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Valuing And Pricing Of Random And Non-Persistent Genetically Modified Traits (Corn And Hrsw), Sumadhur Shakya

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

With many genetic traits discovered and many more in progress, it is imperative to the industry that firms (biotechnology companies) decide on the trait valuation and pricing. This includes more than one trait (also referred to as stacked traits) in a single variety of crop; the risk and uncertainty of expected returns associated with the development and release of a variety increases even more in case of stacked traits. The purpose of this thesis is to develop a model that can be used for the valuing and pricing of genetically modified (GM) traits that are random, sporadic, and non-persistent (e.g. …

The Effects Of Ethanol Policy On Cattle Production, Dane Curtis Braun

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

Corn-based ethanol production has increased dramatically in the past ten years, causing an increase in demand for corn by ethanol producers and an increase in production of ethanol by-products such as distillers' grains. The increase in ethanol production can be attributed to ethanol policy at the state and federal levels. Because of the increase in production of corn-based ethanol, cattle producers face greater competition for a major feed source, corn, and greater supply of an emerging feed source, distillers' grains. The objective of this study is to analyze and quantify the effects of ethanol policy on cattle production. A theoretical …

A Stochastic Simulation Of The North Dakota Ethanol Production Incentive, Andrew Hamilton Kurth

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

The objective of this research is to determine the effect the North Dakota Ethanol Production Incentive has on ethanol plant survivability. This thesis uses a stochastic simulation to show the financial performance of an ethanol plant with and without subsidy support. Historical corn and ethanol prices are used to simulate market conditions a typical ethanol might face. Using the forecast prices, an ethanol plant balance sheet was created to show how a plant would perform in normal market conditions, as well as how the plant would perform with the Ethanol Production Incentive and also with alternative subsidy structures that were …

The Effect Of Lender-Imposed Sweeps On An Ethanol Firm's Ability To Invest In New Technology, Jason Edward Fewell

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

New federal legislation proposes to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with biofuel production. To comply, existing corn ethanol plants will have to invest in new more carbon efficient production technology such as dry fractionation. However, this will be challenging for the industry given the present financial environment of surplus production, recent profit declines, numerous bankruptcies, and lender imposed covenants. This study examines a dry-mill ethanol firm's ability to invest in dry fractionation technology in the face of declining profitability and stringent lender cash flow repayment constraints. Firm level risk aversion also is considered when determining a firm's willingness to …

The Impacts Of Expected Structural Changes In Demand For Agricultural Commodities In China And India On World Agriculture, Alyssa Tangen

Agribusiness and Applied Economics

The objective of this study is to evaluate the changes in import and export demand in China and India on the United States and global agriculture in 2018. A spatial equilibrium model is developed to optimize production and trade in China, India, and other major importing and exporting regions in the world. This research focuses on four primary crops: wheat, com, rice and soybeans. In the model China and India are divided into 31 and 14 producing and consuming regions, respectively. The model also includes five exporting countries and ten importing countries/regions. The results indicate that India will be able …

“In The Shadow Of A Concrete Forest”: Transportation Politics In Portland, Oregon, And The Revolt Against The Mount Hood Freeway, 1955-1976, Val C. Ballestrem

Dissertations and Theses

In 1955, The Oregon State Highway Department helped usher in the freeway building era in Portland by publishing its plan for 14 modern freeways designed to crisscross the city. A major component of that report was the Mount Hood Freeway, a route designed to pass through southeast Portland, connecting the city to its expanding eastern suburbs. Other freeway routes in the Portland area were given precedence over the Mount Hood Freeway and by 1969, when the route obtained federal interstate status, urban freeways across the nation had become highly controversial. Over the next seven years a struggle ensued pitting those …

Debord, Constant, And The Politics Of Situationist Urbanism, Brian Elliott

Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations

In the first years of its existence between 1957 and 1960 the efforts of the radical collective the Situationist International (SI) centred on its program of "unitary urbanism." This program sought to challenge the functionalist character of hegemonic forms of urban planning through novel practices of urban experimentation and contestation. Situationist urbanism arose largely through the collaboration between Guy Debord and the Dutch avant-garde architect Constant. This article explores the political dimension of situationist urbanism and the tensions that led to Constant’s secession from the group in 1960. Through analysis of the affinities and divergences between urbanism in its modernist …

Nano-Structure Formation Driven By Local Protonation Of Polymer Thin Films, Carsten Maedler, Harald Graaf, Mingdi Yan, Andres H. La Rosa

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

We report the creation of nano-structures via Dip Pen Nanolithography by locally exploiting the mechanical response of polymer thin films to an acidic environment. Protonation of cross linked poly(4-vinylpyridine) (P4VP) leads to a swelling of the polymer. We studied this process by using an AFM tip coated with a pH 4 buffer. Protons migrate through a water meniscus between tip and sample into the polymer matrix and interact with the nitrogen of the pyridyl group forming a pyridinium cation. The increase in film thickness, which is due to Coulomb repulsion between the charged centers, was investigated using Atomic Force Microscopy. …

Crystallography Open Database – An Open-Access Collection Of Crystal Structures, Saulius Grazulis, Daniel Chateigner, Robert T. Downs, A. F. T. Yokochi, Miguel Quirós, Luca Lutterotti, Elena Manakova, Justas Butkus, Peter Moeck, Armel Le Bail

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Crystallography Open Database (COD), which is a project that aims to gather all available inorganic, metal–organic and small organic molecule structural data in one database, is described. The database adopts an openaccess model. The COD currently contains 80,000 entries in crystallographic information file format, with nearly full coverage of the International Union of Crystallography publications, and is growing in size and quality.

What Kinds Of Statutory Restrictions Are Jurisdictional?, Scott Dodson

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Legal And Managerial "Cultures" In Corporate Representation, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

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Blowing The Whistle On Mandatory Arbitration Unconscionability As A Signaling Device, Charles L. Knapp

Faculty Scholarship

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Notes On A Progressive National Water Policy, John D. Leshy

Faculty Scholarship

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State Standing After Massachusetts V. Epa, Calvin R. Massey

Faculty Scholarship

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Qualified Intermediary Or Bust?, Susan C. Morse

Faculty Scholarship

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Agency Accountability Strategies After Liberalization Universal Service In The United Kingdom, France, And Sweden, Dorit Rubinstein Reiss

Faculty Scholarship

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Measuring Insider Trading Damages For A Private Plaintiff, William K.S. Wang

Faculty Scholarship

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Probabilities, Planning Failures, And Environmental Law, Dave Owen

Faculty Scholarship

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Agency Accountability Strategies After Liberalization: Universal Service In The United Kingdom, France, And Sweden, Dorit Rubinstein Reiss

Faculty Scholarship

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Paraprofessionals Who Work With Elementary Grade Students With Significant Disabilities In Inclusive Settings, Regina Moreno

Dissertations and Theses

The use of paraprofessional services is an established and crucial aspect in the pursuit of a free and appropriate public education for students with disabilities. Paraprofessionals are often the primary providers of instruction for students with severe disabilities yet are the least trained instructional personnel in schools. Identified competencies and necessary training content for paraprofessionals who serve students with severe disabilities are nearly absent in the professional literature.

This study extended the current literature regarding paraprofessionals who serve students with disabilities in public schools by focusing specifically on those paraprofessionals who serve students with severe disabilities in inclusive general education …

Othering The Other: The Spectacle Of Katrina For Our Racial Entertainment Pleasure, Mariana Ortega

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The following essay examines visual representations of hurricane Katrina in popular media in order to show how photography continues to be enlisted in the production of the racial spectacle, the transformation of the plight of people of color into entertainment. The essay also analyzes how such a use of the visual serves to solidify the understanding of people of color by way of a black-white binary that does not do justice to current U.S. demographics. The essay provides a glimpse into the intertwining between the visual and racial thinking.

The Empire Sings Back: Aesthetics, Politics, And Postcolonial Whimsy, Namita Goswami

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This essay recovers the devalued aesthetic dimension of the Bollywood film/song from its political over-determination as national allegory. The qualities attributed to the film/song, such as effeminacy, irrationality, fantasy, and non-synchronicity, which I term its postcolonial whimsy, and its surplus value as the Bollywood film’s most transnational component, allow for the free play of the imagination. This admits the possibility of another performative public culture and imagined community not premised on exploitation, calculability, and passive spectatorship and consumption. The film/song enables affect without literal linguistic comprehension, especially among those unfamiliar with the indigenous languages and musical traditions. What is derided …

Excited Delirium: Consideration Of Selected Medical And Psychiatric Issues, Edith Samuel, Robert B. Williams, Richard B. Richard B Ferrell

Dartmouth Scholarship

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Staphylococcus Aureus Activates Type I Ifn Signaling In Mice And Humans Through The Xr Repeated Sequences Of Protein A, Francis J. Martin, Marisa I. Gomez, Dawn M. Wetzel, Guido Memmi

Dartmouth Scholarship

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Polyethylenimine-Based Sirna Nanocomplexes Reprogram Tumor-Associated Dendritic Cells Via Tlr5 To Elicit Therapeutic Antitumor Immunity, Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz, Xavier Engle, Uciane K. Scarlett, Diana Martinez

Dartmouth Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Lung Cancer In A U.S. Population With Low To Moderate Arsenic Exposure, Julia Heck

Dartmouth Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Noninvasive Measurement Of Aminolevulinic Acid-Induced Protoporphyrin Ix Fluorescence Allowing Detection Of Murine Glioma In Vivo, Summer L. Gibbs-Strauss, Julia A. O'Hara, P Jack Hoopes, Tayyaba Hasan, Brian W. Pogue

Dartmouth Scholarship

Aminolevulinic acid (ALA)-induced protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) fluorescence is studied as a contrast agent for noninvasive detection of murine glioma, using the fluorescence-to-transmission ratio measured through the cranium. Signals measured prior to administration of ALA are very similar between control animals, 9L-GFP, and U251 tumor-bearing animals. However, 2 h after ALA administration, the PpIX signal from both tumor-bearing groups is significantly higher than the control group (9L-GFP group p-value=0.016, and U251 group p-value=0.004, relative to the control group). The variance in signal from the 9L-GFP group is much larger than either the control group or the U251 group, which is consistent …

Quantitative Imaging Of Scattering Changes Associated With Epithelial Proliferation, Necrosis And Fibrosis In Tumors Using Microsampling Reflectance Spectroscopy, Venkataramanan Krishnaswamy, P Jack Hoopes, Kimberley S. Samkoe, Julia A. O'Hara, Tayyaba Hasan, Brian W. Pogue

Dartmouth Scholarship

Highly localized reflectance measurements can be used to directly quantify scatter changes in tissues. We present a microsampling approach that is used to raster scan tumors to extract parameters believed to be related to the tissue ultrastructure. A confocal reflectance imager was developed to examine scatter changes across pathologically distinct regions within tumor tissues. Tissue sections from two murine tumors, AsPC-1 pancreas tumor and the Mat-LyLu Dunning prostate tumor, were imaged. After imaging, histopathology-guided region-of-interest studies of the images allowed analysis of the variations in scattering resulting from differences in tissue ultra-structure. On average, the median scatter power of tumor …

Raps Sheet, January 2009, Retirement Association Of Portland State

RAPS Sheet: Monthly Newsletter

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The Blocks At Northgate, Caroline Uittenbroek, Stephen Smith, Carly Ritter, Kate Chavez, John Patton, David Blindheim, Eugene Nucci Jr.

Real Estate Development Workshop Projects

Students from Portland State University's Center for Real Estate produce a development plan for a property site in Seattle's Northgate District.

Their task was to produce an original development plan, including the development concept, market analysis, conceptual design, economic analysis, capital and operations budget, and management plan.