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  • Corvallis and Salem, Oregon newspapers in transition

    Creator:
    Carlson, Judith Carol
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    This thesis examines three newspapers in Corvallis and Salem, Oregon: the Corvallis Gazette-Times, the Oregonstatesman (Salem) and the Community Press (Salem). It examines the histories of the Gazette-Times and the Oregon Statesman as family-owned papers, and their current status as properties of newspaper chains. Based on interviews of key staff...
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  • Simulated response of ecosystem processes to climate change in northern California and western Nevada

    Creator:
    McGlinchy, Maureen C.
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    In order to investigate potential climate impacts on landscape-scale ecosystem processes, I implemented a dynamic general vegetation model (DGVM) over a large domain in northern California and western Nevada on a rectangular grid of ca. 800-meter spatial resolution. I used 100 years of observed, monthly climate and nine future climate...
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    . Abstract approved: Ronald P. Neilson Beverly E. Law In order to investigate potential

  • A Comparison of Client Follow-up and Selected Components of Weight Control Programs Managed by Dietitians and Nondietitians in Oregon

    Creator:
    Leland, Ronald Wayne
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    Obesity affects one out of every four Americans and represents a serious health hazard in the United States. Serious chronic diseases associated with obesity include heart disease, cancer, and adult-onset diabetes mellitus. There has been a rapid expansion in the number of weight control centers since the 1970s, yet there...
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    Masters Thesis
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    THESIS OF Ronald Wayne Leland for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Exercise

  • Spatial and age class analysis of managed western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) woodlands in central Oregon

    Creator:
    Zophy, Kelley T.
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    Juniper is a native species to Oregon and confers ecological benefits to wildlife when it is at savannah and transitional densities. Its range and extent have fluctuated with climatic change, but the current range expansion is unprecedented in its extent. The range expansion has been associated with the degradation of...
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    Ronald J. Reuter Juniper is a native species to Oregon and confers ecological benefits to

  • Visual Analysis of Attorney Case Portfolios Over Time

    Creator:
    Nambirajan, Surendar
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    While individual portfolio diversity analysis is a well-studied problem in visualization, the visual analysis of individual or groups of portfolios, over time, has received little attention. Such analysis, however, is important to researchers who are interested in better understanding portfolio management behavior of experts as well as novices. We conducted...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Ronald A. Metoyer

  • Evolving character controllers for collision preparation

    Creator:
    Rose, Robert W.
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    Full dynamic control of physically simulated characters is the holy grail of video games and other interactive applications. Recent advances in the field have presented controllers that can handle the balance and fall response after a collision. This thesis addresses the development of a controller that handles the response before...
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    : Evolving Character Controllers for Collision Preparation Abstract approved: Ronald A. Metoyer Full

  • Detecting bad smells in spreadsheets

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    Asavametha, Atipol
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    Spreadsheets are a widely used end-user programming tool. Field audits have found that 80-90% of spreadsheets created by end users contain textual and formula errors in spreadsheets. Such errors may have severe negative consequences for users in terms of productivity, credibility, or profits. To solve the problem of spreadsheet errors,...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Christopher P Scaffidi Spreadsheets are a widely used end-user programming tool

  • Potential impacts of climate change on vegetation distributions, carbon stocks, and fire regimes in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Rogers, Brendan M.
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    The U.S Pacific Northwest contains a wide variety of ecosystems, all subject to relatively dry summers and wet winters. As has been shown with paleoclimatic and paleoecological data, the region is vulnerable to changes in climate. We assessed the sensitivities of vegetation distributions, carbon stocks, and fire regimes to 21st...
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    : Ronald P. Neilson Beverly E. Law The U.S Pacific Northwest contains a wide variety of ecosystems

  • Fluorimetric analysis of intracellular calcium in high and low mobility fowl sperm

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    Olson, Jill Wardell
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    Sperm mobility is defined as the net movement of a sperm population against resistance. Previous research demonstrated that the cell-permeant Ca2+ indicator rhod-2 AM gave a fluorescent signal predominantly in the head region of fowl sperm that differed between sperm mobility phenotypes. This thesis served to explore the role of...
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    Sperm Abstract approved: David P. Froman Sperm mobility is defined as the net movement of

  • Impact of malolactic fermentation on red wine color and color stability

    Creator:
    Burns, Tresider R.
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    Malolactic fermentation (MLF) is an important step in the production of wines and is commonly performed in red or cool climate wines to reduce acidity. In this study the impact of MLF on red wine color and the ability of Oenococcus oeni to degrade compounds important to the development of...
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    approved:______________________________________________________ James P. Osborne Malolactic