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ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University
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Formula SAE is a collegiate engineering competition that has participants from around the globe.
Of the 1000 points available throughout the event, 100 (10%) are dedicated to the fuel efficiency
of the student built race cars. Competition rules...
2014-12-15 (iso8601)
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Recent climatic warming trends and increases in the frequency and extent of wildfires have prompted much concern regarding the potential for rapid change in the structure and function of forested ecosystems around the world. Episodes of mortality...
2014-12-02 (iso8601)
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Professional development is a critical part of education, especially in career and technical education (CTE). CTE programs have rapidly changing technological foundations, and while the CTE teachers' primary focus is to prepare students for...
2014-12-03 (iso8601)
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A semi-parametric PAR diffuse radiation model
was developed using commonly measured climatic variables
from 108 site-years of data from 17 AmeriFlux sites. The
model has a logistic form and improves upon previous efforts
using a larger data set...
2014-10-24 (iso8601)
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Early-seral ecosystems make important contributions to regional biodiversity by supporting
high abundance and diversity of many plant and animal species that are otherwise rare or absent from
closed-canopy forests. Therefore, the period of...
2014-07-15 (iso8601)
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There is growing evidence that children develop science-related interests in early childhood, before they enter school, and that these interests may have long-term implications for science participation and achievement. Although researchers have...
2014-11-21 (iso8601)
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Viruses are obligatory parasites that depend on host cellular factors for their replication as well as for their local and systemic
movement to establish infection. Although myosin motors are thought to contribute to plant virus infection, their...
2014-10-16 (iso8601)
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In the face of rapid environmental and cultural change, orthodox concepts in restoration ecology such as historical
fidelity are being challenged. Here we re-examine the diverse roles played by historical knowledge in restoration,
and argue that...
2014-11 (iso8601)
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The community of trophically transmitted marine parasites of juvenile coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and Chinook
(Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) salmon across 8 years (2002–2009) was related to indices of physical and biological ocean conditions
and adult...
2014-11 (iso8601)
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We show that the vegetation canopy of the Amazon rainforest is
highly sensitive to changes in precipitation patterns and that
reduction in rainfall since 2000 has diminished vegetation greenness
across large parts of Amazonia. Large-scale...
2014-11-11 (iso8601)
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Beaked whales are hypothesized to be particularly sensitive to anthropogenic noise, based on previous
strandings and limited experimental and observational data. However, few species have been studied in
detail. We describe the underwater behavior...
2014-11-13 (iso8601)
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Nanomaterials are expected to enable significant advances in several technological fields in coming years. Among them, electronics has emerged as one of the most likely benefactors from the ability to control matter on the nanometer-scale. For...
2014-11-25 (iso8601)
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This dissertation has focused on the charateristics of bubbles generated by breaking waves and the feedback of wave-current interaction on the forcing mechanism of low frequency wave especially basin seiching wave. For the first study, Optical...
2014-12-09 (iso8601)
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Spatially explicit maps of habitat relationships have proven to be valuable tools for conservation and management applications including evaluating how and which species may be impacted by large scale climate change, ongoing fragmentation of...
2014-12-08 (iso8601)
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Collaborative management of subsistence fisheries in the Philippines requires policies that devolve authority to the local level. This involves creating mechanisms to hold managers accountable for creating opportunities for active participation by...
2014-12-03 (iso8601)
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The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the successes of first generation, community college transfer students served by a TRiO/Student Support Services (TRiO/SSS) program. This study addresses a specific problem in...
2014-12-04 (iso8601)
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Social vulnerability is often thought of as a culmination of social factors influencing the susceptibility of various groups to harm and govern their ability to respond. In an effort to identify communities that may be susceptible to social...
2014-12-01 (iso8601)
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This project used a predictive model to map canopy cover of vegetation over seven feet in height (“tall woody vegetation”) at 30-meter resolution over nearly 29 million acres within and adjacent to the range of the greater sage-grouse in Oregon....
2014-02 (iso8601)
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In Nazi Germany, 1938, Der Stürmer publishing house, under the control of Julius Striecher, published Der Giftpilz or The Poisonous Mushroom; an anti-Semitic children's book. Disseminated in the thousands, Der Giftpilz became infamously known as...
2014-12-10 (iso8601)
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Eulechriops argyrosoma sp. n. (Curculionoidea: Conoderinae: Lechropini) and Geratozygops platysoma sp. n., G. stenosoma sp. n. and G. arsinotus sp. n. are described from Dominican amber. The small size, nearly parallel side of the pronotum and...
2014-10 (iso8601)
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This paper presents a dimensional analysis for determining optimal flow discharge and optimal penstock diameter when designing impulse and reaction turbines for hydropower systems. The aim of this analysis is to provide general insights for...
2014-11 (iso8601)
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Foundation species are structurally dominant members of ecological communities that can
stabilize ecological processes and influence resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasion. Being
common, they are often overlooked for conservation but...
2014-09 (iso8601)
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Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors are undergoing clinical trials as anticancer agents, but some exhibit resistance mechanisms
linked to anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 functions, such as BH3-only protein silencing. HDAC inhibitors that reactivate...
2014-10 (iso8601)
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