The major purpose of this study was to develop a resource unit
in consumer education. In order to plan this unit, the writer:
1. Reviewed findings in the literature.
2. Discovered, through use of student questionnaires, which
concepts were most relevant to senior students at Grants Pass
High School, and...
Multiple successional sequences have been observed following disturbance in communities on marine hard substrata. Observations of the turf-forming alga, Iridaea cornucopiae Post. & Rupr. (Gigartinaceae), suggest that I. cornucopiae may assume its dominance by its ability to vegetatively pre-empt space. High limpet densities in the natural community, suggest that I....
The term "interaction" in evolutionary biology and ecology
describes the relationships among variables in two classes of causal
models. In the first, "interaction" refers to the influence of a
single putatively causal variable on a variable of interest. In the
second class of models, the term applies when a third...
In response to the increasing pace and scale of wildfire and forest health challenges, the Intertribal Timber Council (ITC) proposed the creation of “Anchor Forests,” where a tribe would convene surrounding landowners to collaboratively manage the entire landscape, across property boundaries. This emergent concept has sparked conversation but has not...
Data regarding the severity of premenstrual symptoms were
collected from three groups of women: women over age 24
years seeking care from a gynecological practitioner,
undergraduates at OSU living in student dormitories, and
graduate students enrolled at OSU. The symptoms evaluated
were depression, tiredness, irritability, anxiety,
headache, breast swelling and...
This report presents an assessment of the wave power potential of the Oregon coast and how much of that power can actually be converted into useful energy, based on analysis of the conversion efficiency of the two most advanced and probable technologies: oscillating water columns (OWC) and buoys. The actual...
The reading of world literature, literary works from cultures other than one’s own, offers
an effective means of creating greater awareness and sensitivity towards others. Research
on the subject makes it clear that world literature can help lay the groundwork for a sense
of world citizenship in students. To what...
Nutritional shift-up experiments have revealed many important
macromolecular interactions in bacteria. It has been shown that RNA
synthesis can be dissociated from protein and DNA synthesis. The
rates of protein synthesis were found to be, at a given temperature,
strictly dependent on the numbers of mature ribosomes present.
DNA synthesis...
Hypotheses concerning relative costs of inbreeding and
outbreeding were evaluated for the harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus
californicus, which inhabits high intertidal tidepools. Field
studies indicate high variation in biotic and abiotic parameters
among pools. These findings coupled with previous information
about very low dispersal rates and local adaptations to individual
pools...