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While the U.S. energy portfolio increasingly includes renewables, social acceptance of
such technologies can pose an important challenge for developers. Using survey data
from a random sample of nearby households (n=524), content analysis of...
2015-04-22 (iso8601)
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Due to past hiring practices U.S. federal agencies have workforces that do not match the
diversity of the populations they serve. In 2011, the Partnership for Public Service found
that the United States Forest Service (USFS) ranked number 149 out...
2015-04-17 (iso8601)
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Previous research has shown that pyridine growth regulator herbicides can affect seed production in annual grasses including downy brome, Japanese brome, wheat, and other cereal grain crops. Aminocyclopyrachlor is a pyridine carboxylic acid growth...
2014-10 (iso8601)
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The level of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is tightly regulated in biological systems as overproduction can lead to oxidative stress and result in a number of diseases. Due to its negative effects, antioxidants are studied and used against ROS in...
2015-04-21 (iso8601)
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Density dependence is an ecological concept concerning the mechanisms of change in the size of a population. The inability to census ecological populations confounds approaches to identify and quantify the level of density dependence. Statistical...
2015-04-17 (iso8601)
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A better understanding of the distribution and spawning behavior of Crangon shrimp and their relationship with their predators, including the green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris, is an important step toward the larger goal to understand food...
2014-06-06 (iso8601)
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Nitrogen management recommendations for yellow mustard (Sinapis alba L.) production in the high rainfall environment of Oregon's Willamette Valley (WV) are not available. The objectives of this investigation were: (i) to determine the effect of...
2015-04-23 (iso8601)
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Ricci flow deforms the Riemannian metric proportionally to the
curvature, such that the curvature evolves according to a heat diffusion process
and eventually becomes constant everywhere. Ricci flow has demonstrated its
great potential by solving...
2014-09 (iso8601)
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Signal-to-Noise Ratio: Stories is a short story collection consisting of five explorations of audio technology and the related failures of interpersonal communication in the contemporary United States. These stories attempt to highlight an...
2015-04-27 (iso8601)
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Negative attitudes towards people with disabilities persist in our society, limiting the inclusion of people with disabilities in a multitude of social roles. Despite existing research on the nature of these attitudes and interventions to improve...
2015-04-17 (iso8601)
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Higher education is faced with ever-increasing challenges, which require fundamental changes in order to ensure its relevance in the future. Business leaders and academic scholars urge organizations to continuously reshape and renew through...
2015-04-13 (iso8601)
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This qualitative study examines the experiences of Asian American students at a predominantly White institution in the cultivation of their racial identity development with the support of resources and services on campus, specifically an Asian...
2015-04-14 (iso8601)
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The protein palmitoylation cycle has been shown to be important for protein signaling and
synaptic plasticity. Data from our lab showed a change in the palmitoylation status of certain
proteins with age. A greater percentage of the NMDA receptor...
2014-12-15 (iso8601)
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Western diets are high in fat and sucrose and can influence behavior and gut microbiota. There
is growing evidence that altering the microbiome can influence the brain and behavior. This
study was designed to determine whether diet-induced changes...
2015 (iso8601)
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An interdisciplinary study, USGS Columbia River Contaminants and Habitat Characterization (ConHab) project, is underway to investigate transport pathways, chemical fate and effects of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and endocrine disrupting...
2011-05-25 (iso8601)
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Background: Even with numerous successful Trap-Neuter-Release programs, feral cat populations continue to grow. Our laboratory is interested in determining if an underlying biological cause exists for the exuberant reproductive success in this...
2015-05-14 (iso8601)
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This thesis explored the factors that influence members expression of hypermasculine behaviors in fraternity organizations serving male-identified students at a predominately White university in a predominately White state in the Pacific Northwest...
2015-04-24 (iso8601)
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The present study examined the efficacy of a self-regulation intervention for children experiencing demographic risk. Utilizing a randomized controlled design, analyses examined if children (N = 276 children in 14 Head Start classrooms; M age =...
2015 (iso8601)
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Quantitative literacy is essential to biological literacy (and is one of the core concepts
in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action;
AAAS 2009). Building quantitative literacy is a challenging endeavor for biology...
2015-04 (iso8601)
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The present study investigated the direct effects of residential mobility on children’s inhibitory control and academic achievement during the preschool year. It also explored fall inhibitory control and academic skills as mediators linking...
2015-02-17 (iso8601)
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We explored relationships between photophysical processes and solar cell characteristics
in solution-processable bulk heterojunctions (BHJs), in particular: (1) polymer donor:fullerene
acceptor:small-molecule (SM) nonfullerene acceptor, (2)...
2015-01-09 (iso8601)
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Fertigation with liquid sources of nitrogen (N) fertilizers, including ammonium sulfate and urea, were compared with granular applications of the fertilizers in northern highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L. ‘Bluecrop’) during the first 5...
2015-03 (iso8601)
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Schistosomiasis, a neglected global pandemic, may be curtailed by blocking transmission
of the parasite via its intermediate hosts, aquatic snails. Elucidating the genetic basis of
snail-schistosome interaction is a key to this strategy. Here we...
2015-03-16 (iso8601)
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Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, the causal agent of tan spot disease of wheat, mediates disease by the production of host-selective toxins (HST). The known toxins are recognized in an 'inverse' gene-for-gene manner, where each is perceived by the...
2015-04-06 (iso8601)
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