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Filtering by: Committee Member Perry, Gregory M. Decade 1990-1999 Resource Type Masters Thesis

Cost function analysis of fruit and vegetable processing in an Oregon cooperative

Creator:

Sil, Jayashree

Abstract:

A cost function characterizes a firm's cost-minimizing behavior. It is defined as a function of the level of outputs produced and the prices of factors which enter the production process. Econometric estimation of a cost function allows one to test hypotheses regarding the structure of cost and the structure of...

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Masters Thesis

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benefitted from comments given by committee members: H. Alan Love, Gregory M. Perry, and Thomas J. Maresh
Pre-harvest sprouting tolerance of a synthetic hexaploid wheat (Triticum turgidum L. x Aegilops tauschii Coss.)

Creator:

Rosa, Andre Cunha

Abstract:

Pre-harvest sprouting in wheat costs farmers millions of dollars every year. Pre-harvest sprouting tolerance (PST) has minimized this problem, but improvement of PST is still necessary. Synthetic hexaploid wheats (synthetics) have been used as sources of genes coding for many useful traits. Two studies evaluated the PST of a synthetic...

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. David Thomas, Patrick Hayes, and Gregory Perry, members of my committee for their time and assistance