Warmer SST and more rain in the Northern Hemisphere are observed year-round in the tropical eastern Pacific with southerly wind crossing the equator toward the atmospheric heating. The southerlies are minimal during boreal spring, when two precipitation maxima straddle the equator. Fourteen atmosphere–ocean coupled GCMs from the Coupled Model Intercomparison...
Norwest 553 is a common hard red winter wheat variety developed by Oregon State University and Nickerson U.K. in cooperation with USDA-ARS. It is an awned, short-statured, semidwarf variety with high-yield potential and good milling and baking quality. Norwest 553 is resistant to stripe rust and tolerant to Fusarium crown...
IPM stands for “Integrated Pest Management,” a common-sense pest management strategy that focuses on long-term solutions to pest problems with minimum impact on human health and the environment. In an IPM approach, pesticides are not relied upon as the only response to a pest problem, but are part of an...
Intellectual property rights is an incredibly important and salient issue today in both China and the rest of the world. This topic of intellectual property rights, or IPRs, has been an increasingly frictional and hostile issue of contention between
China and the rest of the world for many years. IPR...
This research seeks to understand the influences of perception on land use around
the Mount Hood area of Oregon and evaluate how it has evolved over the past 4,000
years. The study addresses three specific questions:
1) How has the study area evolved over time into the modern landscape?
2)...