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General Microbiology

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Linda Bruslind

Subject(s): Microbiology (non-medical)

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 14/03/2024

Welcome to the wonderful world of microbiology! Yay! So. What is microbiology? If we break the word down it translates to “the study of small life,” where the small life refers to microorganisms or microbes. But who are the microbes? And how small are they?
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History and Science of Cultivated Plants

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Sushma Naithani

Subject(s): Botany and plant sciences

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 07/03/2024

History and Science of Cultivated Plants narrates how humans transitioned from foragers to farmers and have arrived at present-day industrial agriculture-based civilization. It entails myths, historical accounts, and scientific concepts to describe how human efforts have shaped and produced easier to grow, larger, tastier, and more nutritious fruits, vegetables, and grains from wild plants. Using examples of various economically and socially important crops central to human civilization, the book describes the origin of crop plants, the evolution of agricultural practices, fundamental concepts of natural selection vs. domestication, experimental and methodical plant breeding, and plant biotechnology.

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Fundamentals of Cell Biology

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Lauren Dalton, Robin Young

Subject(s): Cellular biology (cytology)

Institution(s): University of British Columbia, Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

This textbook is focused specifically on the principles and concepts of a foundational Cell Biology course. The book takes a more conceptual approach that highlights how scientists study cells, and how to analyze and interpret experimental results. Rather than focusing primarily on historical experiments that were key to our understanding of cells, the book explores a range of more modern experimental techniques so that students can begin to understand how cells are studied now, in the 21st century. The book includes over 200 newly created illustrations and animations, that were specifically designed for this book, as well as review questions at the end of each chapter, to help students explore and understand the material.

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Government Powers and Limitations

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Collected works

Editor(s): Rorie Spill Solberg

Subject(s): Government powers, Legal systems: courts and procedures

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

This volume focuses on constitutional doctrine and law in the areas of government powers and limitations. It includes excerpts of landmark cases related to the judiciary and executive, contracts and takings clauses, and due process. The excerpts include the constitutional issues in these cases that are related to government powers and limitations with other questions of law and dicta omitted.
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A Handbook of Higher Education Leadership

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Collected Works

Editor(s): Dr. Ed Ray

Subject(s): Higher education, tertiary education

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

Thirty-five experienced and accomplished higher education leaders have come together to provide twenty-five essays on twelve topics about which all leaders, aspiring leaders and students of higher education should be informed. This is a labor of love, provided for free electronically, and there are no star turns here. Each essay is focused on providing the reader with advice based on wisdom acquired from lessons learned. Some topics covered include: beginning and completing a leadership position, responding to authority, establishing accountability, budget policy, long-term planning, affordability and student success, creating a safe community, fundraising, research funding, college athletics, and crisis management.
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Introduction to Advanced Engineering Mathematics and Analysis

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Brian D. Wood

Subject(s): Engineering: general

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

An introduction to applied mathematics written for students in engineering and science. Focus is on a rigorous presentation that also builds understanding by discussion, analogy, and examples. Discussion of concepts involved in modeling physical processes is a central theme in the text. Updated with new chapter on feedforward neural networks.

A full version (1.3) of this textbook can be downloaded here.
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Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Allison Hurst

Subject(s): Research methods: general, Sociology

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

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Wildlife Habitat Management

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Brenda C. McComb

Subject(s): Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Forests and woodland

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

This book is the result of over 35 years of working in academic and research organizations in which foresters, biologists, and individuals from other disciplines collaborated, fought, argued, and occasionally agreed about how forests should be managed.

A full copy of the book can be downloaded here.
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Intermediate Microeconomics

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Author(s): Patrick M. Emerson

Subject(s): Microeconomics

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

Intermediate Microeconomics is a comprehensive microeconomic theory text that uses real world policy questions to motivate and illustrate the material in each chapter. Intermediate Microeconomics is an approachable yet rigorous textbook that covers the entire scope of traditional microeconomic theory and includes two mathematical approaches, allowing instructors to teach the material with or without calculus. With real-world policy topics as an entrée into each subject, Intermediate Microeconomics will help students engage with the material and facilitate learning not only the concepts, but their importance and application as well.
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Tale of Two Systems 2E

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): René Reitsma, Kevin Krueger

Subject(s): Systems analysis and design

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

This is the story of a web-based information system rebuild. The system in question is www.teachengineering.org, a digital library of K-12 engineering curriculum that was built from the ground up with established technology and which for 13 years enjoyed lasting support from its growing user community and its sponsors. These 13 years, however, cover the period during which smart phones and tablets became commonplace, during which the Internet of Things started replacing the Semantic Web, during which NoSQL databases made their way out of the research labs and into everyday development shops, during which we collectively started moving IT functions and services into ‘the cloud,’ and during which computing performance doubled a few times, yet again. During this same period, TeachEngineering’s user base grew from a few hundred to more than 3 million users annually, its collection size quadrupled, it went through several user interface renewals, and significant functionality was added while having an exemplary service record, and it enjoyed continued financial support from its sponsors.

Yet, although the system architecture could probably have survived a while longer, it started to become clear that with the newer technologies, better and newer services could be developed faster and at lower cost, that moving most of its functionality into the cloud would both boost performance and lower maintenance cost, and that the system’s resource and code footprint could be significantly reduced by rebuilding it on a different architecture, with different and more modern technology.

In this monograph we provide a side-by-side of this rebuild. We lay out the choices made in the old architecture —we refer to it as TE 1.0— and compare and contrast them with the choices made for TE 2.0. We explain why both the 1.0 and 2.0 choices were made and discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated with them.