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The effectiveness in fulfilling the stated goals of a teacher education program as evaluated by graduates of that program

Creator:: Kenyon, Stanley Jay
Abstract:: Oregon College of Education (OCE) is a small, liberal arts college with a special emphasis on the preparation of teachers. Its student population is predominantly from Oregon's Willamette Valley area. OCE developed specific objectives for its teacher education program and the purpose of this study was to determine whether the...
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Full Text:: . LeMay, D. Simmons, E. Fuller, and F. Ha un. A special thanks is extended to my friend, Jim, Most of

A partial characterization of high and low molecular weight immunoglobulin in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)

Creator:: O'Leary, Patrick John
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Full Text:: - zation, and structural requirements for antibody activity. J. Immunol. 106:1234. 18 30. Fuller, L

Postsecondary student consumerism : a national Delphi forecast of developments and articulation of policy options

Creator:: Franks, Robert Grover
Abstract:: The purpose of this research, expressed in two coequal parts, was: to establish a forecast of developments and an articulation of policy options vis-a-vis postsecondary student consumerism; and to determine if interest groups of experts differed significantly in their evaluations of the aforementioned developments and policy options. The Delphi technique...
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Full Text:: Options Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: DR. J. ROGER PENN Purpose and Procedure The purpose of

Relationship between moral development and personality type of University undergraduates

Creator:: McMahon, Timothy R.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between moral development and year in school, gender, and personality type for university undergraduates. Moral development was measured by the Defining Issues Test (DIT) and personality was assessed using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The sample consisted of 320 freshmen,...
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Full Text:: . I'd like to thank my committee, J. Roger Penn (chair), Will Holsberry, Tom Murphy, Dow Poling, and

Application and computation of likelihood methods for regression with measurement error

Creator:: Higdon, Roger
Abstract:: This thesis advocates the use of maximum likelihood analysis for generalized regression models with measurement error in a single explanatory variable. This will be done first by presenting a computational algorithm and the numerical details for carrying out this algorithm on a wide variety of models. The computational methods will...
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Full Text:: Repression with Measurement Error AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Roger Higdon for the degree of Doctor of

General studies of temperature effects on an obligate psychrophile Vibrio marinus

Creator:: Haight, Roger Dean
Abstract:: Vibrio marinus, strain MP-1, was shown to grow from pH 6.7 to 8.5, with an optimum at 7.3. Growth was inhibited below salinity 10%₀ and above 60%₀ . The upper temperature limit of growth was 20 C, and growth was very rapid with aeration at 15 C. Heating of the...
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Full Text:: Psychrophile, Vibrio Marinus AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF ROGER DEAN HAIGHT for the Ph. D. (Name) egree

A method for estimation of generalized linear models when explanatory variables contain meaurement error

Creator:: Sauter, Roger M.
Abstract:: This thesis considers the problem of estimating the linear parameters of generalized linear models (GLM), especially binomial and Poisson regression models, when the explanatory variable is subject to measurement error. In this situation, the dependence of the response variable on the observed explanatory variable cannot typically be modeled as a...
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Full Text:: explanatory variables contain meaurement error AN ABSTRACT FOR THE THESIS OF Roger M. Sauter for the degree

Participant perspectives of program success in a community college-based short-term skill training program

Creator:: Cooper, Roger W.
Abstract:: Evaluating the success or failure of work force training programs is most often accomplished through the reporting of "objective" data. Rarely are the students' views of their own success in such a training program formally solicited or applied in any useful way. But participant perceptions can be a critical barometer...
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Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Roger W. Cooper, Jr. for the

Values and attitudes as measures of intergenerational differences

Creator:: Penn, John Roger
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to identify the values and attitudes of a group of freshman female students and their parents and to determine if value and attitude differences existed between these two groups. Therefore, of equal importance in the study was the quantification of intergenerational differences. The subjects...
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Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF JOHN ROGER PENN for the (Name

Volcanology and petrology of the Rattlesnake Ash-Flow Tuff, eastern Oregon

Creator:: Streck, Martin J.
Abstract:: The Rattlesnake Ash-Flow Tuff erupted 7.05±0.01 Ma from the western Harney Basin, southeastern Oregon. The location of the vent area is inferred based on vent-ward increases in size of pumices, in degree of welding, and in degree of post-emplacement crystallization. Today's outcrops cover 9000 km2 and estimated original outcrop coverage...
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Full Text:: , Roger Nielsen, and John Dilles, are much appreciated. Among many people who contributed with

Performance of broilers and layers fed crab meal and other substances for improving utilization of diets containing whey or cellulose

Creator:: Tachasirinugune, Sommai
Abstract:: Several experiments involving broilers and laying hens were conducted to study the effects of feeding crab meal, dried whey and cellulose. The positive responses of crab meal as a substance for improving the utilization of dried whey and cellulose were examined. Cellulose treated with concentrated H3PO4 in broiler diets and...
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Full Text:: my graduate committee members, Drs. David C. England, Harry S. Nakaue, Roger G. Petersen and

The correlation of children's perception of locus of control to originality in selected groups of sixth grade children

Creator:: Bates, Opal Elaine
Abstract:: This study was developed in order to determine whether substantiation for Carl Rogers' theory of originality as related to an internal locus of control could be located among groups of elementary school children. The setting was in Portland, Oregon, in three types of city schools: suburban (upper/ upper-middle class); conventional...
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Full Text:: discomfort, and a fuller range of emotional expression (32). Getzels and Jackson differentiated highly

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Creator:: Christensen, Terry M.
Abstract:: This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
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Full Text:: Boynton, Adam Burrows, Freeman Dyson, Val Fitch, Larry Ford, Robert Fuller, Robert Geroch, Kent Harrison

DNA fingerprinting and genome mapping in meadowfoam

Creator:: Katengam, Sureeporn
Abstract:: Marker information in the new oilseed crop, meadowfoam, is limited. Molecular markers to facilitate meadowfoam breeding and cultivar improvement are not available. The knowledge of genetic relationships among recent germplasm is not known. The objectives of this study were (i) to gain an understanding of genetic diversity and relationship patterns...
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Full Text:: ........................................................................20 2.2 A phenogram produced by UPGMA clustering of Roger-W genetic distance matrix estimated from

Target Value Uncertainty and Goodwill Impairment: Public & Private Targets

Creator:: Mikus, Brad
Abstract:: In this study, I investigate how target value uncertainty may lead to acquirer mispricing of an acquisition target and how the mispricing may be a determinant of goodwill impairment. To the extent the mispricing leads to both high and low industry-adjusted purchase price multiples (PPMs are my proxies for overpayment...
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Full Text:: kind and thoughtful advice in my third and final proposal. To Roger Graham, Jared Moore, Pete

The relationship between kindergarten experience and fine-muscle eye-hand coordination abilities of first grade children

Creator:: Roberts, Arthur James
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between kindergarten experience and fine-muscle eye-hand coordination abilities of first grade children. The subjects were 181 first graders in the public schools of Albany, Corvallis, and Salem, Oregon. The mean age of the sample was 76.69 months with a standard...
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Full Text:: Professor of Forest Products, for serving on the doctoral committee; Dr. Roger G. Petersen, Professor of

Tracer studies of pyruvic acid metabolism in yeast

Creator:: Labbé, Robert F.
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Full Text:: nitrogen experiment was ete'nded to hours to allow for fuller utilization of the pyruvic acid. On

Development, characterization and application of polyclonal antibodies against ovine adipocytes for body fat reduction by passive immunization

Creator:: Nassar, Abdul-Rahman Hassan
Abstract:: Three experiments were conducted (1) to develop and characterize polyclonal antibodies against ovine adipocyte plasma membranes (APM), (2) to evaluate the effect of administering the developed antibodies to lambs on lamb growth and carcass characteristics, and (3) to investigate the possibility of using the developed antibodies to identify antigenic components...
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Full Text:: also to thank Dr. Roger Kraynick and Dr. Roger Fendell for their continuous help and friendship

Genetic and biochemical analysis of Victoria blight : identification of AFLP markers and purification and characterization of the oat saspase

Creator:: Coffeen, Warren C.
Abstract:: Victoria blight of oats (Avena sativa) is caused by the fungus, Cochliobolus victoriae, which produces the toxin, victorin. Victorin production is required for pathogenicity of the fungus. In oats, sensitivity to the toxin and susceptibility to the pathogen is conditioned by a dominant allele at the 1'b locus, while oats...
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Full Text:: of leaf tissue as per protocol communicated by Roger Wise at Iowa State University. Briefly, the

A description of teachers' sense of self-efficacy of the first graduate elementary pre-service teacher cohort at Oregon State University

Creator:: Bigler, Duane A.
Abstract:: Research studies indicated that teachers' sense of self-efficacy is a multidimensional construct related to teachers' beliefs about teaching, their ability to teach, and their students' ability to learn. This study described the change in a cohort of graduate preservice elementary teachers' sense of efficacy as they progressed through a four...
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Full Text:: & Burlingame, 1974; Berman, McLaughlin, Bass, Pauly, & Zellman, 1977; Fuller, Wood, Rapoport, & Dornbusch

Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

Creator:: Ellis, Erik
Abstract:: This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
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Post-hatching survival and productivity of American avocets at drainwater evaporation ponds in the Tulare Basin, California

Creator:: Marn, Carolyn M. (Carolyn Mary), 1962-
Abstract:: Evaporation ponds that dispose of agricultural drainwater provide attractive habitat for waterbirds but may result in contaminant exposure that impairs reproduction. I estimated post-hatching survival and evaluated productivity estimates for American avocets (Recurvirostra americana) nesting at evaporation ponds in the Tulare Basin, California from 1991 to 1993. Avocets and Black-necked...
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Full Text:: throughout the years, especially Harry Ohlendorf, Roger Hothem, Joseph Skorupa, Keith Miles, Cliff Hui

Atom abstraction from excoyclic postitons of derivatives of methylated pyridines and quinolines : an evaluation of change separation in the transition states of these reactions

Creator:: Mahiou, Belaid
Abstract:: The relative rates of hydrogen atom abstraction from a series of 13 homoaryl and heteroarylmethanes by the nucleophilic undecyl radical, thermally generated from lauroyl peroxide, were determined at 70 °C. A reactivity range of 15 was obtained. Substantial differences in reactivity among isomers were found. The relative reactivities of the...
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Full Text:: may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience." Roger

Studies of fiber utilization in poultry

Creator:: Hollister, Albert Gene, 1945-
Abstract:: The high quality feedstuffs which are used in poultry feeds are costly and could be used directly for human food. There is less competition for fibrous feedstuffs which are less digestible by humans and other nonruminants. Feedstuffs containing crude and refined dietary fiber were examined for their effects on performance,...
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Full Text:: ; Mr. Allen Feltmann for help with feed mixing and animal handling, and Dr. Roger Peterson and Ms

Structure elucidation of bioactive natural products from Madagascar marine algae and cyanobacteria

Creator:: Andrianasolo, Eric Hajaniriana
Abstract:: This thesis is an investigation of the natural products deriving from marine algae and cyanobacteria and has resulted in the discovery of eleven new secondary metabolites. The structure elucidations of these new molecules were performed using a variety of spectroscopic techniques. Four new macrolides were isolated and characterized from the...
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Full Text:: Chemistry, OSU) for their extensive mass spectral work. I express my special thanks to Roger Kohnert for

A study of preservice teachers' attitudes toward mainstreaming

Creator:: Staebler, Bonita Louise
Abstract:: The purposes of this study were to determine the effects of level (elementary and secondary), program status (beginning, midway, and student teaching), and demongraphic variables (experience, success, college supervisor support, supervising teacher support, additional support services, and school type) on preservice teachers' attitudes toward mainstreaming. The population consisted of 91...
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Full Text:: within their students. Fuller, Brown and Peck (1967, p. 6) wrote, Somewhere, sometime, everyone in our

Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

Creator:: Harper, Kristine C.
Abstract:: American meteorology was synonymous with subjective weather forecasting in the early twentieth century. Controlled by the Weather Bureau and with no academic programs of its own, the few hundred extant meteorologists had no standing in the scientific community. Until the American Meteorological Society was founded in 1919, meteorologists had no...
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Full Text:: weather prediction. 6 Charles C. Bates and John F. Fuller, America's Weather Warriors. 1814-1985

Conscience orientation in children and parental attitudes toward independence granting and achievement inducement

Creator:: Draper, Henry E.
Abstract:: This study focused on the relationship between parental attitudes and the conscience orientation of children, testing the hypotheses that (1) parents who had children with an external conscience orientation would show significantly greater disparity between their independence granting and achievement inducement attitudes than parents whose children had conventional or humanistic...
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Wholistic primary education : investigation and development of an integrated curriculum model

Creator:: Beyer, Elmira K.
Abstract:: A five year longitudinal study was begun in 1976 to find a solution to the problem of early primary children who fail in school and then adopt the failure syndrome. The study was conducted in four elementary schools in Oregon which had distinctly different socio-economic populations. The tests used for...
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Full Text:: , Roger W. Sperry of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and his colleagues, J. E. Bogen

Emergent Properties of Animal Social Networks: Five Stories in Five Systems

Creator:: Devan-Song, E. Anne
Abstract:: Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...
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Yosemite region nitrogen deposition and patterns in the composition of lichen communities

Creator:: Hutten, Martin
Abstract:: This dissertation describes patterns in epiphytic macrolichen community composition along a nitrogen deposition gradient in the Yosemite region of the Sierra Nevada in California. This region is part of the largest federal air quality Class 1 designated air-shed in the western United States, covering the entire crest of the Sierra...
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Resource partitioning by bobcats and coyotes in a coniferous forest

Creator:: Toweill, Dale E.
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Full Text:: deCalesta, Roger Fendall, W. Scott Overton, and Robert Krabmer served on my research committee and, to a

Genomic Resources for Phylogenetics, Species Delimitation, and Geographic Localization of Neotropical Tree Species Cedrela odorata L. (Meliaceae)

Creator:: Finch, Kristen N.
Abstract:: Biodiversity loss is of global concern, and is due in part to deforestation and high consumer demand for wood and wood products. The neotropical tree species Cedrela odorata (“Spanish cedar” or “cedro”) is economically valuable for its wood and faces threats of overexploitation. Due to strong similarities in wood features...
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Full Text:: Felipe Campos-Cerda and Briana Claassen. My heart is never fuller then when I’m facing a rival team

Pollen profiles from Southeastern Alaska

Creator:: Heusser, Calvin J.
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Full Text:: before, although 1ts preaent _degree of refinement waa developed by von Poat 1n 1916. Fuller (30, PP

Effectiveness of title III, ESEA in selected schools of the Oregon Small Schools Program July 1, 1966 to June 30, 1970

Creator:: Mellbye, Clarence K.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in selected schools of the Oregon Small Schools Project. Specifically, the objectives were to analyze: 1. To what extent were the objectives of the OSSP accomplished. 2. To what degree...
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Full Text:: agencies and did not specifically exclude non-public schools as applicants. Edgar Fuller, Executive

Geochemical tracers of Arctic river waters

Creator:: Guay, Christopher K. H.
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Full Text:: thing to say, but the profound feeling of it made a Jesus, a St. Augustine, a St. Francis, a Roger

The impact of selected experiences on women during mid-life transition : a retrospective study

Creator:: Lacy, Patricia A.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to examine the mid-life period of women's lives. It attempted to determine if this time is generally one of crisis, or more commonly a period of smooth transition. Furthermore, it attempted to determine if there is a typical pattern of emotional concerns experienced by...
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Full Text:: illusions of youth and build a fuller, more balanced life (70). Although most studies of mid-life

Making sense : journals as tools for learning and representing student experience in a field-based doctoral program

Creator:: Smith, Sharon L.
Abstract:: Recent trends in higher education have led to the development of alternatives to traditional on-campus graduate degree programs. There is a concomitant need to understand student experience in field-based programs which support continuing education and career development for employed adults. The central purpose of this research was to explore the...
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Full Text:: the past three years. To Gail Pincus and Roger Cooper, thanks for respondent validation and moral

An investigation of the effect of a college group laboratory experience in measured levels of self actualization and interpersonal compatibility

Creator:: Roberts, Charles Varner
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Unusual quantum effects in scattering wave functions of two-dimensional cage potentials

Creator:: Rowe, Kirk, 1966-
Abstract:: We exhibit long-lived resonances in scattering from two-dimensional soft cage potentials comprised of three and four Gaussian peaks. Specific low-energy resonances with very narrow width are shown to correspond to classical multiple-reflection events. These states have much larger probability densities inside the cage than outside and mimic bound states in...
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Full Text:: author is also grateful to the remainder of his committee: Roger Nielsen, William Warren, Victor Madsen

An Integrated Approach to Gauge the Effects of Global Climate Change on Headwater Stream Ecosystems

Creator:: Bury, Gwendolynn W.
Abstract:: Climate change is predicted to affect ecosystems, including systems already stressed by human impacts. One ecosystem that is already highly impacted by human land use is the cold headwater stream system of the Pacific Northwest. One method of assessing the function of an ecosystem is by using an indicator species....
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Econometric Analysis of Private Decisions on Renewable Natural Resources

Creator:: Zhao, Zichu
Abstract:: Natural resources play a crucial role in human society by providing both market value and non-market value. Effective management of these resources is necessary to achieve a balance between economic value and other non-market benefits. Econometric studies focusing on natural resource management help us understand the costs and benefits of...
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Pattern systems and methodologies for multiparadigm analysis and design

Creator:: Knutson, Charles D.
Abstract:: In this research, we have captured, in pattern form, key elements of programming and design in four programming paradigms (imperative, object-oriented, functional and logical) as well as multiparadigm programming. These pattern sets have formed a foundation upon which we were able to build a deeper understanding of multiparadigm programming and...
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"Playing with computers" : the hidden impact of the computer in a school

Creator:: Turner, Martha I.
Abstract:: The topic of this study is the cultural impact of the computer in a school. "Impact" is 'defined as the cultural consequences of intended and unintended learning that occur when computers are used in the school. The major theoretical orientations of the work include the concepts of manifest and latent...
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Pattern recognition of speech using hybrid computer feature extraction

Creator:: Herr, Alan Jack
Abstract:: Most technological problems associated with man-machine conversations have been solved and are well documented in both the contemporary technical and lay literature. The major remaining technological problem is the real time conversion of a human's vocal uterances into a "written" phoneme sequence representing the information content of speech. The work...
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Modeling Density Dependence in the Presence of Measurement Error

Creator:: Payton, Quinn
Abstract:: Density dependence is an ecological concept concerning the mechanisms of change in the size of a population. The inability to census ecological populations confounds approaches to identify and quantify the level of density dependence. Statistical tests which ignore the presence of measurement error tend to result in misspeci fied type...
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Synthetic strategies for the preparation of affinity label dynorphin A(1-11)NH₂ analogues

Creator:: Leelasvatanakij, Leena
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New bioactive natural products from marine algae and cyanobacteria

Creator:: Sabry, Omar Mohamed
Abstract:: This thesis is an account of investigation on the natural products deriving from various marine algae and has resulted in the discovery of eleven novel bioactive metabolites. Isolation and characterization of these new molecules were carried out using different chromatographic techniques and by analyses of different spectroscopic data, respectively. Using...
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Full Text:: work. I would express my special thanks to Roger Kohnert for his valuable NMR assistance. I would

Treatment of autocorrelated disturbances in economic functions

Creator:: Fernandez, Jose Enrique
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Full Text:: efforts to obtain financial support for the termination of this work. To Dr. Tim M. Hammonds, Dr. Roger

Defining agricultural sustainability in the Marys River region of Oregon

Creator:: Stanton, Michael
Abstract:: This ethnographic study explores the social aspects of agricultural land-use in the Marys River region. The study seeks to understand how farmers define sustainability and how their views on agricultural issues help to define a sense of place and identity in the Marys River region, within the context of the...
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