A dissertation describing the results of a series of greenhouse experiments conducted to better understand phytoremediation in stormwater bioretention systems.
This research assesses prescribed burning as a habitat management
technique in wetlands and associated upland communities of Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge, southeastern Oregon. Experimental burns
were conducted to evaluate fire behavior and effects in wetland and
upland habitats, and, fire effects on Cirsium arvense. Wetland plant
communities were monotypic stands...
This research assessed certain specific plant-soil and community
interrelationships in eastern Oregon habitat types dominated by
subspecies of Artemisia tridentata.
The first evaluation described plant-induced soil chemical patterns for Artemisia tridentata plant communities of high perennial
grass-low shrub and low perennial grass-high shrub composition. Soil
concentrations of total nitrogen, organic...
The objective of this research was to determine which
environmental resources, light, water, and nutrients,
control understory plant production and composition in a
Pinus ponderosa forest in northeastern Oregon. A split-plot
experimental design, with three blocks, four
treatments, and 44 plots, was established in the summer of
1985. Twenty plots...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of contaminants of great concern due to their toxicity and ubiquity in the environment. Remediation efforts historically have focused on granular activated carbon (GAC) because of its low maintenance and relatively low cost. However, GAC is not PFAS selective and is especially...
This dissertation demonstrates how Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986,
1997) can be successfully applied to Counselor academic advising interventions, in
order to increase students' self-efficacy and self-regulated learning (Zimmerman,
2000) in academic planning as learned outcomes. This was accomplished by (a)
reviewing the academic advising literature and showing the current...
In many experimental situations involving compartmental models,
a more realistic model is obtained if the rate constants are regarded
as random variables. We consider the problem of estimating the means
and variances of the rate constants in a stochastic compartmental
model when
a) a time series of observations of an...
Dihalocarbenes have been generated mainly by thermal decomposition
of sodium trihaloacetate and phenyl (trihalomethyl)mercury,
and give gem-dihalocyclopropyl adducts with various steroid olefins.
A new procedure involving the use of sealed tubes makes possible the
addition of dihalocarbenes to sterically hindered olefins. In this manner,
7-cholestenyl benzoate when treated with PhHgCC1₃...
Studies were conducted to determine the post-mortem stability
of lysosomes in the white muscle of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
and to determine whether lysosomal stability was related to rigor
mortis and its subsequent dissolution. In addition, isolated lysosomes
were subjected to different environments in an attempt to detect some
of...