Fires that affect buildings can have disastrous impacts, including significant losses to people, property, and the environment. Understanding how fires can impact structures provides the foundation to prevent structural collapse in fire. It is critical that the effect of fire is studied to protect the safety and welfare of civilians....
Part I: Plasmonic color filters can be manufactured at lower cost since they can be fabricated in single lithographic process step as compared to Fabry-Perot based filters. In addition, they have narrow passband making resolving sharp features in sample spectrum possible. Due to these benefits, in this thesis, Plasmonic color...
The Horsetail Creek (HC) bridge is an example of an Oregon bridge that was classified as structurally deficient and was not designed to withstand earthquake (EQ) excitations. A fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) rehabilitation was performed on the HC bridge to increase flexural and shear capacities for traffic loads. However, a seismic...
The response to glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine] of two
dodder species Cuscuta campestris Yuncker (field dodder) and Cuscuta
indecora Chiosy (largeseed dodder) parasitizing alfalfa (Medicago
sativa L.) was compared. In the absence of glyphosate, alfalfa was
killed or severely injured by parasitism from uncontrolled dodder.
Results of field experiments in which...
Eutrophication is the accelerated aging process of a lake which
generally decreases the water quality in terms of aesthetic and recreational
uses. At Liberty Lake, near Spokane, Washington, eutrophication
has become a problem. Many individuals and agencies are interested in
the benefits that occur when the lake's water quality has...
The effects of soil moisture (-2 to -17 bars), temperature (5 to 20°C), bulk density (0.90 to 1.40 gm/cm³) and texture (Bashaw silty clay and Woodburn silt loam) on germination and seedling emergence of three varieties (Yamhill, Bezostaya, Kirac 66) of wheat (Triticum Aestivum, L.) were evaluated under laboratory and...
The inhibition of the enolase enzyme system by fluoride has
been established for many years in in vitro experiments; however,
this inhibitory action has never been demonstrated in an intact mammal.
The present work was designed to examine the effect of fluoride
administered by intravenous infusion in rats, under the...
It is generally recognized that biochemical information is of
great importance to microbial taxonomy. This is particularly true
in the case of catabolic behavior of microorganisms in utilizing
glucose and allied compounds. Once the pathways operating in a
species are identified, and the relative participation of these pathways
is determined,...
Studies in other laboratories have established the presence of
the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas (EMP) pathway and the pentose phosphate
(PP) pathway in plant tissue. Research in this laboratory with mung
bean (Phaseolus aureus) seedlings has confirmed the presence of these
two pathways as well as the glucuronic acid (GA) pathway. However,
no...