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  • Measurement and meaning of archaeological diversity

    Creator:
    Betz, Virginia Marie
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    Archaeologists use diversity as one way of characterizing their assemblages. Diversity refers to both the number of artifact classes present (richness) and the proportional representation of classes (evenness). Numerical diversity indices measure one or both components. Archaeologists use assemblage diversity to infer behavior of prehistoric cultures. Archaeological inferences about behavior...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Virginia Marie Betz for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary

  • Some aspects of Western religious thought and man's use of land

    Creator:
    Bryant, Robert Edman
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    This study examines a limited number of selected themes in Judeo-Christian, or Western, religious thought and their implications for man's use of land, with the objective of discovering the influence of Western religion on attitudes toward nature and land. Five themes are examined: dominion of man; stewardship; contempt for, and...
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    Abstract approved: Redacted for privacy Ronald O.'Clarke, Professor of Religious Studies This study

  • A modified synoptic analysis of the status of Oregon's Willamette Valley wetlands

    Creator:
    Gabriel, John T.
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    Sound wetland management depends on an accurate comprehensive assessment of functional wetland values. This management should account for the cumulative impacts to regions and landscapes resulting from piecemeal destruction and degradation of wetland resources. A regional or watershed evaluation of wetland values can also make site-specific assessments more efficient. The...
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    quality has been documented in many studies (Adamus and Stockwell 1983; Johnston et al. 1990; Johnston

  • Infant mortality and socio-economic conditions in the United States

    Creator:
    Vanselow, Glenn William
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    The relationships between infant mortality and four socio-economic factors were determined for the United States using visual comparisons of isopleth maps and linear regression analysis. The four socio­economic factors were per capita income, the percent of the population that is Negro, the per cent of the popu­lation that has a...
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    effect. Stockwell, on the other hand, in a study of infant mortality in Providence, Rhode Island

  • An analysis of potential "swampbuster" wetland protection in the Tualatin Valley, Oregon

    Creator:
    Gallagher, Michael A.
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    The loss of wetlands in the United States has been widely publicized. Wetland conversions to agricultural production have been responsible for a large percentage of wetland losses. Partially in recognition of the agricultural cause for this wetland loss, Congress promulgated the "swampbuster" provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985....
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    ., and L. T. Stockwell. 1983. A method for wetland functional assessment: Vols. I and II. U.S. Department

  • Recreation potentials of the islands and marshes adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway

    Creator:
    Burgess, Linda Louise
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    Few Americans are aware of the tremendous recreation potentials along the banks of the Intracoastal Waterway, mainly because they are unaware of the existence and extent of the toll-free Waterway. This study attempts to categorize and locate some of the attractions that can be explored along the two thousand miles...
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  • Geographic location and ecoregional effects on determinants of avian species richness

    Creator:
    Siegel, Karen E.
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    Biodiversity studies allow for a more holistic approach to the conservation of species. Using one measure ofbiodiversity, that ofspecies richness, this study investigates the correlations between bird species richness and a set ofvariables. These variables represent climate, productivity/available energy, habitat heterogeneity, disturbance, and topography. Another aspect ofthis study is to...
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    availability. In the Chesapeake region, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia are

  • Quantitative basin morphology and channel stability with reference to nonpoint sources of pollution in Evans Creek, Oregon

    Creator:
    Krupin, Paul J.
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    A Stream Reach Inventory and Channel Stability Evaluation procedure has been used to assess the nature and extent of erosional nonpoint sources of pollution in the Evans Creek basin, a tributary to the Rogue River, in southwestern Oregon. The study is based upon the results of the Oregon Department of...
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    - PUDDING 0 EVANS CREEK ord B.nd 100 km O Klamath Falls PndIton La Gend UMATILLA Lakeviow John Ds

  • A point-data analysis of the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and its relationship to seasonal precipitation in the northwest United States

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    Worley, Timothy J.
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    El Niflo and La Nifia are oceanographic and atmospheric phenomena that have been catalogued for well over a centuly. In El Nifio years, Peru's otherwise thy west coast is subjected to torrential rainfall. Higher ocean temperatures off the coast are deemed the culprit. Attempts to quantify this began in the...
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    statistical significance at the climatic division scale. 6 C C 5 > a C C o 2 S0 4 4 4 4 6 4 :4 4

  • Analysis of growth rates of residential land values on and near the regulated flood plain

    Creator:
    Warnick, Larry James
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    Flood plain regulations are one of six major adjustments used to cope with flood hazard in the United States. This adjustment was essentially neglected in the national flood hazard policies until Congress enacted the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968. The implementation of regulations, as called for in the Act,...
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