Recent years have witnessed extensive destruction of forest growth,
particularly of pine, spruce, and chestnut, in portions of the United
States east of the Rocky Mountains. This injury has been very
generally attributed to insects, and there is evidence that certain
wood and bark-boring species have largely contributed to the...
A biographical study of Denison Olmsted, focusing upon his
own Christian world view and its connection with his various
activities in science, supports the view that religion served as a
significant factor in the promotion of science in America during this
time period. Olmsted taught physics, meteorology and astronomy
at...
This thesis describes a control tool for managers of a
Broiler Breeder Farm, a farm which raises chickens for the purpose
of fertile egg production. It presents the development of
a simulation of a Broiler Breeder Farm which uses a deterministic
step by step process to generate expected values of...