Research Objective: Nearly 60 million people in the United States reside in a rural area. Residents in rural areas have higher rates of chronic disease, risky health behaviors, disability, infant mortality, and age-adjusted mortality than their urban counterparts. Health insurance and access to care mitigate those risks, in part because...
This thesis is composed of four parts: i) system
description, ii) model development, iii) parameter
estimation, and iv) validation. The natural system used
here is an aspect of the immune system, namely, the
distribution of recirculating lymphocytes in various
organs throughout the body. This distribution gains
importance because: i) it...
Oregon Biography Index is intended to serve primarily as a starting point in locating biographies of Oregonians. We have indexed 47 historical volumes which are either entirely devoted to biographies or have large self-contained biographical sections. The profiles in the books vary widely in accuracy and detail. Birth dates of...
An observability problem for both deterministic and stochastic
systems is studied here.
Deterministic observability is a determination of whether every
state of the system is connected to the observation mechanism and how
it is connected, if connected. On the other hand, stochastic
observability discusses the "tightness" of the connection in...
Disaster response and surveillance operations will increasingly incorporate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)s due to their cost-effectiveness and maneuverability. This trend has driven the research on small-sized quadcopters for varying indoor applications. Small-sized quadcopters' payload and computational capacity limit the usage of complex vision-based collision avoidance algorithms that are employed by...
This study analyzes the impact of the Poultry Extension and
Training Subproject (PETS) on the village household in North Yemen.
The subproject was funded by the U.S. Agency for International
Development and implemented by Oregon State University
The primary goal of this study was to determine the impact of
the...