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Creator:: Streeter, Donald J.
Abstract:: Centuries of continuous grain cropping in northern Africa have reduced N levels in soils to a degree such that agricultural production is now largely dependent upon nitrogen fertilizer. Through the identification of highly effective legume and Rhizobium strain combinations, the production of protein-rich livestock forage and green manure can be...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: recommended for further evaluation under field conditions. Two single strains for M. truncatula, 102D6 and

Creator:: McMahon, John J.
Abstract:: Organization theory had seldom been applied to higher education organizations but recent developments in organization theory appeared to have potential for such application. No coherent theory of educational change had been developed. However, one multidisciplinary synthesis of literature on organizational change was congruent with modern organization theory and contained both...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: validity and reliability of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Dobbert (1982) and Bogdan and

Creator:: Raharjo, Yono C.
Abstract:: An evaluation was made on the nutritive value of tropical forages and by-product feeds for rabbit production. Digestibility of nutrient fractions, feed preferences, growth, combination of forages, supplementation of micro and macro nutrients and/or effects of drying temperature on the quality of four groups of forages, namely woody legumes (WL),...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: substances, such as oxalates in grasses (Bogdan, 1977); tannins in agricultural by-products and legumes

Creator:: Karnaugh, Elena N.
Abstract:: From July 1985 to April 1987 the pelagic zooplankton community of Crater Lake, Oregon was studied to determine taxonomic structure, absolute and relative densities, and spatial and temporal distributional patterns. Samples were collected using vertically-towed zooplankton nets. The community structure consisted of two cladoceran and nine rotifer species, which were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: numbers of zooplankton per cubic 160 meter of water while using the 0.75 m net. Corrected numbers reflect

Creator:: Legler, James Richard
Abstract:: The purpose of this research study was to create an integrated systems framework to analyze the planning process in family businesses. The model was developed from a literature review of family study, organizational development, and family business research. Major components of the family business planning process were identified. A systems...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: complexity: Within a family composed of mother (M), father (F), and child (C), a minimum of seven

Creator:: Carpenter, Jill L.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: methodology (Bogdan & Taylor, 1984; Cox & Heatherly, 1985). Rist (1977) describes qualitative methodology as

Creator:: Gómez Rodas de Varela, Anamaría
Abstract:: Purpose: This study attempted to identify skills needed in agriculture for rural youth in Honduras, and to develop an appropriate agricultural education curriculum at the Common Cycle of General Culture (lower Middle School level) of the current educational system. Methods and Procedures: Core competencies were identified by collecting information from...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Schuetz, Larry Jamison
Abstract:: An analytic model for implementation of participatory process control was designed from a literature review of management theory, organizational development, statistical process control and base study methodology. A fieldwork research plan was developed using case study methods to explain the functional flow of the model. The research data on a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Ramsdell, Howard Scott
Abstract:: Senecio jacobaea (tansy ragwort) is a common weed in the Pacific Northwest that contains toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs). Jacobine, the major PA in Senecio jacobaea, was incubated with rat liver microsomes and metabolites were isolated by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and identified by mass spectrometric analysis. Metabolites included a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the funding, primarily fro m the National Institutes of Health, the Oregon Agricultural Experiment

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