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  • Juvenile survival and birth-site selection of Rocky Mountain elk in northeastern Oregon

    Creator:
    Rearden, Spencer N.
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    With declining populations and low calf recruitment in northeastern Oregon, much interest has been generated to study the survival rates and causes of mortality of Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni). I investigated the causes of elk calf mortality and the effects of predation risk on birth-site selection by cow...
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    I sincerely thank Drs. Robert G. Anthony and Bruce K. Johnson, the co- principal investigators of

  • Beyond oil : Managing hazardous material spills in Puget Sound

    Creator:
    Heimowitz, P. J. (Paul J.)
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    Past disasters such as mercury poisoning in Minimata, and new problems such as tributyltin impacts on shellfish have maintained public concern about problems caused by chronic discharges of hazardous materials into marine waters (Clark, 1986; U.S. Congress, 1987). However, hazardous chemical spills in coastal waters typically escape public attention. Unlike...
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    comments and support from my advisor Bill Pearcy and committee members Jim Good and Earle Buckley. Special

  • Building Economically Resilient Rural Communities

    Creator:
    Sorte, Bruce Michael
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    Rural communities will continue to be disproportionately shocked by economic fluctuations. Market forces are likely to lead to the decline of many rural communities and they will need to be economically resilient to survive. This thesis draws on several social sciences and the natural sciences to develop ideas that communities...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Bruce Michael Sorte for the degree

  • Integrated Pest Management Plan Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge

    Creator:
    DeRango, Bethany
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    Each NWR within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) provides landscapes that contribute to conservation of wildlife and the habitats they depend on at local, regional, and national levels. The Integrated Pest Management Plan (IPMP) for a given refuge is a guide to how...
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    Capstone Project
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    BILL WILLIAMS RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE by Bethany DeRango A PROJECT

  • President Clinton's health care rhetoric : the role of anecdotal evidence in promoting identification

    Creator:
    Dahl, Nicholas D.
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    The purpose of this study is to illuminate the presence and rhetorical effect of anecdotes in President Clinton's major health care address. It is the health care debate that shows most clearly how Clinton tries to direct a multi-level campaign that attempts to identify his interests (passage of the Health...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the pathos of anecdotes to pass a health care bill, which will be analyzed according to Kenneth

  • Policy Shifting at the Federal Reserve Bank: A Punctuated-Equilibrium Perspective

    Creator:
    Campbell, Michael
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    A considerable amount of research and literature exists that attempt to explain the policymaking processes of central banks and, in particular, the Federal Reserve Bank (FRB). As with those studies, the purpose of this study is to explain FRB policymaking in order to understand FRB policy shifts during financial crises....
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    . Campbell presented on May 28, 2010 APPROVED: Professor Bruce McGough, representing

  • Changing federal county payments and rural Oregon counties: analysis of policy impacts and responses from loss of secure rural schools funding in selected Oregon counties

    Creator:
    Gaid, Dawn Marie
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    Changes in federal forest management, enactment of environmental policies, recessions and a shift to a global economy dramatically impacted counties between the 1980s and 1990s. In the 1990s, counties began experiencing a shift away from traditional natural resource extraction activities – amidst changing demographics resulting from rural restructuring taking place...
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    Capstone Project
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    ........................................................................................................... 41 g. Federal forest payments

  • Using Weather to Explain Variation in State-level Food Insecurity: A Panel Data Approach

    Creator:
    Chatfield, Kristin
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    Most research on U.S. hunger and food insecurity is at the household level, where it occurs. Because policy to address food insecurity is created and implemented at the national and state level, hunger research at the state level provides important contextual information. By including weather data with state level economic...
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    Capstone Project
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     Explain Variation in State‐level Food Insecurity: A Panel Data  Approach  Abstract Approved:      Bruce

  • Heuristic search in symbolic probability inference

    Creator:
    Pan, Yonghong
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    I present a new heuristic search approach to compute approximate answers for the probability query in belief nets. This approach can compute the 'best' bounds for a query in a period of any given time (if time permitted, it will get an exact value). It inherits the essence of Symbolic...
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    Capstone Project
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    Science Major Professor: Bruce D' Ambrosio Department of Computer Science Oregon State University

  • Low Power Radio : An Antidote for Coastal Visitors Looking but not Seeing!

    Creator:
    Williams, Erin M.
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    State parks in Oregon provide important sites for visitor recreation and natural resource education. With the increasing number of visitors to Oregon coastal parks, tide pools and beach areas, there is growing need for site-specific marine education to enhance stewardship, interpretation and safety knowledge. The Oregon Sea Grant Program and...
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    thanks to my graduate committee members Dr. Bruce DeYoung, Dr. Lori Cramer and Dr. Bill Lunch. Bruce