Surface and subsurface mapping are combined to determine the structure and geologic history of the eastern
half of the Simi fault in the Simi Valley area. Upper Cretaceous rocks exposed south and east of the Simi Valley are overlain unconformably by the nonmarine Simi Conglomerate of Paleocene age. The Marine...
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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF
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Many Hymenoptera, with their painful stings and noxious chemical defenses,
exhibit bright aposematic warning color patterns and are the most frequently
mimicked group of organisms. Such aposematic color patterns are found in parasitic
wasps of the Neotropical Compsobracon group (Braconidae). Many members of this
group exhibit color patterns similar to...
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University of Kentucky, Robert Sites at the Wilbur R. Eims Entomology Museum
(University of Missouri), David
Bacteria in the class Alphaproteobacteria have a wide variety of lifestyles and physiologies. They include pathogens
of humans and livestock, agriculturally valuable strains, and several highly abundant marine groups. The ancestor of
mitochondria also originated in this clade. Despite significant effort to investigate the phylogeny of the
Alphaproteobacteria with a...
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. Ferla1, J. Cameron Thrash2,3, Stephen J. Giovannoni2, Wayne M. Patrick1*
1 Department of Biochemistry
Season affects many characteristics of populations and, as a result, the interpretations of surveys conducted at
different seasons. We explored seasonal variation in occupancy using data from four studies on the Pacific marten
Martes caurina. Detection surveys were conducted during winter and summer using either cameras or track stations.
We...
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M. Slauson,
Heather L. Rustigian-Romsos and Wayne D. Spencer
W. J. Zielinski (bzielinski
This is a response prepared by Henry R. Richmond of the American Land Institute to the SB 82/"Big Look" Task Force report, "Big Look: Choices for the future" (issued, May 30, 2008). It appear was written on July 11, 2008 and consists of three files: comments, updated cover page for...
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, 2008
to
Oregon Task Force on Land Use Planning
from
American Land Institute
Henry R. Richmond
The impact of herbivores on primary producers in differing oceanographic
regimes is a matter of intense ecological interest due to ongoing changes in their abundance,
that of their predators, and anthropomorphic alteration of nutrient cycles and climatic
patterns. Interactions between productivity and herbivory in marine habitats have been
studied on...
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drive top-down/bottom-up
coupling in the Galápagos intertidal meta-ecosystem
Vinueza, L. R., Menge, B
Emerging application areas such as air pollution in megacities, wind energy, urban security, and operation of unmanned aerial vehicles have intensified scientific and societal interest in mountain meteorology. To address scientific needs and help improve the prediction of mountain weather, the U.S. Department of Defense has funded a research effort—the...
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of Mountain Weather
Fernando, H. J. S., Pardyjak, E. R., Di Sabatino, S., Chow, F. K., De Wekker, S
Ice-free cryopreservation, known as vitrification, is an appealing approach for banking of adherent cells and tissues because it prevents dissociation and morphological damage that may result from ice crystal formation. However, current vitrification methods are often limited by the cytotoxicity of the concentrated cryoprotective agent (CPA) solutions that are required...
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Procedures
for Adherent Endothelial Cells
Davidson, A. F., Glasscock, C., McClanahan, D. R., Benson, J. D
Vibrio cholerae is autochthonous to various aquatic niches and is the etiological agent of the life-threatening diarrheal disease
cholera. The persistence of V. cholerae in natural habitats is a crucial factor in the epidemiology of cholera. In contrast to the
well-studied V. cholerae-chitin connection, scarce information is available about the...
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, Office of Laboratory Animal
Welfare, Animal Assurance no. A3310-01, and was approved by the Wayne
Vibrio cholerae is autochthonous to various aquatic niches and is the etiological agent of the life-threatening diarrheal disease
cholera. The persistence of V. cholerae in natural habitats is a crucial factor in the epidemiology of cholera. In contrast to the
well-studied V. cholerae-chitin connection, scarce information is available about the...
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System Links
Vibrio cholerae with Collagen
Park, B. R., Zielke, R. A., Wierzbicki, I. H., Mitchell, K
Non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) in plant tissue are frequently quantified to make inferences about plant responses to environmental conditions. Laboratories publishing estimates of NSC of woody plants use many different methods to evaluate NSC. We asked whether NSC estimates in the recent literature could be quantitatively compared among studies. We also...
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, Anna Sala26, Renee A. Smith2,
Frank Sterck39, Joseph R. Stinziano40, Mari Tobias35, Faride Unda31
Toxoplasma gondii, the most common parasitic infection of human brain and eye, persists across lifetimes, can progressively damage sight, and is currently incurable. New, curative medicines are needed urgently. Herein, we develop novel models to facilitate drug development: EGS strain T. gondii forms cysts in vitro that induce oocysts in...
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Gas hydrates, pervasive in continental margin sediments, are expected to release methane in
response to ocean warming, but the geographic range of dissociation and subsequent flux of methane to
the ocean are not well constrained. Sediment column thermal models based on observed water column
warming trends offshore Washington (USA) show...
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contemporary ocean warming
Hautala, S. L., Solomon, E. A., Johnson, H. P., Harris, R. N., & Miller, U. K
Distributed deformation in the backarc of Cascadia is complex. Off the west
coast lies the Cascadia convergent margin. East of the plate boundary,
clockwise rotation of the Oregon Coast Range block with respect to stable
North America influences backarc deformation, causing extensional faults in
southeast Oregon, contraction folding in southeast...
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Range (OCR) block with respect to
stable North America (Hammond and Thatcher, 2005b; McCaffery et al
Oregon’s High Lava Plains Province (HLP) has strongly bimodal basalt and rhyolitic volcanism. The Province caps the northern margin of the Basin and Range Province and serves as a transitional region between westward extension of the Basin and Range Province and unextended crust to the north . The High Lava...
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4.1 Euler pole locations proposed by Hammond and Thatcher
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Nine west-northwest-trending faults on the continental margin of
Oregon and Washington, between 43° 05'N and 470 20'N latitude, have been
mapped using seismic reflection, sidescan sonar, submersibles, and swath
bathymetry. Five of these oblique faults are found on both the Juan de Fuca
and North American plates, and offset abyssal...
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. Development of left-lateral R' faults within dextral
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While bubble plumes have been acoustically imaged in the water column above marine gas
hydrate deposits in many studies, little is known about the temporal variation in plume intensity. In
July 2008, we conducted surveys using 3.5 and 12 kHz echosounders and a 75 kHz acoustic Doppler
current profiler (ADCP)...
Stripe rust is a foliar disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) caused by the air-borne fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici and is present in most regions around the world where commercial wheat is grown. Breeding for durable resistance to stripe rust continues to be a priority, but also is...
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analysis: genetic background and
epistatic interactions
Vazquez, M. D., Zemetra, R., Peterson, C. J
Public sector unions push for unmerited wage increases, exacerbating inflation and deficits. Despite this conventional wisdom, governments in several European countries successfully limited public sector wage growth during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued in this paper that the recent rise in public sector wage inflation in the Euro-zone...
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could initiate transition to a hard currency
stance, while Thatcher battled British unions under an
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a phenotypically variable disorder of hemoglobin that leads to abnormally shaped and dysfunctional red blood cells. Several studies have attempted to construct early predictive models for SCD, including Miller et al.’s (2000) model which uses easily identifiable predictors in early life. The primary aim of...
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frequency of vaso-occlusive events (Leitman et al, 1991 & Wayne et al, 1993).
Currently, the only cure for
Highlights: New data reveal for the first time a history of the last ∼33.7 ky of uplift of Samosir. Minimum uplift rates were high (4.9 cm/year) for the first 11.2 ky but diminished after that to <1 cm/year for the last 22.5 ky. Numerical modeling suggests that rebound of remnant...
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recharge into a host rock with a constant viscosity rheology,
ηr = 1× 10
21 Pa s. Maximum surface uplift
Feeding cows flaxseed rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids has been shown to decrease the proportion of saturated fatty acids and increase the proportion of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in milk. Consuming products enriched in n-3 PUFAs have beneficial effects to human health; thus, feeding cows flaxseed could potentially increase...
BACKGROUND: In light of the changes in precipitation and soil water availability expected with climate change,
understanding the mechanisms underlying plant responses to water deficit is essential. Toward that end we have
conducted an integrative analysis of responses to drought stress in the perennial C₄ grass and biofuel crop,
Panicum...
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procedure voom in the R module limma [50]
designed to transform count data from RNA-Seq into
weighted
Birds of prey and carnivorous mammals feed on small birds, rodents and other small mammals. Humans perceive many of the prey animals of these predators as well as the predators themselves, as “pests”, and seek to control them. Control methods for these unwanted pests, particularly rodents, have the potential to...
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. Mertig, D. Olszyk, S.P.D. Riley,
R. Sauvajot, R. Steinberg, and all of the California businesses who
Subtropical marine stratus clouds regulate coastal and global climate, but future trends in these
clouds are uncertain. In coastal Southern California (CSCA), interannual variations in summer stratus cloud
occurrence are spatially coherent across 24 airfields and dictated by positive relationships with stability
above the marine boundary layer (MBL) and MBL...
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missing value, and (3) correlated well (r > 0.7) with the annual record with the
missing value. If any of
Cytogenetic chromosome maps offer molecular tools for genome analysis and clinical cytogenetics and are of particular
importance for species with difficult karyotypes, such as camelids (2n = 74). Building on the available human-camel zoo-fluorescence
in situ hybridization (FISH) data, we developed the first cytogenetic map for the alpaca (Lama pacos,...
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. Chromosome Res.
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Becker SE, Thomas R, Trifonov VA, Wayne RK, Graphodatsky AS, Breen
M. 2011
Ecosystems are shaped by processes occurring and interacting over multiple
temporal and spatial scales. Theory suggests such complexity can be simplified by focusing on
processes sharing the same scale as the pattern of interest. This scale-dependent approach to
studying communities has been challenged by multiscale meta-ecosystem theory, which
recognizes that...
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Institute), and R (R Development Core Team 2014).
Data were
We present genetic and morphological evidence supporting the recognition of a
previously synonymized species of Mesoplodon beaked whale in the tropical Indo-Pacific,
Mesoplodon hotaula. Although the new species is closely-related to the rare
ginkgo-toothed beaked whale M. ginkgodens, we show that these two lineages can be
differentiated by maternally (mitochondrial...
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Anderson, R., Mead, J. G.,
Potter, C. W., Thompson, L., Jupiter, D. and Yamada, T. K. (2014). Resurrection
Large carnivores face serious threats and are experiencing massive declines in their populations
and geographic ranges around the world. We highlight how these threats have affected the
conservation status and ecological functioning of the 31 largest mammalian carnivores on
Earth. Consistent with theory, empirical studies increasingly show that large carnivores...
Considerable uncertainties often surround the causes of long-term changes in population abundance. One striking example is the precipitous decline of southern sea lions (SSL; Otaria flavescens) at the Falkland Islands, from 80 555 pups in the mid 1930s to just 5506 pups in 1965. Despite an increase in SSL abundance over...
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marine mammal
Baylis, A. M., Orben, R. A., Arnould, J. P., Christiansen, F., Hays, G. C., &
Staniland
The Peck Mountain area is located in west-central Idaho just 15 miles east of the Oregon-Idaho border. It is tectonically located within the "Columbia Arc" of the Nevadan oroaenic belt. The Seven Devils Volcanics, Permian to Traissic in age, are the oldest rocks in the area. They are composed of...
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We provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the
full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We address the
endogeneity of border enforcement with an instrumental variables strategy based on
administrative delays in budgetary allocations for border security. We find that 1,000...
Mycobacterium avium is an intracellular pathogen that is associated with disseminated
infection, especially in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It
appears that patients with AIDS acquire M. avium mostly through the intestinal tract,
and that bacteria enter the intestinal wall at the terminal ileum. Previous studies have
found that...
Hybridization has been identified as a significant factor in the evolution of plants as groups of interbreeding species retain their phenotypic integrity despite gene exchange among forms. Recent studies have identified similar interactions in animals; however, the role of hybridization in the evolution of animals has been contested. Here we...
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, California, United States of
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Detailed subsurface structure contour maps and cross sections have shown the
northern Los Angeles basin to be underlain by a south facing monocline that is
complicated by secondary faults and folds. The monocline forms a structural shelf that
marks the northern boundary of the Los Angeles central trough. The monocline...
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support for reproduction of the data. I would like to thank
Linda Thurn, Bill Bart ling, and Wayne
The distribution of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) has been markedly reduced due to loss and fragmentation of habitat. Portions of the historical range, however, have been recolonized and even expanded due to planting of conservation reserve program (CRP) fields that provide favorable vegetation structure for Lesser Prairie-Chickens. The source...
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, we calculated a
hybridization index HINDEX (Buerkle 2005) in the R
package INTROGRESS (Gompert and
The Devonian Simonson and Guilmette Formations provide examples of
Cordilleran miogeosynclinal inner and middle shelf carbonate deposition
that act in response to changes in eustasy, sedimentation, and
tectonics. The Simonson Dolomite consists of four members that
collectively record three distinct transgressive-regressive cycles.
The Coarse Crystalline dolomudstone lithofacies represents restricted
upper...
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The thesis area includes 44 square miles of the Centennial
Range in Beaverhead County, Montana, and Clark County, Idaho.
The rocks exposed in the area range in age from Precambrian
to Recent and have been divided into 23 mapped units. Pre-Belt
metamorphic basement rocks are overlain unconformably by 3,433
feet...
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due Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Montgomery of
Lakeview, Montana. The field work was made more enjoyable by
Precipitation is one of the most important components contributing to hydrological
dynamics. Spatially distributed precipitation data can be obtained by satellite, radar,
rain gages, etc, to serve various purposes. Currently, the most commonly used
precipitation data still rely on gage-based measurement techniques that provide
timely precipitation information with high quality...
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Plans for farm buildings should efficiently explaininformation about their construction. User understandingand actual use made of plans has received little study.The format used for plans should enhance their wider useand greater satisfaction by individuals concerned withconstructed buildings.This study addressed two research questions: (1) Isthere a relationship among typical formats used...
Sea star wasting disease (SSWD) first appeared in Oregon in April 2014, and by June had spread to most of the coast. Although delayed compared to areas to the north and south, SSWD was initially most intense in north and central Oregon and spread southward. Up to 90% of individuals...
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), and endowments from the Wayne
and Gladys Valley Foundation (http://fdnweb.org
Captive rearing programs (hatcheries) are often used in conservation and management efforts
for at-risk salmonid fish populations. However, hatcheries typically rear juveniles in environments
that contrast starkly with natural conditions, which may lead to phenotypic and/or genetic changes that adversely affect the performance of juveniles upon their release to the...
The forests of Oregon are an important part of the landscape used by wild salmonids. How these forests are managed is important in attaining the goals of the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds (Oregon Plan) and Oregon Executive Order 99-01. Agricultural, urban, and other environments are addressed in other...
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within the existing policy framework. However, even with these
John Buckhouse
Wayne Elmore
Stan
"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...
The identification and mapping of surface cover types
within Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, has been effectively
completed through the utilization of LANDSAT digital
data and NASA U-2 color infrared aerial photography. Classification
of LANDSAT data for surface cover type identification
and mapping was accomplished through use of the
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, Mr. Wayne
Rodhe, forestry applications specialist, Ms. Shelley Ingle,
computer operator, Mr. Dave
Eleven small Mesozoic plutons crop out within a 76-squaremile
area of the southern Seven Devils Mountains in west-central
Idaho. The plutons are divided into a mafic suite, an older granitic
suite, and a younger granitic suite on the basis of age, lithology, and
degree of metamorphism.
The six plutons of...
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The middle Deschutes River between Bend, Oregon and Lake Billy Chinook typically experiences critically low flows during the irrigation season. Commercial agriculture in the North Unit Irrigation District and Central Oregon Irrigation District is one major user of Deschutes River water. The overall objective of this research was to estimate...
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uptake, or
Efficiency G-DP--R
G
where G = Gross water applied,
DP = Deep percolation, and
R = Runoff
The structure of engineering curricula currently in place at most colleges and universities has existed since the early 1950's, and reflects an historical emphasis on a solid foundation in math, science, and engineering science. However, there is often not a close match between elements of the traditional engineering education, and...
The Walla Walla basin lies in an arid region of Eastern Washington and Oregon. A large portion of the area is devoted to agricultural production, relying on irrigation water diverted from the Walla Walla River and underlying aquifers occurring within Quaternary and Mio-pliocene era gravel deposits, as well as a...
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Walla Walla R. at Touchet, WA.118
Figure 10.1 : Simulated rates of groundwater fluxes
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) has a wide distribution in North America and is one of the
tree species most widely distributed outside its natural range. The species has been introduced to
Europe, New Zealand, South America, and elsewhere around the world. At present, Douglas-fir
is an accepted and integral part of...
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) has a wide distribution in North America and is one of the
tree species most widely distributed outside its natural range. The species has been introduced to
Europe, New Zealand, South America, and elsewhere around the world. At present, Douglas-fir
is an accepted and integral part of...
Local property-owning residents maintain high levels of interest
and awareness regarding a neighboring natural resource complex.
Factors, however, such as proximity, personal interests, use patterns
and economic considerations cause local inhabitants to have an
inaccurate perception of the natural resource complex. The nature
of local resident perception can be analyzed...