Best available copy. In 1984, longstanding concerns about pollution in Yaquina Bay impelled the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make a comprehensive sanitary survey of the Yaquina River, with particular emphasis on areas where oysters were grown. The report states that the oyster plots endured "sporadic poor water quality,"...
The Purpose of the Study:
The primary purpose of this study was to compare the clerical
office occupations teachers' and business employers' perceptions of
the competencies important for a high school graduate to possess for
an entry-level clerical office job in Oregon. A secondary purpose
was to determine the best...
Cigarette smoking continues to be one of the country's major health
concerns. It has been defined as the single largest preventable cause of
disease and death in the United States. Although research has indicated that
overall cigarette consumption has decreased in the nation over the past
decades, cigarette smoking remains...
A great deal of responsibility accompanies the
person who becomes an academic department chairperson.
However, the new department chairperson is often a temporary
occupant of the chair and will return to a
teaching faculty role within a relatively short period
of time. In addition, there are few training programs
in...
A computer program called SAPWOOD which possesses the
capability of performing linear or nonlinear, static or
dynamic response including seismic excitation for wood-framed
buildings with semirigid connection systems is
presented in this study. Program SAPWOOD is a modification
of the program NONSAP by adding new elements such as a
linkage...
A heuristic is developed to plan loads for containerized cargo ships. It is designed to serve a port which uses gantry cranes (transtainers) and trucks to handle containers. The model recognizes constraints on ship stability, placing containers in a bay with the proper length, placing refrigerated cargo near electrical outlets,...
Rocks are defined as aggregates or mixtures of minerals; rocks also include noncrystalline materials such as the natural glasses, and organic material such as coal. Rocks are found ready-made in nature. They are not homogeneous nor are they crystalline, although they may be made up of crystalline material. The composition...
Revised 1976 and 1985. Reprinted July 1987. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
FISHNET (Facilities Integrated in a Shared Habitat) is a communication subnet architecture utilizing a hybrid application of point-topoint and broadcast communications to achieve a high degree of network performance. This objective is achieved through utilizing a dual bus structure: a data bus and a control bus. The data bus consists...
The association of hyaluronic acid (HA) into a double stranded
structure has been investigated by circular dichroism (CD)
spectroscopy into the vacuum ultraviolet region. The CD of HA changes
dramatically, monitoring a cooperative transition as the dielectric
constant of an aqueous solution is reduced by adding organic solvents.
This structural...
At the May 19, 1982 meeting of the Governing Council of the
United Nations Environment Program, Kenya President Daniel Arap
Moi summarized a growing international feeling that there is a
need for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to get more
involved in international conservation efforts with the following
statement:
"The issue before...
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...
This study focuses on the development of a methodology
to evaluate safeguardability of various processes in the
nuclear fuel cycle.
National and international implementation of safeguards
systems has been investigated. It was concluded that
proliferation is purely a political question that,
hopefully, can be prevented by international norms and
diplomacy;...
An automated instrument based on a single-board microcomputer
was developed for use in voltammetric analyses. Operator input of
numerous experiment parameters allows any type of voltammetric
analysis to be implemented and multiple scans to be run unattended.
A three operational amplifier potentiostat is used to control
the cell voltage and...
A model was developed that allows potential users to identify
the agricultural suitability of parcels of land in western Oregon.
Literature was reviewed regarding five possible benefits to be
derived from public policies designed to preserve productive agricultural
land. They are (1) the provision of sufficient cropland
to supply the...
A model is developed that allows the prediction of the stress-strain
distribution in a mixed carbide sphere pac fuel pin during
irradiation. The model is coupled with a previously developed model
for the thermal behavior of the pin. The one-dimensional (radial at
various axial locations) solution is for quasi-steady pin...
This paper describes the design and implementation of
"A multiprocessor node for communication and control"
(MPCC). MPCC is a high speed, high performance local area
network capable of performing real time control tasks. This
is achieved by the concurrent operation of two 8051
microcontrollers, a dual port RAM and the...
The fish processing industry is the most important
industry in Iceland. The single most important
processing method is quickfreezing, and the major market
is in the United States. With increasing competition in
the market from countries like Canada, productivity of
fish processing plants is becoming increasingly
important.
This research focuses...
A two stage area-point sampling design was tested to estimate land
use change in a fast growth county. Random square miles were selected,
then subsampled at a density of 20 points per square mile. Twelve land
use categories were derived from an aggregation of the USGS Land Use!
Land Cover...
The major purpose of this study was to develop and
test a procedural model for assessing work group effectiveness in a community college. The model required a
process to identify differences and commonalities among
work groups perceived to be effective and those perceived
to be less effective. In addition, this...
Rapid Prototyping is a technique that has been created to alleviate some of the problems inherent in the traditional approach to software development. Various prototyping techniques currently employed are presented. The user interface aspect of system design is studied and where the benefit of prototyping user interfaces lies is shown....
A rule based transformational model for program development and a metatool based on the above model is presented. The meta-tool can be instantiated to create various program development tools such as tools for building reusable software components, language directed editors, language to language translators, program instrumentation, structured document generator, and...
Some elementary teachers want to be more child-centered in their
teaching. They are trying to consider the needs of the students
before the coverage of curriculum. Much of the inspiration for this
educational approach has come from the British primary schools.
The purpose of this study was to see if...
This study Is a rhetorical analysis of ten documents of Joseph
Smith, Jr's. early revelations spanning the period of 1829 to 1831
to determine the extent to which he used demagogic rhetoric in pursuit
of his goals. A definition of demagoguery is provided and is
applied in an analysis of...
The purpose of this study was to determine the
effects of an experimental approach to English language
acquisition among preschool children attending
low-cost community kindergartens in Singapore. Group
and sex differences in the performance of four language
tasks, as well as the effect of the interaction
between group and sex...
Tinnitus is usually accompanied by a hearing loss; however, many
patients with tinnitus present with normal hearing. The hypothesis
was proposed that individuals with tinnitus who do not have an accompanying
peripheral hearing loss, have tinnitus as a result of a disorder
in the Central Auditory Nervous System. In order...
An analytical model of the radiative contribution to the
total heat transfer between a large-particle (greater
than 1 mm) gas-fluidized bed and an immersed horizontal
tube is discussed. The model is applied to the case of a
bubbling bed and the emulsion phase contribution is obtained from a detailed analysis...
A model was developed for analysis of the soil water balance of
individual reforestation sites in western Oregon. The numerical
procedure for this model was programmed in compiled BASIC language and
calculations for an entire season are made in about 180 seconds on an
IBM AT microcomputer.
The processes that...
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Western Orchard Pest and Disease Management Conference, held January 16-18, 1980 at the Imperial Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
To determine whether there were differences between foreign (Arab) and American student attitudes toward academic dishonesty in Oregon State University, a seventy-eight item questionnaire designed by Kirk, (1970) was adapted and administered to two hundred and eighty Arab and American graduate and undergraduate students. Three aspects of academic dishonesty were...
The extensive and expanding use of radioactive materials
(RAM) in the production of power, industry, the healing
arts, and various branches of research has inevitably
resulted in a sizable increase of hazardous material
transportation in the state of Oregon. The location of the
Hanford facility just north of the Oregon...
Modern agricultural erosion was studied using ¹³⁷Cs from
fallout as an indicator of erosion/deposition. The study area was a
285 ha agricultural watershed in the hilly western margin of the
Willamette Valley, a high winter rainfall zone in which fall-planted
crops are commonly grown.
Objectives of the study were (i)...
The United States has had a long history of promoting agricultural exports, and the return to conditions of extreme surplus in many agricultural markets in recent years has revived interest in this topic. Some products received imperial bounties during our colonial era, but the systematic collection of trade statistics for...
Published February 1987. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Cuphea laminuligera Koehne and Cuphea lutea Rose in Koehne are
undomesticated species having potential as oilseed crops. Genetic
markers and mating systems have not been described for these
species. Our objectives were to survey these species for allozyme
variation, analyze the segregation and linkage of polymorphic loci,
estimate autofertility and...
This study develops an econometric acreage response model for wheat in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, and Idaho) and tests several alternative specifications of risk and their effects on wheat acreage response. Results indicate that the existence of a significant relationship between risk and wheat acreage response depends on the...
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,...
This paper corrects an apparent deficiency in the published
information concerning Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) by
introducing and discussing an approach for selecting an HDL for
use in a design project. Although three classes of HDLs are discussed
in this paper, High-Level Languages (HLLs), General Purpose
Simulation Languages (GPSLs) and...