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An analysis of montane forest vegetation on the east flank of the central Oregon Cascades

Creator:: West, Neil E.
Abstract:: Montane forest vegetation as it occurs on the east flank of the central Oregon Cascades has provided excellent conditions for a "natural experiment" in the use of various methodologies in studying vegetational distribution. This "experiment" has reflected on some theory and practice for the discipline of plant synecology. Detailed descriptions,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Plant succession on two Artemisia habitat types in southeastern Oregon

Creator:: Tueller, Paul T., 1934-
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Charles E. Poulton whose guidance, constructive criticism and incessant encouragement has aided in the

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:: of Numerical Weather Prediction in the United States. Abstract approved: E. Doel American

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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: DISSERTATION OF E. Anne Devan-Song for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Integrative Biology

Factors affecting the abundance of fall chinook salmon in the Columbia River

Creator:: Van Hyning, Jack M.
Abstract:: A study of the population ecology of Columbia River fall chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum), was made in an attempt to determine the cause of a serious decline in this run which occurred in the early 1950's. Fluctuations in abundance of major salmon runs the North Pacific were examined to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and re- viewing the manuscript. Likewise, Messrs. Arthur L. Oakley and Robert E. Loeffel of the

Transcultural education and Japanese-American relations

Creator:: Mitarai, Shōji, 1949-
Abstract:: The goals of this study were to discover and compare the religious and philosophical traditions which have shaped Japanese and American cultures, and to make a case for interdisciplinary transcultural programs of study in higher education. Specifically, the purposes of this study were to: (1) describe and trace historically the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Special thanks are due to the following doctoral committee members: Dr. Carvel W. Wood, Dr. Lloyd E

Intercultural self concept and coping behavior : Asian and American Caucasian graduate students

Creator:: Christopherson-Choudhry, Matiny Lee
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships and the differences between the self-concept and the coping behavior of two selected groups of graduate students namely, foreign-born Asians and American Caucasians who were enrolled in graduate school of Oregon State University during the 1981-82 academic year. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -concept, the C (Personal Self) and E (Social Self) were used to test the correlation coeffi- cient. The

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:: : Physics Dissertations and Master’s Theses at Texas 542 Appendix E: Senior Theses at Princeton, 1938

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Creator:: Richards, Linda Marie
Abstract:: The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: expansion and acceptance of nuclear technology worldwide. Willard E. Libby of the US Atomic Energy Agency

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:: science has drawn on the utility of biography to address these various levels of analysis. Frederic L

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An analysis of montane forest vegetation on the east flank of the central Oregon Cascades

Plant succession on two Artemisia habitat types in southeastern Oregon

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

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

Factors affecting the abundance of fall chinook salmon in the Columbia River

Transcultural education and Japanese-American relations

Intercultural self concept and coping behavior : Asian and American Caucasian graduate students

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

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

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