The fungal ascomycete genus Otidea as represented in the Pacific Northwest of North America includes eight well known species and two poorly-known species. Cladistic analysis utilizing characters from ribosomal DNA and morphology allowed the development of a robust phylogenetic species concept for Otidea. The combination of characters from the ribosomal...
The diverse lichen flora of the Pacific Northwest is being impacted by
population growth and by forest management practices. Accumulating information
about our lichen flora will improve our conservation strategies. This dissertation first
collects information to improve our understanding of how lichen communities vary
among forests of differing structure, and...
This capstone report provides an overview of the emergence of the bigleaf maple sugaring industry in Oregon. This report consists of a literature review and three case studies. The literature review compiles information relevant to bigleaf maple sugaring within the wider context of maple sugaring in North America. The three...
Mixed-initiative programming entails collaboration between a computer system, and a human to achieve some desired goal or set of goals. Often these goals change or are amended in real time during the course of program execution. As such, the plans these programs are based on must adapt and evolve to...
The dynamic philosophy of education as applied to the undergraduate Civil Engineering program has been influenced by such factors
as the introduction of new theories, the demands
and needs of our society and the personnel responsible for teaching.
These changes
are reflected in the curriculum as witnessed
by a historical...
An attempt to determine the relationship between the computer,
the computer program exchange organization and today's practicing
civil engineer has just been completed. A questionnaire was used to
obtain information and opinions from 850 selected practicing civil
engineers. Based on those questionnaires reaching their addresses,
a return rate of 81.7...
T cells are one of the key cells in the immune system. Although they are not the first line of defense against a pathogen, their functions can greatly enhance the phagocytosis and destruction of pathogens as well as the development of antibody responses. Furthermore, even when responding T cells have...
In the interest of meeting multiple forest management goals that include maintenance of wildlife, particularly cavity-nesting birds, uneven-aged silvicultural treatments are used increasingly in the Pacific Northwest. However, questions remain regarding the responses of cavity-nesting birds and residual green trees to different harvest intensities and patterns. To study these issues,...
Over the last two decades, satisfiability and satisfiability-modulo theory (SAT/SMT) solvers have grown powerful enough to be general purpose reasoning engines throughout software engineering and computer science. However, most practical use cases of SAT/SMT solvers require not just solving a single SAT/SMT problem, but solving sets of related SAT/SMT problems....