Recently, with the realization of the World Wide Web, the tremendous need for high-speed data communications has grown. Several access techniques have been proposed which utilize the existing copper twisted pair cabling. Of these, the xDSL family, particularly ADSL and VDSL, have shown great promise in providing broadband or near-broadband...
Five trellis types were compared during 1996 and 1997 for their effect on Pinot noir yield components, fruit composition, fruit set, shoot morphology, leaf gas exchange, and trunk carbohydrate storage. These trellis systems were: upright vertical, cane pruned (double Guyot); upright vertical, spur pruned (bilateral cordon); Scott Henry, cane pruned;...
The influence of large-scale processes on natural communities has become one of the central issues of modern ecology. I combined field and laboratory studies to investigate the effects of variation in coastal upwelling on rocky intertidal communities along the central Oregon coast. I examined whether the growth of intertidal barnacles...