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If you build it, will they come? Evolution towards the application of multi-dimensional GIS to fisheries-oceanography

Creator:

Vance, Tiffany C.

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The development of new technologies in science is a balance between existence and use. There are three versions of this duality – something is built and users come, something is built and users don’t come, and, finally, potential users show up but the ballpark has not yet been built. In...

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Dissertation
The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

Creator:

Swanner, Leandra

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This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...

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Masters Thesis

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accelerators at Stanford dated back to the work of Assistant Professor William Hansen, a member of the
Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

Creator:

Paullin, Pamela K.

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Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s...

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Masters Thesis

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industry culture (Vaughn 1985; Rock 1986; Franzen 1992). Considering the importance of the timber