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Numerical solution of Hodgkin-Huxley's partial differential system for nerve conduction

Creator:: Morton, John Baird
Abstract:: A numerical solution to Hodgkin and Huxley's partial differential system for the propagated action potential is presented. In addition a three dimensional demonstration of the absolute refractory period is given. Lastly, theoretical evidence supporting Rushton's hypothesis is presented.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Differential System For Nerve Conduction AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF JOHN BAIRD MORTON for the M. S

An analysis of essential oils from certain coniferous woods

Creator:: Dimick, Keene Paul
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Council OWIDLIT I wish to express my appreciation or the help and. advice given me by Dr. Charles

Evaluation of Vitis rootstocks for tolerance to low soil pH

Creator:: Taylor, Patrick Andrew
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the relative tolerance of grafted Vitis rootstocks to low soil pH. In this capacity, the data may be pooled with results from previous investigations to increase the overall aptitude profile of Vitis rootstocks. A potential application of this information is that the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Rootstocks for Tolerance to Low Soil pH Abstract Approved: Charles D. Boyer The purpose of this study

Investigation of the performance characteristics of a mixer-settler extractor

Creator:: Romig, Robert Pence
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Loadon) 35:6-20. 1957. 32 11. Smutz, Morton, 2.. E. Wh.atley and G. L. bridger. Purification of

An economic analysis of sewerage services in Tillamook, Oregon

Creator:: Ford, Donald Kenneth
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: ^ t~" R. Charles Vars^" This study presents an economic analysis of the sewerage ser

The purification and characterization of a soluble mitochondrial adenosinetriphosphatase from cabbage, Brassica oleracea

Creator:: Petersen, Thomas Gordon
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: professor, Dr. Charles R. Heisler, for valuable guidance and consultation during the course of this study

Forage utilization estimates in relation to ecological units in the Wallowa mountains of northeastern Oregon

Creator:: Johnson, Walter Van-Gale
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: vegetation to improve hunting, as the southwestern Indians did. The first white settler, Charles Fee

A comparative study of selected methods for sampling vegetation

Creator:: Conrad, C. Eugene
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of MASTER OF SCIENCE June 1959 APPROVED: Charles E. Poulton Associate Professor of Jarìge

Design of liquid-liquid contractor for the experimental studies of mass transfer : the evaluation of interface mass transfer coefficients on the binary system water-n-butanol

Creator:: Al Dahhan, Muthana H.
Abstract:: A contactor has been designed and constructed for experimental studies of mass transfer with or without chemical reaction between two fluid phases. The contactor is flexible enough to investigate a wide range of variables affecting mass transfer coefficients. It is easy to operate; it could be operated either as a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to express my thanks and gratitude to Dr. Charles E. Wicks, my major professor, for his

Fecal progestins in the early gestation ewe monitored by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry

Creator:: Miller, Charles W.
Abstract:: Previous work in this laboratory revealed that hormone analysis using fecal samples may predict the number of fetuses carried by pregnant ewes at mid- to late gestation. Reliable lambing number prediction is useful to the producer. Using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry the 5α- and 5β-series of pregnanes and selected 4- and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Charles W. Miller, Jr. for

The effects of creep on the structure and mechanical properties of zirconium

Creator:: Mullen, Charles Robert
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: by Charles Robert Mullen Jr. A THESIS submitted to OREGON STATE COLLEGE in partial

The practice of home

Creator:: Goodrich, Charles
Abstract:: If home is the hearth, a place of safety and centeredness, it is also the portal, the magic door. From home we go out into spaces more humanized and technologized, or into spaces more natural, more other-than-humanized. We dress up and head downtown, or we pack up and head for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Charles Goodrich for the degree of

Analysis of evapotranspiration for various climatic regimes using geostatistics

Creator:: Nuss, Jeffery L.
Abstract:: Research was conducted to determine the applicability of using the theory of regionalized variables or geostatistics in characterizing the spatial variability of reference evapotranspiration (ETr) over various climatic regimes for the state of Oregon. The state was divided into five climatic regions based on topographic features and local meteorological conditions:...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: suggestions: Dr. Jonathon Istok, Dr. Walter Trimmer, and Dr. Charles Wicks. Special thanks should go to Dr

Factors influencing the development of onion pink root disease incited by Pyrenochaeta terrestris (Hansen) Gorenz, Walker, Larson

Creator:: Pack, Paul Eugene
Abstract:: A study was conducted of the influence of various climatic and soil factors on the development of onion pink root disease and of the influences of temperature, light, pH, carbon and nitrogen sources, and vitamins on the growth in vitro of an Oregon isolate of the pink root fungus, Pyrenochaeta...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Morton Soil Drench, SD 345, chloropicrin, Mumfume, Phaltan, E. P. 230, and E. P. 201 were tested in

The objects within : an applied OOO literary criticism

Creator:: Dodson, Matthew J.
Abstract:: For centuries, continental philosophy has clung to the belief that the world only meaningfully exists through human perception--that, in other words, when a tree falls in the forest, it does not make a sound. Literary theory, which has strong roots in continental philosophy, followed suit, remaining tied to humanism even...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ontology (Graham Harman, Timothy Morton, and Ian Bogost), vibrant materialism (Jane Bennett), and actor

Peace, But Not at Any Price : The Effects of Rapid Military Demobilization on US Foreign Policy and the Progression of the Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1953

Creator:: Jones, Sean G.
Abstract:: The research conducted here originated with the question of what caused the massive build-up of nuclear arsenals, which included ever larger and more powerful bombs and delivery systems from them, in the United States and the Soviet Union, even though the consensus beforehand was that nuclear energy should be prohibited...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: American strategy. Several historians, including Michael D. Gordon and Morton A. Kaplan, trace the

"The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Creator:: England, Saara Amelia
Abstract:: My thesis explores the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as emblematic of Western philosophy and literature's longstanding preoccupation with the relationship between mind and matter. The poets' attempts to mediate their languages and sensibilities with "real nature" have a complicated legacy for today's readers, as Romantic literature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: implications of their work (theorists like Timothy Morton are concerned with what he calls “hyperobjects” and

Blood calcium and phosphorus perturbations in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) and coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) : some correlates of physiological stress

Creator:: Adams, Brett Alan
Abstract:: Changes in blood calcium and phosphorus concentrations were characterized for rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) and coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) following intense exercise or exposure to suspended volcanic ash or topsoil. Significant elevations in blood calcium and phosphorus accompanied exercise-induced acidemia in both S. qairdneri and O. kisutch. These elevations persisted...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , magnesium, and bone. Pages 269-398 in Morton H. Maxwell and Charles R. Kleeman, eds. Clinical disorders of

Aspects of respiration in vertically separated Mytilus californianus (California sea mussel)

Creator:: Moon, Thomas William
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Galtsoff and Whipple, 1930; Morton, Boney and Corner, 1957; Read, 1964) at the same time it compounds the

Success in a clothing construction course and self esteem in a women's penal institution

Creator:: Hall, Terry Lynn
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to examine self-perceived success as experienced in a learning environment, and its association with self esteem. The relationships between pretreatment-self esteem, posttreatment-self esteem, and perceived success experienced in a five-week clothing construction course were investigated. Measures of perceived sewing ability, perceived success, and course...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: much about our personality. Morton suggested that changes in dress produced perceived differences in

Brain acetylcholinesterase activity at intervals after head irradiation in the rabbit

Creator:: Geel, Stanley Ernest
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Florsheim and Morton (16, p, 18) demonstrated a significant decline in brain ChE levels as early as 20

Psychotherapeutic encounters : masculine ideals of gender and the construction of hysteria in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America / by Brent W. Misso

Creator:: Misso, Brent W.
Abstract:: Early nineteenth-century America witnessed social change which significantly altered the structure of human relationships. Out of this transformation came new configurations of gender and sexuality which colored relations between the sexes well into the twentieth century. But these gender prescriptions did not merely serve to pattern male/female interactions, they informed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: appropriate to these needs. As Charles Rosenberg points out, social location defines the composition of

Habitat structure and occupancy patterns of the montane frog, Rana cascadae, in the Cascade Range, Oregon, at multiple scales : implications for population dynamics in patchy landscapes

Creator:: Brown, Catherine, 1958-
Abstract:: Associations between occupancy patterns of a montane anuran species, Rana cascadae, and habitat structure at multiple scales were examined to investigate how population structure may influence persistence in spatially and temporally heterogeneous environments. Predictions were based on population dynamics suggested by source-sink and metapopulation models. Potential sites in three basins...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: insights into how the animals survive in this environment. Charles Peterson, Deb Patla, and Paul Bartelt

Institutionalizing Science in Oregon : The Role of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914

Creator:: Read, Richard Thomas
Abstract:: In February 1905 the Oregon State Academy of Sciences formed in Portland to promote scientific research and diffusion of scientific knowledge in Oregon. The founders also planned to assist in the discovery and development of the state's natural resources. The Academy was the first scientific society in Oregon with professional...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Dorothy O. Johansen and Charles M. Gates, Empire of the Columbia, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper and Row

The Role of Plant-soil Feedback in the Invasion of Brachypodium sylvaticum in Douglas-fir Forests

Creator:: Esterson, Andrew
Abstract:: Invasive plants have the capacity to transform landscapes and alter ecosystem function, causing significant economic and ecological damage. These effects include displacement and reduction of native flora and fauna, altered fire regimes, modification of biotic and abiotic soil properties, as well as local, regional, and global economic impacts. With such...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Restoration.” Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 34 (1): 183–211. Darwin, Charles

Attitude stability of a symmetrical satellite with translational - rotational coupling

Creator:: Yu, Jin-Chyuan
Abstract:: The equations which govern the motion of a rigid satellite in an inverse-square force field exhibit a weak coupling between the translation of, and the rotation about the center of mass. The effects of this translational-rotational coupling on the equilibrium positions in a circular orbit, and their stabilities are examined....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: indebted to Dr. Charles E. Smith for his invaluable assistance and endless patient guidance throughout

Devil Dog Diplomacy and the abandonment of military tradition : United States Foreign Policy in Central America and the Caribbean, 1915-1934

Creator:: Geissler, Eric L.
Abstract:: During the U.S. military interventions in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti between 1915 and 1934, Washington equipped members of the its armed forces with civil and political powers that represented a radical departure from the North American military tradition. This abandonment of tradition decisively contributed to both the disappointments...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: New Spain by the reforms of Charles III was the privileges of the reorganized and expanded new army

Responsibilities of and recommendations for preparation of retirement home administrators

Creator:: Craig, Margaret Reilly
Abstract:: Specific concern for housing and caring for the elderly has received national attention since the White House Conference on Aging held in 1961. The federal government has provided funds for studying housing needs of the elderly. One alternative is the retirement home which is defined as providing food, shelter and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: necessary to become successful administrators. Morton Leeds (1969, p. 406, 410) points out that when a

Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane

Creator:: Duncan, James Bryan
Abstract:: In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically "discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting relationship with the history of imperialism. The Europeans that settled the U.S. imported slave labor to assist in the growth...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: major innovators. According to one legend, Jelly Roll Morton in 1909 distributed business cards to

Foraging ecology of prairie falcons in northern California

Creator:: Haak, Bruce A.
Abstract:: Nine Prairie Falcons (Falco mexicanus) were radio-tagged in northern California during the spring and summer of 1976 and 1977 to study foraging behavior. The mean home range size for 3 males was 227.8 km²; largest portions of the home range were used during the incubation period. Shifts in foraging areas...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: edited the paper. Comments were offered by E. Charles Meslow, Robert B. Bromely, S. Jonathan Denton

A contribution toward a bibliography of Oregon botany with notes on the botanical explorers of the state

Creator:: Osborn, Katherine H., 1906-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Pacific coast. Overland Monthly n.s. 2:409. Oct. 1883. Piper, Charles Vancouver. The flora of the state

Flavor composition of transgenic raspberry bushy dwarf virus-resistant 'Meeker' raspberries

Creator:: Malowicki, Sarah Marie-Mahler
Abstract:: Raspberries have been popular since the time of the ancient Greeks. Red raspberries are cultivated throughout the world, particularly in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada. The raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) causes significant reduction in yield and crumbly fruit in raspberries, blackberries and raspberry-blackberry hybrids....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : My grandparents, Charles and Marie Punke and Walter and June Mahler. Sources of constant

Direct injection gas chromatography of volatiles from fishery products

Creator:: Hilderbrand, Kenneth S., Jr.
Abstract:: The use of gas chromatography for the separation, comparison, and subsequent identification of flavor volatiles from food products has proven highly successful in recent years. The development of various techniques for the concentration of the volatiles before gas chromatographic analysis has greatly extended the use of this important analytical tool....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Social motivation and clothing selection problems of the classic achondroplastic dwarf

Creator:: Shaw, Linda Louise
Abstract:: Achondroplastic dwarf men and women find it difficult to acquire clothing that fits well. Their major problem is that their torso is long in relationship to the length of their arms and legs, but other physical problems do enter into the selection and construction of clothing. The multiplicity of their...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Appreciation is expressed to Dr. Charles Scott for his help in the identification of the subjects

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:: Browne, Charles Darwin: Voyaging, A Biography (New York: Knopf, 1995), p. xi and David Levering Lewis

Psychometric properties of two systematic observation techniques for assessing physical activity levels in children with mental retardation

Creator:: Taylor, Christina Anne
Abstract:: Psychometric properties of two systematic observation tools, the System for Observing Fitness Instruction Time (SOFIT) and the Children's Activity Rating Scale (CARS), were examined for use with individuals with mental retardation (MR). Eleven children with MR were videotaped while participating in gym-based physical activity. Accelerometer data were collected and synchronized...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Charles, Andy, Sheila, Chris, and Dave, for letting me go through all my "phases" with you. I'm proud to

The Kwakiutl version of the Chilkat blanket on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Creator:: Horn, Mona Jean
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the Hudson's Bay Company, Prince Rupert, cousin of King Charles II (26, n. p.). Its present Indian

A synthesis of significant developments in the history, calculation, and properties of the number pi

Creator:: Burdg, Donald Eugene
Abstract:: This thesis brings together under one cover a survey of the history of the real number pi along with a study of the present state of its theory, application, and calculation.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Pathogenesis of bovine adenoviral infections in newborn calves

Creator:: Peterson, Patricia L.
Abstract:: Three newborn, colostrum deprived calves were inoculated by the intranasal, intratracheal, conjunctival and oral routes with a subgroup II bovine adenovirus strain 7T. An initial viremia and febrile response occurred in all calves with widespread dissemination of the virus through the body. Clinical signs consisted of pyrexia, soft feces and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A medicinal chemical investigation of some p-substituted-1, 2-diphenylindolizines for possible anti-inflammatory activity

Creator:: Kallay, Kalman Robert
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A synthesis of significant developments in the history, calculation, and properties of the number e

Creator:: Beecroft, James Lewis
Abstract:: This thesis brings together under one cover a survey of the history of the real number e along with a study of the present state of its theory and calculation.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: clearly defined. In 1844 Lio- ville proved the existence of transcendental numbers. Charles Hermite, a

The Thomas Kay Woolen Mill in Salem, Oregon, 1900-1959

Creator:: Gertenrich, Caryl
Abstract:: The Thomas Kay Woolen Mill once manufactured cloth with a reputation renowned throughout the United States. This study is an attempt to report the history of the mill. Data are categorized by: the Kay family; production including plant, machinery, raw materials used, goods manufactured; management including the effects of national...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Kay-Slingsby Certified Copy of Marriage. Charles Pleasant Bishop Clarence Morton Bishop 18

A re-evaluation of industry differences in male/female wages and employment

Creator:: Gupta, Anju
Abstract:: This study re-examines how variations in market power across industries affect the relative number of females and males hired in a given occupation. The study builds upon similar work done by Sharon Oster (1975) to examine the female to male wage differences. Both market power and human capital factors such...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: significantly more affected by monopsony than men's wages [Gordon & Morton (1974) and Cardwell & Rosenzweig

Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

Creator:: Sprague, Allen
Abstract:: The following thesis presents a case study analyzing a service-learning project implemented in a second-year level Writing in Business course at Oregon State University. The classroom project required business writing students to serve as cultural ambassadors and conversation partners with international students through INTO OSU's Cultural Ambassador Conversant Program. Relying...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Russell’s synthesis of Yrjo Engeström’s activity theory and Charles Bazerman’s genre systems theory, I

Plant materials for high school biology courses

Creator:: France, Emilie Margaret
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The effect of potassium pentachlorophenate on selected enzymes in fish

Creator:: Cheng, Jung Ta
Abstract:: Research on chemicals used as pesticides has been intensified because of current interest in the possible long range effects on the biota. It is vitally important to understand the action of these chemicals on the metabolism of animals and plants which have direct or indirect contact with pesticides. It has...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -Dzung Lu for her suggestions and help in the course of work, and to Dr, Charles E. Warren and Mr

Taxonomic studies of the Eucephalus complex of Aster in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Thompson, Dennis Dean
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: years were made by Morton E. Peck, who collected the plant in the many ray- colored forms that I found

Development of a marine bioassay system using the gooseneck barnacle, Pollicipes polymerus

Creator:: Dunn, Julie Ellen
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to develop a marine bioassay procedure using eggs and larvae of Pollicipes polymerus, a stalked barnacle common on the west coast of North America. A series of experiments were run to determine optimal culture conditions for the eggs, to see if they could be...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Morton and Wu 1977, Blundo 1978) and chronic (Rosenberg 1972) toxicity tests. Spawning by the

Effects of wildfire burn severity on soil microbial communitiesand invasive plant species in the Cascade Range of Oregon

Creator:: Hebel, Cassie L.
Abstract:: Fire suppression in the last several decades has resulted in unprecedented accumulations of organic matter on the landscape, leading to an increase in large, intense wildfires. This study investigated the soil microbial community (using phospholipid fatty acid analysis) across recently burned forests on the eastern slope of the Cascade Range...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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
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