Peak discharge estimates are fundamental in the design of hydraulic structures, embankment protection, and stream restoration efforts, as well as flood risk analysis. Historic stream gage records are commonly used in the development of peak discharge estimates for a particular watershed. Use of an entire stream gage record assumes hydrologic...
This manual provides guidance on creating subject heading proposals for Indigenous topics that can be submitted to the Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO) for addition to the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
The first published notion that the j-function was in any way related to the Monster came in 1979, when Conway and Norton noted in [CN79] that each coefficient in the q- expansion of the j-function could be written as a (nontrivial) integral linear combination of the dimensions of irreducible representations...
My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Journeying Through (An)Other World: Examining the Role of Magic and Transformational Otherness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Magic, Muggles, and Mudbloods: Examining Magical Otherness in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series." The introduction frames the thematic, theoretical, and critical connections...
Driven by the need for high energy-density power sources, demand has
stimulated the development of small-scale engines. A small-scale engine
with a fuel supply could replace batteries and utilize higher energy-density
liquid hydrocarbon fuels; such an advance could deliver a new age of
portable devices. Currently, operable small-scale engines exist;...
Over the past fourteen years since the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Americans of varied political persuasions have continually identified the day as a defining moment in the history of the nation, which caused a rupture in the cultural rhythm and psyche. This sensibility is...
Purpose of the Study
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J. Richard Connelly
This study was to look at: (1) the orientation subjects' had
toward the resolution of conflict situations, and (2) associations between
personality traits, selected demographic characteristics and
subjects' orientation to conflict resolution.
Procedures
Eighty-seven subjects, 23 male and 64 female...
In April of 1974, Oregon State University conducted a geophysical
survey of the Orozco fracture zone, a Left-lateral transform fault
which offsets the East Pacific Rise off the coast of Mexico near
15°N, 105°W. Magnetic, gravity, bathymetric, and seismic reflection
data were collected during a four day period. This survey...
Power spectral analysis using the maximum entropy method is
applied to the estimation of depth to the source of magnetic anomalies.
The method assumes that the source is two-dimensional and has a
magnetization with random intensity. The predictive ability of the
maximum entropy technique permits analysis of short segments of...
Fine and coarse particles were collected for eight weeks during the
summer of 1991, at a coastal site (Yaquina Head) and a non-industrial site
(Corvallis) in Western Oregon to characterize the aerosol composition and
evaluate whether the sites are appropriate for sampling "background" marine
air. Concentrations of up to 11...
In the early part of his philosophical career, Paul Ricoeur worked out a general theory of symbols which he illustrated with the symbols of evil. He subsequently explained this theory in several essays (his final major statement on symbols can be found in Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of...
Occult deposition is the direct uptake of cloudwater by vegetation that comes into
physical contact with wind-driven cloud droplets. This can be a significant pathway for
hydrological and chemical fluxes from the atmosphere to some forests. Methods for
estimating cloudwater fluxes to forests are reviewed. Previous studies have neglected
the...
Model testing has proven to be an effective tool in the study of
soil-structure systems. While primarily used in research work, this
method of evaluation is also applicable to the solution of many types
of complex design problems. Because of its workability and relatively
simple characteristics, sand is the most...
A wilderness area, as administered by the U. S. Forest Service, is a tract of undeveloped land over 100,000 acres in size with no roads or provision for motorized transportation. Commercial timber cutting, hotels, stores, and similar developments are prohibited. While there are some exceptions for private holdings and administrative...
Past research on Head Start has focused on child outcomes, yet Head Start services also target the behaviors of parents. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study (FFCW), the current study examined the effect of Head Start on mother (n = 3,575) and father (n = 1,812)...
Individuals in their 20s today have more diverse experiences with school, work, and family transitions than previous cohorts. Contemporary young adults take longer to finish school, settle into marriages or partnerships, and begin parenting; they frequently change jobs or hold multiple part-time positions. Little is known about how young adults...
Research in the miniaturization of thermomechanical systems in recent years has proven to be both rewarding and challenging. Micro-scale devices have tremendous technological potential but come with a new set of design problems. One such problem is energy storage. Heat actuated systems, driven primarily by thermal energy, take advantage of...
The organic Rankine cycle (ORC) is a versatile approach in the utilization of waste heat in the production of electricity, clean drinking water, and cooling. The efficiency of these cycles must be maximized to make them economical. Parameters for the optimization of ORCs such as evaporator and condenser temperature have...
School interventions have typically focused on academic and psychological outcomes for children, but can children carry positive effects home from school to influence their parents and home environments? Developmental research typically focuses on how parents influence development in their children, but this study flips this lens to ask whether children...
Changes in the Oregon salmon, crab and shrimp fisheries were
documented from 1967 to 1980. The related socio-economic conditions in
fishing communities were described. Trends indicated that the overall
importance of fisheries to port communities has declined and ports are
not planning for an increase in the fishing industry. Chinook...
Estimations of plant water use can provide great assistance to growers, irrigators,
engineers and water resource planners. This is especially true concerning the introduction
of a new crop into irrigated agriculture. Growing hybrid poplar trees for wood chip stock
and veneer production under agronomic practices is currently being explored as...
Agricultural water supplies are becoming increasingly uncertain in the western United States due to rising demand from competing water users, environmental restrictions on surface water withdrawals due to water quality and endangered species concerns, and, potentially, climate-induced hydrological changes. Since many rural areas in the West depend economically upon irrigated...
A recent development in drift-control for agricultural ground sprayers is the
installation of a hood (or shroud) over the boom. Hoods are designed to provide
a protected zone in which droplets can be sprayed and deposited on the target with
limited interference from the wind.
This study compared chemical drift...
The Pacific salmon market may often be characterized by
disequilibrium conditions and less than perfect information. Thus the
study of the decision-making behavior, especially short-run pricing,
of wholesale market participants in this industry requires the use of
alternative models to the conventional, price-taking, perfect
competition model of the firm.
This...
Parenting education is a process of providing information to parents on the
challenges of parenting, services available for families, and ideas on how to interact with
children. The federal Even Start family literacy program, designed to increase the
educational opportunities of parents and children, has a strong parenting education
component....
First year survival of Douglas-fir seedlings outplanted in areas
characterized by intense vegetative competition is heavily dependent
on available soil moisture. To test this hypothesis, five distinct
classes of Douglas-fir planting stock were planted on the south slope
of McCulloch Peak in McDonald Forest in February of 1975. The
stocking...
Cercocarpus ledifolius (curlleaf mountain- mahogany), a small, hardwood evergreen tree, was studied to provide information on germination and initial seedling growth characteristics, and the species' relationship to its environment.and associated vegetation. Exceptional germination for this species resulted from both a wet cold treatment at 4°C for 170 days (88 percent),...
A random utility model of trip demand for steelhead fishing is constructed by using a logit regression technique and data from the 1990 Oregon Angler Survey, conducted by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. The model is formulated to estimate demand when only the regional destination is known. Results...
Taking advantage of a favorable physical system but also risking the hazards of flooding, man has long occupied flood plain land. He has attempted to adjust rivers to his needs in order to reduce flood loss, but the rising cost of flood protection accompanied by an increase in flood damage...
C-methyltransferase
(HIOMT) in chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus
tshawytscha). Various body tissues, as well as several
morphological brain divisions were tested for the presence
of HIOMT. Activity was found in the retina, the dorsal
portion of the diencephalon, and in the pineal gland of
chinook. However, the activity was significantly higher
in...
A descriptive model of the routing of sediment that was
delivered to the study area by the 1980 eruptions of Mount St.
Helens has been developed. On hillslopes this sediment was
distributed among three major storage compartments: 1) the tephra
profile, 2) primary storage, and 3) secondary storage. The most...
Evaporation synergy is the phenomenon in which two porous medium textures that share a common vertical boundary experience a higher cumulative evaporation than either homogeneous texture can produce. Studies that have been conducted to date address this phenomenon in relatively fine and coarse sands but not in finer textured soils...
Expansion of Juniperus occidentalis into the sagebrush steppe has resulted in significant changes in understory composition. A consequence of increased J. occidentalis dominance may be a depletion of the seed bank. The potential for depletion is problematic because a reduction in the amount of species available from the seed bank...
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Richard F. Miller
Expansion of Juniperus occidentalis into the sagebrush steppe has
The differences in the per student cost of education
and the taxes to pay for that education can be attributed,
in part, to the rate of population growth within a school
district. The lowest coats and taxes are found in those
school districts with the fastest growing populations. As
the...
Two strategic approaches to water quality control in Oregon's
Willamette River are presently being utilized: point source treatment
and flow augmentation. Dry weather releases from reservoirs are for
authorized purposes other than water quality. Reservoirs can participate
in pollution control by summer flow augmentation where authorized water
resource objectives (flood...
Harvest scheduling and stand level optimization have
generally been regarded as separable problems. Some
studies have attempted to jointly optimize a wide range of stand treatments and a forest wide harvest schedule using combinations of mathematical programming techniques. The mathematical programming forest level techniques presume perfect information on production, costs...
This study investigated a solution technique to shorten the calculation
time required for determining power losses of the different
resonant modes of oscillation in the Fabry-Perot optical cavity.
The first comprehensive analytic study of the Fabry-Perot
optical resonator was made by A. G. Fox and Tingye Li of Bell
Laboratories....
The basic objective of this thesis was to estimate the
economic effects of yield grade standards for carcass beef
on the various market sectors of the Canadian beef industry.
The adoption of the standards was expected to enhance
consumer demand, improve efficiency within the processing
and marketing services sectors, and...
Genetic code expansion (GCE) is a technology that allows us to incorporate noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) site-specifically into recombinant proteins using engineered translational machinery. Typically, an orthogonal aaRS/tRNA pair is engineered by directed evolution to recognize the ncAA and incorporate it at a reassigned codon while not interacting with the...
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) has been used extensively for motor control, DC-AC
converters, DC-DC converters and in audio applications. The conventional method of
generating a pulse width modulated signal involves generating an accurate sawtooth or triangle
wave using analog circuits. In CMOS, being analog circuit intensive puts extra constraints
on...
The ferritin-like superfamily (FLSF) of proteins is composed of a wide variety of functionally diverse proteins involved in oxygen dependent metal-mediated electron transfer reactions. Their biological importance is exemplified by the fact FLSF proteins are found in almost every organism from all three domains of life. Their functions range from...
Field experiments were conducted in 1981 and 1982 to
develop a method for using remotely measured leaf canopy-air
temperature differences (stress-degree-days (SDD)) to
schedule irrigations and to evaluate the effects of
differential irrigation on snap bean cultivars, 'Oregon
1604' and 'Galamor'. Effects on soil water potential
(SWP), leaf water potential...