Sound wetland management depends on an accurate comprehensive
assessment of functional wetland values. This management should account
for the cumulative impacts to regions and landscapes resulting from
piecemeal destruction and degradation of wetland resources. A regional or
watershed evaluation of wetland values can also make site-specific
assessments more efficient. The...
It is often noted that young adults tend to be apathetic towards involvement in the political process. The aim of this study is to scratch the surface of this phenomena and, in a scientific fashion, begin to discover if this can be changed. In the study, press releases from members...
Falls in older adults are an important concern due to the potential injuries associated with falling. Decreases in muscle strength as a result of natural aging could impair the ability of older adults to prevent either a backward or forward fall. Two musculoskeletal models were used to predict the effect...
Managing riparian areas in the dry forests of the intermountain west for diverse public values can create conflict, potentially limiting social acceptance in landscape-scale restoration projects. This thesis examined accelerated landscape-scale restoration as part of a broader shift toward ecosystem management on national forestland, which incorporates social values into forest...
The study was conducted on the San Dimas Experimenta1 Forest in
southern California. It deals with a field and laboratory evaluation
of several physical and hydraulic properties of the weathered parent
material and suggests how these properties may relate to flood runoff
problems.
A simple correlation analysis shows that only...
In eastern Washington and western Oregon, southwest-northeast striking thrust faults and folds of the Yakima Fold and Thrust Belt (YFTB) and northwest-striking dextral strike-slip faults accommodate north-south contraction resulting from clockwise rotation of the North American Plate. Though present to the east and west of the Cascade Range, the connectivity...
In this work we propose a computer based approach by means of
which the decision maker in Bendel State, Nigeria, can best be assisted
in the formulation of policies related to land use.
In Chapter I we briefly discuss the role of the computer in
planning and state the problem....
The U.S. Pacific Northwest is home to one of the most extreme wave climates in the world with waves of 10 m in height arriving to the coast approximately each year. With an average water temperature of 12℃, the beaches in the region are too cold to go on a...
The intent of "Oregon Port Districts: An Economic Profile" is to present
a profile of the activities of the Oregon Port Districts and to evaluate
some of the economic contributions that port district operations made in
1975. The study reflects the present role of the port districts within
their community...
Radiation therapy treatment planning and optimization requires accurate, precise,
and fast computation of absorbed dose to all critical and target volumes in a patient. A
new method for speeding up the computational costs of Monte Carlo dose calculations is
described that employs a hybrid classical-quantum computing architecture.
Representative results are...