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Juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) exhibit an array of life history tactics in Oregon's Willamette River Basin, yet we do not know to what extent it is driven by phenotypic plasticity or whether it is predetermined and how...
2014-12-10 (iso8601)
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Digital Image Correlation(DIC) is one of full-field strain measurement techniques devel- oped in recent decades, which has been well-demonstrated to conduct the mechanical properties study of solid materials, by collecting data using digital...
2014-12-09 (iso8601)
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Pacific Northwest and California freshwater resources are key elements in the life history and ecology of Pacific salmon and steelhead listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Risk to listed Pacific salmonid species can...
2014-12-15 (iso8601)
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Cyanobacterial harmful algae blooms (cyanoHABs) are a growing concern worldwide due to damage of ecosystems and threats to human health. Previous research indicates that plant humics from aquatic and wetland vascular plants are effective...
2014-12-08 (iso8601)
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CPM-M4 tool steel is a commonly used knife blade material due to its high strength and wear resistance. The goal of this thesis is to understand how heat treatment parameters affect blade performance and microstructure.Five heat treatments were...
2014-12-19 (iso8601)
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A Right-hook (RH) crash is a common type of bicycle-motor vehicle crash that occurs between a right-turning vehicle and through-moving bicycle at an intersection. At signalized intersections, RH crashes can occur at the onset of the green or...
2014-12-16 (iso8601)
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Quantification of macroscale transport phenomenon in microfluidic systems is important to many science and engineering disciplines. In part, this is because fully resolved solutions to microscale balance laws over large domains are out of reach...
2014-09-26 (iso8601)
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The sagebrush steppe ecosystem of the Columbia Plateau has become degraded by a long history of alternative land use and associated perturbations. Protection of remnant stands of intact sagebrush steppe currently relies upon their preservation...
2014-12-18 (iso8601)
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Pacific lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus is a valuable icon and traditional food source for Indigenous people of western North America. Native Americans have utilized traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) since time immemorial to guide their ways...
2014-12-12 (iso8601)
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Anchovy fisheries in Indonesia faces a declining state in the next decade. This research investigates some factors contributing to a reduction of anchovy resources. It was carried out in Krueng Raya Bay-Aceh from September to October 2012. Survey...
2014-07-07 (iso8601)
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This thesis discusses the design of several microchannel solar receiver devices for use in CSP (concentrated solar power) using CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulations. The goal is to demonstrate that, by taking advantage of the higher heat...
2014-11-07 (iso8601)
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Small-scale physical experiments were conducted to investigate the application of the Goda wave pressure formulae modified to predict the horizontal wave loads on elevated structures considering non-breaking, broken, and impulsive breaking waves....
2014-09 (iso8601)
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A group defined by a finite presentation with cyclic symmetry admits a shift automorphism
that is periodic and word-length preserving. It is shown that if the presentation
is combinatorially aspherical and orientable, in the sense that no relator...
2014-11-15 (iso8601)
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Dr. Eckard V. Toy, Jr., grew up in the Pacific Northwest and earned his Ph.D. in
American history at the University of Oregon. Beginning with his 1959 Master’s
thesis, “The Ku Klux Klan in Oregon: Its Charter and Program,” the Klan and
related...
2014 (iso8601)
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