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Tides on the West Florida shelf

Creator:: Koblinsky, Chester John
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Oceanography presented on Title: TIDES ON THE WEST FLORIDA A

Pre-retirement expectancy and retirement reality as factors in the adjustment of Oregon State Highway Department older employees

Creator:: Simerville, Clara Louise
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: middle-class Florida retirement community sixty* five per cent of the retired persons interviewed do not

Addressing Data Resolution in Precision Agriculture

Creator:: Kelley, Jason
Abstract:: Irrigated agriculture constitutes the greatest consumptive water use globally, so that irrigation efficiency measures are an important part of global efforts to best utilize this limited resource. However, greater irrigation efficiency must be achieved while simultaneously maintaining or increasing crop yields and farming profitability. Incremental water use decisions are made...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: required to realize the full potential of precision agriculture

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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . NAS: Ad hoc committee on Marine Biology, Division of Biology and Agriculture. National Academy of

Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

Creator:: Hall, Robert Dale, 1947-
Abstract:: The education (particularly graduate education) of Americans who were active in astronomical research between 1876 and 1941 is assessed for its effectiveness in preparing the astronomers for careers in research. This period contains three dynamic changes: the growth of American astronomy in becoming the world's leading community of astronomers, the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Robert Dale Hall for the

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

Creator:: Canavan, Barbara C.
Abstract:: By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: more closely the role of humans in contemporary history through activities such as agriculture and

Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

Creator:: Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
Abstract:: L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Microsoft Word - 00pretext _2_.doc AN ABSTRACT OF THE

An economic analysis of the merger component in the growth of agricultural cooperatives

Creator:: Cramer, Gail L.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: favorable rather thrn during depressed periods of economic activity in agriculture as previously

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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Terry M. Christensen for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History

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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: activities were placed under the Weather Bureau in the Department of Agriculture. And virtually all

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Tides on the West Florida shelf

Pre-retirement expectancy and retirement reality as factors in the adjustment of Oregon State Highway Department older employees

Addressing Data Resolution in Precision Agriculture

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

Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

An economic analysis of the merger component in the growth of agricultural cooperatives

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

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

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