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  • Small RNA pathways in plants

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    Montgomery, Taiowa A.
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    miRNA-guided cleavage initiates entry of primary transcripts into the trans-acting siRNA (tasiRNA) biogenesis pathway involving RNA-DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE6 (RDR6), DICER-LIKE 4 (DCL4), and SUPPRESSOR OF GENE SILENCING3 (SGS3). Arabidopsis thaliana TAS1 and TAS2 families yield tasiRNA that form through miR173- guided initiation cleavage on the 5’ side of the siRNA-generating...
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    beautiful wife Brooke. CONTRIBUTION OF AUTHORS Chapter 1: Taiowa Montgomery and James Carrington

  • Creation and investigation of musical forms designed to promote relaxation

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    Montgomery, Sue
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    The study was a creative endeavor in which researchfindings from the areas of medicine, mental health andeducation concerning effects of background music were combinedinto an experimental musical form designed to promote andfacilitate the relaxation response. This experimental musicwas cormared with Baroque largo musical background, as recommendedin Lozanov's method of accelerated...
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    Promote Relaxation AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Sue Montgomery for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

  • The effects of increased supply and emerging technologies in the forest products industry on rural communities in the northwest U.S.

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    Crandall, Mindy S.
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    The development of a market for currently non-merchantable forest material, such as harvest residues of tops and limbs of trees or small diameter trees, has been suggested as a possible win-win solution that could: (i) provide a financial incentive to help motivate treatments to reduce wildfire risk or restore forest...
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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Claire A. Montgomery

  • Determining optimal timber harvest and fuel treatment on a fire-threatened landscape using approximate dynamic programming

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    Lauer, Christopher Joseph
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    Forest management in the face of fire risk is a challenging problem because fire spreads across a landscape and because its occurrence is unpredictable. Additionally, management must be adjusted over time as unpredictable fire events are realized. Land managers have some control over the vegetation conditions that facilitate fire spread,...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Claire A. Montgomery Forest management in the face of fire risk is a challenging

  • Wildfire risk management : strategic interaction and spatial interdependence

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    Busby, Gwenlyn M.
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    In this dissertation, I examine how the spatial configuration of forest ownership influences the risk-mitigating behavior of public and private forestland owners over time. I determine whether or not the predicted equilibrium outcomes are socially optimal and, if not, whether the introduction of regulation, liability, or private insurance would lead...
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    Heidi J. Albers Claire A. Montgomery In this dissertation, I examine how the

  • Optimizing spatial and temporal aspects of nature reserve design under economic and ecological objectives

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    Nalle, Darek J.
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    Alteration of natural areas in attempts to support increasing human populations has been a crucial yet less publicized contributor to the fall of many of the world's greatest civilizations, since healthy ecosystems can help maintain stable societies and economies. Given this unhappy fact and the ancient relationship between people and...
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    my co-major professors, Dr. Jeffrey Arthur and Dr. Claire Montgomery, for their countless hours of

  • Three essays on private landowners' response to incentives for carbon sequestration through forest management and afforestation

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    Kim, Taeyoung
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    This dissertation consists of three essays on private landowners' response to incentives for carbon sequestration in forests. The first essay examines private landowner response to incentives for carbon sequestration through various combinations of intermediate management practices. The second essay focuses on agricultural landowners' willingness to participate in an incentive program...
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    future. My appreciation goes to Andrew Plantinga, Claire Montgomery, and John Antle for offering

  • Heat induced compounds in milk

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    Scanlan, Richard A.
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    Milk, preheated at 82°C for 30 minutes, was heated to 146°C for four seconds (UHT-treated) and cooled to 5°C in a tubular heat exchanger. Immediately after heat treatment, 20 gallons of heated milk were vacuum distilled at 30°C in a semi-continuous, reduced pressure glass apparatus. Twenty gallons of non-heated milk...
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    : Dr. M. W. Montgomery, Dr. F. T. Bond and Dr. D. L. MacDonald; who contributed their

  • Marketing sophistication in the forest products industry

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    Han, Xiaoou
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    In the forest products business and management literature, one common categorization of different types of innovation is product innovation, process innovation and business systems innovation. Forest products companies have long placed high emphasis on process innovations, which are related to yield maximization, manufacturing efficiency and operating costs reduction. This is...
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    would like to extend my thankfulness to Dr. Scott Leavengood, Dr. Claire Montgomery, Dr. Dwaine Plaza

  • Classification and management of earthen aquaculture ponds, with emphasis on the role of the soil

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    Bowman, James R.
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    Soil, water, and climatic classification systems are reviewed as background for the construction of a classification system for earthen aquaculture ponds. The physical and chemical properties of important soil types are also reviewed because of the critical role that the soil plays in earthen pond systems. A pond classification system...
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    , with emphasis on the role of the soil AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF James R. Bowman for the degree of

  • Hepatic mixed function oxygenase activity in rats during cholestasis following 1,3-bis-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU) treatment

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    Stolzenbach, James Carlson, 1954-
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    Rats were given single i.p. injections of BCNU to investigate changes in hepatic cytochrome P-450 content and specific activity in male rats. Microsomal P-450 levels were unchanged from 6 hours to 7 days after BCNU treatment but by day 21 they had decreased 45%. Ethylmorphine N-demethylase activity (nm product x...
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    James Carlson Stolzenbach for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacy presented on June 20

  • Processing and functional diversity of plant microRNA

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    Cuperus, Josh
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    RNA interference pathways can involve amplification of secondary siRNAs by RNA-dependent RNA polymerases. In plants, RDR6-dependent secondary siRNAs, including transacting siRNAs (tasiRNAs), arise from transcripts targeted by some microRNAs (miRNAs). In the case of TAS3 tasiRNA formation, ARGONAUTE7 (AGO7)-miR390 complexes interact with primary transcripts at two sites, resulting in recruitment...
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    approved: James C. Carrington RNA interference pathways can involve amplification of

  • Inter-relationships of vegetation, hydrology and micro-climate in a young, Douglas-fir forest

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    Barnard, Holly Rene
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    The links between forests, streamflow, and climate are poorly understood. Despite hundreds of studies over the past 60 years, fundamental questions of forests' effects on the hydrologic cycle remain unanswered. The hydrological cycle involves mutually-dependent biological and physical processes that operate at multiple scales of time and space, and this...
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    local topography of bedrock, or to the presence of vertical, andesitic dikes (Swanson and James, 1975b

  • The economics of carbon sequestration in western Oregon forests

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    Im, Eun Ho
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    This study considered regional forest policies for sequestering carbon in existing forests in western Oregon. A model of log markets in western Oregon was employed to examine the impacts of forest policy changes on future carbon stock, harvests, and management activities. A carbon tax program, as a mitigation option for...
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    , John Sessions, and Claire Montgomery, for developing and expanding my research ideas and allowing

  • An assessment of a closed greenhouse aquaculture and hydroponic system

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    Head, William, 1946-
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    Closed Greenhouse Aquaculture and ::::::::: /7 James E. Lannan Research was conducted to address three

  • Origins and evolution of plant microRNA genes

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    Fahlgren, Noah
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    Eukaryotic small RNA (~20-30 nucleotides) are diverse regulatory molecules that repress gene expression at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels, defend hosts against invading viruses and defend genomes against selfish DNA elements. Small RNA populations are studied by high-throughput sequencing of the total small RNA fraction isolated from cells, however, the...
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    approved: James C. Carrington Eukaryotic small RNA (~20-30 nucleotides) are diverse regulatory

  • Studies of immunological and molecular biological techniques with infectious laryngotracheitis virus of chickens

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    Abbas, Ferhat, 1962-
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    Monoclonal antibodies (MCA) produced against infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) of chickens reacted in western blotting experiments with several different ILTV protein bands in the absence of tunicamycin which inhibits carbohydrate synthesis. Most of the MCA lost their reactivity in western blotting experiments when extracts of tunicamycin-treated ILTV CELC were used,...
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    Privacy 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thank Dr. James R. Andreasen Jr. for serving as my

  • Below ground biology of Botrychium pumicola (Ophioglossaceae)

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    Camacho, Francisco J.
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    pumicola (Ophioglossaceae). Abstract Approved: __ James M. Trappe Botrychium pumicola Coville is a

  • Preformulation studies with 1, 3-bis (2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (NSC 409962)

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    Laskar, Paul A.
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    The stability of 1 3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (NSC 409962)(BCNU) was investigated in several buffered aqueous media, in mixed solvent and in nonaqueous solvent systems, and in the presence of several electrolytes and nonelectrolytes. The degradation rate constant of BCNU in these systems was calculated from the parameters of the linear regression of...
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    privacy Dr. James W. All The stability of 1 3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (NSC 409962)(BCNU) was

  • An analysis of demand for U.S. winter pears in export markets

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    Cusack, Thomas James
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    The principal objective of this study was to identify and investigate the underlying basis for variations in the volumes of exports of U.S. winter pears during the 1947 to 1974 period. A number of factors thought to be of importance in the determination of the volume of exports of a...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS THOMAS JAMES CUSACK for the degree