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  • In situ Agrobiodiversity Conservation Planning in Centers of Origin: The Role of Culture

    Creator:
    Guerrero Ochoa, Isabel G.
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    Managing agricultural diversity ensures a range of public services, such as genetic resource diversity, food security for subsistence-based economies, and landscape resilience in the context of climate change, among others. These agrobiodiversity conservation services are positive externalities from agrobiodiversity conservation. Whereas their value is not captured in market transactions, management...
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    Dissertation
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    : ______________________________________________________ Christian A. Langpap Managing agricultural diversity ensures a range of

  • Balancing Timber Production and Conservation in the Oregon Coast Range: an Examination of the Response by Birds and Bird-induced Ecosystem Services to Forest Management at Multiple Scales

    Creator:
    Harris, Scott H.
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    Society derives many critical and irreplaceable values from forests. With a growing global human population and rates of consumption, forests are under increasing pressure to provide all these values simultaneously. To meet societal demands for wood products, tree plantations are becoming increasingly common and are replacing native forests. Yet, forests...
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    Dissertation
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    bare-root nursery Douglas-fir at approximately 1,100 trees/ha (Kroll et al. 2017). Figures A.1 and A

  • Sound and Vibration Analysis of Alternative Rumble Strips

    Creator:
    Horne, Dylan Ross
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    Roadway departure crashes accounted for 18,275 fatal crashes in 2017 across the United States (Jones et al. 2017). Rumble strips (RS) provide audible and haptic interior alert when a vehicle is departing the roadway reducing run-off-the road crashes. Although inexpensive to install, and easy to maintain, RS are not installed...
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    Dissertation
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    alert when a vehicle is departing the roadway reducing run-off-the road crashes. Although

  • Global Overview of the Cross-Laminated Timber Industry

    Creator:
    Albee, Raquel R.
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    The global Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) industry has changed dramatically within the past decade, with expansion outside of its start in Alpine Europe. The societal focus on more sustainable options within the built environment has led to an increased use of mass timber construction and its products including cross-laminated timber. Examining...
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    Masters Thesis
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    codes. Currently within the Pacific Northwest, Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), a species with

  • Snow Grain Evolution in Forested and Open Regions – Implications for Remote Sensing

    Creator:
    Weiss, Sydney G.
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    Snow water equivalent (SWE) is a critical measurement in hydrology and water resources management. Microwave remote sensing can estimate snow water equivalent (SWE). However, the algorithms used to estimate SWE require snow grain size information. Thus, determining snow grain size is pertinent to estimate SWE. Currently, there are several models...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : Anne W. Nolin Snow water equivalent (SWE) is a critical measurement in hydrology and water

  • A Metaheuristic Approach for Facilities Location with Balanced Allocation of Customers

    Creator:
    Nippaya, Dheeraporn
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    Organizations are constantly looking for innovative strategies to face more stringent competitive environments and the ever increasing market globalization. An alternative these organizations can pursue to respond to these challenges is to optimize their supply chain network (SCN). Important considerations when optimizing a SCN involve determining locations for plants and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Title: A Metaheuristic Approach for Facilities Location with Balanced Allocation of Customers

  • Numerical Investigations on Sewer Geysers

    Creator:
    Choi, YunJi
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    A sewer geyser is a series of ejecting air-water mixture eruptions through vertical shafts of drainage systems. In field observed geyser incidents, manhole covers were blown into the air and they were followed by ejecting air-water mixture eruptions that lasted for several seconds at a time. Trapped air in sewer...
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    Dissertation
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    Investigations on Sewer Geysers Abstract approved: Arturo S. Leon Sourabh V. Apte A sewer geyser is a series

  • Determining optimal timber harvest and fuel treatment on a fire-threatened landscape using approximate dynamic programming

    Creator:
    Lauer, Christopher Joseph
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    Forest management in the face of fire risk is a challenging problem because fire spreads across a landscape and because its occurrence is unpredictable. Additionally, management must be adjusted over time as unpredictable fire events are realized. Land managers have some control over the vegetation conditions that facilitate fire spread,...
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    Dissertation
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    . Title: Determining optimal timber harvest and fuel treatment on a fire-threatened forest landscape

  • Sustainable energy for Galena, Alaska: Timber Harvest Management Plan

    Creator:
    Kalke, Timothy R.
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    Increased energy costs have prompted the rural village of Galena, Alaska to explore viable alternatives for heat and power generation. Continued dependency on petroleum products will cause the community’s economic driving force, the Galena Interior Learning Academy (GILA), to face uncertain operability. A wood-fired boiler is scheduled to be installed,...
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    Capstone Project
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    , encouragement and ability to provide a simple solution for the most convoluted problems. I would like to

  • A supply chain model for optimizing fixed and mobile bio-oil refineries on a regional scale

    Creator:
    Mirzaie, Pantea
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    The use of fossil fuels and their related impact on the environment and global warming have encouraged societies to pursue more sustainable and renewable alternatives, e.g., forest-based bio-oil. Thus, a vital need to decrease the level of greenhouse gas emissions and the tendency of nations to reduce their dependency on...
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    Masters Thesis
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    A Supply Chain Model for Optimizing Fixed and Mobile Bio-Oil