This thesis will look at Paul Jensen while he was an education professor at Western Oregon State College in Monmouth, Oregon, and his role in Alaska Native education while working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Dr. Jensen's work coincided with the last twenty-five years of Bureau of Indian Affairs...
Detailed phytosociological and physical data were gathered from six grass-fern balds in the Oregon Coast Range, Monmouth Peak, Grass Mountain, Prairie Peak, Roman Nose Mountain, Tyee Mountain, and Saddle Mountain. Panchromatic and color infrared air photography guided sampling within individual balds. The resultant floristic data was manipulated by a Braun-Blanquet...
The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...
In the economic literature on fisheries management complete information
is normally assumed. In reality fishermen have more information than the
regulatory authority. In the present paper a principal-agent approach is
applied to analyse management with a tax on fishing days under
asymmetric information about the skill of fishermen (productivity) and...
Illegal extraction is a serious issue in many renewable resource industries, such as fisheries and forestry. This traditional approach is to model the resource firm as one cohesive unit or an individual. However, in many cases violations are not committed by an individual, but by agents acting on behalf of...
Quotas or permits are frequently used in the management of renewable resources and emissions. However, in many industries there is concern about the basic effectiveness of quotas due to noncompliance. We develop an enforcement model of a quota-regulated resource and focus on a situation with significant non-compliance and exogenous constraints...
In this paper we discuss dynamic adjustment paths towards economic optimal steady-state equilibrium in a fishery where two species interact through a traditional predator-prey relation. We set-up a general bio-economic predator-prey model based on the assumption that fishing effort is a public input applied when exploiting the fish stocks. By...
Our confidence in software systems depends on our confidence in the exhaustiveness of our testing. As software systems get more complex, the task of exhaustive testing becomes more complex and even infeasible in some cases. In order to build less error prone systems, we therefore need to not only focus...
Beaversource provides both code-hosting tools and social networking in one place. Students and faculty at Oregon State University have been using Beaversource to host their projects, both for classwork and research. Several usability problems were reported in a survey conducted on Beaversource last year. Some of these issues were severe...
The "Framework for Determining the Suitability of Undeveloped
Land for Use as Cropland" is a decision-making format to assist private
and governmental agency decision makers in categorizing undeveloped
lands, which have been identified as having potential for conversion
to cropland, as to their suitability for use as cropland. The
Framework...
