Computer simulation models provide insight into ammonia loss processes and the sensitivity of ammonia loss predictions to environmental and management variables.
As an example of how a simple computer simulation model can inform the Extension guideline development process, the ALFAM (Ammonia Volatilization from Field-Applied Animal Slurry) model was used to...
A reflection on the significant personal cost incurred by Linus Pauling as a result of his anti-nuclear and anti-war activism. Specifically, this talk focuses on Pauling's harassment by the mainstream media and his receipt of death threats as a result of the public positions that he took as an activist.
In the summer of 2008, the Valley Library of Oregon State University was faced with a need to re-evaluate its access policies and decide whether to maintain the current policies or change the policies to address existing and potential issues. As part of this process, the Valley Library surveyed the...
The purpose of this report is to document changes
resulting from long-term application of biosolids to
grazed dryland pasture. The report contains two chapters:
• Chapter 1: Biosolids Increase Grass Yield and Quality
in Dryland Pasture
• Chapter 2: Biosolids Increase Soil Fertility in Dryland
Pasture
Data summarized here was...
Managing the financial affairs of a direct marketing operation includes:
• Raising capital
• Identifying financial objectives and creating plans to achieve them
• Budgeting for the future flow of cash receipts and disbursements (cash
management)
• Controlling the use and distribution of funds
• Protecting the operation’s assets
Capital...
Oregon State University Libraries In-Service Presentation.
This presentation highlights some of the lesser-known archival collections housed in the OSU Libraries Special Collections department. Featured among these are the McDonald Rare Book Collection as well as the papers of Roger Hayward, William Appleman Williams, Milton Harris, Paul Emmett, David and Clara...
A detailed biographical sketch of Ralph W. Spitzer (b. 1918), a graduate student of Linus Pauling's and promising academic who joined the Oregon State College chemistry department in 1946. Promoted to Assistant Professor in 1947, Spitzer was nonetheless fired from the OSC faculty in 1949 by President August L. Strand,...
Studies were conducted to evaluate the use of several trap-lure combinations to improve the monitoring of codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), in apple, Malus domestica Bordk. The treatments involved the use of clear, orange, and white traps baited with one or more of the following attractants: the major...