Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide. Recently it has been shown that microbiota play a role in some types of cancer. Therefore, to understand whether microbes contribute in any way to the development and progress of cervical cancer, we investigated the cervical microbiome via analysis...
Jordan has a higher fertility rate (3.8) than the averages of countries similar in income to Jordan (2.2) and compared to the Middle East and North Africa region as a whole (2.8) (WHO, WB, UNICEF, & DHS, 2011). The findings of the 2009 Jordanian Population and Family Health Survey demonstrated...
This study was divided into three stages. The first phase of the study aimed to examine factors influencing the students' participation in physical activity. Eight female and male university students participated in the focus group. It was found that the participants' perceived benefits of physical activity were physical, psychological and...
Variable-retention harvesting was proposed to reduce loss of biodiversity and ecosystem processes associated with late-seral Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forests in the Pacific Northwest. The Demonstration of Ecosystem Management Options experiment was established to test this hypothesis. Analysis presents various challenges to drawing statistical inferences about treatment effects. This dissertation explored...
Improper disposal of unused human and pet pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are an emerging public and watershed health threat around the world. Although some waste stream reduction programs such as PPCPs "take-back" exist, there is limited research in current programs on reducing the entry of PPCPs into the...
This thesis addresses a basic problem in computer vision, that of semantic labeling of images. Our work is aimed at object detection in biological images for evolutionary biology research. In particular, our goal is to detect nematocysts in Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images. This biological domain presents challenges for existing...
In this dissertation, we derive and implement a new transport-diffusion hybrid algorithm for solving thermal radiative transfer (TRT) problems. Using the method of nonlinear elimination (NLEM), the TRT system of equations can be written in terms of a transport equation with the absence of scattering and a diffusion equation. The...
Shrimp gradually has become a significant portion of seafood in
Oregon during the last two decades. The attention is attracted to the
economic, technology, and efficiency of resource management, harvesting,
processing, and marketing.
This thesis is a study of the path of Pacific pink shrimp, Pandalus
Jordani, from the ocean,...
Shrimp gradually has become a significant portion of seafood in
Oregon during the last two decades. The attention is attracted to the
economic, technology, and efficiency of resource management, harvesting,
processing, and marketing.
This thesis is a study of the path of Pacific pink shrimp, Pandalus
Jordani, from the ocean,...
Improved methods for automatic translation of Chinese characters
to English, using a scanner coupled to a digital computer, are
described. Included are computer techniques of locating, describing,
and recognizing different strokes for translation of the character.
Approximately ninety percent of urban Vietnamese households are connected to septic tanks, from which up to three-quarters of the sludge is reported to be dumped into waterways in residential areas. Vietnam has a considerable prevalence of antibiotic misuse and resultant antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) in the human microbiome. Due to the...
Four, six-rowed, spring barley cultivars were used as
parental material in this study. The parents were distinctly different
in plant height. Washington-6124-62 is a standard height
selection while Short Wocus and Minn. 66-102 are intermediate.
The fourth parent was a dwarf selection obtained from India. The
two intermediate cultivars and...
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide with human papillomavirus (HPV) being the main cause of the disease. Currently available treatment methods are limited and emphasize the need for discovery of new therapies that improve patient outcome. Chromosomal amplifications have been identified as a source of...
Italian ryegrass populations have been identified with evolved resistance to glyphosate in orchards with a history of glyphosate use. Two of these populations were selected to investigate the inheritance of glyphosate resistance. The mechanisms involved in the herbicide resistance were an altered target site for the population SF and reduced...
Italian ryegrass (Lolium perenne L. spp. multiflorum (Lam.) Husnot) is one of the most troublesome weeds with respect to herbicide resistance selection. Some reasons for this are the numerous documented cases of multiple and cross herbicide resistance and some of the biological characteristics of this species, such as wind cross-pollination...
The purpose of the study was to identify and examine critical factors that either promote or hinder acute care hospitals decision-making on adopting complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). All acute care hospitals in the states of Oregon and Washington were included in the study. Individual interviews were conducted at the...
The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm brought an ever-increasing dependence on low-power devices to collect sensor data and transmit that information to the cloud, placing greater demand on connectivity and lifespan. In response, rapid worldwide innovation demonstrates the trade-offs in processing, communication, and energy consumption with diverse approaches to low-power...
Studies were conducted to determine the uniformity of three
commercial seed lots of ryegrass (Lolium spp.) and the effects of lot
size on lot uniformity. Individual bag-samples were taken from each
seed lot. Factors considered were percentage purity, annual ryegrass,
perennial ryegrass, weed, other crop, inert matter, and germination.
Number...
Fruit juice concentrates- hard pear, soft pear, fig,
prune, raisin, white grape, and pineapple, and sweeteners-invert
beet, invert cane, and high fructose corn syrup
(HFCS) were characterized by sugar profiles, nonvolatile
acid profiles, UV spectral profiles, and mineral content.
These fruit juices and sweeteners were also used to
adulterate commercial...
The purpose of this study was twofold; first, to identify the
values held by Oregon State University students, and second, to
determine if the values of OSU students are different from samples
previously surveyed. A further purpose of the study was to
develop baseline data on a cross-section of the...
This exploratory study examined Oregon home-based business owners' needs and their willingness to participate in selected educational activities. The specific objectives of the study were: (1) to determine home-based business owners' needs in the areas of Planning and Evaluation, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Laws and Regulations, Product and Quality Control,...
The present study was a modified replication of the two pioneer
works in the field of sport and ethnic groups by Pooley (1968)
and Tindall (1973). This study investigated whether participation in
an ethnic basketball league in Japanese-American communities affected
the rate of assimilation of two groups of Japanese-American, high-school...
The central question of this study was to examine the moral orientation and the role of self in subject generated moral dilemmas for information on the developmental and cultural forces contributing to the etiology and maintenance of eating disorders in college women. The research was based on the theories of...
The Oregon Fish Commission and Washington Department of Fisheries conducted a cooperative winter steelhead trout (Salmo gairdneri) tagging program on the Columbia River during the winters of 1954-55 and 1955-56. Objectives of the program were: (1) to obtain information on the timing of the various segments of the run; (2)...
The purpose of this study was to determine if occupants' satisfaction and problems with their houses differed by four categories of passive solar systems. The four categories were: 1) south facing window, 2) sunspace, 3) south facing window + sunspace, and 4) south facing window + sunspace + Trombe wall....
Uses of travel time and mode of transportation in selected two-parent,
two-child Oregon households was researched in this study.
The relationship between a number of demographic characteristics
and amounts of travel time as well as mode of transportation was
also examined.
The study used the Oregon data from the Northeast...
This study conducted at Fairview Hospital and Training Center,
Salem, Oregon was part of a larger study by the Mental Health Division,
Department of Human Resources, State of Oregon. The purpose
was to determine a course of action to be followed by the Food Service
Department to compensate for decreasing...
Gene transfer via interspecific hybridization within Phaseolus has
been limited by abnormal hybrid development and the rapid loss of
hybridity in subsequent generations. The most advanced embryo
development occurs in P. vulgaris x P. coccineus where mature seeds
form. However, the reciprocal cross still results in abnormal embryos
unable to...
This study was conducted to determine if there were
possible areas of student individuality and uniqueness
that might contribute to successful completion of distance
education courses as compared to successful completion of
traditional classroom courses. Five areas of possible
differences were identified and studied: 1) differences
between the number of...
Mental illness is a universal phenomenon, but cultural context has a profound influence on how it is perceived, classified, and treated. Most systematic research on public attitudes toward mental illness has been completed in Western societies. The emergence of multicultural psychotherapy in the West has helped professionals recognize the extent...
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Table 2.2. Cross Tabulations and Chi-square Test Results for Alternative Medicine by
Complex information environments are often organized as hierarchies. However, computational models of Information Foraging Theory (IFT) have almost entirely ignored this fact. Models and tools for predicting programmer navigations have ignored people’s foraging behavior across hierarchies —called hierarchical foraging. Without modeling hierarchical foraging, our ability to build tools to support...
Uncontrolled direct fire rockets exhibit high impact point dispersion, even at relatively short range, and as such have been employed as area weapons on the battlefield. In order to reduce the dispersion of a direct fire rocket, feedback control is employed to fire short-duration solid rocket pulses mounted near the...
"What’s wrong with this AI?" Explainable AI (XAI) researchers are moving beyond explaining an AI’s actions, to helping users detect an AI’s failures. However this detection may not be enough—for actionability, we often need to pinpoint which part failed. We investigate how AAR/AI, a structured assessment process, supports users with...
Active contour models have been widely applied to image segmentation and
analysis. It has been successfully used in contour detection for object recognition,
computer vision, computer graphics, and biomedical image processing such as X-ray,
MRI and Ultrasound images.
The energy-minimizing active contour models or snakes were developed by Kass,
Witkin...
The importance of hormone reservoirs in mature teleost eggs is
unknown. To elucidate the effects of hormones on embryonic development,
steelhead trout eggs, Oncorhynchus mykiss, were immersed in either cortisol,
testosterone, or thyroxine at two different stages of development. Elevated
concentrations of cortisol were detectable in the trout eggs or...
Construction remains the most hazardous industry in the United States in terms of the aggregate number of fatalities. Twenty percent of all occupational related fatalities occur in construction; approximately three construction workers die per calendar day. Moreover, this trend has been prevalent for too long. One method to reduce this...
With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in every sphere of life in today's day and age, it has become increasingly important for non-AI experts to be able to comprehend the underlying logic of how AI systems work, assess them and find faults in these systems, particularly when they are...
Methods and utility of age determination of yellowtail rockfish
(Sebastes flavidus), canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger), and black
rockfish (Sebastes melanops) collected off Oregon during 1972 to
1975 are discussed. Structures compared on the basis of the reproducibility
of counts of annuli (consistency of readings) were the anal fin
pterygiophore, opercle,...
Vietnam fisheries industry is expanding in scale and increasing its position in the national economy. It supplies not only a basic food commodity, but also the input for other industries, source of nutrition, employment, income, and foreign exchange earnings. The importance of fisheries, hence, emanates from its contribution to the...
Systems theory and role theory were used in this study to
develop a management model, integrating the managerial and
psycho-social subsystems of the family system. The integrated theory
and model were used to derive hypotheses concerning whether or not
type of task and actual/relative amount of time spent on household...
Programming is integrated across the workflow of multiple domains where end-user programmers, those who need to program as a means to an end, regularly need to code. In the modern setting of collaborative development, end-user programmers have to interpret the intentions behind existing code to contribute and build solutions to...
A study of the population dynamics and ecology of the fleas
associated with the gray-tailed vole, Microtus canicaudus Miller, was
conducted on three sites surrounding the city of Corvallis, Oregon.
Over a period of 12 months, 22,641 adult and larval fleas representing
three families and eight species were recovered from...
Assessing AI systems is difficult. Humans rely on AI systems in increasing ways, both visible and invisible, meaning a variety of stakeholders need a variety of assessment tools (e.g., a professional auditor, a developer, and an end user all have different needs). We posit that it is possible to provide...
While individual portfolio diversity analysis is a well-studied problem in visualization, the visual analysis of individual or groups of portfolios, over time, has received little attention. Such analysis, however, is important to researchers who are interested in better understanding portfolio management behavior of experts as well as novices. We conducted...
Seafood is one of the most diverse and highly traded natural resources worldwide. Widespread evidence of increased seafood fraud and IUU fishing has placed enormous pressure on industry and governments to determine the authenticity, safety, and sustainability of seafood. The recently established US National Ocean Council has addressed several gaps...
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3.8 Chi-squared test for relatedness between value chain characterization and
geographic