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A test fixture and deembedding procedure for high-frequency substrate characterization

Creator:: Webb, Kyle M.
Abstract:: At frequencies exceeding 1-2 GHz, the substrate network models used in substrate coupling simulation must account for the reactive nature of the substrate. Unlike at low frequencies, where the purely resistive substrate models can be validated through DC resistance measurements, these high-frequency models, comprising reactive components, must be validated through...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: substrate - P or t 1 + P or t 2 - + p+ p+ FIGURE 1.3. The substrate as a two-port network. ports

Oscillators and phase locked loops for space radiation environments

Creator:: Vandepas, Martin
Abstract:: Circuits operating outside the earth’s atmosphere are more vulnerable to cosmic radiation and require special design consideration. The purpose of this work is to explore methods of mitigating the effect of radiation in phase locked loop (PLL) circuits. Several voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs) and two complete PLLs are designed and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Techniques, John Wiley and Sons, 1979. [5] P. V. Brennan, Phase-Locked Loops: Principles and Practice

A MOSCAP pipeline pseudo passive DAC

Creator:: Behera, Prachee Shree
Abstract:: The design of a 10-bit pipelined charge redistribution DAC employing MOSCAPs biased in their accumulation mode is presented in this thesis. A switched capacitor filter and output buffer have also been designed for the system. The effect of MOSCAP nonlinearity on the performance of the pipelined charge redistribution DAC has...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: − Offset Error A N A LO G O U TP U T V O LT A G E DIGITAL INPUT CODES Offset Error + 1LSBDNL

A stochastic time-to-digital converter for digital phase-locked loops

Creator:: Ok, Kerem
Abstract:: Digital phase-locked loops (PLLs) have been receiving increasing attention recently due to their ease of integration, scalability and performance comparable to their analog counterparts. In digital PLLs, increased resolution in time-to-digital conversion is desirable for improved noise performance. This work describes the design and simulation of a stochastic time-to-digital converter...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ) Bang-bang characteristic O ut pu t C od e Input Phase Error (ps) O ut pu t C od e Input

Garbage in, garbage out? An empirical look at oracle mistakes by end-user programmers

Creator:: Phalgune, Amit
Abstract:: End-user programmers, because they are human, make mistakes. However, past research has not considered how visual end-user debugging devices could be designed to ameliorate the effects of mistakes. This paper empirically examines oracle mistakes mistakes users make about which values are right and which are wrong to reveal differences in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: difference in the average visual effectiveness scores between the two versions (paired t-test: df = 50

Discrete trap modeling of thin-film transistors

Creator:: Yerubandi, Ganesh Chakravarthy
Abstract:: A discrete trap model is developed and employed for elucidation of thin-film transistor (TFT) device physics trends. An attractive feature of this model is that only two model parameters are required, the trap energy depth, E[subscript T], and the trap density, N[subscript T]. The most relevant trends occur when E[subscript...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: :_____________________________________________________ John F. Wager A discrete trap model is developed and employed for elucidation of thin-film

A comparative study of lowpass continuous-time delta-sigma modulators with pulse-shaped DACs

Creator:: Fang, Jie
Abstract:: Recently, continuous-time ΔΣ modulators are appearing increasingly often in both the literature and the marketplace due to their features of inherent antialiasing and relaxed requirements for opamp and so on. However, several nonideal factors such as clock jitter, excess loop delay, inter-symbol interference and so on, degrade the SNR performance...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: uc(t) to x(n)..............................17 3.6 A CT modulator and an equivalent DT modulator

Noise optimization for low-voltage CMOS audio preamplifier systems

Creator:: Brown, Matthew Eugene
Abstract:: There is a large and growing market for portable consumer audio products with very small size. As the size of these products is reduced, the area occupied by batteries becomes significant and hence limits the number of batteries to one. In order to build such small products, high levels of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Nikita, T-Rex, Miss Kitty, and Pita for their support and for suffering much neglect during these very

Effects of release from suppression on hydraulic architecture, photosynthetic capacity and functional wood characteristics in Douglas-fir and western hemlock

Creator:: Renninger, Heidi
Abstract:: Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco), a shade intolerant species, and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.), a shade tolerant species, were compared to learn more about the temporal pattern of release from suppression in both species, whether hydraulic architecture or photosynthetic capacity constrain release and how wood functional properties change...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Cruiziat, P., Cochard, H. and T. Ameglio. 2002. Hydraulic architecture of trees: Main concepts and

A domain-specific embedded language for probabilistic programming

Creator:: Kollmansberger, Steven
Abstract:: Functional programming is concerned with referential transparency, that is, given a certain function and its parameter, that the result will always be the same. However, it seems that this is violated in applications involving uncertainty, such as rolling a dice. This thesis defines the background of probabilistic programming and domain-specific...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Brent and John. Of course, I wouldn’t even be in graduate school if it wasn’t for Susan Mabry, who

Nursery container weeds response to modification of substrate pH, substrate particle size and applied nitrogen form

Creator:: Wada, Sugae
Abstract:: Experiments were conducted to determine the influence of cultural management practices on weed growth in nursery containers. Experiments 1 and 2 evaluated the effects of dolomitic lime rate and application method on substrate pH, creeping woodsorrel (Oxalis corniculata L.) establishment in containers, and growth of azalea (Rhododendron ‘Rosebud’) and pieris...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Four centuries of soil carbon and nitrogen change after severe fire in a Western Cascades forest landscape

Creator:: Giesen, Thomas William
Abstract:: Fire is a major disturbance process in many forests. Long-term studies of the biogeochemical effects of fires, especially on soils, are very rare. Consequently, long-term effects of fire on soils are often hypothesized from short-term effects. In a chronosequence study, I studied 24 western Cascades (Oregon) forest stands thought to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: forests in Oregon and Washington. Sites: * H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in 450 year-old old-growth

Persistence of spatial distribution patterns of coastal cutthroat trout in a Cascade mountain stream

Creator:: Novick, Marc S.
Abstract:: Previous research in South Fork Hinkle Creek suggested that coastal cutthroat trout exhibit an aggregated spatial pattern across multiple spatial scales. To evaluate the persistence of the observed abundance patterns and identify factors that affect those patterns, half-duplex passive integrated transponders (PIT-tags) were implanted in 320 coastal cutthroat trout (>...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: stream locations. Lastly, thanks to Noah Adams and John Beeman of the USGS, Columbia River Research

White-breasted nuthatch density and nesting ecology in oak woodlands of the Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Viste-Sparkman, Karen
Abstract:: Habitat loss causes a reduction in available resources for wildlife, alters the configuration of remaining habitat, and may isolate wildlife populations. White-breasted nuthatches (Sitta carolinensis) are experiencing long-term population declines in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, where they are historically associated with oak woodlands. As secondary cavity-nesters, white-breasted nuthatches may...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Patterns in understory vegetation communities across canopy gaps in young, Douglas-fir forests of western Oregon

Creator:: Fahey, Robert T.
Abstract:: Canopy gap formation is a major factor contributing to maintenance of overstory species diversity and stand structure in forests and may be integral to development of understory shrub and herb layers as well. Acknowledgement of gap formation as a fundamental feature of natural forests has led to consideration of gaps...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF URobert T. Fahey U for the degree of UMaster of ScienceU in UForest ScienceU

Effects of estuarine circulation patterns and stress on the migratory behavior of juvenile salmonids (Oncorhynchus sp.)

Creator:: Truelove, Nathan Kobun
Abstract:: For the first objective of this thesis, we attempt to understand the role of water flow and directionality in determining steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and spring/summer and fall Chinook (O. tschawytscha) migration patterns within the Columbia River Estuary and plume by integrating recent advances in biotelemetry and environmental observation and forecasting...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Karnowski, Ana, Crystal Hackman, Ben Clemens, John Seigle, Wataru, and everyone else from 3 seasons in the

Headwater stream macroinvertebrates of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon

Creator:: Frady, Charles H.
Abstract:: Recent studies of headwater streams have demonstrated their importance to overall watershed biodiversity, nutrient cycling, and energy flux. However, little attention has been paid to long-term effects of forest harvest on macroinvertebrate communities in headwater streams. This study investigated headwater stream macroinvertebrate communities in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: December 20, 2005. Title: Headwater Stream Macroinvertebrates of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest

Investigation of postharvest quality and storability of hardy kiwifruit (Actinidia arguta 'Ananasnaya')

Creator:: Landis Fisk, Connie
Abstract:: The objectives of this project were to determine the effects of harvest maturity, packaging, and storage conditions on subsequent fruit quality of Actinidia arguta ‘Ananasnaya’ and to investigate the use of edible coatings to improve fruit quality and storage life. The influences of harvest maturity (6.0, 8.7, 9.1, and 15.1%...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to grapes, commercially grown plants are trained to a permanent framework, either a T-bar, or more

Seasonal movement patterns and habitat use of westslope cutthroat trout in two headwater tributary streams of the John Day River

Creator:: Starcevich, Steven J.
Abstract:: Radiotelemetry was used to study the seasonal movements and habitat use of adult westslope cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi in Roberts Creek and Rail Creek, headwater tributaries of the John Day River, Oregon, from September 2000 to December 2001. The objectives were to (1) describe adult cutthroat trout life history...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Headwater Tributary Streams of the John Day River. Abstract approved

Phytoplankton shading of marine benthic macrophytes: Implications for intertidal community structure

Creator:: Kavanaugh, Maria T.
Abstract:: Previous observations of light levels and phytoplankton abundances along the Oregon coast demonstrated that phytoplankton attenuated light sufficiently to potentially limit the growth of intertidal macrophytes and therefore structure local intertidal communities. Inspired by this observation, in spring 2004, I initiated a study to quantify the direct and indirect benthic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Maria T. Kavanaugh for the degree of Masters of Science in Zoology

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