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  • Location of the neutral axis in wood beams

    Creator:
    Holm, Sarah C.
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    It is commonly accepted that for the analysis of wood beams, the neutral axis coincides with the centroid of the beam. Although this assumption is used in analysis, wood is not an isotropic material, as it has different elastic properties in the tangential, radial and longitudinal directions, nor is it...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Wood Beams. Abstract approved: Thomas H. Miller Rakesh Gupta It is commonly accepted that

  • Patterns of age and growth in young-of-year rockfish, sebastes spp., along the Oregon coast

    Creator:
    Young, Thomas
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    Rockfish of the genus Sebastes are important components of Oregon reef communities. I examined patterns of age and growth in young-of-year rockfish across two nested spatial scales – local and regional – along the Oregon coast. Using otolith microstructural examination, I examined the relative importance of local versus regional factors...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Thomas H. Young for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Science in Zoology presented August 12, 2004

  • Teaching writing within Forestry

    Creator:
    Kolb, Thomas, Friginal, Eric, Lee, Martha Eugenia, Tracy-Ventura, Nicole, and Grieve, Jack
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    7th Biennial Conference on University Education in Natural Resources. In 2005 faculty in the Northern Arizona University School of Forestry initiated a project to replace the required sophomore-level writing course taught by the English Department with a new course, “Writing in Forestry,” taught within the School. The goal of the...
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    Conference Proceeding
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    Teaching Writing Within Forestry Thomas Kolb, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff

  • Usability Testing to Improve a Teaching Website for Graduate Counselor Education Students

    Creator:
    McMillen, Paula S., Pehrsson, Dale Elizabeth, and Lin, Shao-Chen
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    Expectations for technology proficiency in counseling and counselor education have increased; nevertheless, very little information is available in the counseling literature which describes how to effectively evaluate online resources from a design and utility standpoint. This study provides a model for such assessments, employing an affordable small scale usability study...
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    Article
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    , professional organizations and by individual practitioners ADDIN EN.CITE (Gilles-Thomas, 2003; Kalb, 2001

  • Ethnic minorities in Oregon: an annotated bibliography

    Creator:
    Wilkinson, Richenda
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    This bibliography focuses on works that will provide the reader with supplemental resources on the history of ethnic minorities in Oregon. An effort has been made to highlight materials that are particularly appropriate for use in teaching students of various ages. The featured resources address all historical time periods, but...
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    Part of Book
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    , Thomas C. "James Saules, Peter Burnett, and the Oregon Black Exclusion Law of June 1844." Pacific

  • Pathogenic Mechanisms of Cancer Causing hMLH1 Mutations

    Creator:
    O'Donnell, Edmond Francis
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    DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is an evolutionary conserved process that functions to maintain genomic integrity through the correction of mismatches that have escaped proofreading. Mutations in the MMR gene Mlh1 are associated with approximately 50% of all cases of Lynch syndrome, a hereditary predisposition to colorectal cancer, through varying and...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    ). Colonies were fixed and stained by aspirating media and washing with 6% ethanol and 0.28% w/v methylene

  • Militant and nonviolent social movements

    Creator:
    Robinson, Blake
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    While much has been written about why people join social movements in general, little has been written about why people specifically join either militant or nonviolent social movements. Using the Black Panther Party as an example of a militant social movement and the mainstream Civil Rights Movement as an example...
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    Honors College Thesis

  • A bibliotherapy evaluation tool: grounding counselors in the therapeutic use of literature

    Creator:
    Pehrsson, Dale Elizabeth and McMillen, Paula S.
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    Discusses the development and evolution of the Bibliotherapy Evaluation Tool to help graduate counseling students use literature in therapy ethically and appropriately. A survey of bibliotherapeutic practice in the helping professions is provided. Graduate students showed greater knowledge of and comfort with bibliotherapy after exposure to a teaching module and...
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    Article and Preprint
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    Reproduction Service ED 394 624) Holman, W. D. (1996). The power of poetry: Validating ethnic identity through

  • Biodiesel in Oregon : an agricultural perspective

    Creator:
    Lahmann, Emily Loren
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    Biodiesel is a renewable, non-toxic, and biodegradable diesel fuel made from agricultural feedstocks. With a vibrant agricultural industry, Oregon is positioned to play an important role in the future of this energy source. Limiting factors to widespread biodiesel production include low value of biodiesel feedstock crops, lack of infrastructure, lagging...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis

  • A Java implementation of the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm using NIST curves over GF(p)

    Creator:
    Stadick, Rhea
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    The Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) is a public key cryptosystem used for creation and verification of digital signatures in electronic documents. In this thesis, we created a Java applet that provides the functionality of the ECDSA using all of the NIST elliptic curves over GF(p). This applet was...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    w = s-1 mod q and H(M) 4. Compute u1 = wH(M) mod q and u2 = rw mod q 5. Compute v = ((u1yu2 mod p