This ethnographic study was conducted among the Meo community of north India
to understand cultural norms, prescriptive behaviors, and practices associated with
conceptions and contraception among Meo women and men liv ...
This exploratory investigation aimed to identify preservice science teachers'
conceptions of the nature of science (NOS), and worldviews that represent their
culturally dependent beliefs about the world, in the context ...
This thesis explores the genesis of the ecoregion concept,
examines the conceptual development of ecoregion classification
systems, investigates applications of ecoregion classification
systems for a broad range of pu ...
The concept of large-scale natural resources planning and
management is not new. The idea that resources and their human users occur as systems over large geographic areas has a long established tradition in forest, ran ...
Although much effort has been invested to build applications that support group
work, collaborative applications have not found easy success. The cost of adopting and
maintaining collaborative applications has prevente ...
Women entrepreneurs are an economic force within the American and Oregon
economy. Women are starting businesses at two to five times the rate of
men. There has been significant research detailing the demographics, barr ...
Traditional simulation languages and simulators do not
fully support the need to design, modify, and extend
simulation models of manufacturing systems, especially,
material handling systems. Since AGV systems, one typ ...
The traditional Hicks-Allen theory was presented and modified
by (1) formulating the consumer's budget constraint with a weak
inequality, (2) deriving the Slutsky equation in matrix notation and
(3) demonstrating that ...
Concurrent error detection (CED) is the detection of errors or faults in a
circuit or data path concurrent with normal operation of that circuit. The general
approach for CED is to calculate a check symbol for the inpu ...
Computing agents require state information to make coherent and useful decisions. A state representation is a numerical translation of the environment and conditions that are pertinent factors in an agent's decision mak ...
Globally intermittent turbulence is characterized by sudden switching from
significant turbulence to weak turbulence and back on time scales ranging from
seconds to tens of minutes as opposed to microscale intermittenc ...
Research was conducted near the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range in
northeastern Oregon. Effects of defoliating bluebunch wheatgrass (Agropyron
spicatum (Pursh) Scribn. and Smith) to increase the quality of regrow ...
Because forage quality of cool season grasses declines to sub-maintenance levels for ruminants late in the growing season in the northern Great Basin, there is a need to elevate protein levels and digestibility of grasse ...
Obtaining accurate estimates of animal abundance is made difficult by the fact that most
animal species are detected imperfectly. Early attempts at building likelihood models that
account for unknown detection probabil ...
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 f ...
Ireland's Catholic Church played an important role in the turn-of-the-century nationalism that shaped James Joyce's identity and writing; yet it also played an important part in preventing that nationalism from achieving ...
MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles
and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more
commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and
man ...