Shallow, rapid soil mass movements are common events and primary sources
of sediment in steep terrain of the Pacific Northwest.
Poorly vegetated debris deposits and scars resulting from landslides
remove land from the productive timber base, and are subject to
continuing erosion. To examine the impact of these events on...
Critical Path Budgeting is introduced as an integrating tool for
project planning, coordination, and control. Through a synthesis of
budgeting and critical path scheduling, it is possible to treat the time
and cost variables of a project explicitly. Thus, one can analyze the
behavior of the firm as an approximation...
In this memoir, by alumnus and Zoology Department instructor William J. Gilstrap, the author details various aspects of his life, including: childhood in Missouri, student experience at Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) in the 1890s, and his medical practice in various Oregon locales. Gilstrap also describes in this narrative the origins...
This exploratory study was undertaken to determine the combined
effects which two rather unique approaches in the fields of counseling
and psychotherapy might have on the behavior and academic achievement
of ten selected deviant high school students. These approaches have
been termed the 1) self-consistency approach to behavior change and...
This thesis develops a model for locating field offices for the
Motor Vehicles Division of Oregon. The locations are determined by
minimizing the total cost to the Public. This is reasonable because
the Public finances the operation and the opening of the offices
through tax dollars, and it bears the...
This study deals with intergenerational differences in the
industrial environment. Rapid changes in our social and technological
society suggest the characteristics of dogmatism and trust as possible
indicators of differences between practicing professionals and upper
division university students.
Each subject's reaction to change was measured through administration
of Rokeach's Dogmatism...
The use of logistic-type growth curves in the prediction of future engineering manpower utilization patterns is a viable technique. When a work environment consists of a large number of repetitive type project the use of regression analysis and Weibull curve shapes gives a reliable forecast of the time-phased utilization of...
Systems Tableau is suggested as a convenient tool for the
integration of the three phases of systems theory: the synthesis of
a model from the analysis of a system; the evaluation of the model;
and the decision-making process for the design and control of the
resulting system.
From a basic...
The problem of deciding exactly how to allocate a limited amount
of capital resources among competing investment alternatives in order
to provide the greatest economic benefit to the business enterprise has
been a subject of interest for nearly a century. Many decision models
and methods for evaluation and comparison of...