The Duke Point-Kulleet Bay area is located on the southeast
coast of Vancouver Island, B.C., approximately 60 miles northwest
of Victoria, B.C. and 25 miles west, across the Strait of Georgia,
from Vancouver, B.C. Approximately 2500 feet of Late Cretaceous
sedimentary rocks of the Nanaimo Group are exposed within the...
The major historical studies that have examined American
biology have emphasized the development of experimental biology at
the end of the nineteenth century. In this characterization, the
descriptive branch of biology has often been treated as less than
important and, in several cases, as a hindrance in the application
of...
The Duke Point-Kulleet Bay area is located on the southeast
coast of Vancouver Island, B.C., approximately 60 miles northwest
of Victoria, B.C. and 25 miles west, across the Strait of Georgia,
from Vancouver, B.C. Approximately 2500 feet of Late Cretaceous
sedimentary rocks of the Nanaimo Group are exposed within the...
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island, B.C.
AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF
RICHARD WYMAN RINNE for the MASTER OF SCIENCE
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Policymakers seek ways to encourage fuel reduction among private forest landowners to augment similar efforts on federal and state lands. Motivating landowners to contribute to landscape-level wildfire protection requires an understanding of factors that underlie landowner behaviour regarding wildfire. We developed a conceptual framework
describing landowners’ propensity to conduct fuel...
There is considerable interest in developing environmentally friendly processes for the economical conversion of biomass plant material to biofuels, bioproducts and biomaterials. One approach to such a conversion process is to make use of enzymes for the conversion of plant polysaccharides to simple sugars; the simple sugars could then be...
Consistent with its charge under Oregon House Bill 3543, the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI) conducts a biennial assessment of the state of climate change science, including biological, physical, and social science, as it relates to Oregon and the likely effects of climate change on Oregon. This sixth Oregon...
The efficiency of cellulose hydrolysis under straight saccharification and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) conditions was evaluated using three lignocellulosic materials (switchgrass, cornstover, and poplar), which had been pretreated with dilute sulfuric acid under conditions which optimized xylose concentrations in the prehydrolysate liquid. Yields of glucose, cellobiose and ethanol obtained...
The experimental measurements of the decay heat from
the products of the thermal fission of U-235 have been compared
with the OSU-proposed decay heat standard. These experiments
are intended to verify the decay heat calculational
methods and nuclear data files. The comparisons have
included the previous experiments reviewed by Perry...