Chromium hydroxide sludge is the end product of the aluminum phosphate coating process used by a truck manufacturer in the Pacific Northwest. This sludge is listed as an (F019) hazardous waste by the Environmental Protection Agency, and must be landfilled in a hazardous waste landfill site. The purpose of this...
A casein agar diffusion method was developed to detect and quantify pertinent
levels of proteinases produced in raw milk supplies by heat resistant Bacillus
sporeformers. In order to optimize the required heat treatment conditions of raw milk
samples, trials that involved a combination of different temperatures and times were
evaluated....
In the Pacific Northwest some prune cultivars often exhibit inconsistent fruit set. Several factors have been associated with this characteristic. Temperature, genotype and boron content are among the most frequently mentioned. Studies were conducted to determine the effect of fall ethephon application on flower bud growth and ovule longevity in...
The task of mapping spelled English words into strings of phonemes and stresses ("reading aloud") has many practical applications. Several commercial systems perform this task by applying a knowledge base of expert-supplied letter-to-sound
rules. This dissertation presents a set of machine learning methods for automatically constructing letter-to-sound rules by analyzing...