Deposition of the Middle Devonian part of the Denay Limestone
and Bay State Dolomite in the northern Antelope Range and Fish
Creek Range, respectively, took place on and in front of a carbonate
platform with a lime sand shoal at the shelf edge. In the Givetian part
of the Denay...
This study investigated terminal and instrumental value
priorities of students in various majors within an academic
department. The investigator tested a sample of 99
volunteers of both sexes from several classes in the
department of Speech Communication at a major land grant
university by use of the Rokeach Value Survey....
This research solves the problem of connecting a Macintosh to a Unix machine and presenting the Macintosh Desktop to Unix. Unix Files can be viewed. copied. renamed and opened in the same manner as Macintosh files. Unix programs and shell commands can be defined and attached to Macintosh menus and...
This report describes the Graphical Editor part of DataLab, a visual programming tool for the specification and synthesis of abstract data types (ADTs). DataLab consists of two major components: graphical editor and source code generator. The graphical editor is used to design an abstract data structure and its operations by...
Along with the increased attention in the past two decades on the values of wetlands and the documentation of great losses of wetland acreage has been a growing need for a comprehensive assessment method for analyzing the functions of a wetland. Detailed site-specific study has been the traditional method for...
A project is described wherein a source code browser was implemented based upon tasks performed by software engineers looking for source code modules with only UNIX utilities. These tasks were discovered by observing the actions of software engineers looking for code modules in a library, The success of the implementation...
This research paper is limited to the User Interface of the modeling language of HELM (Hierarchical Environment for Linear Modeling). In attempt to better describe the user interface for HELM, some examples and portions of Carol Brown's report are included for ease of reading and a brief overview of the...
The loss of wetlands in the United States has been widely
publicized. Wetland conversions to agricultural production have been
responsible for a large percentage of wetland losses. Partially in
recognition of the agricultural cause for this wetland loss, Congress
promulgated the "swampbuster" provisions of the Food Security Act of
1985....
Nonpoint sources of pollution are being recognized
nationwide as a significant threat to groundwater quality.
In Oregon, groundwater supplies in several areas have been
affected by contamination possibly caused by nonpoint
sources associated with agricultural activities, on-site
sewage disposal, and inadequate hazardous materials
management in urban areas. State groundwater protection...
Landslide processes occurring on a hillslope in McDonald-Dunn
Forest on the eastern slope of the Oregon Coastal Range are
described in terms of type, magnitude. minimum age and site
characteristics. Debris flows and debris avalanches are the
dominant types of slope movement occurring in the study area.
Landslide events classified...
This study concentrates on threshold values for the two most popular control flow metrics: McCabe's cyclomatic complexity and the knot count. We describe the results of an experimental study to empirically determine a threshold value for knot count for student programmers. The experiment was designed to measure the interaction between...
This thesis discusses a special type of a versatile, distributed control system, the Taskmaster II. It includes a detailed specification of a readily realizable Taskmaster system utilizing a layered communication among units, oriented on the ISO OSI seven layer model. The specification was developed from the analysis of previous research...
Two experiments were conducted each with 768 Deka lb XL Single Comb
White Leghorn (SCWL) laying pullets for nine and eight 28-day periods to evaluate
the feeding value of yellow pea (YP) (Pisum sativum L. var. Miranda) without and
with, respectively, either 1.5 or 5% meat and bone meal (MB)...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a graphical user interface for construction and evaluation of influence diagrams. Specifically, this paper documents the representation, display and mouse sensitivity of an influence diagram, and the selection facility subsystem. The interface is designed to communicate with the user by a mouse...
This project explored one set of tools and procedures that
appeared to have the potential to make the handling of the spatial
data necessary for resource management more efficient and
effective. This project used data from the Nature Conservancy's
Lawrence Memorial Grassland Preserve and was designed to explore
a low...
The prevailing image of the Northwest at the
beginning of the nineteenth century, as portrayed on maps
published at the time, was based more on myth and wishful
thinking than on geographic fact. During the next fifty years
these myths were exploded as exploration of this previously
unknown territory progressed,...
The focus of this research is to design and develop a microcomputer-based information management and production planning system for a discrete parts manufacturing facility. The information management module is based on relational database concepts. This information is used by the scheduling module to generate initial production schedules based on manufacturing...
Soil erosion is a natural physical process. However
it can become a detrimental force when factors such as
infertile soils, steep topography and poor farming
practices are combined. An important initial aspect of
resource planning and/or soil conservation involves
locating areas where such potentially hazardous
combinations occur in the field....
The Sacagawea testbed has been designed to support testing and development of decision making models, and associated uncertainty management techniques, that are appropriate under real-time problem solving constraints. Conceptually, it provides a simulated temporal and spatial environment, the latter consisting of a terrain grid of elevation and tree cover data,...
The Sacagawea testbed has been designed to support testing and development of decision making models, and associated uncertainty management techniques, that are appropriate under real-time problem solving constraints. Conceptually, it provides a simulated temporal and spatial environment, the latter consisting of a terrain grid of elevation and tree cover data,...
The 1988 Oregon Supreme Court decision in 1000 Friends of
Oregon v. LCDC (Lane Co.) made it very difficult to allow dwelling
units in forest zones. Because of this the Oregon Land
Conservation and Development Commission has been prompted to
revise the state's forest goal in order to allow forest...
In this project we have attempted to exploit the parallel programming features of a Sequent Balance multiprocessor to improve the performance of a Smalltalk interpreter. The block construct and the fork message together make Smalltalk a 'natural' parallel programming language. We describe how processes can be created from within the...
This paper will discuss some of the pressing issues and critical problems pertaining to the resources of the northern coast of Java and some alternative management strategies that may be applicable for the region. Some conclusions and recommendations are presented at the end of this paper.
Increasing demand for exploitation of natural resources
in federal-municipal watersheds in the Western United
States has caused conflicts involving municipalities, the
U.S. Forest Service, and community interest groups. Better
understanding of the resource management process is needed
to help resolve these conflicts.
The objectives of this study were to document...
Parallel computers have generated a great deal of excitement and interest in the computer industry as well as the computer user industries. Parallel computers offer the promise of enormous gains in computing speeds by allowing multiple processors to work on different pieces of the same problem at the same time....
Summary of results. After implementing the plain ID3 algorithm, I experimented with
various modifi cations. Two improvements of the process of finding a legal phoneme/stress
could be made by using statistical information about the letter to phoneme/stress-mapping
in the training set.
Adding the CHI-SQUARE test to the ID3 algorithm was...
Several problems with user interface design and implementation have been identified: (1) user interfaces are difficult and time-consuming to design and implement; (2) most user interface management systems (UIMS) are themselves difficult to use by a programmer; (3) UIMS's have not been integrated with other tools that support structured design,...
This report presents a graphical tool for implementation of the scheduling heuristics provided by Kruatrachue. The input of scheduling is a task graph and the output is a schedule in the form of a Gantt chart. The implemented scheduling heuristics are: 1) Hu's HLF (highest level first) algorithm. 2) Yu's...
Many of the analytical techniques that are currently available are not capable of
analyzing the offtracking of truck and trailer combinations or the path of load overhangs
through a set of curves that are commonly found on forest roads. Advances in the
processing speed of microcomputers have made it possible...
The purpose of this paper is to define terrain analysis, as it relates to
military applications; to review the historical development of the central ideas
of terrain analysis, which has led to the development of three computer
programs that are designed to make terrain analysis an automated process
rather than...
This research was undertaken to examine the symbolism
surrounding the sweatlodge and how it pertained to women in
Native American cultures. After an extensive literature
search I determined that there was little or no information
concerning the use of the sweatlodge by women. The goal of
the research was an...
This study traces British government policies with regard to Palestine from the time the British Expeditionary Forces under General Allenby invested Jerusalem in December 1917 to the imposition of the Mandate with Britain as the Mandatory power, which came into effect on July 22, 1922. The first chapter provides an...
Current gross categorical models of classification for human
behavior are unsatisfactory, a science by consensus that is
unreliable, invalid, and gives rise to psychological tests that
use sophisticated statistics to poorly mirror diagnoses that are
already unreliable and without scientific validity. Both for
diagnosis and progress in therapy, current diagnostic...
Between 1900 and 1920 women were responsible for much of the social and
political activity in the United States. Recent work by feminist historians has revealed
that women were interested in a broad range of issues at the turn of the twentieth
century. The American Left addressed such issues as...
Twenty-four woven Pre-Columbian textiles in the
Apparel, Interiors and Merchandising Department (AIM) of
Oregon State University were reported to be from Ancon,
Peru. A methodology was developed to confirm the exact
provenance of the AIM textiles. Technical fabrication
characteristics were utilized to describe certain known
Ancon woven textiles and to...
TRIALS OF FORM: TWO ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SELVES: I. Letters from Ruth: Since the 1950s, my grandmother's children have been
scattered across the nation from the family farm in Iowa. My
family came to Oregon in the early '60s. Since then, my
grandmother has kept track of all her children...
Great change has taken place in China during the
past decade. As core values represent the most basic
aspects of social life, change in some aspects of Chinese
core values indicates that China is moving rapidly from
being an agricultural society toward becoming a modern
industrial society. China today can...
Multiobjective Decision Making (MODM) has been
suggested for the solution of complicated decision
problems. Decision analysis in numerous areas, including
industrial energy and environmental planning, necessarily
requires consideration of multiple conflicting
objectives. MODM has been successfully applied to
a number of these problems of this type. Moreover, it
has the...
Recent statistics have indicated a significant loss of
wetland area to agricultural conversion has occurred in the second
half of this century in the continental United States. Wetlands in
the Tualatin Valley were examined for consistency with this trend.
Acreage of non-linear palustrine wetlands in five classes were
calculated for...
The purpose of this paper is to review and assess the
management issues and policies associated with NIPF. The
characteristics and landowner objectives of nonindustrial
private forests in western Oregon will be reviewed. The conventional view of the NIPF "problem" will be examined and an alternative view will be discussed....
The performance of pull factors for total retail sales in Oregon's
nonmetropolitan counties during the economic cycle of boom, bust, and recovery
of the early 1980s is examined for geographic patterns. One regional pattern and
several county patterns are identified and discussed. Counties having the highest
and lowest pull factors,...
Automated Storage and Retrieval (AS/R) Systems
have had a considerable impact on manufacturing and
distribution processes. The configuration of AS/R systems
vary considerably, depending on the particular application.
The effect of different retrieval scheduling rules
is analyzed and compared for three different unit-load
AS/R systems operating under dual-command cycle. The...
Marketing cooperatives that operate on a pool basis allocate net returns on the basis of the "economic value" of the raw products each member has delivered. Economic values ideally reflect the raw products' expected contributions to pool net return. In a competitive market, raw product prices would reflect these expected...
The literature defines a displaced homemaker as a
woman who has worked primarily without remuneration to
care for the home and family (U.S. Congress, 1977).
Federally funded displaced homemaker programs are
provided to help these women move from dependency to
self-sufficiency (Displaced Homemakers Network, 1986).
The purpose of this study...
Advanced computer architectures are centered around the parallel computer systems. This project is focused on the experiment on two parallel computer architectures : Sequent Balance 21000 shared memory multiprocessor and Cogent XTM distributed system.
A set of benchmark programs are implemented using "C" language and Dynix parallel programming library on...
A study of the effects of public use airport designation vs private use airport
designation of Langmack Field in Sweet Home, Oregon was conducted. Langmack Field is a
small utility airport located in the middle of a residentially zoned area. The effects
of designation on the following groups were analyzed:...
The Los Alamos Solar Design Methodology is used to predict the performance of
three hypothetical solar homes situated in the Willamette Valley. The three
homes all used a sunspace for supplemental heating and differed only in their
level of heat loss. Results obtained indicate that a sunspace can contribute up...
The direction and scope of this research paper follows closely an earlier
sampling study conducted by Behm and Pease (1985). In this pilot project, the
authors employed a two-stage random sampling method in determining land use
estimates. Anderson's land use classification system was used for data
categorization (Table 1). The...
Noise induced hearing loss is a subject of growing
concern. Over the past 15 years, several well-documented
studies have been completed which express the relationships
between industrial noise exposure and damage to normal and
pathological ears. This research has provided knowledge of
considerable importance to developing successful hearing
conservation programs....
Effective chemical control of pollination would
provide an alternative to the cytoplasmic male-sterile
system in hybrid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production.
The objective of this study was to determine
concentration, formulation, growth stage of application
and genotypic effects on levels of induced pollen
suppression and subsequent natural out-crossing from
foliar...
Elk River is a sixth order stream, draining a 200 square
kilometer basin in the Klainath Mountain province of
southwestern Oregon. Timber harvesting began in the basin
during the 1950's, with peak removal of wood occurring in the
mid to late 1960's. This activity lead to an increase in the...
This Marine Resource Management masters project was published as NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS OMA 42: A review and summary of trace contaminant data for coastal and estuarine Oregon. The attached document is an excerpt of the entire report.
Stella Bridge is a program for converting mathematical models designed with STELLA For Business into object-based source programs written in Pascal. The input to Stella Bridge is a series of tables1 functions, and initial conditions generated by STELLA For Business. The output from Stella Bridge is a collection of Pascal...
Twelve days of microstructure measurements at the equator (140°W) in November 1984 showed a
surprisingly strong effect of both the daily cycle of solar heating and wind on mixing in the upper ocean.
Because of limited variations in atmospheric forcing and currents during the experiment, processes in the
daily mixing...
In 1968, Congress passed the Wild and Scenic River Act
creating a system of rivers protected from dams and other
development. By 1987, segments of four Oregon rivers were
protected by the Wild and Scenic River System: the Rogue,
Illinois, Owyhee, and a portion of the Snake along the
Idaho...
The Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa, are subject to violent precipitation events that cause extensive soil erosion and degradation of the landscape. A systematic approach to the collection, analysis, and dissemination of hydrophysical and geographic data was needed to effectively analyze the cause and effect variables...
During the summer of 1986, an archaeological testing project was
completed at seven prehistoric campsites primarily located in the
upper Deschutes River Basin of central Oregon. Testing was focused on
two low-density "lithic scatters", an archaelogical site type which is
especially abundant in this obsidian-rich region but which, to date,...
An industry panel tasting of wine from the 1987 Pinot noir maturity trials (see previous article by Watson et al this issue) was conducted at OSU in April, 1988. Thirteen winemakers participated in the half-day tasting which involved both the description of the aroma and flavor of the wines and...
In 1983, our research group took on the task of answering the question: What are the characteristics of available Pinot noir clones in Oregon? Our main resources in this effort were the OSU Mother Block and two cooperative clonal trials at Knudsen Erath (KE) and Five Mountain Vineyards( 5M). Information...
One of the most important decisions growers make is the choice of planting stock. The right variety and clone matched to the right site is a solid foundation for success. But choosing planting stock involves more than choosing the genetic make-up of the grape. Grapes are hosts to a large...
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Western Orchard Pest and Disease Management Conference, held January 11-13, 1989 at the Imperial Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
Hansen, Gayle I. 1989. Nori farming in Anacortes, Washington: a political dilemma. A poster presented at the 13th International Seaweed Symposium (Vancouver, British Columbia) and the 4th Northwest Algal Symposium (Rosario Beach, Washington). In 1987, the off-shore cultivation of the nutritious seaweed, nori or Porphyra (Pyropia), had been studied intensely...
This is an attempt to deal with interface problems of interacting modules in a large simulation system.
In simulation, scientists require routine substitution of modules for comparison of alternative models. These changes have propagating side affects and from a programmer's point of view are essentially system redesigns.
This paper presents...
Oregon Speedcode Universe (OSU) is a rapid prototyping system that provides a total environment for creating applications. Given such a vacuous prototyping system consisting of sequenced user interface objects can domain specific application functions be incorporated? Furthermore, can functionality be added by automatic or semi automatic techniques? This research attempts...
This paper describes a real time garbage collection algorithm. It allocates storage automatically from a heap, and does not require the programmer to give any indication that particular items are no longer useful or accessible. A garbage collection algorithm is considered to be real time if the amount of work...
One of the most popular topologies is the hypercube, that has n = 2ᵏ processors, numbered 0 to 2ᵏ -1 and connected in such a way that there is a link between any two if and only if they differ in one bit. Its popularity is due to the fact...
We have identified a "book paradigm" for source code formatting which improves program comprehension and assists in maintenance work. The book paradigm can be implemented by reverse engineering code listings into a "book" with preface, tab1es of contents, chapters, sections, indices and pagination. This reverse engineering effectively reorganizes source code...
Object oriented programming features information hiding and encapsulation, meaning that 1) each object hides the the implementation details tram access from outside and only a set of methods (interface routines) are visible outside of the object, and 2) changes to the implementation of the object do not require changes to...
This paper addresses the problem of aggregating a number of expert opinions which have been expressed in some numerical form. An important feature of sets of expert opinions is the possibility of stochastic dependence between members of the sets. We develop an approach for combining expert opinions which formally allows...
There is disagreement about the role and importance of typographic style (source code formatting and commenting) in program comprehension. Results from experiments and opinions in programming style books are mixed.
This paper presents principles of typographic style consistent and compatible with the results of program comprehension studies. It introduces the...
Within a decade, the amount of raw data acquired each day by satellite -based instrumentation will exceed 1 terabyte (10¹² bytes). Virtually all quantitative data acquired about the Earth is useful [10]. Processing the raw data into useful information will be an enormous task . Much of the current data...
In a manufacturing system, machines, robots and storage areas are used as serially-reusable resources. If the usage of these resources is not properly controlled, deadlocks may occur. In this paper, we present a simple deadlock prevention method for a linear manufacturing line. Our deadlock prevention method can be implemented simply...
Our thesis is that data parallel programs can be translated into programs that execute efficiently on a variety of architectures. Currently we are focusing on the data parallel programming language C*, developed by Thinking Machines Corporation for the Connection Machine processor array. Previous papers have described our design of a...
We describe a. new approach to implementing functions as first class values. Using this technique, there is no additional overhead imposed for the most common case, that of non-nested functions bound at compile time. Invoking function values assigned to variables requires two additional instructions. It is only when functions are...
Crops were grown at the experimental farms using accepted cultural practices within the limits of experimentation or trials were conducted on growers' fields. Most experiments were designed as randomized complete blocks with two to five replications. Herbicide treatments were applied uniformly with precision plot sprays or granular formulations were distributed...
The theme for the 1989 Starker Lectures concerned uncertainty surrounding forests and forestry in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. It was a timely theme.
Indeed, the uncertainties concerning trade-offs among commodity production
and environment and the allocation of forest land, especially public lands, loom large as we enter the decade...
We present an extended mapping in the Hybrid Uncertainty Manager so that all the components of an influence diagram can be represented. This will allow us to perform decision analysis on a decision problem. Specifically, a representation for decision nodes, value node, and informational arcs will be given. With these...
This paper describes the program transformation method used in DataLab, a general-purpose system for the specification and synthesis of abstract data types (ADTs). We present a model for transforming visual specifications of ADTs to imperative code. This model includes two forms of internal representations: one for the ADTs visual specifications...
This report includes information concerning experimental use of unregistered pesticides or unregistered uses of pesticides. Experimental results should not be interpreted as recommendations for use. Use of unregistered materials or use of any registered pesticides inconsistent with its label is against both Federal Law and State Law.
Poor budbreak and shoot growth were observed in Pinot noir in the Willamette Valley during the spring of 1988. The disorder was determined to be Early Temporary Boron Deficiency. This disorder generally occurs in California following dry fall weather. The fall of 1987 was one of the driest on record...
The phrase "canopy management" has recently become trendy in many New World grapegrowing areas. Interestingly enough, the concepts are not new and are generally acknowledged in Old World viticulture, though often these empirical observations are misinterpreted, as we will soon show. It was Nelson Shaulis of Cornell University who developed...
The late winter cold front in early February 1989 brought significant snowfall and low temperatures to all of Oregon viticulture and caused considerable vine damage in the northeastern and in some western valleys of Oregon. The lateness of this winter freeze was unusual since most winter damage in the Pacific...
Zinc and boron deficiencies are the most widespread micronutrient problems in California vineyards and thus have received the most attention in developing correction measures. Iron and manganese deficiencies are much less common and recommendations for their corrections are largely derived from experience in other viticultural areas and on other crops.
By now, all members of the Oregon Wine and Grape industry are familiar with the concern expressed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) over the presence of the compound ethyl carbamate, popularly called urethane, in wine. This material has been demonstrated to induce cancer in laboratory...