This study examined patterns and controls on 35-years of forest succession following logging in the 236 ha South Umpqua Experimental Forest within the Umpqua National Forest in southwestern Oregon. Prior to logging, the overstory in all three watersheds (~50% cover) was composed of Douglas-fir (30-40% cover), grand fir (2 to...
This paper shows the first autocorrelation of basketball shot results is a highly biased
and inconsistent estimator of the first autocorrelation of the ex ante probabilities the
shots are made. Shot result autocorrelation is close to zero even when shot probability
autocorrelation is close to one. The bias is caused...
Food insecurity is a widely researched global public health issue, but students in higher education are frequently omitted from the data and are not widely recognized as a population that faces hunger. This thesis explores the college student population in relation to food insecurity and, in particular, their attempt to...
This work has the purpose of presenting an approach to attitude
control applicable for sun alignment on scientific payloads.
As a primary source of information in order to obtain the alignment
error signals, four solar cells are disposed about the body of
the payload. As a secondary source a pair...
Employing compensators which adapt to errors in system components
is one way of meeting the increasingly tight specifications of
modern control systems. Indeed this is often the only way that such
specifications can be met in systems with unchangeable or best available
parts. One type of error found in components...
The demand for improved controllers creates the need for synthesis techniques which emphasize optimality. Optimality automatically infers stability. This thesis presents one such technique which is not limited to linear systems. The theory of dynamic programming is applied to the synthesis of optimal controllers with emphasis on missile flight control...
The detection of limit cycles may be accomplished in several
ways. This thesis presents a numerical method for detection when
the system is described by the Van der Pol equation.
Two numerical integration methods are used to increase the
accuracy of the detection. The concept of a transversal is utilized...
Most technological problems associated with man-machine conversations
have been solved and are well documented in both the
contemporary technical and lay literature. The major remaining
technological problem is the real time conversion of a human's vocal
uterances into a "written" phoneme sequence representing the information
content of speech. The work...
The prehistory of Central Oregon is explored through the examination of six archaeological sites and two isolated finds from the Upper Deschutes River Basin. Inquiry focuses on the land use, mobility, technological organization, and raw material procurement of the aboriginal inhabitants of the area. Archaeological data presented here are augmented...
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The logic control system of a computer automatically sequences
logic operations which direct how and when memory stored instructions
and data are processed in the digital registers.
This thesis contains circuit schematics and test results of a
nanosecond response logic - control system for the Galaxy Computer.
The circuit designs...
The studies described here introduce a model for residue preservation on stone tools. They simulate stone tool manufacture in order to define parameters important for the study of DNA residues. Microscopic examination of stone tools has identified microcracks that trap DNA and protein from animal blood cells. Thorough investigation of...