Miles K. Davis Named 20th President of Linfield College

When Miles K. Davis becomes Linfield\u27s 20th president, and the first African-American president for Linfield College in the institution\u27s 160-year history, he will bring an enthusiastic leadership style and an expansive worldview

Rethinking Oregon Agriculture

Darla (Goodnoe) Baggenstos ’90 is no stranger to farming. She grew up raising cattle, pigs and chickens in Tigard. After graduating from Linfield, she married Jim Baggenstos, a third-generation farmer at Baggenstos Farm just down the road from her family’s farm

Moving to the Future

Last fall, Linfield College purchased 20 acres in northeast Portland for a new nursing campus. When Linfield moves to its new facility in May 2020, it will mark a new chapter in nursing at Linfield, and the end of an era for the Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing’s northwest Portland location, its home since 1982

Healthcare for Diverse Families

The first nursing textbook chapter devoted to care for LGBTQ families was written by two Linfield professors

Registration Taxes on Cars Inducing International Price Discrimination: An Optimal Tariff Approach

Pre-tax car prices are particularly low in EU countries with high registration taxes but no car production, meaning that the tax is equivalent to an import tariff and induces international price discrimination. The paper develops a theorectical model to analyse the European Commission's policy of facilitating arbitrage and thereby reducing car price differences. The effects on prices, quantities and welfare depend crucially on whether the tax is exogenous or whether it is set optimally by the importing country. The optimal tax rate depends positively on the car manufacturers' scope to price discriminate. Thus when arbitrage costs fall, tax rates are reduced.registration tax, optimal tariff, price discrimination, car prices, European Union, tax harmonization

Development and use of bioanalytical instrumentation and signal analysis methods for rapid sampling microdialysis monitoring of neuro-intensive care patients

This thesis focuses on the development and use of analysis tools to monitor brain injury patients. For this purpose, an online amperometric analyzer of cerebral microdialysis samples for glucose and lactate has been developed and optimized within the Boutelle group. The initial aim of this thesis was to significantly improve the signal-to-noise ratio and limit of detection of the assay to allow reliable quantification of the analytical data. The first approach was to re-design the electronic instrumentation of the assay. Printed-circuit boards were fabricated and proved very low noise, stable and much smaller than the previous potentiostats. The second approach was to develop generic data processing algorithms to remove three complex types of noise that commonly contaminate analytical signals: spikes, non-stationary ripples and baseline drift. The general strategy consisted in identifying the types of noise, characterising them, and subsequently subtracting them from the otherwise unprocessed data set. Spikes were effectively removed with 96.8% success and ripples were removed with minimal distortion of the signal resulting in an increased signal-to-noise ratio by up to 250%. This allowed reliable quantification of traces from ten patients monitored with the online microdialysis assay. Ninety-six spontaneous metabolic events in response to spreading depolarizations were resolved. These were characterized by a fall in glucose by -32.0 μM and a rise in lactate by +23.1 μM (median values) for over a 20-minute time-period. With frequently repeating events, this led to a progressive depletion of brain glucose. Finally, to improve the temporal coupling between the metabolic data and the electro-cortical signals, a flow-cell was engineered to integrate a potassium selective electrode into the microdialysate flow stream. With good stability over hours of continuous use and a 90% response time of 65 seconds, this flow cell was used for preliminary in vivo experiments the Max Planck Institute in Cologne

GENOTYPIC VARIATION IN THE ACCUMULATION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE) IN PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA L

Rare earth elements (REEs) represent a number of economically valuable elements whose increasing demand is closely associated with rapidly growing high-tech sectors such as high-tech electronics and "green energy technologies". In soils REEs are actually not rare but occur widespread with concentrations comparable to some essential plant nutrients (e.g. Zn). Thus, a promising chance to improve supply of these resources could be phytomining

A Life Transformed

It\u27s controlled chaos at the Portland Product Werks office. Only a few weeks before the launch of a new brand, shoe displays line the walls, samples spill from boxes stacked three high and people hunch over computers with phones to their ears. Even a small dog stands at attention, gingerly sniffing deliveries and visitors. In the middle of this whirlwind of activity is Sean Beers \u2798, a Bluetooth earpiece firmly affixed as he makes yet another call