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  • Excel worksheet for calculating agronomic biosolids application rates

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    Sullivan, Dan M.
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    The worksheet is designed to show a municipal biosolids manager how many acres are needed for land application of biosolids at an agronomic rate, based on crop nitrogen (N) requirements. The worksheet is based on a peer-reviewed Extension publication: PNW 511, Worksheet for Calculating Biosolids Application Rates in Agriculture authored...
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    employed by for the Washington Dept of Ecology. This worksheet is designed for use for biosolids managers

  • Compost quality attributes, measurements and variability

    Creator:
    Sullivan, Dan M. and Miller, Robert O.
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    This chapter addresses compost quality specifications, chemical and physical properties of compost, evaluation of compost maturity and stability, and variability in compost analytical data.
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    1Dan M. Sullivan, Dept. of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97333

  • Predictors of Florida retirees' housing decisions and housing adjustments

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    Yamamoto, Toshiko
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    This thesis addresses the issue of comfortable and functional living environments to provide seniors with opportunities for "age in place," that is, living in one's own house after retirement. Such living environments enhance seniors' life satisfaction since the majority of seniors prefer to stay in their own houses and live...
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    Toshiko Yamamoto June 9, 2004 All Rights Reserved Predictors of Florida Retirees' Housing Decisions

  • Forestry

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    Avery, Bonnie E.
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    A broad definition of forestry would include the study of trees, forests, and the habitat they provide as well as their use by people. Modern, "science-based" forestry began in the nineteenth century when Europeans looked for specialists who could address questions on wood supply and extraction both at home and...
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    Arvore, Wood and Fiber Science. Basic Abstracts and Indexes Agricola, Bibliography of Agriculture

  • Addressing Data Resolution in Precision Agriculture

    Creator:
    Kelley, Jason
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    Irrigated agriculture constitutes the greatest consumptive water use globally, so that irrigation efficiency measures are an important part of global efforts to best utilize this limited resource. However, greater irrigation efficiency must be achieved while simultaneously maintaining or increasing crop yields and farming profitability. Incremental water use decisions are made...
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    Dissertation
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    required to realize the full potential of precision agriculture

  • Regeneration biology of Erigeron decumbens var. decumbens, an endangered plant of the Willamette Valley

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    Clark, Deborah Louise, 1950-, Finley, Karen K., and Ingersoll, Cheryl A.
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    Erigeron decumbens var. decumbens, the Willamette daisy, is known only from the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Herbarium records, from the 1800's until 1934, indicate that the Willamette daisy was once common and widely distributed throughout the Willamette Valley (Clark et al. 1993). However, between 1934 and 1980, this taxon was...
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    . Cheryl A. Ingersoll Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon

  • Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

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    Ellis, Erik
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    This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
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    . NAS: Ad hoc committee on Marine Biology, Division of Biology and Agriculture. National Academy of

  • Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

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    Canavan, Barbara C.
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    By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
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    more closely the role of humans in contemporary history through activities such as agriculture and

  • Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

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    Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
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    L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
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    Microsoft Word - 00pretext _2_.doc AN ABSTRACT OF THE

  • Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) integrated pest management programs for fruiting vegetables in Florida

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    Demirozer, Ozan, Tyler-Julian, Kara, Funderburk, Joe, Leppla, Norm, and Reitz, Stuart
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    BACKGROUND: The spread of the western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), resulted in the worldwide destabilization of established integrated pest management programs for many crops. Efforts to control the pest and the thrips-vectored tospoviruses with calendar applications of broad-spectrum insecticides have been unsuccessful. The result has been a...
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    on the plants.3 2 THRIPS AND TOSPOVIRUSES AS PESTS OF FRUITING VEGETABLES In Florida there are two