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Recent tsunami field surveys from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami have recorded numerous examples of tsunami-induced soil instability: significant scour around foundations, foundation failure of piles, and other damage caused by...
2015-05-22 (iso8601)
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Exertional rhabdomyolysis (ER), or the occurrence of muscle damage with exercise, is prevalent among Arabian horses, the most common breed participating in endurance racing. The cause and pathogenesis of this disease has yet to be determined, and...
2015-04-17 (iso8601)
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A growing body of literature exists on how human population growth and changes in climatic factors influence the availability of water (Elliot et al. 2014, Prudhomme et al. 2014). These studies typically conclude that climate change is expected to...
2015-05-22 (iso8601)
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Radiochromic film dosimetry offers many advantages over standard film that requires wet chemical processing. Radiochromic film offers: a permanent color change upon irradiation; high spatial resolution; a response that is independent of energy,...
2015-05-27 (iso8601)
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This paper introduces an approach to text classification for semi-structured label systems that have poor performance with standard methods. With the perspective that perfect classification for such a system is unattainable, we...
2015-06-02 (iso8601)
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The Younger Dryas climatic event is a global phenomenon associated with a 1,000 year return to glacial conditions during the late Pleistocene period between 12,800 and 11,500 cal BP. Because of its significant effects on paleoenvironmental...
2015-05-11 (iso8601)
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PURPOSE: In February 2010, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new recommendations for the safe use of long-acting beta agonists (LABA) in those with asthma.
The objective of this study was to determine the impact of the FDA’s 2010...
2015-01-01 (iso8601)
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Sulforaphane is an isothiocyanate derived from cruciferous vegetables and has been under investigation as a cancer chemopreventive agent for over two decades. The compound is well tolerated and has been shown to slow cancer progression in several...
2015-06-08 (iso8601)
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Bioremediation of chlorinated ethenes by the augmentation of contaminated soils with microorganisms is a proposed method of reducing contaminant concentrations in groundwater. To determine the viability of using ELW-1 or R. rhodochrous for...
2015-05-19 (iso8601)
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Many applications in computer graphics and geometry processing rely on the ability to
locally orient 2D and 3D entities on a surface, or inside a volume, such as the sinusoidal
kernels in Gabor noise, the color and geometry textures in pattern...
2013-08-15 (iso8601)
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This document contains ten non-fiction essays of publishable quality, representing the culmination of my creative work at Oregon State University.
2015-04-22 (iso8601)
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Even though cloudburst events in high mountain areas can be highly destructive and result in significant losses of life, little is known definitively about these flood events. An exact
understanding of the driving processes, typical precipitation...
2015-05-26 (iso8601)
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Small business energy analysts often specialize in one aspect of the business. This specialized focus is done by necessity due to scarcity of resources and to maintain a proprietary market niche. However, this specialized focus results in a...
2015-06-05 (iso8601)
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In this paper I present the results of Monte Carlo simulations for a soft sphere fluid with a Weeks-Chandler-Anderson (WCA) pair potential. The results are compared to Soft Fundamental Measure Theory (SFMT) results obtained by our research group....
2015-05-08 (iso8601)
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Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been reported to have motor skill delays and deficits. However, there have been challenges to these findings on whether these deficits are due to lack of movement skills or inaccurate assessment...
2015-06-09 (iso8601)
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Visualization of complex concepts, processes, and rare or fragile artifacts can be difficult in a learning environment. The OSLO Repository seeks to provide an open platform for sharing and modifying contextualized 3D learning objects to...
2015-06-10 (iso8601)
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Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a highly promising technology for large-scale energy
storage applications. However, it remains a significant challenge to develop an anode with
superior long-term cycling stability and high-rate capability....
2015-04 (iso8601)
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The Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer (CAP-MBL) deployment at Graciosa Island in the Azores generated a 21-month (April 2009–December 2010) comprehensive dataset documenting clouds, aerosols, and precipitation using...
2015-03 (iso8601)
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The present work characterizes the time-space scales of variability and forcing dependencies of a unique 26 year record of daily to hourly shoreline data from a steep beach at Duck, North Carolina. Shoreline positions over a 1500 m alongshore span...
2015-03 (iso8601)
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In the highly alkaline environment of concrete, carbon steel rebar is protected against corrosion by a passive oxide/oxyhydroxide film. Understanding the characteristics of this passive film, and how it depassivates, is the key for mitigating...
2015-06-05 (iso8601)
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The contributions of Korean immigrant-owned fashion companies (KIOFCs) are increasing in the U.S. fashion industry. This study explored more deeply how KIOFCs can obtain competitiveness in the fiercely competitive fashion market. Specifically,...
2015-06-02 (iso8601)
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Highlights: New data reveal for the first time a history of the last ∼33.7 ky of uplift of Samosir. Minimum uplift rates were high (4.9 cm/year) for the first 11.2 ky but diminished after that to <1 cm/year for the last 22.5 ky. Numerical modeling...
2015-06-09 (iso8601)
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The last glacial period exhibited abrupt Dansgaard–Oeschger climatic
oscillations, evidence of which is preserved in a variety of
Northern Hemisphere palaeoclimate archives¹. Ice cores show that
Antarctica cooled during the warm phases of the...
2015-04-30 (iso8601)
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Coastlines have traditionally been engineered to maintain structural stability and to protect property from
storm-related damage, but their ability to endure will be challenged over the next century. The use of vegetation
to reduce erosion on...
2015-05 (iso8601)
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