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  • Improving community profiles for Oregon fisheries and coastal communities through collaboration

    Creator:
    Package, Christina
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    In an effort to supplement the recently completed NOAA fishing community profiles, three coastal Oregon communities were chosen as sites for a collaborative project designed to produce long-form profiles. In order to provide a representation of the coast Newport, Port Orford, and Garibali, Oregon were included based on community size,...
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    wave of the future for fisheries research and management. Community participation is defined by

  • Food for Axiology : Acknowledging Relationships

    Creator:
    Piquette, Daniel S.
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    An overarching explanation for environmental degradation has been humans' disconnection from the natural world. Utilizing Whiteheadian theory, I offer that there is no disconnection. Rather, I propose that there is a dearth of relational acknowledgement. I suggest that the Cartesian dualism and modern science led to an illusory belief that...
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    5 research never progressed to the level of morality of that of a man. Refusing to believe

  • Just do it : an analysis of cultural factors behind the growth of Nike, Inc.

    Creator:
    Chen, Roger L.
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    The success of NIKE, Inc. is deemed miracle by professionals on both Wall Street and Madison Avenue. Research done in the past tends to credit the growth of NIKE, Inc. to its marketing strategies. By placing the achievement of the company in the postmodern context, this study analyzes the cultural...
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    overcome potential obstacles. The fourth major objective of this research project is closely connected

  • Public perceptions of wave energy on the Oregon coast

    Creator:
    Hunter, Daniel A.
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    Oregon’s coastal communities grew from the booming logging and fishing industries of the 19th century, but in recent decades have faced not only major declines in both timber and fish resources but also an increasing reliance on tourists and retirees and the resultant glut of seasonal service-sector jobs. As a...
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    . To the Human Dimensions of Wave Energy Research Group: for being the most supportive and

  • Serving Amid Institutional Camouflage : The Invisibility of School Food Service Workers

    Creator:
    Byrd, Janette
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    The products, processes, and tools of school feeding programs have been examined from multiple perspectives and disciplines in an attempt to improve child nutrition outcomes, to support local and national agriculture, and increase sustainability practices. There is little qualitative research on the role, needs, and experiences of school food service...
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    qualitative research on the role, needs, and experiences of school food service workers, and what is

  • Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

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    D'Alessandro, Erica
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    Limited research has analyzed how the values espoused by Western alternative food systems, such as taste and territoriality, are adopted and refashioned in post-socialist societies. Muscovites now echo the global quality turn that reconnects consumers to their food sources. This research qualitatively explores the perspectives of the cosmopolitan consumers of...
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    . This research qualitatively explores the perspectives of the cosmopolitan consumers of the LavkaLavka

  • Current Use of Dietary Guidelines in Private Clinical Nutrition Practice and its Impacts on the Dietary Patterns of Office Workers in Mexico City

    Creator:
    Grabinsky, Lisa
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    For the last 30 years, the population of Mexico has grappled with overweight, obesity, and associated chronic diseases, such as type-2 diabetes and hypertension. To standardize care among healthcare providers and dietitians, an official nutritional guideline was published in the early 2000s, which included a non-modifiable food-based dietary guideline in...
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    Journal of Nutrition showed that, regardless of the extended use of such guides worldwide as a

  • Advocacy travel, creating social and ideological change : a comparison of travelers to Cuba and Chiapas

    Creator:
    Donckers, Jana L.
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    As a result of academic research into the effects of mass travel, an industry of alternative tourism has emerged. Application of this research has resulted in myriad forms of tourism, two of these being ecotourism and educational travel. Ecotourism represents a response to what is the destructive nature of the...
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    Courtland L. Smith As a result of academic research into the effects of mass travel, an industry of

  • "No one cared we was just Indian women" : plants as a catalyst to Eastern Shawnee women's identity change

    Creator:
    Osborne-Gowey, Cathleen
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    Being an Eastern Shawnee Tribal member I understand the importance of documenting oral histories of Tribal elders to ensure that our cultural history is passed on to future generations. Therefore, the focus of this project is the collection, of oral histories and folklore in order to document traditional knowledge and...
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    . By restoring our mental and physical ' Western society, in terms of this research, refers to the