This thesis advocates the use of maximum likelihood analysis for generalized
regression models with measurement error in a single explanatory variable. This will be
done first by presenting a computational algorithm and the numerical details for carrying
out this algorithm on a wide variety of models. The computational methods will...
Modifications of an ocean model are described, as the objective for which the model was used changed to study the kinematics and dynamics of an eastern-boundary poleward undercurrent.
Aggregation equations have been used to model phenomena such as insect swarming and chemotaxis. Previous work on aggregation equations in the area of analysis applied to PDE has proven well-posedness of certain classes of aggregation equations in Lebesgue spaces. We will prove local existence of solutions in H^1 to an...
Relieving phosphorus loading is a key management tool for controlling Lake Erie eutrophication. During the
1960s and 1970s, increased phosphorus inputs degraded water quality and reduced central basin hypolimnetic
oxygen levels which, in turn, eliminated thermal habitat vital to cold-water organisms and contributed to the
extirpation of important benthic macroinvertebrate...
Dried cattail and bulrush plant pieces in mesh bags were incubated in the
constructed wetland treating Pope & Talbot pulp mill effluent. Two ponds
planted with each species and two depth ranges in each pond were chosen, to
determine decomposition rates. Bags were withdrawn and analyzed at five time
points...
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Coastal communities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW) are rapidly engaging with the idea that hazards and environmental pressures are changing and may be characteristically different in the near future. This has led to a need for scientific knowledge and tools that can help coastal communities prepare and build resilience...
Oregon College of Education (OCE) is a small, liberal arts college with a special emphasis on the preparation of teachers. Its student population is predominantly from Oregon's Willamette Valley area. OCE developed specific objectives for its teacher education program and the purpose of this study was to determine whether the...
Altitudinal variations in upland regions of the earth create
variable climatic zones and conditions. Plant and animal
communities must adapt to these conditions, and when they reach
their tolerance limits for environmental conditions at the upper
levels of a zone, they cease to exist in the environment. Humans
also utilize...
This dissertation presents some results from various areas of probability theory, the unifying theme being the use of functional analytic intuition and techniques. We first give a result regarding the existence of certain stochastic integral representations for Banach space valued Gaussian random variables. Next we give a spectral geometric construction...