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Strigamia maritima (Myriapoda; Chilopoda) is a species from the soil-living order of geophilomorph
centipedes. The Geophilomorpha is the most speciose order of centipedes with
over a 1000 species described. They are notable for their large number...
2015-03-20 (iso8601)
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In order to efficiently reduce toxic loading to the Columbia River basin, sources and pathways need to be identified. Little is known about the toxic loadings coming from wastewater-treatment facilities and stormwater runoff in the system. This...
2011-05-25 (iso8601)
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Background: Multinucleon transfer reactions have recently attracted attention as a possible path to the synthesis of new neutron-rich heavy nuclei.
Purpose: We study transfer reactions involving massive nuclei with the intention of understanding...
2015-04-09 (iso8601)
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We examined 1454 juvenile Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum), captured in nearshore waters off the coasts of Washington and Oregon (USA) from 1999 to 2004 for infection by Renibacterium salmoninarum, Nanophyetus salmincola Chapin...
2015-04 (iso8601)
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Wildlife epidemiological outcomes can depend strongly on the composition of an ecological community, particularly when multiple host species are affected by the same pathogen. However, the relationship between host species richness and disease...
2015-04 (iso8601)
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The purpose of this thesis is to explore civil engineering students’ and professional civil engineers' understanding of concepts within statics and fluid mechanics. The studies described herein begin to examine theories of situated cognition...
2015-04-21 (iso8601)
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Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder that is characterized by depressive symptoms that onset and remit at the same times each year. Whereas few people (about 1%) experience problems severe enough to be labeled SAD, many people...
2014-05-15 (iso8601)
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A study of the freshwater discharge into the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) has been carried out. Using
available streamgage data, regression equations were developed for monthly flows. These equations
express discharge as a function of basin physical...
2015-02-05 (iso8601)
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2015-03 (iso8601)
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QUESTIONS: Do successional trajectories in plant diversity, heterogeneity and
dominance respond differently to ungulate exclusion in unmanaged forests vs
managed forests that are thinned and burned? Is vegetation in recently thinned
and burned...
2015-04 (iso8601)
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As managers of agricultural and natural resources are confronted with uncertainties
in global change impacts, the complexities associated with the interconnected cycling of
nitrogen, carbon, and water present daunting management challenges....
2015-04 (iso8601)
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Objective- To determine the average flexion and standing extension measurements for each limb articulation of alpacas and llamas and determine if there was any significant difference between the species’ measurements.
Animals- Alpacas (n=6) and...
2015-04-10 (iso8601)
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This study aimed to investigate if diversity exists among faculty members in (20) twenty universities in sociology, political science, and chemistry departments situated in a variety of cities on the American West Coast. By conducting a content...
2015-04-02 (iso8601)
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Some successful products are still developed and produced without the benefit of modern design techniques. One such product is a vibratory conveyor that has been developed largely through prototype iteration. The manufacturer has collaborated with...
2015-04-24 (iso8601)
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Oregon leads the U.S. in the number and extent of established collaborative groups on national forests. Understanding similarities and differences in Oregon’s current forest collaboratives may aid more informed approaches to peer learning, policy,...
2015-05 (iso8601)
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In some bacteria, cysteine is converted to cysteine sulfinic acid by cysteine dioxygenases (CDO) that are only ∼15–30% identical in sequence to mammalian CDOs. Among bacterial proteins having this range of sequence similarity to mammalian CDO are...
2015-01 (iso8601)
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Peroxiredoxins (Prxs) make up an ancient family of enzymes that are the predominant peroxidases for nearly all organisms and play essential roles in reducing hydrogen peroxide, organic hydroperoxides, and peroxynitrite. Even between distantly...
2014-12-16 (iso8601)
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The recent identification of multiple genotypes of the salmonid parasite Ceratonova shasta with different virulence levels in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) suggests that it may be possible to immunize fish against subsequent infection...
2014-12-13 (iso8601)
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Determining accurate elevations is important for many engineering and scientific applications, and finding these heights via GNSS increases efficiency and significantly reduces the costs as compared to precise geodetic leveling. The National...
2015-04-27 (iso8601)
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Sexual assault is a major public health concern in the U.S, and college students are particularly vulnerable to victimization. A health issue that affects nearly one in four women (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000; Karjane, Cullen, & Turner, 2005)...
2015-04-30 (iso8601)
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Body Fires is a collection of poems that addresses body, faith, empathy, and intimacy in the context of chronic illness. The speaker explores and blurs the dichotomies between know and no, knowledge and uncertainty, life and death, and the...
2015-04-23 (iso8601)
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