, Christopher S.
Abstract:: Our research was focused mainly on the field of plasma physics and the creation of plasmas in a laboratory environment. We first began our project with the goal to develop a tabletop Tokamak, a doughnut shaped device that magnetically confines plasmas at pressures greater than one atmosphere. After researching this...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: ignites. Key words: plasma physics, Tokamak, induction lighting, low-pressure plasma Corresponding E

Creator:: Raskauskas, Nancy
Abstract:: The West Fork Smith River, a 69 km2 watershed in the Coast Range of Oregon, is prone to short periods of very high water temperature in mid-summer due to a combination of human and natural influences. In the summers of 2003 and 2004 more than 400 juvenile coho salmon regularly...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: graduate thesis on juvenile coho salmon diets in the West Fork Smith River. Kenneth Rodnick (ISU) took the

Creator:: Deitering, Anne-Marie and Jameson, Sara
Abstract:: At Oregon State University (OSU), writing instructors and librarians collaboratively teach research writing and information literacy in first year composition courses (FYC). A four-week unit focuses on the connections between critical thinking, writing and learning, and information literacy. This paper describes the process of developing, implementing, and refining this collaborative...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: State University Libraries, Corvallis, OR 97331 (address e-mail to: anne-marie.deitering@oregonstate.edu

Creator:: McMillen, Paula S. and Hill, Eric
Abstract:: Ongoing discussion between the Oregon State University libraries' instruction program and the English composition program focuses on improving collaboration between our programs and more effectively integrating the research process into the English composition curriculum. The authors, formerly the library instruction coordinator and the Assistant Composition Coordinator, briefly describe a qualitative...
Resource Type:: Preprint and Article
Full Text:: by Kenneth Burke, as a way to teach students the research process. While not all students have done

Creator:: Stocking, Peter
Abstract:: Temperate evergreen forests of the Pacific Northwest support big huckleberries (Vaccinium membranaceum) despite their nutrient impoverished soils. Acquisition of nitrogen and phosphorous are the major nutrients limiting V. membranaceum. The plant’s access to these resources is linked to their mycorrhizal symbiosis. To learn more about the symbionts of eriaceous plants...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: , soil moisture, percent hair root length, temperature, and mean daily rainfall (Kemp et al. 2002

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