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  • Monotonic and Cyclic Testing of Cross-Laminated Timber Diaphragms

    Creator:
    Beairsto, Cody J.
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    Mass timber is emerging as a viable form of construction around the world in new markets for wood buildings. The entrance into these markets has driven the demand for more knowledge to enable designs alongside other structural materials such as steel and reinforced concrete. Large, in-plane tests on cross-laminated timber...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Rakesh Gupta Thomas H. Miller Abstract Mass timber is emerging as a viable form of

  • Application of Infrared Spectroscopy for Determination of Wood Natural Durability

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    Lipeh, Shahlinney
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    Natural durability remains one of the most attractive characteristics of wood, and helps wood obtain a premium price. A worldwide shift towards the use of younger trees from intensively managed forests has created greater concerns about wood quality, especially the wood’s resistance to fungi and insects. Wood durability is assessed...
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    Dissertation
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    : ______________________________________________________________________ Jeffrey J. Morrell Natural durability remains one of the most attractive characteristics of

  • Efficacy of Empirical Seed Zones: Pseudoroegneria Spicata Reproductive Phenology & Seedling Stage Traits

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    Prive, Kathryn A.
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    Ecological restoration is needed to mitigate losses to biodiversity. Restoration success is enhanced through the use of native plant materials that are genetically diverse and locally adapted. Seed transfer zones have been developed to delineate geographic areas where native seed can be collected and distributed with reduced risk of maladaptation....
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    : ______________________ __________________________ Ron J. Reuter Matt R. Orr Ecological

  • Effects of Secondary Salinization on Three Coastal Breeding Amphibians in Oregon: Taricha granulosa, Hyliola regilla, and Rana aurora

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    Goddard, Amanda L.
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    Due to threats of secondary salinization caused by increased saltwater intrusion upstream associated with climate change, this thesis examines how salinity affects the development and oviposition site selection habits of three Oregon coastal breeding amphibians, the Roughskin Newt (Taricha granulosa), the Northern Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora) and the Pacific Treefrog...
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    essential to the creation of this project. Dr. Ralph J. Garono graciously lent his time, expertise, and

  • Community Versus Out-of-Hospital Birth: What's in a Name?

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    Cheyney, Melissa M., Bovbjerg, Marit L., Leeman, Lawrence, and Vedam, Saraswathi
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    The term out‐of‐hospital has long been used as a kind of shorthand to refer collectively to births that occur in birth centers or at home. However, this term has also been a persistent cause of concern among health care providers who attend births in these settings, and researchers and midwives...
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    outcomes. New Engl J Med. 2015;373(27):2642-2653. 21.Miller S, Abalos E, Chamillard M, et al. Beyond too

  • Just a tool after all? No evidence for tool-use effects on the body representation across virtual and real environments

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    Bell, Joshua D.
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    While human tool-use proficiency helped define our history, the cognitive and perceptual mechanics of how humans use tools are not fully understood. This question is of great value to the design of hand-held tools and prosthetics. A prominent theory, tool embodiment, suggests that tool use is facilitated by a flexible...
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    Dissertation
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    , 2017; Miller et al., 2014). They process this new extension as if it were an actual part of the body

  • New Treatments for HIV and Cancer: Uncovering Bioactive Compounds from Small Molecule Sources

    Creator:
    Overacker, Ross D.
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    Small molecule drugs have been instrumental in our fight against diseases, beginning when some of the earliest ancient cultures used plant remedies to treat illnesses. More recently, the skill of isolating and characterizing the active ingredients within bioactive plants and microbial extracts has led to the isolation and design of...
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    described antimycin A8a (3.1).33 J values are shown in parenthesis (Hz

  • New Graphite Intercalation Chemistry with Alkaline Earth Metals

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    Xu, Wei
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    Novel graphite intercalation compounds (GICs) and associated chemistry have been explored, specifically: (1) containing alkyl- substituted imidazolium cations; (2) a series containing alkaline earth metal (Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) cations with ethylenediamine (en) co-intercalates; (3) showing reversible intragallery M-M bonding and (4) via electrochemical intercalation of Mg cations with potential...
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    ) product colors showing the bottle-green GIC product. Miller indices for the graphite (G) and the GIC are

  • Predicting the Relationships between High School Characteristics and High School Community College Enrollment Rate Using the Oregon Promise.

    Creator:
    Murray-Jensen, Julie
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    Background: Legislators, policy-makers, and leaders in higher education and within communities, are increasingly turning to place-based scholarships, or “promise programs”, to encourage college enrollment and address growing public concerns regarding college affordability. One such program, the Oregon Promise, was implemented across the state of Oregon in the fall of 2016....
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    -based college grant programs – often called “Promise” programs in the literature (Miller-Adams, 2015

  • MAN 'aging Water Resources of the Deschutes River Basin

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    Taganova, Jahan
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    In the last two decades, there has been an increase in substantial body of work on the inclusion of women in the water management and governance field. However, these scholarly inquiries have mostly focused on cases from the Global South, where women are still underrepresented in decision-making positions in the...
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    recipients of development benefits as ―needy‖ and ―passive‖ (Miller & Razavi, 1995). Under the welfare