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  • Moisture influences on bromacil distribution in the soil and resultant uptake and phytotoxicity

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    Schreiber, Jonathon Dennis
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    Phytotoxicity by Jonathon Dennis Schreiber A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

  • In vivo detoxification of acetic acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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    Ding, Jun
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    The studies described in this thesis were motivated by ongoing efforts to develop lignocellulosic biomass as an efficient and practical source of renewable energy. Enormous problems complicate these efforts to reduce reliance on greenhouse gas-generating fossil fuels. Simply obtaining the fermentable sugars available in the cellulose and hemicellulose components of...
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    cerevisiae Abstract approved: Alan T. Bakalinsky The studies described in this thesis

  • Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Gas Sensing Incorporating Advanced Plasmonic Nanostructures and Nano-Composite Materials

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    Chong, Xinyuan
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    This dissertation focuses on extending the application scope of surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy to gas sensing. The method we propose is incorporating plasmonic nanostructures with nano-composite material, metalorganic framework, which can selectively preconcentrate certain gas molecules into the nanopores. The preconcentrating property is first demonstrated by applying metal-organic framework...
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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Alan X. Wang This

  • Design and Analysis of Free-space Optical Communications Systems for Next Generation Short-range Wireless Networks

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    Liverman, Spencer
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    This dissertation focuses on indoor free-space optical communications systems for use in short range wireless networks. We propose that current radio frequency wireless links be augmented or replaced with optical frequency links due to overcrowding in the radio frequency spectrum. Optical frequencies contain hundreds of terahertz of unregulated bandwidth and...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Alan X. Wang This dissertation

  • Pattern recognition of speech using hybrid computer feature extraction

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    Herr, Alan Jack
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    Most technological problems associated with man-machine conversations have been solved and are well documented in both the contemporary technical and lay literature. The major remaining technological problem is the real time conversion of a human's vocal uterances into a "written" phoneme sequence representing the information content of speech. The work...
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    feature extraction AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF ALAN JACK HERR for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

  • Personal teaching efficacy and ethnic attributions as contributors to caucasian preservice teachers' behavior toward international children

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    Burt, Linda S.
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    Two theoretical models were examined based on the contributions of preservice teachers' personal teaching efficacy, ethnic causal attributions, past teaching, and international interaction experiences to their behaviors toward international children in multicultural small group activity sessions. Path analytic results revealed that for both models, these variables together did not significantly...
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    : Alan I. Sugawara Two theoretical models were examined based on the contributions of preservice

  • Sex role discrimination, preference, and confirmation in preschool aged children

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    Edelbrock, Craig S.
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    The purpose of this study was the development of the Sex Role Learning Index (SERLI), a picture choice instrument for assessing the concepts of sex role discrimination, preference, and confirmation in young children. The SERLI consists of 60 black-and-white line drawings depicting common objects, child activities and adult activities and...
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    : Redacted for Privacy Alan/I. Suoawara The purpose of this study was the development of the Sex Role

  • Population ecology of the Columbian white-tailed deer

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    Gavin, Thomas Alan
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    A population of Columbian white-tailed deer (CWTD) was studied on a refuge (790 ha) in southwestern Washington during 1972-77. Quality of habitat was considered good for these deer and total population size remained between 164-230 as determined by mark-recapture methods during November. Population size declined significantly between the winters of...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Thomas Alan Gavin for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Wildlife

  • Learning ranking functions for efficient search

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    Xu, Yuehua
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    This dissertation explores algorithms for learning ranking functions to efficiently solve search problems, with application to automated planning. Specifically, we consider the frameworks of beam search, greedy search, and randomized search, which all aim to maintain tractability at the cost of not guaranteeing completeness nor optimality. Our learning objective for...
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    : Alan Fern This dissertation explores algorithms for learning ranking functions to efficiently solve

  • Object Tracking-by-Segmentation in Videos

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    Chen, Sheng
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    This thesis focuses on the problem of object tracking. Given a video, the general objective of tracking is to track the location over time of one or more targets in the image sequence. This is a very challenging task as algorithms need to deal with problems such as appearance variations,...
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    -by-Segmentation in Videos Abstract approved: Alan P. Fern This thesis focuses on the problem of