Studies of the diel behavior of phytoplankton are numerous,
however, little work has been done on diel changes in neuston, the
organisms inhabiting the surface microlayer. Sampling of the
neuston and plankton of Sequim Bay, Washington was conducted on
18-19 August 1983 at four hour intervals. Neuston samples (upper 50...
The onsite costs and benefits of conservation tillage in the
Camas Prairie Region of Northern Idaho were estimated. The evaluation
of these costs and benefits included a measurement of the
long-term effects of soil erosion on cropland productivity.
A model developed by Daniel Taylor (1982) was used as a base...
The objective of this thesis is to develop a tool
which can be used to implement query processing algorithms
produced by a query optimizer. The tool should have the
following properties:
(1) it should support a description of the query solution in a dataflow-like language,
(2) it should support data...