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This thesis is a collection of four submitted manuscripts that present
methods to assist forest ecosystem service managers wanting to develop
operational sampling, monitoring, and production plans for a set of
specific quantifiable ecosystem...
2008-09-04T22:23:22Z (iso8601)
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There has been increased concern about radiation dose to the female breasts, with approximately 200,000 new breast cancers being diagnosed each year in the United States. The unprecedented increase in the use of radiologic exams on younger women...
2008-07-18 (iso8601)
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Vladena Aleksandra Dmitriev, in her collection of fiction and nonfiction The
Mercurial: Stories and Essays, examines the conflicts inherent in language, whether in
her own experiences as a non-English speaking immigrant from the Soviet Union to...
2008-05-28 (iso8601)
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Historically, between 40-60% of the Coast Range of Oregon was comprised of
structurally diverse, old forests initiated by disturbances of various spatial scales
ranging from thousands of acres (large fires) to the size of a single tree...
2008-09-18T15:45:35Z (iso8601)
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The area studied in detail, known as the Antone District,
is located in the southeast corner of Wheeler County, Oregon, ,
between longitude 119 37. and 119°54 east, and latitude 44°23
and 44°3O' north.
Surface elevations range from 3050 feet above...
1948-06-11 (iso8601)
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The recent colonization of Oregon by an exotic, intentionally introduced coccinellid, Harmonia axyridis, was the basis for lab and field research into lady
beetle developmental biology and community composition. Harmonia axyridis was the dominant...
1995-03-27 (iso8601)
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The extent and mechanism of energy dissipation has been studied in Coos Bay, a coastal plain estuary. Coos Bay is located on the central Oregon coast, 184 nautical
miles south of Astoria, Oregon, and 35 nautical miles north of Cape Blanco. Past...
1963-11-08 (iso8601)
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What students need most from instructors’ written response on their texts is
commentary that evokes a sense of exchange. Teachers often believe that their job is
to point out the deficits in a student’s paper and help eliminate those deficits....
2008-07-30 (iso8601)
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Since 1979, over $114 million of natural gas has been produced at the Mist Gas Field, currently the only commercial gas field in the Pacific Northwest. In the Mist Gas Field, the sandstone-dominated Clark and Wilson member of the upper Eocene...
1997-04-25 (iso8601)
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This report is intended to increase the understanding of interrelationships in a small farming community. It consists of three main sections. First, it begins with an historical review of agriculture in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Since...
2008-08-28T14:29:50Z (iso8601)
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In the Coast Range of western Oregon, some natural resource managers are
converting red alder-dominated riparian areas to conifers to increase the future
source of in-stream large wood for salmonid habitat. However, studies in Alaska
have shown...
2004-03-17 (iso8601)
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Oregon has had the highest hunger rate among all U.S. states for four of the last five years. In this report, we re-examine the data on which these rankings were computed and explore how Oregon’s food insecurity and hunger rates vary across...
2003-11 (iso8601)
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As the extent of household food insecurity in the US has become better understood, policymakers at the federal and state levels have sought to learn more about the multiple causes of food insecurity. Some have sought the explanation in the...
2005-03 (iso8601)
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In 2003 the US Census Bureau found that 11.2% of the United States population was food insecure at some time during the year. The curious nature of such statistics only increases when we shift our gaze to the state of Oregon. This state enjoys a...
2005-11 (iso8601)
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In this report we explore alternative ways of defining “rural” by mapping and comparing four different classification systems: three created for nationwide use, and one created specifically for Oregon. Several of the most frequently noted...
2005-11 (iso8601)
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How does one identify, articulate, and relate the forces and influences at work in different geographic places? A satisfactory answer to this fundamental question is required for the formulation of a place-based public policy. Since 1986 the...
2006-06 (iso8601)
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In this dissertation, we investigate three numerical methods for inverting the Laplace
transform. These methods are all based on the trapezoidal-type approximations to the
Bromwich integral. The first method is the direct integration method: It is...
2003-09-03 (iso8601)
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