Introduction: Policies and practices in schools may create environments that encourage and reinforce healthy behaviors and are thus a means for stemming the rising rates of childhood obesity. We assessed the effect of a 2005 statewide school physical activity and nutrition mandate on policies and practices in middle and high...
The investigative study of female teacher leadership at the high school was undertaken to reveal women's leadership roles as they exist and to examine the potential for increasing women's voices in the educational world. The study further desired to identify support systems that could be enhanced to promote and sustain...
The purpose of this study was to determine if amount and kind of thinning had an effect on wood specific gravity, modulus of rupture, modulus of elasticity, growth rate, or pulp yield and kappa number. The study involved 24 1/5-acre plots, three plots in each of eight thinning treatments. The...
Motivated by satellite altimeter observations of enhanced sea level variability near steep topographic slopes in the Southern Ocean, effects of topography on the spatial distribution of mesoscale eddies and on eddy–mean flow interaction are investigated using a two-layer, wind-forced, quasigeostrophic channel model. The principal topography, a zonal ridge with a...
The sea-state bias in Geosat altimeter range measurements expressed as a percentage of significant
wave height (SWH) is examined as a function of SWH. The bias is shown to be approximately
a fixed -3.5% of SWH for SWH smaller than about 4 m. For larger SWH, the bias decreases in...
A Geosat altimeter wind speed algorithm is derived by cross-calibrating Geosat and Seasat
altimeter estimates of the normalized radar cross section σ₀ and modifying an existing Seasat
altimeter wind speed model function to obtain a model function appropriate for Geosat observations.
It is argued that the σ₀ distribution measured by...
To determine if the distribution and frequency of dicarboximide resistance in the Botrytis population in vineyards in western Oregon is rapidly changing or remaining relatively stable. 2. To determine the relationship between fungicide use and the frequency of dicarboximide-resistant strains of Botrytis cinerea in grape, raspberry, snap bean, and strawberry...
Gray mold of grape, caused by Botrytis cinerea, can be a serious problem in Oregon vineyards. Disease control has been achieved primarily through the application of foliar fungicides. For a time, the fungicide benomyl provided outstanding control of this disease; however, by the late-1970's, strains of B. cinerea resistant to...
The variability of sea level and surface geostrophic currents in the Southern Ocean is investigated from the first 26 months of unclassified Geosat altimeter data (November 1986 to December 1988). Because of problems unique to Geosat, it has been necessary to develop new techniques for analyzing the height data. These...
