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Temperature influences on cattle distribution and behavior in the central California foothills

Creator:: Smith, Kelly Ryan
Abstract:: The effect of temperature on cattle behavior and distribution was studied in the foothills of California. To accurately understand changes in livestock behavior and distribution, five seasonal trials, each spanning three to four weeks were conducted beginning spring 2004 and ending spring 2005. The two spring trials and the fall...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Modeling animal movement to manage landscapes

Creator:: Larson-Praplan, Stephanie
Abstract:: Managing rangelands with livestock grazing is a tool that can be applied to obtain vegetation management objectives. Animals utilize available resources, which vary in quantity and quality, across the landscape. Their movements are adjusted to the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of resource distribution. Controlling livestock distribution is fundamental to economically...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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The role and policy implications of selected external factors as applied to the developmental patterns of five Wyoming fuels

Creator:: Vuk, Melvin M.
Abstract:: The developmental patterns of five fuel resources located within the state of Wyoming are examined through time and in relation to several factors external to the location of the fuels. An historic description and inventory of the five fuels: petroleum; natural gas; oil shale; coal; uranium are presented. External factors...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Melvin M. Vuk for the degree Doctor of Philosophy Geography presented on May 29, 1975 Title: THE ROLE

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

Creator:: Horton, Kaely
Abstract:: This thesis examines depictions of medievalism in three central texts: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Each of these texts provides an entry point for exploring the ways in which English and American writers have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones

Cognitive dissonance and voter behavior toward school budgets

Creator:: Eberhardt, Clifford Erie
Abstract:: Problem School districts need information on how to better communicate with voters because budgets are being defeated. Budgets are growing larger as schools require an increasing level of financial support to respond to societal changes. This research focused primarily on the published school budget because in the state of Oregon...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Associate Professor of Educa- tion; Dr. Albert L. Lee land, Professor of Education; Dr. Melvin Miller

Client-outcome program evaluation and functional role analysis in a community mental health clinic

Creator:: Shirley, Ruth Eloise
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to: (1) test a client-outcome evaluation methodology in a community mental health clinic, (2) relate a measure of clients' recent life change to client outcomes, (3) relate functions staff perform for clients to staff mental health profession and to client outcomes, and (4) suggest...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy (R. Duane Andrews, Ph. D. ) The

Improving student satisfaction and retention with online instruction through systematic faculty peer review of courses

Creator:: Aman, Richard R.
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to determine if online courses that were faculty peer reviewed based on five factors of quality instruction resulted in increased levels of student satisfaction and higher rates of student retention when compared with nonreviewed courses in a post-secondary context. The five factors of quality...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Richard R. Aman for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion

Creator:: Tatom, Simon K.
Abstract:: My thesis, entitled "Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion," argues that J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion shares distinct similarities in style and content with Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, primarily in the lack of detail in the descriptions of characters and events, as each attempts to create a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Interactions amongst Local and Global Drivers of Coastal Acidification in Estuarine Habitats of the Northern California Current

Creator:: Pacella, Stephen R.
Abstract:: The variability of coastal carbonate chemistry continues to provide significant hurdles for understanding interactions between anthropogenic and natural CO2 cycling and resultant effects on coastal acidification dynamics. Attribution of the anthropogenic component is vital for identifying the impacts of increasing atmospheric carbon on coastal habitats such as coral reefs, upwelling...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: UNDER FUTURE OCEAN ACIDIFICATION Stephen R. Pacellaa,b, Cheryl A. Browna, George G. Waldbusserb

The interrelationship between being lesbian and its impact on community college leadership

Creator:: Andreas, Michelle R.
Abstract:: The purpose of this phenomenological research is to deepen understanding of the interrelationship between being lesbian and community college leadership experiences, values, priorities, practices, and identity negotiation. The following outlines thematic research findings. 1. Lesbian community college administrators' have experiences in: -- Anti-lesbian work environments that exposed them to homophobic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Michelle R. Andreas for the

Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

Creator:: Foster, Emily S.
Abstract:: Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 18, 2017. Title: Reasserting Moral Boundaries: Representations of Fame in George Eliot’s Daniel

bayesclust: An R Package for Testing and Searching for Significant Clusters

Creator:: Gopal, Vikneswaran, Fuentes, Claudio, and Casella, George
Abstract:: The detection and determination of clusters has been of special interest among researchers from different fields for a long time. In particular, assessing whether the clusters are significant is a question that has been asked by a number of experimenters. In Fuentes and Casella (2009), the authors put forth a...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: , Issue 14. http://www.jstatsoft.org/ bayesclust: An R Package for Testing and Searching for Significant

Thinning effects on stand and tree growth : different perspectives on same old questions

Creator:: Romero Castaño, Pablo
Abstract:: The search for the stand density that optimizes growth and hence generates the maximum amount of wood is one of the philosopher’s stone in modern forestry. Since scientific methods were applied to forestry, numerous generations of foresters have studied the relations between stocking density and growth, obtaining diverse results and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . ii The Black Rock Unit of the George T. Gerlinger Experimental Forest in Oregon holds one of the

Kinship, Environment and the Forest Service : Homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

Creator:: Prior, Jan M.
Abstract:: The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and ideas from my thesis committee members, David Brauner, Philip Dole, and George Stankey. My only

Kinship, environment and the Forest Service : homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

Creator:: Prior, Jan M.
Abstract:: The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and ideas from my thesis committee members, David Brauner, Philip Dole, and George Stankey. My only

Buffering Estuarine Sediments Against Acidification

Creator:: Myers, Tristen J.
Abstract:: Globally rising anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have resulted in the increased prevalence of ocean acidification (OA) which has the potential to impact shell-forming organisms. On geologic timescales, the largest contributor to atmospheric CO₂ was volcanoes, counterbalanced by weathering and erosion, but due to increased anthropogenic emissions, these processes alone can no...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: _____________________________________________________ George Waldbusser Globally

Hull -Oakes Lumber Company's Steam-Powered Sawmill : A Case Study in Industrial Archaeology

Creator:: Wisner, George B.
Abstract:: By examining the combined written, ethnographic and physical evidence of a surviving steam-powered sawmill in the Douglas-fir region of the Pacific Northwest, this thesis seeks to supply new insights into the operation and adaptability of antiquated machinery during a period of rapid social and technological change and to develop a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Studies thesis of George B. Wisner presented on April 3. 1995 APPROVED: Major Professor, r resenting

Surface composition and orientation of room temperature ionic liquids

Creator:: Law, George
Abstract:: In this thesis, we investigated the surface composition and orientation of both pure room-temperature ionic liquids (Ils) and binary mixtures of the ILs of the type consisting of the 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium ([C[subscropt n]mim]⁺, n=4, 8, and 12) cation coupled with either [PF₆]⁻, [BF₄]⁻, [Cl]⁻, or [Br]⁻. The surfaces of the ILs...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF George Law for the degree of

Seagrasses as Potential Chemical Refugia for Acidification-Sensitive Bivalves

Creator:: Smith, Stephanie Rae
Abstract:: As the effect of ocean acidification (OA) on marine calcifiers is better understood, a range of potential mitigative strategies have been proposed, many of which are plagued by concerns of scale and feasibility. One oft-cited option is to increase the biomass of photosynthetic organisms to remove CO₂ from the water...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ George G. Waldbusser As

Ocean Acidification Carryover Effects from Oyster Broodstock to Larvae

Creator:: Klein, Victoria G.
Abstract:: Atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased by approximately 40% since preindustrial times from 280 ppm (parts per million) to 400 ppm. The rise in Pco₂ is causing the ocean to become more acidic due to the uptake of carbon dioxide by the water, termed “ocean acidification”. As the Pco₂ in the...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: George Waldbusser Atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased by approximately 40% since

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