Coarse woody debris (CWD) decomposition in the Russian boreal forests of the southern taiga zone was studied at four sites located near St. Petersburg in Northwestern Russia, Krasnoyarsk in Eastern Siberia, lrkutsk in the Baikal region, and Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East. This study was part of a broader...
The harmonic problem in power systems is gaining more attention as incidences correlated with harmonics increase. Conventional passive filtering techniques for harmonic mitigation have inherent problems, and purely active filters have the disadvantages of higher costs and ratings. Hybrid active filters inherit the efficiency of passive filters and the improved...
In the highly competitive animal protein market, seafood faces increasing pressure to improve and standardize product quality. While there is general consensus that quality can be improved for many seafood products, there is little agreement on the types and levels of characteristics that should define "quality." This is a fundamental...
This project aims at building a Java application and a Java applet that would simulate a Stern-Gerlach laboratory in Quantum Mechanics. The project provides a tool for allowing the student to quickly design and run on the computer screen a number of experiments involving spin systems. This application could be...
This document investigates, justifies, designs, and simulates the application of a fuzzy logic controller/optimizer in a sawmill bucking system application that is the first production station where stems coming from the mountains are processed in a sawmill. One of the areas of success in the application of fuzzy logic is...
The 14-km long Netarts Littoral Cell, located on the northern Oregon coast, experienced episodic erosion as a result of the severe 1997-98 El Nino and 1998-99 La Nina. The erosion events led to the development of a unique partnership bridging scientists, stakeholders, and various planning agencies. To address these erosion...
This thesis presents a hydrogeologic study of the Parrett Mountain Region,
located approximately 20 miles south of Portland, Oregon. The aim of the study was
to investigate the impacts of Columbia River Basalt on the regional groundwater
system, to expand our understanding of flow through fractured basalt, to improve
management...
The main purpose of this project is to describe the hydrologic characteristics, with and without
regulation by dams, of the Coast and Middle Forks of the Willamette River, including the
floodplain, from the confluence to approximately eight miles upstream. The research is intended
to assess the future potential of the...
Unrelated parallel machines are machines that perform the same function but have
different capacity or capability. Thus, the processing time of each job would be different
on machines of different types. The scheduling environment considered is dynamic in
both job release time and machine availability. Additionally, each job considered can...
Although there has been research into ways to design spreadsheet systems to improve the processes of creating new spreadsheets and of understanding existing ones, little attention has been given to helping users of these environments test their spreadsheets. To help address this need, we introduce two visual approaches to testing...