The Leeuwin Current in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia differs from the other major eastern boundary currents, e.g., California Current, since it flows rapidly poleward against the prevailing equatorward wind. The first large-scale study of the Leeuwin Current was conducted between North West Cape (22°S) and the south-western corner...
This thesis investigated the methods of failure in the webs of
built up girders. The beams had rectangular holes five and one-half
inches wide and seven and one-half inches high with rounded corners
in a web fourteen inches deep between flanges. The longitudinal
position of the hole edge varied from...
The federal government has spent considerable sums of money to
rehabilitate range lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management
(BLM). These investments have had varying effects on the production
and utilization of forage on these lands.
One of the most surprising results, according to BLM officials,
of the investments...
Throughout the 20th century, windthrow has affected forests in the Bull Run watershed, a 26,500 ha basin that is the principal water source for the city of Portland, Oregon. Windthrow from storms in 1973 and 1983 was mapped into a geographic information system (GIS) and compared to a 1931 windthrow...
The following text is a consolidated version of the Cakrasaṃvara Samādhi, along with the Guru Maṇḍala, Sūryārgha, Pañcagavya, Guru Pādārgha, Kāybhaḥ Pūjā, Rahasya Pūjā, Kalaśa Pūjā, Vāruṇī Pūjā, Bali Pūjā, Kīgaḥ Tine, and a Pātra Jñāna. The Cakrasaṃvara Samādhi, as has been discussed above, is the primary pūjā and sādhanā...
The primary objective of this study was to develop methods for
the selection of temperature sensitive division (TSD) mutants of
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Such methods were developed and four
temperature sensitive (TS) mutants were isolated and partially
characterized.
Wild type (WT) cells of the plus mating type were synchronized
by a...
This thesis analyzes contributing factors to Zoom Fatigue and the issues surrounding “attentional dissonance,” or a feeling of tension or rupture between actual and virtual self-perception. The research examines current literature on Zoom Fatigue, and uses the sociological theory of Dramaturgical Analysis, developed by Erving Goffman, to further assess the...
Tibetan Buddhism has offered two distinct, seemingly dichotomous perspectives about motherhood as it relates to traversing the spiritual path. In the first, mothering is the antithesis to spiritual development and realization, as it tethers a practitioner to the mundane duties of saṃsāra, the cycle of rebirth and suffering, propelling her...
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Stuart R. Sarbacker
Tibetan Buddhism has offered two distinct, seemingly dichotomous