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The effects of thin kiln sticks on the drying of two inch western hemlock lumber

Creator:: Horton, Robert Kenneth
Abstract:: New technology allows the production of thinner kiln sticks manufactured of phenolic resin impregnated paper which are both structurally and economically realistic. This project tested the effects of kiln stick thicknesses on dry kiln air circulation and on lumber drying degrade. Three variables, stick thickness (3/4, 9/16, 7/16 and 1/4...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Ideology, reality, and rhetoric : Kenneth Burke's dramatism

Creator:: Beach, Josh M.
Abstract:: The American philosopher and literary critic Kenneth Burke was an "ideologist" (although he never called himself this, and added to that, he spent most of his life avoiding the Marxist term of ideology to describe human "systems" of ideas). Burke instead used the terms "orientation," "rationalization," "perspective." "critical perspective," "way...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: formal tensions a device for the artist to Wess, Robert. Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity

Applied Behavioral Insights for Wildfire Preparedness in the Wildland-Urban Interface of Jackson County, OR

Creator:: Horton, Robert B.
Abstract:: This study is designed to evaluate to what degree action at the household level in WUI wildfire preparedness is influenced by targeted public information, or behaviorally informed, interventions. The desired outcome of the public information interventions is increasing the number of households taking action to reduce wildfire risk through the...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Preparedness in the Wildland-Urban Interface of Jackson County, OR by Robert B. Horton Executive MPP

Top-down Influences of bald eagles on common murre populations in Oregon

Creator:: Horton, Cheryl A.
Abstract:: Populations of organisms are influenced by both top-down (predator driven) and bottom-up (environment or resource driven) effects. Seabird research has largely focused on bottom-up factors influencing reproduction, with little emphasis on top-down. Our goal was to better understand top-down impacts on colonial nesting seabirds over a range of spatio-temporal scales....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: EXPANDING BALD EAGLE POPULATION Cheryl A. Horton, Robert M. Suryan, Katie M. Dugger, Roy W. Lowe

Neritic reef fishes off central Oregon : aspects of life histories and the recreational fishery

Creator:: McClure, Robert Edward
Abstract:: Recreational angling pressure has recently increased in the neritic reef areas off the central Oregon coast. This study describes weight-length and age-length relationships as well as ages at sexual maturity of the black, blue, canary, yelloweye, and yellowtail rockfish (Sebastes melanops, S. mystinus, S. pinniger, S. ruberrimus, and S. flavidus,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Habitat occurrence and comparative densities of the Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasiil, in Benton, Polk, and Yamhill Counties

Creator:: Ritland, Richard Martin
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract Approved: Dr. Kenneth L. Gordon The margins of the Willamette Valley form a "fringe zone

Systems theory for minority students : a potential tool for the improvement of academic performance

Creator:: Godwin, Karen Sato
Abstract:: The study was undertaken to determine if the construct and vocabulary of systems theory are related to academic performance such that a) the understanding of either or both can predict grade-point average for college students, and b) the explicit teaching of both construct and vocabulary to minority students can improve...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Lloyd Crisp, Horton Fross, Robert Mrazek, and Edwin Stowbridge, members of the graduate committee, for

An experiment to ascertain the effect of maturation and educational experience on Air Force Officer Qualifying Test scores

Creator:: Fross, Horton Lawrence
Abstract:: The United States Air Force uses a test constructed by Air Force personnel to test all individuals seeking entrance into Air Force officer training programs. This test is titled "The Air Force Officer Qualifying Test" (AFOQT). There are two major classes of candidates who are required to take the test:...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: educational experience on Air Force Officer Qualifying Test scores AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF HORTON

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

Creator:: Horton, Kaely
Abstract:: This thesis examines depictions of medievalism in three central texts: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Each of these texts provides an entry point for exploring the ways in which English and American writers have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kaely Horton for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on April

The effects of ultraviolet irradiation on the photosynthetic apparatus

Creator:: Mantai, Kenneth Edward
Abstract:: The effects of ultraviolet (UV) irradiation on photosynthesis and various partial reactions involving the individual photoreactions of photosynthesis were examined. These reactions included photo-reduction in adapted green algae, Hill reaction, cyclic photophosphorylation, the 520 nm absorbance change and variable-yield fluorescence. The reactions were measured in spinach chloroplasts and isolated chloroplasts...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Photosynthetic Apparatus AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kenneth Edward Mantai for the (Name of student) Ph

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The effects of thin kiln sticks on the drying of two inch western hemlock lumber

Ideology, reality, and rhetoric : Kenneth Burke's dramatism

Applied Behavioral Insights for Wildfire Preparedness in the Wildland-Urban Interface of Jackson County, OR

Top-down Influences of bald eagles on common murre populations in Oregon

Neritic reef fishes off central Oregon : aspects of life histories and the recreational fishery

Habitat occurrence and comparative densities of the Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasiil, in Benton, Polk, and Yamhill Counties

Systems theory for minority students : a potential tool for the improvement of academic performance

An experiment to ascertain the effect of maturation and educational experience on Air Force Officer Qualifying Test scores

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

The effects of ultraviolet irradiation on the photosynthetic apparatus

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