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  • Characterization of Two Novel Machining Processes for Difficult to Machine Materials

    Creator:
    Doran, Michael P.
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    New materials with superior mechanical properties, such as increased strength and hardness, have been developed to allow for new and improved products. However, the mechanical properties that make these materials useful also makes them difficult to process using conventional methods. New machining processes need to be developed to generate products...
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    Masters Thesis
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    THE THESIS OF Michael P. Doran for the degree of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering

  • Effects of combining of upper and lower body resistance training on lumbar loading

    Creator:
    Doran, Elizabeth R.
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    Osteoporotic vertebral fractures are a common and costly public health problem with a high occurrence in older women due to menopausal-onset bone loss. Recent findings suggest that mechanical loading created by upper body resistance training can stimulate bone growth in the lumbar spine, reducing osteoporosis-related bone loss and associated fracture...
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    Training on Lumbar Loading AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Elizabeth R. Doran for the degree of

  • A library for doing polyhedral operations

    Creator:
    Wilde, Doran K.
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    Polyhedra are geometric representations of linear systems of equations and inequalities. Since polyhedra are used to represent the iteration domains of nested loop programs, procedures for operating on polyhedra can be used for doing loop transformations and other program restructuring transformations which are needed in parallelizing compilers. Thus a need...
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    THE THESIS OF Doran K. Wilde Computer Science for the degree of Master of Science in presented on

  • Life History of the Northern Rubber Boa (Charina bottae) in Oregon

    Creator:
    Leppin, Mark V.
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    The Northern Rubber Boa (Charina bottae) is a small, secretive boa native to the Pacific Northwest. Despite this being possibly the highest latitude boas and one of only two boas native to the continental U.S., it has received surprisingly little attention. Most of the research on the natural history of...
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    : _________________________________________________ Robert T. Mason The Northern Rubber Boa (Charina bottae) is a small, secretive boa native

  • Near-Surface Response of Beach Sand : An Experimental Investigation

    Creator:
    Adams, Rachel Katie
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    The near-surface region of a coastal sediment bed is complex and dynamic. At some sites, near-surface sediment deposits are susceptible to extreme events, such as tsunamis or other large overflows, which induce high shear stresses on the sediment bed. The specific properties of sediment beds subjected to such extreme loading...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Response of Beach Sand: An Experimental Investigation Abstract approved: H. Benjamin Mason Keywords

  • Behavioral adaptations and the minimization of reproductive costs in the male red-sided garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis.

    Creator:
    O'Donnell, Ryan P.
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    The benefits of reproduction are clear, but there are also costs. Much is known about the costs of reproduction in females, but only recently have male costs been investigated in any depth. These costs of reproduction may be minimized by appropriately modifying behavior, but there has been little research on...
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    . Problems of antlerogenesis. Clinical Orthopaedics 69:227-238. Greene M. J., R. T. Mason, 2003. Pheromonal

  • Tsunami-induced Soil Instability

    Creator:
    Fischer, Rachael Marie
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    Recent tsunami field surveys from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami have recorded numerous examples of tsunami-induced soil instability: significant scour around foundations, foundation failure of piles, and other damage caused by liquefaction. From the observations of soil instability leading to the failure of critical coastal structures, it...
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    Instability Abstract approved: H. Benjamin Mason Recent tsunami field surveys from the 2011 Great East

  • Sex and Survival: Reproduction and Anti-Microbial Defense in the Red-Sided Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis)

    Creator:
    Blakemore, Leslie A.
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    The red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) of Manitoba, Canada, have been extensively studied for decades with little investigation into their immune system. These animals live very close to the arctic circle and spend over half of the year underground brumating. The annual cycle of the red-sided garter snakes make...
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    ., Squire, M. K., Mason, R. T., and P. L. R. Brennan. 2013b. Sexual conflict over mating in red-sided

  • The ontogeny and mediation of sexual size dimorphism in the red-spotted garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis concinnus

    Creator:
    Lerner, Darren T.
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    A wide range of environmental and physiological factors influence the type and extent of sexual dimorphism found in animals. Influential factors include variable climate, competition for resources and mates, mate choice, and parental investment. In addition, some investigators attribute differences in body size to physiological factors influenced by genetic and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    -735. Crews, D. M. A. Diamond., J. Whittier., and R. T. Mason. 1985. Small male body size in garter

  • Finite non-projective geometries without the axiom of parallels

    Creator:
    Henderson, Mason Edward
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    Masters Thesis
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    parallels FINITE NON -PROJECTIVE GEOMETRIES WITHOUT THE AXIOM OF PARALLELS by MASON EDWARD HENDERSON