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Creator:: Umar, Ayesha
Abstract:: This research studies the effect of corruption on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in various industries. We use industry level data of US Investments abroad in 60 host countries from 1990 to 2002. We explore the questions of whether corruption is an impediment to FDI and if so, how does this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Ayesha Umar for the degree of

Creator:: Newell, Carrie
Abstract:: The ecological interaction between the largest coastal predator, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) and the most abundant shallow water marcrozooplanktonic prey, mysids, were examined in a poorly-understood predator-prey relationship along the central Oregon coast. From 2002-2008, 83 seasonal gray whales were identified. These whales returned each year around Memorial Day...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: presented on June 15, 2009. Title: Ecological Interrelationships Between Summer Resident Gray Whales

Creator:: Azim, Bilqees
Abstract:: Fifteen sand samples from beaches along the Pacific North were analyzed for their elemental content by the method of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). A separation technique was employed to separate the zircon (a heavy non-magnetic mineral with a specific gravity of 4.67) from the rest of the sample. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: this thesis to my parents, Ayesha and Azim, who always encouraged and supported me from so far away

Creator:: Chellew, Megan
Abstract:: In this thesis, the spatial patterns of vegetation and soils of reference and restored tidal marshes were compared to determine the extent to which restored sites differ from the reference site after 40 years of restoration. Vegetation surveys of 1m x 1m plots were conducted along previously-established transects of salt...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and mammals (river otters, elk), particularly in the Pacific (Bottom et al. 2005; Gray 2002; Klemas

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