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  • Assessing the knowledge of county extension agents on geotextile applications for agricultural practices in Oregon and Idaho

    Creator:
    Brown, Linda Lee
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    The purpose of the study was to assess county extension agents' knowledge of geotextiles; to determine their current level of information and their location on an adoption-diffusion curve; and to determine the agents' attitudes toward the potential use of geotextiles in agriculture, specifically in soil erosion control. A questionnaire was...
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    . Investigation of these 2 applications to agriculture can assist researchers, educators, and

  • An Examination of Leadership at Leah Meyer Austin Award Winning Colleges within the Achieving the Dream National Reform Network

    Creator:
    Broxson, Thomas A.
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    Background. As part of the nationwide student completion agenda, the Achieving the Dream (ATD) national reform network was established to help community colleges quickly institute sustainable change scaled to impact all students at the institution in a short period of time. Although ATD has been in existence for over a...
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    additional source of data was any available documentation of these efforts. Data collection and analysis

  • Optimal Experimental System Design

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    Mohseni, Seyed Alireza
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    Physical experimentation in various scientific and engineering areas continues to be a useful and often necessary approach that is applied in research, development, and for general problem solving. The experimental design process however, is iterative and often involves trial and error. Alternative designs are proposed and evaluated on cost and...
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    want to thank all my friends who became like family to me and always cared for me during these years

  • Environmental Remote Sensing with Unmanned Aircraft Systems

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    Burnett, Jonathan D.
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    Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUASs) equipped with optical sensors are capableof remotely sensing landscapes and wildlife at spatial and temporal resolutions that werepreviously inaccessible due to technical and budgetary limitations. Conventional remotesensing and photogrammetric workflows can be applied to the resulting high resolution imageryto facilitate new types of scientific inquiry....
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    dissertation explores three novel ap- plications using low-cost consumer grade and commercial grade sensors

  • Optimization of interactive live free viewpoint multiview video streaming bandwidth

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    Kramer, Richard A.
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    There are generally two types of multiview video:(1) 3D Multiview Video (“3D MVV” also called “2D plus delta” or “stereo” multi-view video): 3D MVV is widely deployed in cinemas and in the TV industry. 3D MVV typically entails capturing video of an object using two cameras with differing view angles...
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    ’ terminals and from these inputs (e.g. viewing trends), records aggregate viewing trends for the overall

  • How male undergraduates cope with body dissatisfaction

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    Staffileno, Thomas M.
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    This study explores the narratives of male undergraduate students and their experiences with body dissatisfaction. The inquiry utilizes a constructivist epistemology and a qualitative design in order to best understand previous and current experiences of individuals who have reflected upon their body image as part of their identity. To gather...
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    -taking behaviors? And finally, 4) Are they feeling supported by the university? These questions will

  • "A Sea of Grief is Not a Proscenium": Claudia Rankine's Citizen and the Spectacle of Racist Violence in Cyberculture

    Creator:
    Lathos, Athena M.
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    In her 2016 article “Beyond Rights as Recognition, Black Twitter and Posthuman Coalitional Possibilities,” Pritha Prasad argues that the hashtag, one of the decade’s most omnipresent features of digital communication, functions as “a performative composing medium that not only demands relationality” and “call[s] for the recognition of both the Black...
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    project. The terms “posthuman” and “posthumanism,” though often muddled in in the early years of these

  • Measuring Electron Activity to Constrain the Role of Soil Structure in the Formation of Biogeochemical Heterogeneity

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    Wanzek, Thomas
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    Soils have a critical role in global carbon (C) cycling, containing one of the largest fast-cycling carbon stocks on earth. Robust representation of soil organic matter dynamics in Earth System Models is critical for future climate prediction. Current C cycling models assume that all C cycling in non-hydric (i.e. ‘upland’)...
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    research, school, and life in general. Without these outlets, I would likely not have made it through

  • The Occurrence of Coastal Sea Ice Leads and their Impact on the Beaufort Gyre

    Creator:
    Lewis, Benjamin J.
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    Leads are long fractures wide enough for a ship to travel through the ice pack. Sea ice acts as a barrier between the ocean and the atmosphere, whereas leads allow the transfer of heat and moisture between the two. Leads play a role for marine mammals and are hunting grounds...
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    35% of winds came from the north and southwest quadrants combined. These data provide evidence of

  • Seismic assessment of unreinforced and retrofitted masonry buildings using Applied Element Method (AEM)

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    Soti, Rajendra
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    A significant number of Unreinforced Masonry (URM) buildings exist in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America that is a region of high seismicity, which could be subjected to both crustal and subduction zone earthquakes. The catastrophic and brittle failures associated with URM buildings in the past...
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    next chapter. Some of these methods are expensive and 2 rather complicated to implement while some