I believe quetzal and aguacatillo are the key species in the cloud forests in Cerro de la Muerte because they are biologically and culturally valuable. This value contributes to ecotourism, which eventually becomes of economic benefit to local people. In this paper, I examine how the cloud forest conservation and...
Background: Hip replacements are considered routine operations which improve the quality of life in patients by reducing pain and restoring function. There are many variations in prostheses with varying benefits and disadvantages.
Methods: Literature from the United States and Europe was collected on total hip replacements between 2001 and the...
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White muscle disease (WMD), a degenerative muscle disease brought on by a deficiency of the essential trace nutrient selenium, is thought to be mediated by the protein Selenoprotein W (SeW). In its relationship with WMD, SeW, like many selenoproteins, binds to glutathione, serving some purpose in redox mechanisms...
The Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies
(CIOSS) partners with The Science and Math Investigative Learning
Experiences (SMILE) Program to bring ocean sciences and satellite
oceanography to high school students and teachers around the
state of Oregon. This study was conducted as a formative program
assessment during the third year...
Horticultural and nursery crops are the leading agricultural commodity in Oregon. Among currently grown nursery plants, Verbena x hybrida is a staple ornamental. It is grown and shipped worldwide, thus requiring a high level of certainty concerning the plants’ health and potential viability. V. x hybrida cultivars have been infected...
This paper focuses on Mexican and Caucasian migration to Lakeview, Oregon. It looks at why people choose to do so and the challenges they face in their new community. Special attention is paid to grocery shopping and gardening, as this research was conducted as part of a larger project on...
This paper explores the meaning of healthy eating in Lakeview, Oregon. It focuses on what community members think about the food available in the community primarily through restaurants and grocery stores. Themes discussed in this paper include the quality of produce, the lack of variety in restaurants, and the isolation...
The Department of Administrative Services (DAS) and Oregon State University (OSU) are collaborating to develop an orthoimagery portal application to allow for the distribution of digital aerial imagery for the State of Oregon. The near-term objective of this project is to develop an Imagery Portal that serves the
2005 half-meter...
This paper introduces the even-odd POMDP, an approximation to POMDPs in which the world is assumed to be fully observable every other time step. The even-odd POMDP can be converted into an equivalent MDP, the
2MDP, whose value function, V*[subscript 2MDP], can be combined online with a 2-step lookahead search...
Many machine learning applications require
classifiers that minimize an asymmetric cost
function rather than the misclassification
rate, and several recent papers have addressed
this problem. However, these papers
have either applied no statistical testing
or have applied statistical methods that are
not appropriate for the cost-sensitive setting.
Without good statistical...
We present a meta-model as a process maturity framework that can be effectively used to
identify the key practices to initiate and sustain a software process improvement effort
focused on a single process area. Our approach moves away from the overall software
development process and computation of maturity levels and...
This paper reports on an empirical study involving end users that addresses the question of whether it is possible to provide the benefits of formal testing within the informal spreadsheet paradigm. We have developed a "What You See Is What You Test" (WYSIWYT) methodology that brings the benefits of formal...
It is well known that the Fibonacci numbers can be expressed in the
form Round {1/√5 λ₀[superscript n]} where λ₀ = (1 + √5)/2. [Knu75] We look at integer sequences which are solutions to non-negative difference equations and show that if the equation is 1-Bounded then the solution can be...
The meaning of biological sequences is a central problem
of modern biology. Although string matching is well understood
in the edit-distance model, biological strings
with transpositions and inversions violate this model's
assumptions. To align biologically reasonable strings, we
proposed the Walking Tree Method [4,5,6,7,8], an
approximate string alignment method that...