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  • Reducing Biogeochemical Models with an Automated Reduction Method

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    Klee, Emily
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    Modeling elementary chemical reactions in ocean fluid dynamics simulations requires significant computing resources, which can be diminished with model reduction techniques. Submesoscale ocean turbulence and biogeochemical reactions in the ocean occur on approximately the same time scale, 105 seconds. This similarity in time scales indicates a strong coupling between these...
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    Biogeochemical Models with an Automated Reduction Method Abstract approved: Kyle E. Niemeyer Modeling

  • Predicting Properties of Bio-jet Fuels using Machine Learning and ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy

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    Mayer, Morgan A.
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    High-potential molecules derived from biomass sources may suitably replace or supplement traditional nonrenewable hydrocarbon fuels to reduce pollution and fuel processing costs. Due to expensive and time-consuming property testing, models that predict key properties from optical data would initially vet potential additives before investment and bench-scale testing. Attenuated Total Reflection...
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    : Kyle E. Niemeyer High-potential molecules derived from biomass sources may suitably replace or supple

  • Simulating Soot Formation and Growth using a Parallel Coupled Monte Carlo Method

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    Peters, Jordan
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    Small hydrocarbon particles such as soot and soot precursors pose a serious threat to human health and Earth's climate. Understanding the mechanisms by which soot particles form and grow is the first step to reducing the prevalence of these particles. Computational simulations are used to investigate combusting systems which are...
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    : Simulating Soot Formation and Growth using a Parallel Coupled Monte Carlo Method Abstract approved: Kyle E

  • Soot Modeling: GPU Accelerated Direct Simulation Monte Carlo

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    Lorson, Paige
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    For this project, we designed a soot modeling software to produce a full particle density function. This model uses the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo with a full conditioning particle selection method to capture soot nucleation and coagulation in a diffusion flame. We investigate the use of graphic processing units as...
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    . Title: Soot Modeling: GPU Accelerated Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Abstract approved: Dr. Kyle

  • Optimization & Qualification of a Liquid Engine Launch Vehicle Design Using 6DoF Simulations

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    Rose, Trevor J.
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    In this work, I developed a six degree of freedom flight simulator specific to liquid engine launch vehicles. This flight simulator improves upon available software by accounting for liquid engine specific phenomena such as tank pressurization, liquid engine performance, and center of gravity modeling. Additionally, I implemented methods for optimization...
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    & Qualification of a Liquid Engine Launch Vehicle Design Using 6DoF Simulations Abstract approved: Kyle E

  • The Mira 2 Rocket Engine: Applying Lessons Learned for an Improved Iteration

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    Dimas-Harms, Colton R.
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    In this paper, I present the design of Mira 2, a small-scale, liquid bipropellant rocket engine, with a specific focus on its oxidizer-centered pintle injector. Building upon the valuable lessons and insights gained from the empirical testing of its predecessor, Mira 1, the Mira 2 engine incorporates several improvements and...
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    Mira 2 Rocket Engine: Applying Lessons Learned for an Improved Iteration Abstract approved: Kyle

  • Cooling System Analysis of the Thrust Chamber

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    Sazonov, Gleb
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    The purpose of the study was to analyze the possible combination of cooling systems, which are film cooling and regenerative cooling, and obtain the initial estimates of possible temperature reduction. The analysis was conducted in Ansys Fluent. The methodology includes four main steps that are the following: flow simulation, combustion...
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    System Analysis of the Thrust Chamber Abstract approved: Kyle E. Niemeyer The purpose of the study was

  • Measuring Combine Facilitated Transport of Italian Ryegrass [Lolium perenne L. ssp. multiflorum (Lam.) Husnot] Seed During Wheat Harvest and Preventing the Distribution of Italian Ryegrass Seed During Harvest by Removal or Destruction of Chaff

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    Roerig, Kyle C.
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    Italian ryegrass [Lolium perenne L. ssp. multiflorum (Lam.) Husnot] resistant to multiple herbicide sites of action continues to limit winter wheat production in western Oregon. In addition to impacting wheat production, multiple resistant Italian ryegrass may threaten the market for annual ryegrass seed for cover crops if wheat fields with...
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    AN ABSTACT OF THE THESIS OF Kyle C. Roerig for the

  • Model Predictive Control of a Phase Change Process for Wastewater Purification Application

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    Anderson, Kyle S.
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    In the United States, the oil and gas extraction industry produces large amounts of highly contaminated wastewater that is seldom treated for reuse in other applications. Current wastewater storage and disposal strategies lead to contamination of valuable freshwater resources that can have negative effects on both human communities and the...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kyle Anderson

  • Effect of Initial System Temperature on Initiation of Natural Circulation during a Depressurized Conduction Cooldown Event in the High Temperature Test Facility

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    Brumback, Kyle E.
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    High Temperature Gas Reactors (HTGR) are a type of power plants that can provide industrial process heat and high efficiency, carbon-free electricity. The High Temperature Test Facility (HTTF) has been designed to provide data that can be used for the validation of system codes and verification of passive safety features...
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    THE THESIS OF Kyle E. Brumback for the degree of Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering

  • Enhancing Detection of Marine Debris with Polarimetric Imagery

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    Herrera, Frederick Kyle
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    Marine debris is a chronic and increasingly pervasive problem for coastal regions around the world. Debris poses environmental risks, threats to wildlife, and degradation of the natural environment. Recent research has shown the advantages of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) for detection and recognition of marine debris, including the ability to...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Frederick Kyle

  • Development of a Statistical Emulator of US Crop Yields via a Deep Neural Network Approach

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    Proctor, Kyle W.
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    Agricultural systems are inherently complex; understanding these systems requires knowledge of climatology, plant physiology, soil physics, economics, and the human psychology of the farmers themselves. Decision support tools strive to leverage existing data to help guide stakeholders towards the best policies and practices for their situation. Quantitative crop simulation models...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kyle W. Proctor for the

  • The Influence of Fuel Characteristics on Smoldering Behavior through Porous Fuels

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    Ross, Andrew H.
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    Smoldering can play a dangerous role in the ignition and spread of wildfires. Naturally occurring fuels consist of multiple layers of organic materials with varying particle sizes due to differences in decomposition stages with fuel depth, yet the influence of particle size on burning behavior is poorly understood. Previous research...
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    thank and acknowledge my undergraduate research assistant Kyle Froman for his assistance in setting up

  • Understanding the durability of Wood-based composites using fracture toughness

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    Mahapatra, Sweta
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    Wood-based composites (WBCs) are an important sector of the US economy. For a WBC product to succeed, understanding its long-term durability, including seasonal variations in temperature and humidity, is critical. Durability is especially important WBCs because they are predominantly made from wood, which is a biological, hygroscopic material that is...
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    for the side facing the camera. C. Crack propagation was captured due to movement of strain in the

  • Leading Edge Separation Analysis of Oscillating Airfoil Energy Harvesters

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    Ngo, Vickie
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    Oscillating foil energy harvesters are analyzed at optimal reduced frequencies (𝑘=𝑓𝑐/𝑈) to determine how the leading edge radius of curvature affects leading edge separation. The understanding of leading edge separation and its behaviors is critical to predicting the transient lift profile of an airfoil. The separation is therefore also critical...
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    constructed with a chord length, c, of 150[mm]. All units in this table are in [mm

  • Exploitation and Mitigation of CPU Vulnerabilities

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    Mestas, Phillip O., III
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    AMD SEV allows for the creation of fully encrypted virtual machines. This allows cloud computing tenants’ data to be secret to the cloud computing provider. However, it has been shown that the encryption scheme used by AMD can easily be broken. The attacker can create a copy of the virtual...
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  • Survey of isotope ratios in the near coastal outflow of the Columbia River

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    Dolan-Caret, Amari
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    This report details ocean water salinity and stable isotope measurements (deuterium (D) and 18O) in water collected from April 17 2018 to April 21 2018 in the coastal waters of Oregon, USA. Measurements were made from surface, ship flow-through, and CTD rosette bottle samples collected as part of a student-led...
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    excess vs Salinity, a) all samples, b) Surface samples only (<3m depth), c) samples collected below 3

  • Assessment of Extraterrestrial Tracers Ir, Pt and ³He in Polar Ice Cores

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    Mehmel, Nicholas C.
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    This thesis focuses on the investigation of extraterrestrial tracers Ir, Pt and 3He in polar ice cores. These tracers may be used to identify characteristics of interplanetary dust particles, and to quantify the flux of extraterrestrial material during impact events, certain volcanic eruptions, and stable background periods. In the first...
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    Nicholas C. Mehmel for the degree of Master of Science in Geology presented on September 15, 2020

  • Toward Machine Learning-Enabled Adaptivity for Humorous Robots

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    Gray, Carson C.
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    Social robots benefit from a sense of humor, which requires the ability to recognize and adapt to human responses during playful interactions. Past work on humorous robots has classified audience responses with audio-based and preliminary visual-based methods following the joke punchline. Building on this progress, we conducted a survey of...
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    Wars duo, R2-D2 and C-3PO; even the murderous Terminator. However, there is a gap between the average

  • Evaluating the Potential of Protein Supplements and Probiotics for Improving Honey Bee Health and Understanding Honey Bee Behaviors Related to Social Immunity

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    Chapkin, Elissa R.
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    Managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) play a vital role in pollinating cultivated crops worldwide. Honey bee colony declines reported in the past two decades have been associated with stressors such as pests and diseases, pesticide exposure, and poor nutrition. In the wake of these colony declines, beekeepers have strived to...
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    two older brothers, Dr. Wesley Chapkin and Dr. Kyle Chapkin, who all set the ultimate example. They

  • Measuring Tomato Production and Water Productivity in Agrivoltaic Systems

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    Al-agele, Hadi A.
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    Growing populations and industrialization rates across the world are leading to increased food and energy demand. The challenge of meeting this demand while also mitigating climate change impacts serves as a driving force for the development of renewable energies technologies. This study focuses on the role of Agrivoltaic systems in...
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    temperature was highest in the control and row plots (22.3 °C, 21.5 °C) but lower beneath the panels (19.8

  • Rework Practices in the Dairy Industry and Their Potential Contribution to Microbial Spoilage

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    Rush, Casey E.
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    Rework is a common practice in the dairy industry as a way for processors to minimize waste while recovering costs for dairy products that are unsaleable. The regulations available for reworking fluid dairy products only outline product eligibility requirements with a focus on repasteurization of the products containing rework as...
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    survive and/or germinate following the HTST-pasteurization (72°C, 15 seconds) process and subsequently

  • An Exploration of the Ecological and Geographical Variability of Rhizopus microsporus Clinical and Environmental Isolates

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    Stairs, Brandon S.
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    Rhizopus microsporus is a globally ubiquitous opportunistic human and plant pathogen that is known to harbor endosymbiotic bacteria. Differences between populations of clinical and environmental R. microsporus isolates have yet to be assessed on a global scale. Whole-genome sequence data were used to explore fungal biology and to assess potential...
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    . Radial growth rates of isolates were assessed at temperatures between 22°C to 37°C. All isolates grew

  • Cultural and Environmental Creencias (Beliefs) and Latin@ Outdoor Recreation in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

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    Justiniano, Isabel
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    In Oregon, outdoor recreation activities have continued to grow in popularity, as has the overall Latin@ population of the state. With the continual population increase of this ethnic group, researchers have focused on understanding their outdoor recreation habits through an environmental justice lens. This includes accessibility, affordability, and other barriers...
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    Latin@s, c) determine and describe how these beliefs are formed and d) describe how these beliefs

  • Feasibility of Thermal Restoration by Groundwater Additions in the Middle Fork John Day

    Creator:
    Hale, Abigail E.
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    Survival of ecological systems pivot on critical moments. In the arid John Day Basin of Eastern Oregon, extensive restoration of the stream and floodplain focused on supporting salmon has been ongoing for the past 20 years, but recurring short periods of extreme temperature increase and low flows result in mortality...
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    water at 10°C lowers MFJD stream temperatures by several degrees. Previous studies suggest that as

  • Use of Landscape Characteristics to Quantify Hybridization Risk Between Native and Introduced Salmonids

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    Manning, Michael A.
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    The introduction of non-native species can negatively impact native species through reduced genetic fitness resulting from hybridization. The lack of spatiotemporal data of hybrids occurrences makes assessing hybridization risk difficult. Here, I developed a spatially-explicit GIS Hybridization Risk Model (HRM) between native ESA-listed Bull Trout and introduced Brook Trout by...
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    …..…………………………. 39 B. Survey Distribution Lists …….………….…….…………..…………. 56 C. Species Presence By HUC8

  • Delay-Aware Resource Management Frameworks for Intelligent Vehicular Networks

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    Almasari, Shahad A.
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    Autonomous vehicles bring great societal benefits but also potential impact and disruption to road safety, traffic congestion, and driving behaviors. One important technology that is indispensable to the success of such systems is vehicular networks. Vehicular networks provide the backbone for ensuring communication and connectivity among vehicles, all crucial to...
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  • Radiation Detection Module and Radioactive Isotope Identification System

    Creator:
    Ma, Naixuan
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    Radiation is part of our life. Most people may know a radioactive source is very dangerous. But there are very few situations people are exposed to uncontrolled radionuclides above background. A radioactive source can emit gamma rays which are the highest energy type in electromagnetic radiation.[2] Gamma rays are like...
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    to express gratitude to Dr. Kyle Clocker for his insights and assistance in PCB soldering. I like

  • Genetic Structure, Diversity, and Mating System of Leptasterias: Potential for Local Adaptation?

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    Boring, Emily L.
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    Understanding of gene flow, connectivity, and diversity is critical to predict the stability of key marine species. The Oregon coast of the U.S.A. shows fine-scale levels of geographic variation in environmental stressors such as temperature, pH, and oxygen levels, prompting questions about the potential for local adaptation. In this thesis,...
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    , likely number of sires; b & e, sire evenness; c & f, skew) of Leptasterias broods from six sites along

  • Facilitating Code Comprehension by Annotations in Canvas-Based IDE

    Creator:
    Adeli, Marjan
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    Developers spend a considerable amount of time comprehending code and building accurate mental models of the code. Understanding the relationships between software features within IDEs is difficult, with information split across different visual hierarchies making navigation cumbersome. Canvas-based IDEs mitigate some of the navigation costs by allowing relevant information to...
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    bubbles. (a) User opens a bubble via the pop-up search box, (b) resulting bubble, (c) user opens

  • Fouling Characterization in Hypersaline Wastewater Treatment

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    Messer, Morgan S.
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    Water supplies are diminishing worldwide and by 2025 two thirds of the population could be living in regions of water scarcity (local demand for water is greater than water supply). One method to increase available water sources is to use desalination technologies to separate water from saline solutions. While desalination...
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    solutions A) experimental schematic, B) schematic showing the top view of the aluminum block, C) actual

  • Classifying the toxicity of pesticides to honey bees via support vector machines with random walk graph kernels

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    Yang, Ping
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    Pesticides benefit agriculture by increasing crop yield, quality, and security. However, pesticides may inadvertently harm bees, which are valuable as pollinators. Thus, candidate pesticides in development pipelines must be assessed for toxicity to bees. Leveraging a data set of 382 molecules with toxicity labels from honey bee exposure experiments, we...
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    this walk is (N, 3, C, 1, C, a, C, 1, Cl). . . . . . 10 3.2 Illustrating the two molecular vector

  • Fisheries Connectivity Networks to Measure the Adaptive Capacity of Small-Scale Fisheries in the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico

    Creator:
    Nomura, Keiko
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    Small-scale fisheries around the world are increasingly facing pressures from a range of environmental, economic, and social sources. In order to sustain the societal benefits of small-scale fisheries, it is imperative to understand how fishing communities adapt to disturbances. Fishermen often catch multiple different species as an adaptation technique because...
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    Sievanen, Kyle C. Cavanaugh, Juan José Cota-Nieto, Brad E. Erisman, et al. 2015. “Operationalizing the

  • Assessing Post-fire Tree and Understory Vegetation Response to a Mixed-severity Fire Gradient in the Klamath Mts., Oregon, USA

    Creator:
    Terzioglu, Cihat
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    Severe wildfires are increasing in the western United States, impacting vegetation structure, and in turn, forest regeneration conditions. These wildfires are also raising a substantial amount of scientific and management concern regarding the resilience of forested ecosystems, or the ability of the ecosystem to return to a pre-fire condition. This...
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    ......................................................................................................................... 90 C. Additional Plot Details

  • Effects of Stage 0 treatment on spring Chinook juveniles within South Fork McKenzie River in Oregon

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    Hahn, Aleah
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    Low-tech habitat restoration techniques, including Stage 0 treatments, are increasingly applied but often lack robust evaluation of their effects. In 2018, one kilometer of the South Fork McKenzie (SFMK) River, OR was modified to the Stage 0 condition for the benefit of ESA-listed Chinook by raising the incised channel to...
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  • The Fungal Microbiome Associated with Grapevine Trunk Disease in Oregon Vineyards

    Creator:
    Zimmerman, Jessie
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    Grapevine Trunk Diseases (GTDs) are caused by a group of fungal pathogens that attack the xylem tissue of mature grapevines worldwide. In the past 30 years, their incidence has increased, both in emerging grape-producing regions, as well as those with an extended history of viticulture. In the same time span,...
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    her for sharing the DNA extractions on which we based our analyses. Thanks also go to Kyle Gervers

  • The Design of a Multidisciplinary Capstone Course

    Creator:
    Rust, Nathan R.
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    The end goal of any educational program is to prepare a student for the challenges they will see after completion of their studies. In the realm of engineering, the pinnacle of this occurs during a student’s final Capstone course series, where students are asked to apply their various skills learned...
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    ……………………………………………...109 B. Course Specific Learning Outcomes…………………………………....112 C. ABET Criteria

  • The Conduction Properties of Heavily Acceptor Doped Lead Zirconate Titanate Ceramics

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    Sangwan, Vyomika
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    Heavily acceptor doped Pb1.02Dx(Zr0.5Ti0.5)1-xO3 ceramics, where A is the dopant, were investigated in this research. Dopants studied included iron, magnesium and manganese at mole concentrations x ≤ 0.20. X-ray diffraction data along with scanning electron microscopy images revealed the solubility limits of these ceramics. All doped compositions exhibited a shift...
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    research. To Sanu, Michael, Kyle, Jason, and Andreas, thank you for training me and answering my numerous

  • Determination of Mass Flow Rate through Plain Mesh Wick and Nano- Structured Mesh Wick for the Design of Thermal Compressor Systems

    Creator:
    Uwaoma, Ifeanyi A.
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    Wicking action refers to the movement of a liquid through a porous or a structured surface via capillary action. This phenomenon is affected by surface geometry, such as the wick thickness and pore size of the wick, as well as fluid properties, such as viscosity and surface tension of the...
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    knowledge to me in one way or another especially, Dr. Chris Hagen, Dr. Kyle Niemeyer, Dr. Nick Auyeung

  • Synthetic Lubricant Performance in Enclosed Gearbox Applications at Extreme Temperature

    Creator:
    Marr, Carter J.
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    The goal of this paper is to evaluate how synthetic lubricants perform in an enclosed gearbox application when compared with a proven mineral oil. This is in an effort to improve gearbox efficiency with the desired effect of lower emissions from of improved energy output from power generation. Four liquid...
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    Lab that have provided technical support and a welcoming and fun environment to work in: Kyle McGann

  • Towards Annotation-Efficient Video Representation Learning

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    Patravali, Jay Sanjay
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    Labeling videos is costly, time-consuming and tedious. These costs can escalate in applications such as medical diagnosis or autonomous driving where we need domain expertise for annotation. Few-shot action recognition aims to solve this problem by annotation-efficient learning mechanisms. This thesis presents MetaUVFS as the first Unsupervised Meta-learning algorithm for...
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    Gen- eration hard episodes are mined from the two-stream networks’s feature space. (c) A3M module

  • Epidemic Dynamics of Sudden Oak Death in the Forests of Oregon

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    Carson, Adam
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    Sudden Oak Death (SOD) is a forest disease caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, and infects trees in the Western United States and Europe. This generalist pathogen can infect over 130 species of plants, and causes rapid mortality in tree species in the Fagaceae. Sexual reproduction is thought to...
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    R had defeated me. I’d also like to acknowledge Carolina Piña Páez and Kyle Gervers for the

  • The immunomodulatory role of canine mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles

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    Phelps, Shannon M.
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    Immune-mediated diseases are a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality in canine patients. Treatments currently involve generalized suppression of the immune system, and corticosteroids are often used as a first-line agent. While often effective, corticosteroids are unlikely to induce remission without substantial side effects. Second-line immunosuppressive agents may be effective...
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    willingness to visit are greatly appreciated. A special thank you to my partner, Kyle, for always being

  • Design Optimization of a Structurally Flexible Wave Energy Converter with a Direct Search Algorithm

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    Berrier, Austin S.
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    Several wave energy converter designs have been recently proposed that are made of flexible materials. Flexible devices are able to generate electricity by being stretched, and are intended to simplify deployment and maintenance concerns over existing wave energy devices. Due to the relative infancy of flexible wave energy converters, however,...
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    showing me what the future of academia can look like. Barbara Simpson for help with modal analysis. Kyle

  • Community Ecology of Foliar Fungi and Oomycetes of Pseudotsuga menziesii on the Pacific Northwest Coast

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    Gonen, Lilah
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    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii (coast Douglas-fir) is a tree of ecological, economic, and cultural value in its native North American Pacific Northwest (PNW) distribution. P. menziesii is host to a variety of well-documented endophytic foliar microorganisms, including the fungus Nothophaeocryptopus gaeumannii, the causal agent of Swiss needle cast (SNC), and...
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    resources in the world (truly) on oomycete biology, culturing, and sequencing; Kyle Gervers, for your

  • Scratching the Surface of the Potato Geocaulosphere: Characterizing the Microbiome of Seed Tuber Tare Soil and its Impact on the Rhizosphere Microbiome

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    Delventhal, Kayla D.
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    For tuberizing crops like potato (Solanum tuberosum), the geocaulosphere, or the zone of soil in contact with and influenced by the tuber, is a distinct sphere of microbial life and represents an important interface between the potato crop and the soil environment. Upon potato harvest, specific geocaulosphere soil called tare...
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    Skillman, who offered her expertise and helped me through lab procedures and protocols, Kyle Gervers, who

  • Influence of Two-Phase Fuel on Detonation Behavior

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    Barlow, Dustin
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    Detonation combustion is of great interest for propulsion devices because of its potential to increase thermodynamic efficiency, reduce the weight of current gas turbine engines, and rapidly accelerate to high Mach numbers. Detonation engines might also have the ability to decrease harmful exhaust products from traditional propulsion methods. In order...
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    Group for their assistance, specifically Kyle Weber, Conner Flaherty, Deepak Sharma, and Bryan

  • Improved Lubrication Performance of Chainsaw Cutting Systems

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    Sellars, Patrick V.
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    Chainsaws serve as one of the primary tools used by logging corporations, ranches, and farms for forestry management. Lubricating oil remains one of the heaviest operational expenditures for chainsaws. This largely in part due to chainsaw lubrication being a total loss system in which nearly all lubricating oil applied is...
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    Porter, Kyle McGann, Arthur Wells, and Carter Marr. Lastly, all this would not be possible without the

  • Fatigue Testing and Analysis of Polymer and Composite Materials Used in Heavy-Duty Trucks

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    Gahan, Kevan
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    As structural durability analysis is increasingly trusted during the design processes of the automotive industry, more complete and sophisticated modeling of material behavior under both static and dynamic loading conditions is paramount. This is especially true regarding the application of heavy-duty trucks, where modern designs contain large parts such as...
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    Marr, Jacob Porter, Arthur Wells, and Kyle McGann. Special thanks to Amanda for the persistent

  • Drivers of Productivity Differences between Native and Exotic Range Douglas-fir Plantations in Oregon and New Zealand

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    Gilson, Liam W.
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    In this thesis, we first examine the principle hypotheses behind the improved exotic growth of select timber species, and the evidence for each, with special focus on studies which examine growth between several ranges of a species. We find that literature suggests environmental factors directly tied to net primary production...
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    , especially Lisa Madsen, Rebecca Montgomery, Marcella Windmuller-Campione, and Kyle Gill. Finally thanks