This report is one of a series issued in cooperation with the ANC-17 Panel on Plastics for Aircraft of the Departments of the Air Force, Navy, and Commerce.
This report is one of a series issued in cooperation with the ANC-17 Panel on Plastics for Aircraft of the Departments of the Air Force, Navy, and Commerce. Information reviewed and reaffirmed 1965. Original report issued January 1957.
This report is one of a series issued in cooperation with the ANC-17 Panel on Plastics for Aircraft of the Departments of the Air Force, Navy, and Commerce. Information reviewed and reaffirmed 1962. Original report issued November 1956.
This report is one of a series issued in cooperation with the ANC-17 Panel on Plastics for Aircraft of the Departments of the Air Force, Navy, and Commerce. Information reviewed and reaffirmed 1960. Original report issued October 1955.
This report is one of a series issued in cooperation with the ANC-17 Panel on Plastics for Aircraft of the Departments of the Air Force, Navy, and Commerce.
This report is one of a series issued in cooperation with the ANC-17 Panel on Plastics for Aircraft of the Departments of the Air Force, Navy, and Commerce. Information reviewed and reaffirmed 1962. Original report issued June 1956.
This report is one of a series issued in cooperation with the ANC-17 Panel on Plastics for Aircraft of the Departments of the Air Force, Navy, and Commerce. Information reviewed and reaffirmed 1960. Original report issued October 1955.
This report is one of a series issued in cooperation with the ANC-17 Panel on Plastics for Aircraft of the Departments of the Air Force, Navy, and Commerce.
Here the diversity and phylogeny of the genus, Sthereus Motschulsky, 1845, and its nearest associates in the large subfamily Molytinae are explored through molecular and morphological characters. Sanger sequencing of five genes determined that Sthereus is not monophyletic. Instead, the one species in the genus Gastrotaphrus Buchanan 1936, G. barberi...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a pilot
summer program of orientation, study skills and reading on the persistence
and grade point average of first year junior college students.
The pilot program was offered as a voluntary summer program between
graduation from high school in...
The education (particularly graduate education) of Americans
who were active in astronomical research between 1876 and 1941
is assessed for its effectiveness in preparing the astronomers for
careers in research. This period contains three dynamic changes:
the growth of American astronomy in becoming the world's leading
community of astronomers, the...
Kesterson Reservoir (Kesterson) received subsurface agricultural drainwater containing high levels of salts and other minerals from farmland in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Aquatic plants and invertebrates were sampled at Kesterson in May, August, and December of 1984. The reservoir supported a different biota and lower species diversity than...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the student personnel
services rendered at a public two-year community college. The institution
chosen for the study was Lethbridge Community College, located
in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Six hundred and one people, representing seven population groups,
were randomly selected for participation in this...
Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier
prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor
population are hypothetically...
This study investigated the private costs to individual households
of large-lot zoning policies. The study asked whether typical
zoning ordinances create shortages of small lots or small structures
and, if so, what the magnitude of the resultant welfare loss is.
The hypotheses were suggested by a theoretical model developed
to...
The written history of Oregon spanning the late 18th and early 19th centuries lacks evidence of the contributions made by the Overseas Chinese communities who existed in Oregon during this period. The purpose of this examination is to study the Overseas Chinese communities which resided in the cities of The...
The rate of the C¹⁴0₂ release from glucose, specifically labeled
with C¹⁴ at 1, 2, 3+4, and positions, was used to study the relative
participation of pathways of glucose catabolism in red beet slices.
Evidence was obtained which indicated that in mature red beets glucose
was catabolized mainly via glycolysis-tricarboxylic...
Published August 1978. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
This dissertation aims to provide a comprehensive portrayal of doula care in the lives of pregnant and parenting adolescent mothers. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationships between psychosocial stress, social support, institutionalized constraints, and their impacts on health and well-being among adolescent mothers in the Northwestern...
In February 1905 the Oregon State Academy of Sciences formed in
Portland to promote scientific research and diffusion of scientific
knowledge in Oregon. The founders also planned to assist in the
discovery and development of the state's natural resources. The
Academy was the first scientific society in Oregon with professional...
The 134-year old Frantz-Dunn House in Hoskins, Oregon is an intact, well-preserved example of rural Gothic architecture in the Willamette Valley. The old farmstead sits on a former Civil War Fort site and represents a link in the history of the region to the larger patterns of expansion in America...
A series of four trials was conducted to evaluate activated
sewage sludge (AcSS) as a protein source. In the first trial the protein
efficiency ratio (PER) of sun-dried and auto-claved, sun-dried
AcSS was measured with rats. Growth of AcSS-fed rats was extremely
poor as compared to those rats fed casein,...
The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether
there were significant differences between Oregon community
college collegiate freshmen and Oregon State University freshmen in
terms of interest, values, and manifest needs.
The study was limited to a representative sample of the freshman
population in the lower-division collegiate program...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the methods and criteria
developed for rating actual and potential agricultural land in the
United States. It is motivated by the apparent increasing competition
for quality space created by the expanding population, and by the belief
that land rating and classification are...
Champoeg, located along the Willamette River, developed
as a transportation center for both river and overland
travel and as a shipping point for agricultural products.
Retired employees of the Hudson's Bay Company were the first
to settle in the area, in the 1830s. American settlers
began arriving in large numbers...
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the formal
preparation currently required and desired for teachers of lower-division collegiate courses in public community colleges in the western
United States and to make recommendations for the preparation of
such teachers in Oregon. The identification of the functions of institutions...
This analysis concerns the life and scientific work of Henry
Augustus Rowland (1848-1901), organizer and the first chairman of
the physics department at The Johns Hopkins University in 1876.
Special materials used in this research included three pieces of
Rowland's experimental apparatus which are extant in the Smithsonian
Institution Division...
This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
Seventy-two species of Blennocampinae in 21 genera and six tribes
are known from the Nearctic region. The adults and known larvae of
all species and genera are keyed, described and illistrated. A
definition of the subfamily, a review of previous work, a table of
host-plant associations, and a discussion of...
Active tectonics of a deformation front constrains the kinematic evolution and structural interaction between the fold-thrust belt and the most-recently accreted foreland basin. At the Himalayan deformation front, the thrust front is blind, characterized by a broad fold (the Suruin-Mastgarh anticline (SMA)), and displays no emergent faults cutting the southern...
Published November 1960. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Published October 1974. Fourth reprinting August 1979. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not a
significant difference existed between Oregon community college
transfer students and native students at Oregon State University with
respect to academic achievement, persistence, and graduation.
Two groups of students were selected for observation. The
first included all of the...
Includes 1922 Summer School Graduates.
In the following pages the information, so far as it has been possible to obtain it, is given in the following order for each alumnus: Name, year in which the degree was conferred, degree, course, present occupation, and present mailing address.
This compilation of theses and dissertations (a part of the OSU Bibliographic Series) for the period 1970-1977 reflects this university's emphasis on research and graduate study. It may be viewed as an indicator of the contributions made to the state of Oregon through graduate study and research at Oregon State...
The Columbia River Gillnetter is the pilot of the Lower Columbia River commercial fishing industry, keeping fishermen and the public in touch with today's important issues.
Compiled under the criteria: (1) statement of sources and faithfulness to them, (2) a true reflection of Indian cosmology, and (3) a written style that retains the spirit and poetry of the Indian's native manner of telling. Includes titles containing valuable introductory materials, bibliographies, motif indexes, and additional comparative notes,...
This is a listing of both PhD and Master's· theses relating to the areas of forestry issued during the period from July 1976 to June 1981. The
list is arranged first by state, then by college or university within each state. Authors of theses are arranged alphabetically under each of...
The need to replace the present methods of rating the acceptability of a manufacturer's lot of strawberries is indicated. Work has been done towards adapting and developing laboratory techniques for this purpose.
The quality factors checked upon were the state of maturity, the effectiveness of processing work, and the freedom...
Published April 1938. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
The staffs of the Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center (CBARC-Oregon State University) and the Columbia Plateau Conservation Research Center (USDA-Agricultural Research Service) are again proud to present results of their research in this bulletin. The past year has seen significant changes at the research center, in staffing, new projects undertaken,...
In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
This study was a systematic investigation of four Chinese textile
motifs-- the fret, swastika, Shou and Hsi. The purpose of this study
was to analyze the variations in these motifs and their uses on textiles.
The literature concerned the origin, meaning, variation and use of
these four motifs and the...
This is a bibliography of doctoral dissertations and masters' theses in forestry and related topics issued during the period from July 1981 through June 1990. The colleges and universities included are all accredited by the Society of American Foresters. The actual listings were supplied by the individual institutions. Topics covered...
Published January 1956. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Published January 1967. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
The use of honey bees to pollinate apple orchards seems natural, even inevitable. This dissertation examines the relationship of beekeeping and apple growing in Hood River, Oregon in the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, as a case study in the development of commercial pollination service. Within this time period the...
Here presented is a photographic catalogue, a key, and literature review for the 35 genera and 90 species of lepturine longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae: Lepturinae) found in the Pacific Northwest. Several nomenclatural changes, recognized by the global taxonomic community, but previously unknown to North American authors, are adopted, and one new...
Published January 1947. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...
Climate change and efforts to address it have put the electric utility system under increasing pressure to adapt and evolve. Key to the success of these efforts will be the support of public utility commissions, the state agencies that oversee retail electric utilities. In an effort to determine how these...