During the first surgery I witnessed, I was struck by an immense sense of wonder at the human body. This research effort determines if this awe is shared by physicians currently practicing medicine, if this wonder will fade as part of an everyday landscape, and delves into the different forms...
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all
Cancer was recognized as a genetic disease at least four decades ago, with the realization that the spontaneous mutation rate must increase early in tumorigenesis, to account for the many mutations in tumor cells as compared with their progenitor normal cells. The genetic basis for cancer was established also from...
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, and Cancer
Christopher K. Mathews
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Oregon State
The hyporheic zone influences the thermal regime of rivers, buffering temperature by storing and releasing heat over a range of timescales. We examined the relationship between hyporheic exchange and temperature along a 24-km reach of the lower Clackamas River, a large gravel-bed river in northwestern Oregon (median discharge = 75.7...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is the process by which water is transferred from land to the atmosphere. ET is the second most important component of a hydrologic budget and remains difficult to estimate. The primary objective of this project was to determine the limitations of estimating ET from water table elevation fluctuations...
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ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF
Jacob K. Kollen for the degree of Master of Science in Water Resources
More than 200 sites between 500 and 2000 meters elevation
were examined utilizing a reconnaissance sampling technique for a
portion of the eastern slopes of the northern Oregon Cascade Mountains.
Twelve different forested plant communities were described
with data on vegetation, soils and topography. A map of their distribution
and...
The intrusion-related Cerro Negro Norte Fe-oxide (Cu-Au) deposit is hosted in andesites and diorites of the early to middle Cretaceous Coastal Cordilleran arc of northern Chile. Tabular and irregularly shaped magnetite orebodies are localized on splays and fractures of the regional NINE striking Atacama Fault Zone. Production from this district...
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, Coastal Cordillera, northern Chile
AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF
Alexander K Raab for the degree of
This
report
is
designed
to
supplement
the
Oregon
Wave
Energy
Trust
(OWET)
Utility
Market
Initiative
(UMI)
report
released
in
December
of
2009
and
other
work
already
undertaken
by
OWET.
The
UMI
report
addresses
several
early-‐stage
characteristics
of
the
ocean
energy
industry
and
how
those
characteristics
relate
to
bridging
the
gap...
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Incentivizing Ocean Energy
Prepared by
Robert K. Harmon
On behalf of Oregon Wave
This
report
is
designed
to
supplement
the
Oregon
Wave
Energy
Trust
(OWET)
Utility
Market
Initiative
(UMI)
report
released
in
December
of
2009
and
other
work
already
undertaken
by
OWET.
The
UMI
report
addresses
several
early-‐stage
characteristics
of
the
ocean
energy
industry
and
how
those
characteristics
relate
to
bridging
the
gap...
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Wave
Energy
and
its
Market
Value
Prepared by
Robert K. Harmon
Social communicative deficits are the hallmark characteristic of autism, also referred to as autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Given the depth of these social communicative deficits, the role of movement skills in development has gone relatively underexplored, by comparison. However, children with ASD demonstrate impaired performance of fundamental movement skills early...
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be considered true
with respect to movement skills, better skills should provide more opportunities
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...
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Douglas-fir
Denis P. Lavender and Richard K. Hermann
The
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...
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Douglas-fir
Denis P. Lavender and Richard K. Hermann
The
Bacterial mutualists can modulate the biochemical capacity of animals. Highly coevolved nutritional mutualists do this by synthesizing nutrients missing from the host’s diet. Genomics tools have advanced the study of these partnerships. Here we examined the endosymbiont Xiphinematobacter (phylum Verrucomicrobia) from the dagger nematode Xiphinema americanum, a migratory ectoparasite of...
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Endosymbiont
Suggest a Role in Nutritional Symbiosis
Brown, A. M., Howe, D. K., Wasala, S. K., Peetz, A. B
One-electron oxidation of the μ-oxo dimer
(cis,cis-[Ruᴵᴵᴵ(bpy)₂(OH₂)]₂O⁴⁺, {3,3}) to {3,4} by S₂O₈²⁻ can
be described by three concurrent reaction pathways corresponding
to the three protic forms of {3,3}. Free energy
correlations of the rate constants, transient species dynamics
determined by pulse radiolysis, and medium and temperature
dependencies of the alkaline...
Despite knowledge that concerted evolution of high-copy loci is often imperfect,
studies that investigate the extent of intragenomic polymorphisms and comparisons
across a large number of species are rarely made. We present a bioinformatic pipeline
for characterizing polymorphisms within an individual among copies of a high-copy
locus. Results are presented...
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, K., Straub, S. C. K., Fishbein, M., & Liston, A. (2015). Intragenomic
polymorphisms among high-copy
BACKGROUND: The impact of cell-composition effects in analysis of DNA methylation data is now widely appreciated.
With the availability of a reference data set consisting of DNA methylation measurements on isolated cell types, it is
possible to impute cell proportions and adjust for them, but there is increasing interest in...
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, note that (1) is true even when
M, with a very large value of k′, exhaustively character-
izes all
Graphical methods for displaying uncertainty are often the most concise and informative way to communicate abstract concepts. Presentation methods currently in use for the display and interpretation of scientific uncertainty are reviewed. Numerous subjective and objective uncertainty display methods are presented, including qualitative assessments, node and arrow diagrams, standard statistical...
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systematic variability, respectively. This is not true. The uncertainty
of a correction for a known
Lipid biomarkers in sediments are widely used to infer environmental conditions that have
occurred in the geological past, but these reconstructions require a careful consideration of the
biotic and abiotic processes that degrade and alter the lipid biomarker compositions before
and after deposition. In this paper, we use alkenones produced...
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]), referred to as U
K
37 (Brassell et al., 1986), or its simplified version [C37:2]/([C37:2] + 77
[C37:3
BACKGROUND: The impact of cell-composition effects in analysis of DNA methylation data is now widely appreciated.
With the availability of a reference data set consisting of DNA methylation measurements on isolated cell types, it is
possible to impute cell proportions and adjust for them, but there is increasing interest in...
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. Kelsey, John K. Wiencke, Carmen J. Marsit
Figure S1
Number of significant kΒ coefficients (q
Marine teleost fishes often experience over 99% mortality in the early life stages (eggs and larvae), yet larval survival is essential to population sustainability. Marine fish larvae from a wide range of families display elaborate, delicate features that bear little resemblance to adult forms and hinder their swimming escape ability...
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survival
strategy in the plankton
Adam T. Greer1,4,*, C. Brock Woodson1, Cedric M. Guigand2, Robert K
The trace element molybdenum (Mo) is essential to a suite of nitrogen (N) cycling processes in ecosystems, but there is limited information on its distribution within soils and relationship to plant and bedrock pools. We examined soil, bedrock, and plant Mo variation across 24 forests spanning wide soil pH gradients...
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forests
Marks, J. A., Perakis, S. S., King, E. K., & Pett-Ridge, J. (2015). Soil organic
matter