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Ampelisca eschrichtii Krøyer, 1842 (Ampeliscidae) of the Sakhalin Shelf in the Okhotsk Sea starve in summer and feast in winter

Creator:: Durkina, Valentina B., Chapman, John W., and Demchenko, Natalia L.
Abstract:: Background. Ampelisca eschrichtii Krøyer, 1842 of the Sakhalin Shelf of the Okhotsk Sea, Far Eastern Russia, comprise the highest known biomass concentration of any amphipod population in the world and are a critically important prey source for western gray whales. Growth and reproduction in this population has not been apparent...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: in3 winter4 Valentina B. Durkina1, John W. Chapman2, and Natalia L. Demchenko35 1Laboratory of

ChapmanJohnFishWildlifeLifeHistoryProduction.PDF

Creator:: Demchenko, Natalia L., Chapman, John W., Durkina, Valentina B., and Fadeev, Valeriy I.
Abstract:: Ampelisca eschrichtii are among the most important prey of the Western North Pacific gray whales, Eschrichtius robustus. The largest and densest known populations of this amphipod occur in the gray whale’s Offshore feeding area on the Northeastern Sakhalin Island Shelf. The remote location, ice cover and stormy weather at the...
Full Text:: ) Natalia L. Demchenko1☯*, JohnW. Chapman2☯, Valentina B. Durkina3☯, Valeriy I. Fadeev1† 1 Laboratory of

ChapmanJohnFishWildlifeLifeHistoryProduction(TableS1).PDF

Creator:: Demchenko, Natalia L., Chapman, John W., Durkina, Valentina B., and Fadeev, Valeriy I.
Abstract:: Ampelisca eschrichtii are among the most important prey of the Western North Pacific gray whales, Eschrichtius robustus. The largest and densest known populations of this amphipod occur in the gray whale’s Offshore feeding area on the Northeastern Sakhalin Island Shelf. The remote location, ice cover and stormy weather at the...
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ChapmanJohnFishWildlifeLifeHistoryProduction(TableS2).PDF

Creator:: Demchenko, Natalia L., Chapman, John W., Durkina, Valentina B., and Fadeev, Valeriy I.
Abstract:: Ampelisca eschrichtii are among the most important prey of the Western North Pacific gray whales, Eschrichtius robustus. The largest and densest known populations of this amphipod occur in the gray whale’s Offshore feeding area on the Northeastern Sakhalin Island Shelf. The remote location, ice cover and stormy weather at the...

ChapmanJohnFishWildlifeLifeHistoryProduction(FigureS1).PDF

Creator:: Demchenko, Natalia L., Chapman, John W., Durkina, Valentina B., and Fadeev, Valeriy I.
Abstract:: Ampelisca eschrichtii are among the most important prey of the Western North Pacific gray whales, Eschrichtius robustus. The largest and densest known populations of this amphipod occur in the gray whale’s Offshore feeding area on the Northeastern Sakhalin Island Shelf. The remote location, ice cover and stormy weather at the...

Life History and Production of the Western Gray Whale's Prey, Ampelisca eschrichtii Krøyer, 1842 (Amphipoda, Ampeliscidae)

Creator:: Demchenko, Natalia L., Chapman, John W., Durkina, Valentina B., and Fadeev, Valeriy I.
Abstract:: Ampelisca eschrichtii are among the most important prey of the Western North Pacific gray whales, Eschrichtius robustus. The largest and densest known populations of this amphipod occur in the gray whale’s Offshore feeding area on the Northeastern Sakhalin Island Shelf. The remote location, ice cover and stormy weather at the...
Resource Type:: Article

Learning cost-sensitive diagnostic policies from data

Creator:: Zubek, Valentina Bayer
Abstract:: In its simplest form, the process of diagnosis is a decision-making process in which the diagnostician performs a sequence of tests culminating in a diagnostic decision. For example, a physician might perform a series of simple measurements (body tem- perature, weight, etc.) and laboratory measurements (white blood count, CT scan,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: corrected_thesis.dvi AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Valentina

Complex patterns in gender HCI : a data mining study of factors leading to end-user debugging success for females and males

Creator:: Grigoreanu, Valentina I.
Abstract:: Most of the work so far in the subfield of Gender HCI has followed a theory-driven approach. Established theories, however, do not take into account specific issues that arise in end-user debugging. We suspected that there may be important information that we were overlooking. We therefore employed a methodology change:...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: OF THE THESIS OF Valentina Grigoreanu for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science

Understanding and supporting end-user debugging strategies

Creator:: Grigoreanu, Valentina I.
Abstract:: End users' programs are fraught with errors, costing companies millions of dollars. One reason may be that researchers and tool designers have not yet focused on end-user debugging strategies. To investigate this possibility, this dissertation presents eight empirical studies and a new strategy-based end-user debugging tool for Excel, called StratCel....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Valentina I. Grigoreanu for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science presented on December 1

Emergence of Microglia Bearing Senescence Markers During Paralysis Progression in a Rat Model of Inherited ALS

Creator:: Trias, Emiliano, Beilby, Pamela R., Kovacs, Mariangeles, Ibarburu, Sofia, Varela, Valentina, Barreto-Nunez, Romina, Bradford, Samuel C., Beckman, Joseph S., and Barbeito, Luis
Abstract:: Age is a recognized risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a paralytic disease characterized by progressive loss of motor neurons and neuroinflammation. A hallmark of aging is the accumulation of senescent cells. Yet, the pathogenic role of cellular senescence in ALS remains poorly understood. In rats bearing the ALS-linked...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: †, Mariángeles Kovacs1, Sofía Ibarburu1, Valentina Varela1, Romina Barreto-Núñez1, Samuel C. Bradford3, Joseph S

Addressing Emerging Issues in Tropical Ecohydrology : A Combined Hydrometric and Isotopic Approach to Evaluate the Origin and Age of Water in a High-Elevation Tropical Ecosystem

Creator:: Mosquera, Giovanny M.
Abstract:: This thesis focuses on the identification of ecohydrological processes in nested system of catchments in a tropical alpine (the wet Andean páramo) ecosystem. We accomplish this by conducting a water stable isotopic characterization of water sources, an evaluation of the mean transit time (MTT) of streams waters, and the investigation...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -Elevation Tropical Ecosystem Abstract approved: Kellie B. Vaché Steven S. Perakis This thesis

Equity and Gender Bias in High School Music Programming in the Pacific Northwest: A Case Study

Creator:: Anderson, Janie C.
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to examine gender and historical bias in wind band music and related practices in the Pacific Northwest. This research was conducted via an IRB approved research study, Equity and Gender Bias in High School Music Programming in the Pacific Northwest: A Case Study, which...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: 143 unique composers. See Appendix B and C. EQUITY AND GENDER BIAS IN HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC

Developing NGSS Scientific Practices Through Inquiry in an Outdoor Learning Environment

Creator:: Halsey Randall, Micki Marie
Abstract:: The National Research Council has aggregated research evidence on the pedagogy of science teaching and learning (NRC, 2012), culminating in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). These standards support emphasis on eight scientific practices as an important component for teaching science as inquiry to K-12 students. This latest framework for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: A. Inquiry Investigation Report Guidelines …………………………….. 136 B. Background Research Round 2

Gender differences in robot teleoperation

Creator:: Showkat, Dilruba
Abstract:: Gender issues have recently received increased attention in human robot interaction (HRI). Because robots are becoming part of our homes and daily lives, it is important to understand how different groups of people use them. To the best of our knowledge, almost no research has been done that investigates gender...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ) Page B Post-task Session Questionnaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 C Handout

Gender differences in end-user debugging strategies

Creator:: Narayanan, Vaishnavi
Abstract:: There has been little prior research reporting strategy usage in end-user problem solving, and even less using gender as a factor. Without this type of information, enduser programming systems cannot know the “target” at which to aim, if they are to support male and female end-user programmers’ debugging. As a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Laura Beckwith, Neeraja Subrahmaniyan, Valentina Grigoreanu, Joey Lawrance and Flora Tan for their

Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of the leaf- and root-associated microbiomes of Zostera marina and Zostera japonica

Creator:: Wojahn, John Michael Adrian
Abstract:: A great deal of research has been focused on the microbiomes of terrestrial angiosperms (flowering plants), but much less research has been performed on the microbiomes of aquatic angiosperms (Turner et al. 2013). Eelgrass beds are extremely productive ecosystems that provide habitat for many marine organisms, such as fish, shellfish,...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Microbiol 62. Bailey, B. E. Flood, B, E. 2015. Sedimenticola thiotaurini sp. nov., a sulfur-oxidizing

The sum of its parts : investigating the component pieces of GenderMag

Creator:: Hill, Charles
Abstract:: Previous work introduced the GenderMag method, a software inspection method used to help software creators identify features within their software that are not gender-inclusive. Inclusiveness of software (gender or otherwise) matters because supporting diversity matters—it is well-known that the more diverse a group of problem-solvers, the higher the quality of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: [67]. Reasons cited for these benefits are: (a) that personas focus issues [45], (b) they provide

Practices for Engineering Gender-Inclusivity into Software

Creator:: Hilderbrand, Claudia
Abstract:: Although the need for gender-inclusivity in software itself is gaining attention among both SE researchers and SE practitioners, and methods have been published to help, little has been reported on how to make such methods work in real-world settings. For example, how do busy software practitioners use such methods in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Information for instructors and students about B Unknown Interface for an AI product C 5 Analytics and

Newcomers’ Barriers. . . Is That All? An Analysis of Mentors’ and Newcomers’ Barriers in OSS Projects

Creator:: Balali, Sogol
Abstract:: Newcomers’ seamless onboarding is important for open collaboration communi- ties, particularly those that leverage outsiders’ contributions to remain sustainable. Nevertheless, previous work shows that OSS newcomers often face several barriers to contribute, which lead them to lose motivation and even give up on contributing. A well-known way to help newcomers...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: involved in mentoring newcomers to your team, project, or company? 2.a What made you become a mentor? 2.b

Fixing Inclusivity Bugs: Information Processing Styles and Learning Styles

Creator:: Steine-Hanson, Zoe K.
Abstract:: Most software systems today do not support cognitive diversity. Further, because of differences in problem-solving styles that cluster by gender, software that poorly supports cognitive diversity can also embed gender biases. To help software professionals fix gender bias “bugs” related to people’s problem-solving styles for information processing and learning of...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: ? ......................................................................................................................................................2 B Information Processing Style (InfoProc Style

Intensification of Solvent Extraction in an Additively Manufactured Microfluidic Separator

Creator:: Touma, Jad George, Coblyn, Matthew, Freiberg, Lucas Joseph, Kowall, Cliff, Zoebelein, Avaline, and Jovanovic, Goran Nadezda
Abstract:: Solvent extraction is an integral chemical and biochemical separation process that is drastically intensified in microfluidic systems. A novel high-throughput micro-separator was additively manufactured for the intensification of liquid–liquid separation. The micro-posts array within the flow plate generated a capillary pressure gradient on the non-wetting organic phase, enabling continuous, membrane-free,...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: Jad George Touma a, ⁎, Matthew Coblyn a, Lucas Joseph Freiberg a, Cliff Kowall b, Avaline Zoebelein a

An Agent-Based Simulation for Emergency Warning Dissemination in a Multiplex Social Network

Creator:: Koll, Charles D.
Abstract:: The variety of natural disasters provide different sets of characteristics and properties with unique challenges. One significant difference between hazard types is prewarning lead time, the amount of time individuals have from a potential warning to the disaster occurring. Rapid onset disasters may not provide an official warning about a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Riddled with Exclusivity: The Homogeneity of the Supreme Court Bar in the Roberts Court

Creator:: Carsh, Austin M.
Abstract:: The Supreme Court Bar-the lawyers who argue before the US Supreme Court-has historically been an elite and exclusive group. This investigation examines the demographic make-up of the Supreme Court Bar in the Roberts Court and compares it to previous iterations of the Supreme Court Bar, as well as the national...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Macon B Allen, who was admitted to practice in Maine in 1844 (Conway 2017). However, Allen was not

Harnessing Heterogeneity in Human Gut Microbiome Data

Creator:: Tataru, Christine
Abstract:: The focus of this thesis is to design, characterize, and apply novel computational methods and molecular systems to interrogate heterogeneous human gut microbiome-related phenomena. In Chapter 2, I design, implement, and characterize a method for embedding co-occurrence patterns derived from massive 16s amplicon datasets. I use this method to 1....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Investigating the Impact of Teaching Inclusive Design Concepts on Ecampus Students’ Mindsets

Creator:: Garcia, Rosalinda
Abstract:: Although computer science (CS) education researchers and practitioners have found ways to improve CS classroom inclusivity, few researchers have considered inclusivity of online CS education. We have begun developing a new approach that we term “embedded inclusive design” to address inclusive CS. The essence of the approach is to integrate...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

Toward end-user debugging of machine-learned programs

Creator:: Kulesza, Todd
Abstract:: The results of a machine learning from user behavior can be thought of as a program, and like all programs, it may need to be debugged. Providing ways for the user to debug it matters because without the ability to fix errors, users may find that the learned program’s errors...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: have been similarly supportive, both in and out of the lab. In particular, Chris Bogart, Valentina

Scientists' perspectives on the importance of scientific communication in natural resource decision-making

Creator:: Shaw, Christine Michelle
Abstract:: Natural resource decisions require consideration at many levels, ranging from how one invertebrate will be affected by a nearby road, to how an entire watershed will be transformed by a massive clearcut. Considerations reach farther than just the local ecological community-human communities, economies, and future impacts on the communities and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: progressed through this program with me. Laura White, Jim Wilton, Valentina Fomenko, Sally Duncan, Chad

Supporting end-user debugging

Creator:: Kissinger, Cory
Abstract:: Although researchers have begun to explicitly support end-user programmers’ debugging by providing information to help them find bugs, there is little research addressing the right content to communicate to these users. The specific semantic content of these debugging communications matters because, if the users are not actually seeking the information...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Subrahmaniyan and Dr. Sherry Yang. I would also like to thank Valentina Grigoreanu and Vaishnavi Narayanan for

Genetic Diversity and Antimicrobial Resistance of Listeria monocytogenes within Produce Handling and Processing Environments

Creator:: Bland, Rebecca N.
Abstract:: Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen frequently associated with food processing environments. Its presence is particularly concerning in facilities handling minimally processed and ready-to-eat foods. Recent outbreaks associated with fresh produce, such as packaged salads and mushrooms, highlight the need to better understand and control these pathogens in environments that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: exposed to sanitizers. b. Contextualize variables and results within this field so that results can be

Interconnection Networks Based on Gaussian and Eisenstein-Jacobi Integers

Creator:: Shamaei, Arash
Abstract:: Quotient rings of Gaussian and Eisenstein-Jacobi(EJ) integers can be deployed to construct interconnection networks with good topological properties. In this thesis, we propose deadlock-free deterministic and partially adaptive routing algorithms for hexagonal networks, one special class of EJ networks. Then we discuss higher dimensional Gaussian networks as an alternative to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: routing. . . . . . . . . 10 2.6 The turn model for 2D mesh. (a)The North to West turn is not allowed. (b

Possible contributors to variation in cultured cheese produced in different geographical locations when typical cheese production controls are employed

Creator:: Fels, Shawn
Abstract:: Variation in cheese quality due to geographic location is important to cheese producers, consumers, and retailers on a global level. Understanding the impacts of geographic location of cheese plants may be useful to businesses for marketing, cost reduction, and quality improvement. Many aspects of variation due to geography have been...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Flow-Solute : A Tool for Exploring the Effects of Nitrogen Management in Alternative Future Scenarios

Creator:: Wentworth, Andrew Michael
Abstract:: Surface water quality is a growing concern in the Willamette River Basin and elsewhere. The region's growing population is dependent on the availability of clean water for drinking water, irrigation, wastewater dilution, and wildlife habitat. Watershed management to produce economic goods and environmental services requires an understanding of basic hydrologic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Kellie B. Vaché Surface water quality is a growing concern in the Willamette River Basin

How does AAR/AI Support Problem Solvers with Diverse Behaviors and Cognitive Styles?

Creator:: Dikkala, Rupika
Abstract:: "What’s wrong with this AI?" Explainable AI (XAI) researchers are moving beyond explaining an AI’s actions, to helping users detect an AI’s failures. However this detection may not be enough—for actionability, we often need to pinpoint which part failed. We investigate how AAR/AI, a structured assessment process, supports users with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and described Fault D. Red boxes denote: (a) Screenshot of the game at that DP (Section 3.1.1); (b

eDNA as a tool for identifying freshwater species in sustainable forestry: A critical review and potential future applications

Creator:: Coble, Ashley A., Flinders, Camille A., Homyack, Jessica A., Penaluna, Brooke E., Cronn, Richard C., and Weitemier, Kevin
Abstract:: Environmental DNA (eDNA) is an emerging biological monitoring tool that can aid in assessing the effects of forestry and forest manufacturing activities on biota. Monitoring taxa across broad spatial and temporal scales is necessary to ensure forest management and forest manufacturing activities meet their environmental goals of maintaining biodiversity. Our...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: (e.g., Di Sabatino et al., 2015; Flotemersch et al., 2006a, b; 275 14 Ultrup and Fisher, 2006

Chemical and Genetic Investigations of Toxic Freshwater Cyanobacterial Blooms for Improved Monitoring and Understanding of Lake Ecology

Creator:: Collart, Lindsay P.
Abstract:: Toxin production by cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) in freshwater systems has lasting ecological and human impacts. Nutrients, light availability, hydrology, and microbial community composition impact the frequency and intensity of toxic cyanoHABs. Climate change will exacerbate toxic cyanoHABs, making real time and predictive monitoring a vital tool for managing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Trade and productivity effects on firm behavior : the case of Korean manufacturing

Creator:: Kim, Sooil
Abstract:: This dissertation’s three essays investigate trade and productivity effects on firm behavior based on new heterogeneous-firms trade models in the case of Korea. In the first essay, firms’ decision to export in the case of Korean manufacturing industries is examined, where the change in firms’ productivity before and after exports...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Advances in Freshwater Cyanobacterial Genomics

Creator:: Brown, Nathaniel M.
Abstract:: Limnology is undergoing a transition to high-throughput -omic analysis of freshwater bacterial communities. An important first step in making the transition is to characterize several genomes that can be used as references to guide metagenome assembly and analysis. Here I characterize four new freshwater cyanobacterial genomes, a pair of lake...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Anderson Lake at 48.0190 N, 237.1963 W on the Olympic Peninsula. B) A brightfield micrograph of Anabaena sp

Spatiotemporal Phytohormone Distributions in Developing Pinot Noir Berries and the Effects of Two Viticulture Practices Thereon

Creator:: Schmidt, Joseph A.
Abstract:: In recent years, many studies have focused on the molecular and biochemical mechanisms regulating the development of wine grapes. The course of grape berry development is directed by genetic design and is mediated by phytohormones, which regulate grape berry growth and development by orchestrating a complex network of interacting genes,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABA-GE – Abscisic acid glycol ester ABA-OH – ABA-8’HYDROXSYLASE B – blue-yellowness BD – berry

Effects of Aquatic Resource Subsidies on the Ecology of Terrestrial Top Predators

Creator:: Eriksson, Charlotte E.
Abstract:: Energetic resources transferred between distinct habitats or ecosystems, referred to as allochthonous resources, can greatly subsidize consumers in the recipient habitat, and thus influence food web structure and dynamics. Such subsidies may allow the growth of the consumer population to be decoupled from in situ productivity with effects on consumer...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: home. I particularly thank Claumir Muniz, Amabilen Oliveira Furlan and Valentina for generously

International comparison and evaluation of agricultural productivity growth

Creator:: Rada, Nicholas E.
Abstract:: Long-run food price changes respond to long-run changes in food demand, quasi-fixed and variable production factors, and agricultural productivity. Recent global food-price volatility puts a renewed spotlight on the trends and sources of any agricultural productivity growth. Because food prices’ most critical effects are on human hunger, it is especially...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ……………………….………………... 99 Appendix B: Brazilian Empirical Results…………………….…………………… 109

Information foraging in debugging

Creator:: Lawrance, Joseph A.
Abstract:: Programmers spend a substantial fraction of their debugging time by navigating through source code, yet little is known about how programmers navigate. With the continuing growth in size and complexity of software, this fraction of time is likely to increase, which presents challenges to those seeking both to understand and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (Paul Cull, Carlos Jensen, Christine Wallace, Surabh Setia, Valentina Grigoreanu, Stephen

Explaining debugging strategies to end-user programmers

Creator:: Subrahmaniyan, Neeraja
Abstract:: There has been little research into how end-user programming environments can provide explanations that could fill a critical information gap for end-user debuggers – help with debugging strategy. To address this need, we designed and prototyped a video-based approach for explaining debugging strategy, and accompanied it with a text-only approach....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . My warm gratitude to all my research colleagues—Laura Beckwith, Valentina Grigoreanu, Joey

Network Analysis and Change-point Detection

Creator:: Xu, Jiarui
Abstract:: Analysis of observations on sequential events over time is common in real life. Sequential measurements over time describing the behavior of systems are usually called time series data, which have been collected in a wide range of disciplines. Over the years there have been multiple research areas in studying stochastic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 B Appendix to chapter 3

In situ Agrobiodiversity Conservation Planning in Centers of Origin: The Role of Culture

Creator:: Guerrero Ochoa, Isabel G.
Abstract:: Managing agricultural diversity ensures a range of public services, such as genetic resource diversity, food security for subsistence-based economies, and landscape resilience in the context of climate change, among others. These agrobiodiversity conservation services are positive externalities from agrobiodiversity conservation. Whereas their value is not captured in market transactions, management...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: words of encouragement during all these years. To my Valentina, for bringing so much joy and

Analysis of Bayesian anytime inference algorithms

Creator:: Burgess, Scott Alan
Abstract:: This dissertation explores and analyzes the performance of several Bayesian anytime inference algorithms for dynamic influence diagrams. These algorithms are compared on the On-Line Maintenance Agent testbed, a software artifact permitting comparison of dynamic reasoning algorithms used by an agent on a variety of simulated maintenance and monitoring tasks. Analysis...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ................................................. 100 Appendix B: Raw Data for Experiments with the Peaked Backward Simulation Algorithm

Children of Mexican migrant farmworkers in Oregon : experiences and challenges with belonging

Creator:: Crawford, Ashley
Abstract:: This thesis explores the experiences and negotiations of belonging for children of Mexican migrant farmworkers in Oregon. Ethnographic data was collected over the course of several months with Mexican migrant farmworkers and their children in agricultural fields in Oregon and at Oregon State University. The children in this project have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Spatiotemporal Distributions of Bacteria in the Cheddar Production Environment

Creator:: Johnson, Jared D.
Abstract:: Given the many significant roles that bacteria play in modern food manufacturing, it is crucial that we have a fundamental understanding of how bacterial communities assemble and behave in the food manufacturing environment. The focus of this dissertation was to investigate both the spatial and temporal distributions of microbial communities...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: depicting generalized changes in A) species richness, B) alpha diversity, and C) bacterial load in in

An Investigation of the Effects of Merge Conflicts on Collaborative Software Development

Creator:: Brindescu, Caius
Abstract:: Merge conflicts have long plagued software development. With larger and more dispersed teams comes greater risk of developers working on the same code at the same time. While merge conflicts are known to be painful, their exact impact on software is still largely unknown. Are merge conflicts an isolated problem,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the QuickResolution pattern occurred; an instance is magnified in subfigure (b

Gender HCI issues in end-user programming

Creator:: Beckwith, Laura A.
Abstract:: Until recently, research has not considered whether the design of end-user programming environments, such as spreadsheets, multimedia authoring languages, and CAD systems, affects males and females differently. As a result, we began investigating how the two genders are impacted by end-user programming software and whether attention to gender differences is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Shraddha Sorte, Valentina Grigoreanu, Vaishnavi Narayanan, Kyle Rector, Derek Inman, Neeraja

Designing Diversity and Inclusion Processes and Tools for Sustainable Open Source

Creator:: Guizani, Mariam
Abstract:: Over time, Open Source Software (OSS) has become indispensable in the creation and upkeep of software products, serving as the fundamental building block for widely used solutions in our daily lives, including applications that enable communication, entertainment, and productivity. A sustainable OSS ecosystem is one that attracts and retains a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 B Perceptions of the State of D&I and D&I Initiative in the ASF (Supplemental)211 C Rules of

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