Peak discharge estimates are fundamental in the design of hydraulic structures, embankment protection, and stream restoration efforts, as well as flood risk analysis. Historic stream gage records are commonly used in the development of peak discharge estimates for a particular watershed. Use of an entire stream gage record assumes hydrologic...
With the growing incidence of total hip replacements performed each year in the United States, the incidence of patients with prosthesis requiring radiotherapy is bound to increase. It is necessary to understand and quantify the effects of the high atomic number material prostheses used in total hip replacements on therapeutic...
The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship
of two organizational variables, the type of instructional organizational
structure and the administrative position level, to the job satisfactions
of community college vocational administrators. Specifically,
the purposes of this study were to examine the following
questions:
1. Does the type...
This study used contingent valuation techniques to estimate the willingness of central Oregon Irrigators to donate a portion of their water rights to increase Deschutes River flow. This study was different from previous contingent valuation studies in that it used water rights as the payment vehicles instead of dollars -...
In the Pajaro Valley near Watsonville, California,
twospotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae Koch)
populations were surveyed in 1983 and '84 to detect the
influence of immigrants from nursery plants or
surrounding vegetation on subsequent resistance
development to cyhexatin and formetanate in strawberry
fields. Susceptible mites (cyhexatin LC50 = 0.0039 %...