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Creator:: Ding, Fei-fei
Abstract:: This thesis presents my research on the hardware and software for control of a novel robot based on the Stewart Platform. The robot has six actuators which must be adjusted to arrive at the desired position of the platform. This position must be specified by six position parameters; namely the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: suggestions, this thesis would have amounted to little. Thanks are also extended to Professor F. T. Lindstrom

Creator:: Overholtz, William Joseph
Abstract:: Questions of assemblage persistence, resiliency arid continuity in time were investigated with data from seasonal bottom trawl surveys conducted by the Northeast Fisheries Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, from 1963-1978. Cluster analysis proved to be a useful statistical method for delineating assemblage boundries and corresponding resident demersal fish components from Georges...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Lin, Shuh-ren
Abstract:: In order to estimate wind turbine residL2;characteristics in the presence of atmospheric turbulence, the important atmospheric sources for the force excitations felt by the wind turbine system must be identified and characterized. The goal of this research is to develop the wind turbulence input model for horizontal axis wind turbines....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . F. Tom Lindstrom, Dr. Timothy C. Kennedy, and Dr. Alan Robinson for taking their time to serve on

Creator:: Smith, Edward J. M. S.
Abstract:: Oregon State University swine herd records of 456 litters farrowed between 1962-73 in three populations were analyzed on a generation basis to compare changes in performance of a Composite population to parental Berkshire and Yorkshire breeds. Analysis was performed in six discrete and overlapping generations on backfat thickness, loin eye...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Petersen and T. F. Savage for their patience and editorial capabilities especially in getting the

Creator:: Hickman, John S.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (hydrated halloysite) 29 10 An example plot of molar concentration vs. percent transmittance (%T) used to

Creator:: Chitko, Carol G.
Abstract:: Thirty-seven Yorkshire sows were bred to one of six boars; 34 of the sows were verified pregnant at 42 d of gestation. These sows were innoculated with ovine serum albumin (OSA) in Freunds' complete adjuvant at 65 d and later given a second injection in Freunds.' incomplete adjuvant 93 d....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Groups Biochem. Genet. 14:159. Hendrix, W. F., K. W. Kelley, C. T. Gaskins and D. J. Hinrichs. 1978

Creator:: Pereira, Christine Rosabelle Dolores
Abstract:: Wood debris serves an important substrate for macroinvertebrates in streams. Particle size reduction due to feeding and other activities can be an important role of the fauna in wood degradation. In this study the Ephemeroptera associated with wood were investigated, with the objective of assessing their impact in the degradation...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Creator:: Antos, Joseph A.
Abstract:: The effects of burial by tephra (volcanic aerial ejecta) on forest understory plants were examined northeast of Mount St. Helens, Washington, in the area where the 18 May 1980 eruption deposited tephra but did not destroy canopy trees. At six sites along a tephra depth gradient from 2-15 cm, understory...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: graduate committee: Drs. Peter S. Dawson, Jerry F. Franklin, Robert E. Frenkel, J. Herbert Huddleston

Creator:: Leininger, Wayne C.
Abstract:: A three-year investigation was conducted during 1980-1982 to evaluate the potential of using herded sheep as a silvicultural tool to suppress brush in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) plantations of Oregon's Coast Range. Sheep browsing of Douglas-fir was highest in May soon after bud break. Averaged over the 2 years of grazing,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: helping me develop and complete my academic and research programs included Drs. T. E. Bedell, R. L

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