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Evaluation of alternative information signs in Oregon

Creator:: Neill, Justin Michael
Abstract:: The number of international inbound tourists to the United States has risen steadily. To serve these and other tourists best, traffic signs need to communicate information correctly across a potential language barrier. Of particular interest is the traffic sign intended to communicate directions to Tourist Information centers. While the general...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: directly addressing the conspicuity of the Tourist Information sign. Reaction Time No Ells and

Structural stability effects on adsorption of bacteriophage T4 lysozyme to colloidal silica

Creator:: Tian, Minghua
Abstract:: Circular dichroism (CD) spectra were obtained for bacteriophage T4 lysozyme and three of its mutants in the presence and absence of colloidal silica nanoparticles. Mutant lysozymes were produced by substitution of the isoleucine at position 3 with tryptophan, cysteine and leucine. Each substitution resulted in an altered structural stability, quantified...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Adsorption of Bacteriophage T4 Lysozyme to Colloidal Silica Abstract approved by: Circular dichroism (CD

Wave forces on a horizontal circular cylinder near a plane boundary

Creator:: Wright, James Christopher
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: coefficients of inertia, lift and drag for a horizontal circular cylinder varied according to the proxi- mity

Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

Creator:: Boltseridge, Nathan H.
Abstract:: In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled the National Socialist regime in Germany, published a study, in which he claimed to have found a one hundred percent concordance rate for homosexuality among forty pairs of identical twins. From this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: sexual organs had no name of their own but were referred to as the female equivalent of the male

Differences Between Public Attention and Understanding of School Budget Formats Published in Newspapers

Creator:: Mason, Sue Cockeram
Abstract:: This thesis study attempts to differentiate between attention and understanding as separate phases of communication theory. To do this, additional analysis was made of data already gathered from a random sample of Oregonians by the Survey Research Center at Oregon State University. An additional objective was to determine the role...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: determine the role adjudicated newspaper readership plays in dissemination of information to the com

Archival Anthropometry: An Analysis of the Anthropometric Data of Native American Children Gathered by Franz Boas, 1888-1902

Creator:: Kirkpatrick, Kristin A.
Abstract:: Franz Boas collected anthropometric data on approximately 15,000 people from over 200 Native American tribal groups between 1888 and 1902. Twelve basic measurements were taken: standing height, shoulder height, height to digit III, arm span, sitting height, shoulder width, head length and width, face height and breadth, and nose height...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Dean of the graduate School Information, Science, and Technology I understand that my thesis

Effectiveness of index size reduction techniques

Creator:: Jacobson, Bryan L.
Abstract:: Index size savings from three techniques are measured. The three techniques are: 1) eliminating common, low information words found in a "stop list" (such as: of, the, at, etc.), 2) truncating terms by eliminating word stems (such as: -s, -ed, -ing, etc.), and 3) simple data compression. Savings are measured...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: are: 1) eliminating common, low information words found in a "stop list" (such as: of, the, at, etc

Evaluation of remediation techniques for circular holes in the webs of wood I-joists

Creator:: Polocoser, Tiberiu
Abstract:: The objective of this project was to evaluate methods to remediate a wood I-joist with a single, circular hole in the web while leaving utilities in place. The methods were experimentally evaluated with a full-scale bending test using four equally spaced point loads. There were three depths of joists with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 2012 Title: Evaluation of Remediation Techniques for Circular Holes in the Webs of Wood I- Joists

A calculation of the suction requirements to prevent boundary layer separation on a circular cyclinder

Creator:: Corsiglia, Victor R.
Abstract:: An investigation was made to test the method of Head on the flow about a circular cylinder with suction. The method of Head is an approximate method of obtaining solutions to the boundary layer equations. The method was adapted to the digital computer to facilitate performing the calculations, and a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: CIRCULAR CYLINDER Abstract approved (Major professor) An investigation was made to test the method of

The asymptotic boundary layer on a circular cylinder in axisymmetric micropolar fluid flow and constitutive theories

Creator:: Okada, Kanzo
Abstract:: The asymptotic boundary layer problem involving an axial incompressible Newtonian fluid flow past a circular cylinder parallel to its axis was investigated by Stewartson (1955). He addressed hiself primarily to the Mangler's (1948) derivation, namely, the character of the boundary layer on a circular cylinder is equivalent to that on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: difficulties encountered upon application. Further, no information is available on the signs of the numerous

Simulation of random, nonlinear wave forces on a circular cylindrical pile

Creator:: Tuah, Hang
Abstract:: Two types of linear random wave simulation methods are investigated; viz., (1) Deterministic Spectral Amplitude (DSA) and (2) Nondeterministic Spectral Amplitude (NSA). These linear simulations are extended to second-order in a perturbation expansion in the frequency domain by utilizing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). The nonlinear interaction matrix for waves...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , NONLINEAR WAVE FORCES ON A CIRCULAR CYLINDRICAL PILE Abstract approved: Robert Two types of linear random

Monte Carlo simulation of radiation heat transfer in a three-dimensional enclosure containing a circular cylinder

Creator:: Hong, Seung-Ho
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: three-dimensional enclosure containing a circular cylinder AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Seung-Ho Hong

The application of centrifugal modeling to determine ice forces on isolated circular structures

Creator:: Clough, Herbert F.
Abstract:: A test system was developed and used to investigate ice/structure interaction with centrifugal modeling. The test system was designed to perform two main functions: (1) create a uniform ice sheet, and (2) drive a model structure through the ice sheet at a constant speed. Both of these functions were required...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: forces on isolated circular structures AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Herbert F. Clough for the degree

Pressure distribution around a circular cylinder resting on a flat boundary in an oscillating fluid

Creator:: Johnson, Ronald Ernest
Abstract:: This study was undertaken to provide information needed in the design of ocean outfalls. A review of past investigations concerning forces on submerged objects is presented. Objects independent of any boundary and cylinders in boundary contact are considered. A solution for pressure distribution about a circular cylinder resting on a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: FLUID. Abstract approve This study was undertaken to provide information needed in the design of

Fluid forces on and flow configurations around a circular cylinder near a plane boundary

Creator:: Tavolacci, Don
Abstract:: The flow configurations around and the forces acting on a circular cylinder with its axis parallel to a nearby plane boundary and subjected to a uniform flow were investigated. The flow conditions, which were perpendicular to the cylinder axis and parallel to the plane boundary were investigated experimentally and theoretically....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: author's knowledge, no information is available on the subject of cylinder vortex formation and shedding

Boundary layer control tests by suction on a circular cyclinder wing section

Creator:: Dennon, Jack Dwight
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: with the theories of Ando and of Prandtl-Pohlhausen. Based on the information available from both

Theoretical physics takes root in America : John Archibald Wheeler as student and mentor

Creator:: Christensen, Terry M.
Abstract:: John Archibald Wheeler (09 July 1911- ) is a familiar name to physicists and historians of physics alike. Among his many contributions to the corpus of knowledge, in 1939 John Wheeler and Niels Bohr co-authored the first paper on the generalized mechanism of nuclear fission. Beyond that seminal work, Wheeler...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: because, while there can be no progress in physics without contributions to the corpus of knowledge

The cause of seedlessness of prunes

Creator:: Schuster, Carl Ephraim
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: are capable of maturing their fruits even though there be no growth of the fertilized ovules

Optimal unidirectional error-detecting codes

Creator:: Converse, George A.
Abstract:: Various problems related to systematic error-detecting and error-correcting unidirectional codes are discussed. Systematic codes with r check bits are the main topic of the thesis. Classes of codes are presented which work for specific numbers of information bits and then a class of codes is given which detects the same...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thesis. Classes of codes are presented which work for specific numbers of information bits and then a

Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: as the primogenitor of applied science (usually when attempting to secure no-strings funding from

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

Creator:: Hall, Alice
Abstract:: The Second Pandemic had a profound impact on the people of Europe. In the few years between 1347 and 1350, a new epidemic disease spread across the entirety of Europe and killed between one third and two thirds of the population. While this initial wave was important, the real significance...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: information from the duration of the epidemic may explain not only why the poor suffered greater rates of

Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

Creator:: Schweickert, Tina K.
Abstract:: Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors of change become increasingly useful. This study considers competing schools of interpretation about human impacts on ecological landscapes and develops...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: there is no certainty of meaning in language-based texts because anything ‘out there’ is always

On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

Creator:: Stoller, Kevin R.
Abstract:: William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . No comparably comprehensive attempt has been made to chronicle the professionalization of American

In the midst of a revolution : science, fish culture, and the Oregon Game Commission, 1935-1949

Creator:: Hahn, Linda
Abstract:: This thesis will address the transformation of biological sciences during the 1930s and 1940s and it effects on fisheries science. It will focus on Oregon State College and specifically the Department of Fish and Game Management and the interaction with the Oregon Game Commission. Support for mutation theory and neo-...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: synthesis.4 It fundamentally altered the understanding of how hereditary information is transferred, how

'Hysterical preservationists' and 'gouge-and-run bulldozer boys' : the land-use controversy in Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains, 1968-1972

Creator:: Jensen, Erica (Erica Lyn)
Abstract:: Similar to other spectacular scenic areas in the American West, Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains have been a contested landscape since the beginning of the 20th century. Although, legislation was introduced in Congress as early as 1913 to protect the towering mountains of south-central Idaho as a national park, the issue...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (12,662 feet), is in the Lost River Range, just east of the White Clouds, there is no shortage of

A simple RLS-POCS solution for reduced complexity ADSL impulse shortening

Creator:: Helms, Sheldon J.
Abstract:: Recently, with the realization of the World Wide Web, the tremendous need for high-speed data communications has grown. Several access techniques have been proposed which utilize the existing copper twisted pair cabling. Of these, the xDSL family, particularly ADSL and VDSL, have shown great promise in providing broadband or near-broadband...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: quite long, and an appreciable information rate reduction will be incurred by the appending of

Classification context in a machine learning approach to predicting protein secondary structure

Creator:: Langford, Bill T.
Abstract:: An important problem in molecular biology is to predict the secondary structure of proteins from their primary structure. The primary structure of a protein is the sequence of amino acid residues. The secondary structure is an abstract description of the shape of the folded protein, with regions identified as alpha...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 58 5.3.5 Types of Simulated Data 60 Chapter 6 Baseline Experiments 61 6.1 No Classification

Brown rot of fruits and fruit trees in Oregon

Creator:: Posey, Gilbert Bradley
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thesis is reproduced in Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station Circular no.53. The plates described are

Use of GIS software to map contaminant distributions and determine integrated dose for purposes of assessing impact to biota

Creator:: Myers, Margaret C.
Abstract:: The objective of this research was to estimate the radiological impact on various non-human biotas by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant radiation release resulting from Japan's tsunami in March 2011 consistent with the recent recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection. Soil concentration data given by Japan's Ministry...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: radioecology is the introduction of geographic information systems technology. The field of geographic

A study of pharmacy externs' ability to respond to drug information requests received by the Oregon Poison Control and Drug Information Center

Creator:: Wheeler-Usher, Donna
Abstract:: The possibility that some requests introduced to the Oregon Poison Control and Drug Information Center (OPCDIC) by practicing pharmacists were inappropriately referred was investigated. One hundred and fifty-six requests out of a total of 1,507 requests submitted between June, 1985 and June, 1986 were presented to pharmacy externs, and their...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: information requests received by the Oregon Poison Control and Drug Information Center AN ABSTRACT OF THE

Information and analysis techniques for making crop selection decisions

Creator:: Bristol, Roger Dale
Abstract:: Twenty managers of large diversified irrigated farms in the Willamette Valley area of Oregon were interviewed about the economic information and analysis techniques they use when making crop selection decisions. Two community college farm management instructors, two agricultural lenders, and two certified public accountants working with farmers were interviewed about...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Master of Science in Agricultural and Resource Economics presented on Title: Information and

The Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Cues on Task-Set Inhibition

Creator:: Kuhns, David (David Paul)
Abstract:: Task-set inhibition has been proposed to be an important mechanism for cognitive control in task switching. Its existence is supported largely by the observation of the N-2 repetition cost (e.g., A-B-A is slower than C-B-A). Many studies have reported an N-2 repetition cost, but several have not. Because of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: several have not. Because of the numerous methodological differences between previous studies, no firm

Applying climate change information to hydraulic and hydrologic transportation infrastructure

Creator:: Al Naabi, Rawan Y.
Abstract:: Scour is the main cause of bridge failures in the United States. Bridge failures raise a hazard to the safety of the traveling public as well as the massive economic consequences due to the high cost of constructing a new or a replacement bridge. The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT)...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Methodology……... ……………………………………………………………29 3.1 Implementation of Climate Change Information for Scour

Occupational information concerning the lumber industry in Oregon

Creator:: Smithson, John Lane
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: readily. We have no reason to assume that youth can select their areas of work wisely without

Peach blight as caused by Coryneum beijerinckii

Creator:: Scherer, Christopher Marion
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the xst few of which it has occasionally caused no little loss". At the present time as indicated

Cooperative product development between researchers and commercial fishermen to find applications for ocean condition forecasting technology

Creator:: Duncan, Colin
Abstract:: This is a case study of the cooperative development of an ocean condition forecasting tool by Oregon commercial fishermen, Oregon State University (OSU) scientists, and OSU student software engineers. Ocean condition forecasting models developed by OSU scientists were used to create an online tool to assist decision-making for fishermen. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the fishing community indicated that fishermen make use of a wide variety of information, and in a

The effect of uncertainty representation on information integration performance in a simulated ocean surveillance task

Creator:: Chou, Chung-di
Abstract:: Human operator performance was evaluated using two types of displays in a simulated ocean surveillance task. The two types of displays studied included a display in which position uncertainty information was given (polygon display) and a display in which uncertainty was not explicitly shown (line display). The experimental task was...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The effect of uncertainty representation on information

Moisture content and germination of corn as affected by artificial drying and place and method of storage

Creator:: Ruth, Charles Curtis
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: a slight do- crease up to 62° C., end no abrupt decrease up to 680. (2) That an average loss of

Dissemination of occupational information through industrial arts in the secondary schools of Oregon

Creator:: Woodward, William Kenneth
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: no systematic study of occupational information, but these duties were recognized and carried out

Course of study in home economics for Chinese middle schools

Creator:: Ho, Irene Chingan
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to the person, a little less amount of protein may cause no harm. If an excess of carbohydrates

Mapping-grade GPS accuracy in second growth Douglas-fir forest

Creator:: Frank, Jereme M.
Abstract:: The global positioning system (GPS) has come into widespread use for many forestry applications. However, there is still some uncertainty as to how receivers perform in dense forest, where trees interfere with the GPS signal and increase error. These two manuscripts examine GPS accuracy and overall effectiveness within second growth...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jereme M. Frank for the degree of Master of Science in Forest Engineering

The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

Creator:: Hahn, Andre M.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the morphology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) through several lenses. The first explores Goethe's morphology as he applied it in his botanical work and supplies an explanation of what Goethe referred to as archetypal phenomena and the archetypal plant. The scope of exploration then broadens to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: becomes clearer. No consistent form exists through the development of plants, but several forms exist

"No pain, no fear, no regrets": views of a good death

Creator:: Amberwood, Lee J.
Abstract:: Substantial research has shown deficits in the quality of end-of-life care in the U.S. In response to evidence of these deficits, efforts have been made to improve quality of end-of-life care. One approach has been to ask the question, "What is a good death?" Data on views of a good...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Master of Science in Human Development and Family Studies presented on December 3. 2004. Title: "No

The evaluation of data file access methods for an on-line information system

Creator:: Meesajjee, Chulit
Abstract:: It is necessary to evaluate and compare the characteristics of various methods of accessing data-files in order to utilize economically both the hardware and the software (Space and Time) supported by the digital on-line system. The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the structure and use of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: information system AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF MEESAJJEE CHULIT for the MASTER OF SCIENCE (Name of student

An application of one-factor and two-factor information channel models to marketing research problems

Creator:: Shirland, Larry Elwyn
Abstract:: This thesis presents an introduction to Marketing Research concepts, relates Operations Research to Marketing Research and discusses the limitations of each. An Information Theory approach based on Shannon's fundamental theorems and extended by Kunisawa is applied to one-factor and two-factor marketing problems. The objective of one-factor information channel models is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: An application of one-factor and two-factor information

The milling qualities of wheat

Creator:: Varma, Sanjhi Ram
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the writer claims no originality of his own, beyond the arrangement of material, and wording of

Process Information Modeling for Characterizing Sustainability Performance of Cyclic Manufacturing Processes

Creator:: Manoharan, Sriram
Abstract:: Sustainability has become an unprecedented priority in global manufacturing due to the growing concerns over issues such as an aging workforce, environmental degradation, and public health. The simultaneous consideration of the economic, environmental, and social aspects – often referred to as the “three pillars of sustainability” – is crucial to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Process Information Modeling for Characterizing Sustainability Performance of Cyclic Manufacturing

Studies of economic rates, forms, and combinations of use of sulfur as a fertilizer

Creator:: Haynes, Joseph D.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Experiment No. 1 RATE OF OXIDATION OF DIFFERENT FORMS OF SULFUR Besides studying rate of oxidation of the

Notes on some of the weeds of the Willamette Valley

Creator:: Gilbert, Henry C.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to riace the information in a form available to the inte11gent understand-. Ing of the agricultural

A preliminary social survey of Moro, Oregon

Creator:: Laughlin, Kathleen Meloy
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Studies, No. 1, l92b. Acknowledgments for a8si8tance in the collection of the material and in

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