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A Study Of The Adsorption Of Some Atmospheric Gases On Soils Of The Willamette Valley River Basin, Thomas R. Quale

Dissertations and Theses

Recent work indicates that microorganisms present in soils can remove carbon monoxide from the atmosphere and as such constitutes a major sink. B.E.T. adsorption studies were carried out on representative soils from the Willamette Valley River Basin in order to determine their adsorptive characteristics for carbon monoxide and other gases. Attempts were made to isolate, through a non-soildestructive sterilization, the adsorptive characteristics of the soil microorganisms as well as of the test soil.

The carbon monoxide studies show physical adsorption equivalent to the coverage of a few per cent of the surface area at 25.0° and 76 cm-Hg. Adsorption studies …

Environmental Geology Of The Marquam Hill Area, Roger Alan Redfern

Dissertations and Theses

This work on Marquam Hill area in Portland, a relatively undeveloped urban hillside area, is a pilot study in which environmental factors are evaluated quantitatively in order to delineate limitations on development. The study was undertaken at the request of and in cooperation with the City of Portland Planning Commission and with the State of Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. Factors considered include various aspects of the land, vegetation and attitudes of inhabitants. Findings are not intended to satisfy need for individual site studies by qualified experts but should show where that expertise is needed.

Field data were …

A Preliminary Investigation Of The Land Use Limitations Of The Major Landforms Along A Portion Of The Lincoln County Coast, Oregon, Richard Kent Mathiot

Dissertations and Theses

This study of a portion of Oregon's Lincoln County coast describes the physical limitations to land use of the various landforms in the study area. Seven major landform types comprise the study area: beaches, active dunes, stabilized dunes, marsh land and tidal flats, marine terraces, basaltic headlands, and uplands. Descriptions and evaluations of their physical characteristics, distribution, geologic and and engineering characteristics, and potentially hazardous processes are contained in the maps, figures, and text.

Field Radiation Of Spin I Massless Particle, Ralph Alvin Mudgett

Masters Theses

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The Mediterranean Coast Of Israel: A Planner's Approach, Sophia Professorsky

Theses and Major Papers

The coastal zone of Israel is facing an ever-growing pressure of varied and conflicting land uses. Spreading urbanization, from Nahariya in the north to Ashkelon in the south, gnaws agricultural areas; the needs for commercial ports and industrial plants stand in conflict with recreational uses of the seashore and, as described before, the natural conditions of land shelf structure, topography and climate, are favourable for both industry and residence so that the narrow stretch of the coastal zone attracts more and more of them.

Spectroscopic Determinations Using Resonance Spin-Flip In 12C (P,P1) 12C And 50Ti (P,P1) 50Ti, Lee Robert Baumann

Masters Theses

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A Study Of Vector And Matrix Norms, Alvena Weiskircher

Theses & Honors Papers

A vector or matrix can be associated with a single nonnegative scalar . Basically this is the concept of a vector or matrix norm. While the study of these norms may be classified as numerical analysis , a limited background in linear algebra , matrix theory , and advanced calculus is sufficient to pursue the study of norms.

In this paper many of the properties and theorems concerning norms have been proven . It is thought that the most important results deal with the use of vector and matrix norms in testing for convergence of sequences and series of matrices …

The Effect Of The Degree Of Cationic Charge On The Binding Strength Of A Cationic Starch-Kaolin Clay Coating, Hugh K. Myers

Masters Theses

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Campground Usage And User Attitudes In The Allegan State Game Area, Allegan County, Michigan, Gregg R. Squire

Masters Theses

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An Analytic Study Of A System Of Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations At An Irregular Type Singularity, James M. Lamb

Masters Theses

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Kinetics Of The Metal Exchange Reaction Between N, N'-Bis (2-Picolyl) Ethylenediaminenickel (Ii) And Copper (Ii), Craig Lee Barsuhn

Masters Theses

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The Kinetics Of The Metal Exchange Reaction Between Biseminodiacetatonickelate (Ii) And Copper (Ii), Stephen H. Erickson

Masters Theses

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Rate Of Initiation Of Pyrolysis Of Pentachloroethane Using The Toluene Carrier Gas Technique, Teodomiro Cuzcano

Masters Theses

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The Synthesis And Reactions Of Some Α, Β-Unsaturated Diazoketones, Virendra K. Sood

Masters Theses

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Petrogenetic And Trend Surface Analysis Of Hell Canyon Pluton, Montana, William M. Johanns

Masters Theses

I. Introduction

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the petrogensis of the Hell Canyon pluton through the use of standard petrographic techniques and three dimensional mineralogical variability trends. It is intended that this study will provide additional information to the ongoing investigations of the Boulder batholith sequence, of which this intrusion is a part.

The Boulder batholith is located in the Southeastern part of the Northern Rocky Mountains physiographic province in southwestern Montana. This province is typified by numerous rugged mountain ranges of which there are two distinct types. The Idahotype( Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, 1972) mountains, …

A Direct Measurement Of The Ratio Of The Reaction Cross Sections For Two-Photon And Three-Photon Positron Annihilation In Aluminum And Silver, Robert Maurice Heavenrich

Masters Theses

The probability of annihilation of a positron with its antiparticle, an electron, is spin dependent. Since both particles have spin component one -half, there are two possible relative orientations of their spins they can either be aligned (parallel) in the ³S, triplet, state with total spin component │S_z│= ½ n - ½ n = 1 n or they can be opposite (antiparallel) in the ¹S; singlet, state with│S_z│= ½ n - ½ n = 0. To conserve energy and angular momentum, annihilation from the triplet state must result in the creation of an odd …

A Photographic Study Of The Infrared Oh Airglow, G. C. Loos

Physics & Astronomy ETDs

OH airglow is due to the rotational-vibrational transitions of the hydroxyl radical. Previous efforts to find the airglow's emission height in the atmosphere are discussed. Photography of the infrared airglow with a fast 35mm camera and Eastman Kodak high speed infrared film is described and a method for triangulating emission heights by two station photography is explained. The techniques for reduction of film data to height measurements and velocity measurements are presented. Observations are reported concerning the frequency of occurrence of bright spots and other features on the OH background and the intensity of the airglow as a function of …

Structure And Stratigraphy Of The Central Cimarron Range, Colfax County, New Mexico., Craig S. Goodknight

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

The Cimarron Range forms a southeastern extension of the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The area mapped in this study lies mainly between Eagle Nest and Ute Park, New Mexico, and is centered around Cimarron Canyon.

Rocks ranging from Precambrian to Quaternary in age are exposed• - in the central Cimarron Range. Precambrian rocks in the core of the range consist mainly of moderately foliated, low- to medium-grade metamorphics intruded by faintly foliated bodies of meta-granodiorite and meta-diabase.

Approximately 4000 feet of sedimentary rocks ranging from the Sangre de Cristo Formation of Pennsylvanian-Permian age through the Poison Canyon Formation of …

Services Available To Admissions Office From Data Processing, Shirley Grant

Honors Theses

By using computer technology, such as punch cards, college admissions work flow can be better managed.

Evolution Of Platt Shoals Northern North Carolina Shelf: Inferences From Areal Geology, Philip C. Sears

OES Theses and Dissertations

The evolution of Platt Shoals, a complex ridge and trough system on the south side of the Albemarle Shelf Valley, was determined and the modern hydraulic regime was inferred. The methods used were surficial grain size, 11 vibracores, seismic profiling and bathymetric maps. Platt Shoals developed in a three step process. The first, step was the formation of a substrate of late Pleistocene regressive deposits from 15,000 to 30,000 yr B. P. The second step, occurring approximately 11,000 yr B. P., was the formation of estuary mouth shoals of the ancestral Albemarle River. Between 4,4.00 to 5,000 yr B. P., …

The Economic Aspects Of Water Pollution By Naval Vessels In The Port Of Charleston, South Carolina, John Edward O'Connor

Economics Theses & Dissertations

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Thermodynamic And Electrochemical Studies Of Niobium In Molten Fluorides And Chloroaluminates, Gann Ting

Doctoral Dissertations

The oxide chemistry of niobium(V) has been studied in molten LiF-BeF₂ mixtures. The stoichiometry of an oxygen-containing niobium(V) species (NbO₂F) has been established in molten Li₂BeF₄ from the heterogeneous equilibrations of NiNb₂o₆ and NiO with the melt containing NiF₂, the equilibrium quotient for the reaction was determined. The equilibrium quotient for the heterogeneous reaction of Nb₂O₅ and BeO with molten LiF-BeF₂ mixtures (67-33 and 52-48 mole %) was also determined, and the effect of the melt composition on the solubility of Nb₂O_{5 …}

Angular Distributions Of Protons From The 28Si(∝,P)31P Reaction, Susan Mary Allen

Masters Theses

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Geology Of Atwater Well Field Kalamazoo County, Michigan, John E. Malanchak

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Visual Pollution From Overhead Wires And Associated Structures, Robert J. Schodorf

Masters Theses

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Properties Of 1‾ Excited States Of Complex Nuclei, Carlos Ignacio Calle

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Shore Erosion At Seventeen Sites Along Eastern Lake Michigan, Walter George Fingleton

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Simultaneous Knudsen- And Torsion-Effusion Measurements Of The Vapor Pressures Of Tetraphenyl Silane And Hexaphenyl Disilane, Luz Marina Calle

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Linear Operators Between Nonarchimedean Banach Spaces, Krishnamachari S. Nadathur

Dissertations

I Preliminaries

The purpose of this dissertation is to extend some classical results on compact and Fredholm operators to the case in which the linear spaces involved are non-archimedean normed linear spaces over a valued field.

In Section I are listed some definitions and basic concepts that are needed for a study of non-archimedean valuation theory. The concepts of tensor products of nonarchimedean Banach spaces over a spherically complete field F, and of the tensor product of operators, are also dealt with in this section.

The proofs of most of the results in Section II are based on the known …

On Hamiltonian - Connected Graphs, James E. Williamson

Dissertations

No abstract provided.