Published February 1986. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Published May 1986. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
In cases where complex systems routinely experience extreme operating conditions, preventative maintenance is often employed to guard against system failure. Yet, with accessible real-time data and the standard practice becoming prohibitively expensive, the test stand can serve as a vital contributor to the development of system health and reliability estimations....
A model (called MERLIN) is presented that can allow the resource manager to consider the combined effects of silvicultural treatments and their effect on expected logging production and costs. This integrated analysis takes place within the framework of personal computer software readily available to most managers. This integration is accomplished...
The past year presented many exciting changes and new challenges to both the Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center (CBARC-OSU) and the Columbia Plateau Conservation Research Center (USDA-Agricultural Research Service). We were honored by a promotion and several special recognitions. There were changes in personnel, a reorganization of CBARC, establishment of...